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From: casey@lexmark.com (Patrick Casey)
Subject: Poor man's Maple.
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark
Reply-To: pacasey@lexmark.com
Organization: Lexmark International, Lexington KY
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:16:49 GMT


With all the talk about Maple lately, I thought I might post this.

I've been playing with Calc2.02 for GNU Emacs at home.  We've got it
here at work, and since the latest port of GNU Emacs for the Amiga
supports processes, I thought I'd try messing with Calc and Gnuplot at
home.

From the Calc manual:

******************************
What is Calc?
=============

"Calc" is an advanced calculator and mathematical tool that runs as
part of the GNU Emacs environment.  Very roughly based on the HP-28/48
series of calculators, its many features include:

   * Choice of algebraic or RPN (stack-based) entry of calculations.

   * Arbitrary precision integers and floating-point numbers.

   * Arithmetic on rational numbers, complex numbers (rectangular and polar),
     error forms with standard deviations, open and closed intervals, vectors
     and matrices, dates and times, infinities, sets, quantities with units,
     and algebraic formulas.

   * Mathematical operations such as logarithms and trigonometric functions.

   * Programmer's features (bitwise operations, non-decimal numbers).

   * Financial functions such as future value and internal rate of return.

   * Number theoretical features such as prime factorization and arithmetic
     modulo M for any M.

   * Algebraic manipulation features, including symbolic calculus.

   * Moving data to and from regular editing buffers.

   * "Embedded mode" for manipulating Calc formulas and data directly
     inside any editing buffer.

   * Graphics using GNUPLOT, a versatile (and free) plotting program.

   * Easy programming using keyboard macros, algebraic formulas,
     algebraic rewrite rules, or extended Emacs Lisp.

Calc tries to include a little something for everyone; as a result it is
large and might be intimidating to the first-time user.  If you plan to
use Calc only as a traditional desk calculator, all you really need to
read is the "Getting Started" chapter of this manual and possibly the
first few sections of the tutorial.  As you become more comfortable with
the program you can learn its additional features.  In terms of efficiency,
scope and depth, Calc cannot replace a powerful tool like Mathematica.
But Calc has the advantages of convenience, portability, and availability
of the source code.  And, of course, it's free!

******************************

I'm still having some problems with Calc driving Gnuplot seamlessly on
the Amiga, but I'm working on them.  And Calc + Gnuplot + GNU Emacs
takes a fair amount of memory.  (I've got 2M chip, 4M fast in an A3000).

So I think of Calc as kind of a poor man's Maple, maybe.  The author
says it's not intended to replace Maple or Mathematica, but you can
still do a lot of cool stuff with it and the price is right!  You
might want to check it out.

Patrick


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From: kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PRO-DRAW3.0 EPSF and AmigaTeX
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:15:04 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Howdy,

I am having a problem with eps files generated by pro-draw
and used with amigaTeX (post).

I track the problem to the instruction "initbwpage". When I save
the drawing as epsf, I get "true initbwpage". If I save as
ps, I get "false initbwpage". 

If I have "false" the drawing is rendered without a glitch. For
"true initbwpage" post and amigaTeX complains about a instruction
called "mir" and aborts.

The files are otherwise fairly identical.


Any suggestions.

Thanks,
Edval
esantos@ee.cornell.edu
From: Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Is there a successor to Power Windows ?
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:23:06 GMT
Organization: MangaZone Advanced Services, Rome - ITALY

In a message dated Tue 13 Oct 92  5:09, Ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (ian Moran)
wrote:

 IM> Try GadToolsBox, this I believe is the same idea only much enhanced.

Even a better program is comming out at the IPISA ;92 (this is a conference
on the Amiga here in Italy).  I heard that this will actually be compatible
even to different font sizes ;-)  Don't know it it will be freeware,
shareware or commercial, but I'll know soon enough. ;-)

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From: aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: VistaPRO and AGA?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 04:45:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone know if there is a version of VistaPRO in the works that will
understand/use/take advantage of the AGA chipset?

  John

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From: amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith)
Subject: Re: ToolManager 2.0 Likes/Dislikes
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:16:07 GMT

mickh@imart.adsp.sub.org (Michael-Wolfgang Hohmann) writes:

>In article <1992Oct03.024928.17785@NeoSoft.com>, Peter da Silva writes:

>-> >  Ever thought that you may move the content of the 'Prefs'-Drawer into
>-> >  a Dock, and have them instantly on a hotkey ? :)
>->
>-> I can also "Leave Out" Prefs on Workbench.

>  And can you use _ANY_ program after an e.g. "Leave Out" (or whatever)
>  with the AppIcon-Feature?? E.g. in my Dock I have an Icon for DPaint,
>  and I can put every Picture-Icon an the Image and then DPaint will load
>  the Picture... Can you do this with the Standard-WB?

Not quite, but you can hold down the shift key and double-click the
DPaint icon. This doesn't apply with the prefs programs though, as they
don't _usually_ use arguments. There is then very little difference
between a prefs on a dock and one left on the workbench.

>   == Mick ==
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From: varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin)
Subject: Re: Are there any PD bad block fixers ?
Summary: FixDisk 1.2
Keywords: FixDisk, version, 1989, 1990
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:39:54 GMT


> FixDisk! It's an ancient program  ( (c) 1989 !!!) that will fix many, many      
> problemsith hard drives. It has not undergone a revision in YEARS
because 


	Frank try getting Version 1.2 (1990) . . . ff403.




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     Wheel   /-
     Brat   ( )\_	varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca

     Reji Martin,   Prince Edward Island, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Multi-Level Docks in TM2.0
From: mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 03:00:57 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <stefanb.718572710@rama> stefanb@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker) writes:

>It is not possible now, but will be added in the future.

>	Stefan

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>                                              ECG148  \XX/  -->A3000/25<--

Stefan,

TM2_0 Kicks! Keep up the good work. Any thoughts of adding submenus?? I can't
remember whether this was mentioned inthe docs or not. Also, short of
doubling up on exec objects, can an object have two hotkeys (eg. separate
keyboard and mousebutton hotkeys). I suspect not but thought I'd ask...

While I'm here, cross-referencing between objects would be a bonus. If I
change the name of an exec object, it also has to be changed in the menu
object. Correct me if I'm wrong ( =^) but isn't this one of the reasons
for implementing object orientation??

Roll on TM3_0!
Matt.
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From: mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins)
Subject: Re: Where is Spice???
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:04:47 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

gel25@Vision et Systemes Numeriques (Eric Gailloux) writes:

>Where can I get Spice 5.2? I got version 5.1 from Fred Fish #278
>and it crashes my A3000 even with a 40K+ stack!

Try the version on Fish disk 578.

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From: itti@aphrodite.enst.fr (Laurent Itti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Professional Users Wanted
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:38:14 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, France

Hello,

we are a group of french engineer students in the fields of computer science,
electronics and telecommunications (Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecommunications de Paris), and we have constituted an Amiga user group
(Club Amiga Telecom-Paris).

As one of our members will probably go to Chicago in November 1992, we would like
to know if it would be possible to meet there some 'Professionnal users' of
the Amiga:

We indeed write a series of arcticles in a french Amiga newspaper (Amiga-News),
oriented towards the often-unknown professional use of the Amiga.

Having the opportunity to go to Chicago, we thus would be very interested in
interviewing such users there during November 1992.

That's why we are currently looking for addresses of these users in the area of
Chicago. Could you help us ? Do you know professional users of the Amiga ?

These could be for example :
- any research lab which uses the amiga and made some original developments on it,
- the NASA (which certainly has a department near Chicago),
- some universities which participate in developments on the Amiga (like it is for
the university of South California, Lowell,... in other areas),
- some more 'exotic' things (such as the SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
which seems to use the Amiga for focussing their beams in the area of Stanford...)


So, if you know any professional use of the Amiga made in the area of Chicago,
could you please let us know ?

Thanks a lot.
----------------------
Laurent ITTI, Club Amiga Telecom-Paris
itti@inf.enst.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: Need text editor without a screen
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:31:18 GMT

In article <BvrAFC.DzG@max.physics.sunysb.edu>, jnunez@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu (Juan Nunez) writes:
> In article <1992Oct6.204436.23265@coplex.com> dannie@coplex.com (Dannie Gregoire) writes:
> >I am in need of a text editor for the Amiga that does not open its
> >own screen and uses console i/o.  It will be used on a remote terminal
> >via fifo pipes.
> >Dannie J. Gregoire
> >dannie@coplex.com
> 
> Why don't you use ED(old version) or get TxED it has a Arexx port.

David Gay's port of GNUEmacs will allow you to do this very thing. It 
will allow you to pipe the output to the serial port to another terminal
via Matt Dillon's FIFO pipe. Plus, you get one of the most flexible text
editors available.

-- 
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	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: vesty@bart.camb.inmet.com (Matt Vesty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: GnuEmacs 1.26 broken?
Keywords: GnuEmacs vfork
Date: 13 Oct 92 11:55:01 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.


The problem turns out to be an old version of fifo-lib.  Use fifolib
off of fredfish 588.

Thanks for your help.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: khanraha@afit.af.mil (Kevin M. Hanrahan)
Subject: Project D and Fuller Computer -> RIP?
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:27:45 GMT

Early this year, I sent Fuller Computer (authors of Project D) smething like
$40 to get quarterly updates to Project D, the disk archiving and cataloging 
program.  After reading "Bug Bytes" in the new "Amazing Computing" I realized
that I have not heard from those guys in a long, long time.  Has anyone had
any correspondence or sign of life from them?

--Randy--


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Randy J. Smith                           DoD #2022   '85 CB450SC
C.E.T.A. Corp                            rjsmith@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil

"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments
for going on believing as we already do."
				              -  James Harvey Robinson
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From: richardc@vogue.adsp.sub.org (Richard Carde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: GPFAX patch files
Date: 9 Oct 92 04:25:30 GMT
Organization: Amiga Developer (GPSoftware ACM093)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

GPFax patchfiles for v2.01 -> v2.041 should be available from wuarchive,
archie.au and other popular amiga sites soon.

The files to look for will have names similar to:

GPF920502.lzh - patches v2.01 dated 5th May 1992 -> 2.041
GPF920610.lzh - patches v2.01 dated 6th June 1992 -> 2.041
GPFSUPRA.lzh  - patches v2.01S (SUPRA ONLY verison) -> 2.041S

The following files are FREQable from my BBS 3:640/304 or 41:400/304
+61 7 300 6357   V32/MNP2-5  (9600)  24 Hours
+61 7 300 6356   V22b  (2400)  24 Hours

NEW USERS HAVE ACCESS TO THESE FILES.  WE ALSO CARRY PAGESTREAM FILES.

GPF0205.lzh   63681  bytes
GPF0610.lzh   63681  bytes
GPFSUPRA.lzh  64004  bytes
GPF_2041.lha   1131  bytes  (note .lha extension)

GPF_2041.lha is a separate file containing the 2.04->2.041 JUST IN CASE
you got the 2.04 upgrade before we added the 2.041 patchfile.

NOTE: files FREQ'd from the BBS _WILL_ require the GPF_2041.LHA file to
get to version 2.041 or 2.041S


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From: aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Process KILL/LIST Program???
Date: 13 Oct 1992 04:43:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) says:

>The problems I have don't cause JM to crash, they cause OTHER programs
>to crash.  I've traced this down to EXACT locations in Term 2.x.

Gregory, I think you are seeing something else.  I run have been using Term
2.something for ages, and I've been using JM 1.1b ever since it was out and
first appeared on a fish disk, and Term has not crashed for me with or
without JM.  In fact, I've never seen JM cause *anything* to crash.  I
couldn't live without it, because there is nothing else which provides
the same level of control of how your CPU cycles get allocated.  Maybe
Term is crashing for some other reason, or because of some other program
you run?  I also know other people runing JM and TERM and who haven't
had any problems at all.

The only JM problem I've seen are:

  * Once in a blue moon, JM-handler will get an enforcer hit.  Doesn't
happen too often though - maybe once every 50 programs I launch, and its
always a read from location 0.

  * Not really a problem, but Steve if your listening, I wish the PS
output was *one* column shorter.  RIght now, it seems to be 79 columns
wide, and the widest you can make a term window without using overscan
is 78 columns.  79 columns is fine for people who use overscan and so
can make their CLIs a "real" 80 columns, but for the rest of us, its a
little cumbersome!  (But I fixed it with an alias to patch its output
through cut).

JM is great - if you want a task logger/monitor/CPU cycle allocator/etc.
I tried a bunch of other utilities, but nothing else was as good.  I
never even got Xoper to run without crashing on my 2000/030 under 2.04. 
If I found another utility which conflicted with JM (which I haven't),
then I'd probably give up the other one sooner because JM has a
permimant place on *my* system, at least until Amigados provides the
same set of functions/abilities/features.

  John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: wgkramer@cs.vu.nl (Ewout Kramer)
Subject: Re: About MAPLE V...
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:25:07 GMT

bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.150904.17524@cerberus.ulaval.ca> gel25@Vision et Systemes Numeriques writes:
>>    You can't expect people to pay $700 for software. This is not my
>>idea of a student discount price!

>Like hell they can't.  700 is CHEAP for what it does.  If you really
>need it, you can afford it.

Sure :-( At a monthly income of $400 I can really afford Maple V.
I just have to live without food/clothing/housing for 3 months.


Ewout
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk (G. Coulter)
Subject: Unparked H/Drive!
Reply-To: g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:14:05 GMT

5 years ago I purchased an A2000 1.2 machine with a
20Mb Western Digital hard drive (Janus Handler) now
when I origionaly bought the machine I got the set
up software for it but no utility to park the drive.

Does anyone out there know if the drive parks on its
own when the machine is turned off. If the drive does
not park on its own does anyone know of program or
utility that will park the drive (jH0).

The machine has not been moved since I bought it 5
years ago, but now I am moving to a new house about
200 Miles away and would like to know how safe it is
to move the machine. And any precautions I should take
whilst transporting the machine.

Thanks .....


     (*) 
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   AMIGA  ///  Gary Coulter
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From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: HELP WITH TOOLMANAGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:26:19 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

In article <1992Oct9.133004.13127@phillip.edu.au> t9014135@phillip.edu.au writes:
>Boy am I lost!!!, how do you get Toolmanager working. I have installed it but I
>am lost when it comes to configuring the thing.

I was too, at first.

>Can someone write a step by step tutorial to show how me ( and others that are
>lost ) how to use the program. I would like to know how to configure the EXEC,
>DOCK, ICON, SOUND, etc object ( or what ever they may be).

I don't have the time to write a complete step-by-step tutorial, but I can
give you some tips to get started (after which everything else is obvious):

* in the ToolManager Preferences program, first, you must create Exec objects:
  * click on the "New..." button (make sure your object type is Exec)
  * drag any program icons into the "Edit Exec Object" window that pops up
  * click on "OK"
* then, you can use the Exec object in other objects:
  * for example, click on the Object Type cycle gadget until it says "Menu"
    * click on "New..."
    * click on "Exec Object..." in the Edit Menu Object window that pops up
    * choose an Exec Object from the list view gadget in the Choose Exec Object
      that pops up
    * click "OK", etc. (i.e. "Use", "Test", etc.)
    * you have now created a menu entry under the "Tools" menu
  * creating other objects is similar
* remember that ToolManager is object-oriented: almost any object you create
  may be used by another object--a Dock, for example, is a collection of Exec
  and Image objects (and maybe Sound, too)

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               and hard drive to your machines.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.applications:7786 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:6638 comp.graphics.animation:531
From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.graphics.animation
Subject: Re: Looking for introductory books on animation
Date: 9 Oct 92 23:35:56 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1992Oct6.190815.5577@Warren.MENTORG.COM> sharma@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Sharma Kunapalli) writes:
>Hi All,
>
>I would like learn about animation. Can any of you
>tell me which are the best books to read for
>getting to know about animation? I am an engineer
>with a reasonable math and physics background.
>You can either email/post.

Tony White's _The Animator's Handbook_ (or is that _Workbook_?)

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston's _Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life_,
if you intend to do anything organic.

Any of Edweard Muybridge's studies of animals and humans in motion.

A VCR with single-frame advance, or a film projector.

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      "The puny anth... thomeday I shall be mathter of the world..."
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From: sie_0003@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Brian Badger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Linear Programming
Keywords: simplex linear programming
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:52:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: University of Arizona

Does anyone have any information on linear programming programs for the
Amiga?  I have tried ASimplex off of FF 250 but the file format is too
alien to me.  Are there any other programs commercial or public that solve
linear programming problems?  I'd really hate to write one right now...
school is getting the best of me.

			Brian Badger
			sie_0003@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu
From: Fabio_Rocchi@mas.sublink.org (Fabio Rocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: address
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:23:06 GMT
Organization: MangaZone Advanced Services, Rome - ITALY

hi,does anybody know the address of GFA Systemtechnik GMBH in Germany??They
are the authors of GFA BASIC,distributed by Antic Software...
The Antic doesn't exist any longer,so the German group is the only hope
,for me,to receive technical support....
Thank you all    FABIO



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