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From: glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha)
Subject: Re: Amiga World -- problems anyone?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:10:42 GMT

In article <BvJ4uL.GK7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK)) writes:
>
> [description of hassles with Amiga World subscription]
>
>I guess I don't realy have a question, but was wondering if anyone else has
>had any problems with this magazine (or IDG/I in general, I used to have
>a subscription with RUN and had no problems at all.)
>

You are not alone.

As best as I can remember the situation...

In January, I moved from Illinois to Iowa and either renewed my A.W.
subscription or got a new one (I forget which it was). I got an issue in
early February, and an invoice around the same time. Fine. I paid my bill
in mid-February. Exit February. Enter March. No new issue. I did get a notice
asking for me to pay my bill, though. I figured their accounting department
was just being a bit slow. Exit March. No new issue. Enter April. More notices,
each getting more and more urgent, and no issue. Finally, I made a decision--I
gave A.W. seven days to mail me an issue, or else I'd be writing them a real
angry letter (now that I had my cancelled check back). Day Seven...a new
issue. I figured things were O.K. I was wrong.

A day or two later, I received a new invoice...which was back to the minimal
urgency of the first. And instead of being addressed to "Scott M Klabacha," it
was simply addressed to "Scott." I checked my A.W.--also addressed to "Scott."
A couple of days later, I got another copy of the same issue--addressed to
"Scott M Klabacha." Argh. I figured they had rectified the original problem,
and that I'd only be getting the one issue for "Scott," because I sure wasn't
going to pay for a duplicate subscription. It was late April.

By early May, I had received two new issues of A.W. addressed to "Scott M 
Klabacha"...and two new issues addressed to "Scott." The bills (all for
"Scott") were getting more and more urgent in their wording. I ignored them
all, hoping they'd give up on "Scott" soon.

Then a new piece of mail showed up...one which attempted to disguise that it
was from IDG. It mentioned nasty things in very vague terminology. It was
pretty clear that IDG (or IDG's computer) was considering the initiation of
legal action against "Scott." Fine. I spent 29 cents plus the cost of an
envelope, and sent IDG a fairly angry (for me) letter describing what had
been happening and telling them to quit mailing things for "Scott."

Now it's October and I changed my address six weeks ago. Things have been
fine since June. If I recall correctly, the change of address has been handled
properly.

But I'm not going to be renewing my subscription.

   gLITTOfERN
glitto@iastate.edu
From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: RAM copy takes all ram and can't copy.
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 92 20:37:10 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann) writes:

>Hi, I am just wondering what is wrong with my RAM: disk. I have 12M of
>memory free, when I try to copy an 8M file from the HD to RAM: I get
>this really stupid message telling me volume RAM: is full.
>
>What can I do about it?

Try this:

  1> copy largefile ram:largefile buf=number_of_512_byte_buffers_to_use

I think it's documented to default to 200, but it seems to try to allocate
enough to hold the entire file.  In your case, it probably gets the
memory for the buffer, but then there's not enough memory left for the
copy of the file.

/* Rick Plavnicky   plav@cup.portal.com */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: griffita@fraser.sfu.ca (David Stuart Griffiths)
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR IBM DISK READER
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:16:06 GMT

quimbyj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Quimby) writes:

>I'm looking for an IBM disker reader.  More or less, I
>want to be able to read IBM disks by my amiga drive
>without having IBM compalibilty.  Is there such
>a thing?  Where can I get it or Send me a copy.

There are two programs which will do what you want, both should be
available for FTP from amiga.physik.

MSH

or

MultiDOS

Personally, I think MultiDOS is more transparent than MSH: and seems
easier to use, however I know that they both WILL work from personal
experience.

They will only read 3.5" disks formatter for 720 IBM drives (or 5.25"
floppies formatted at 360k).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for `OpenDrawer' program
Summary: You need an ARexx port for Workbench
Keywords: WB, ARexx
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:18:27 GMT
Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich

In article <d1wizo.718371115@dtek.chalmers.se> d1wizo@dtek.chalmers.se (Ola Lundkvist) writes:
>Until a couple of months ago I hardly used the Workbench at all, but
>did everything from CLI/Shell. Now when I've got a hard drive and 2.0
>it's much more pleasant to use Workbench. So when I boot from my
>hard drive one of the first things I do is doubleclicking on the disk
>icon to open the root directory. What I'm missing is a command to
>put in my WBStartup drawer (or alternatively  in the startup-sequence
>after LoadWB), that can automatically open any drawer/disk window on
>the Workbench. Could also be usable if you want to open that 
>`misc/strange/games/adventure/funny' (or whatever) drawer without
>having to open the first four drawers. Would do nice as a commoditie
>that could open a directory requester and/or using Tooltypes and
>possibly from CLI using command line arguments and/or a directory
>requester.
>Is there anybody out there that got a feeling what I'm looking for?

What you really are looking for is an ARexx port for Workbench.  :-)

In other words, it cant be done now. What you can do is to get some 
PD programs that let you 'record' mouse movement and then, on start
up, play it back, thus opening your prefered drawer. 

>If so, do you know of a such program, or maybe someone could write one.

QMouse,MachIII and other can do it.

>IMHO Commodore should include something like this with Workbench.

Oh yeah. An ARexx port for Workbench....

Hope this helps
 Matija

-- 
Best regards from Matija Milostinik           : matija@avalon.ifi.unizh.ch  
                                              : matija@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Therefore, use local labels in the procedures as often as possible. 
Save the environment!  Recycle!  ;-)                 (Bjoern Reese)
From: frank@clark.edu (Frank Torres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A2000 Trade in ?
Date: 2 Oct 92 01:39:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1992Oct2.013926.17571
Distribution: usa
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

I currently have a A2000 with (68000) the following:

   * 4M ram (supra ram card) + 1M chip ECS Agnes

   * 40M(supra) hrd drv. & 2 flopy drives.

   * 1084s monitor

I would like to know wether or not If should trade my machine in with
out the monitor. I would be getting an A3000 with about $7-800 off the
trade in on my A2000. The A3000-25Mhz for this month 10/92 price is $1499
(with out monitor). The A3000 comes with the following.

   * 2M ram and I believe 1M chip ram. (not sure on this)

   * 100M scsi I think the controller is on the mother board
     (please let me know if this is incorrect.)

   * 1 floppy drv.

Do the NEW A3000's have the AA chip sets in them. Also, the dealer 
will sell me a multi-sync for $299 (used I think if I heard him right).
Should I buy the A3000 and keep the A2000 or trade it in. One last
thing is the 68030 equivalent to a 386-33 or low end 486?
NO FLAMES ON THIS PLEASE I JUST WANT TO KNOW THAT IS ALL.

Reply soon I would like to buy an A3000 REALLY SOON!!!

       Please Email me at: frank@clark.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Amiga on TV
Reply-To: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:20:16 GMT

Did any one else see an Amiga with some football pics on it on a
TV commercial with the Chiefs vs. someone else I forgot.   Kindada
interesting.....
		
			Todd Major
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:14515 comp.sys.amiga.applications:7461 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:6432
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: .PCX files - Conversion to PageStream?  (Repost?  I'm not s
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:40:01 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I recently discovered the following:
>
>
>   PageStream 2.2 can access LOTS of formats, but .PCX isn't one of them.
>              (Can Hotlinks deal with them?)
>
>
>I have a collection of clipart files in .PCX format that would be nice to
>be able to use with PageStream.  Has anyone done this?  (I'm also on a DTP
>mailing list and keep getting offers for ClipArt libraries, but they are
>always in MS-DOG or MAC format. :<)
>
>      __            crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu
>     ///
>__  ///=====================================================================
>\\\/// Amiga | Great spirits have always encountered violent  | To *KNOW* it
> \XX/  2000  | opposition from mediocre minds. -- A. Einstein | Is to LOVE it!
>============================================================================
>

But, But. PageStream 2.2 CAN import .PCX graphics. I just did a little pic
in Windows Paintbrush and saved it as .PCX then imported it from the floppy
(using 2.1 Cross DOS) directly into PageStream.

You should have a file called pcx.import in your drivers drawer. If you don't
find it, you should be able to download it from the BBS (see number below).

If you have problems, e-mail me at the location below.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:14559 comp.sys.amiga.datacomm:6621
From: dale@ntg.com (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.unix
Subject: Re: An X-Windows Question !!!!!!!!!
Keywords: X-Windows
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:53:03 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

In article sevigny@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Benoit Sevigny) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.202837.16128@ntg.com> dale@ntg.com (Dale Luck) writes:
>>that works with the serial.device. edu prices for as225 is $199.00
>>list price is $275.00 This includes support from GfxBase. EDU price for
>>X11 is $316.00 list = $395.00
>What version of X11 is that? Do you have a development kit for it? Do you
>support any video boards (such as DMI's) ?

It is X11R4 mono and color. We have the complete X11R4 libraries and
toolkit available. Widgets, Xt, Xmu, socket library etc. Everything you
need to write and port Unix X applications to AmigaDOS.
Also available is XView 2.0 and Motif 1.1.2 both for developing Xview and
Motif applications for AmigaDOS.

We have a new color server that supports the Ameristar 1600GX and the
GfxBase GDA-1 color boards.

Dale Luck
GfxBase

>\XX/  Benoit W Sevigny, software engineering student, sevigny@info.polymtl.ca
From: trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Cannon Xapshot
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:32:37 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Hey hey!

I am in the market for a great camera for both macrophotography and on the fly
shots etc.  I will be digitizing the photo's with my DCTV.

My question is this...What is the best brand and model camera to buy that will
give me the ultimate "resolution" and fully automatic system with macro?

I have been looking into the Xapshot still video camera by cannon but I am not
sure of the quality compared to just using a film camera.

Any thoughts??
Thanx!!
From: Jamie_Krutz@a68k.denver.CO.US (Jamie Krutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Responsible Parenting
Distribution: world
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:51:21 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
>Me too. I don't need to grab a demo, unpack it for my kids and have them
>showered with profanity.

Basically it's your responsibility as a parent to help your kids gain the
mental tools to make sense of the world.  If that means looking at a demo
before showing it to your kids, so be it.  At some point it probably means
helping them learn how to make their own judgements about the world.  It
does not mean forcing other people in the real world to conform to your
ideas about how they should live.

Your kids will, over the course of their lives, be exposed to far worse
things than the insecure use of language by insecure hackers.  Prepare them
no.

Later,
 -J

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Newsgroups: cornell.general,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: hull@hao.hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull)
Subject: Re: ATTENTION Amiga-ites @ CORNELL! USE SLIP! + sz, xprzmodem, dnet
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Summary: The Terminal Server is the culprit
Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:41:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.223654.15113@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>I hope I'm not coming across as too arrogant here, I don't mean to be
>like "I'm God, I can use SLIP. Come serve me little lambs," I'm
>just excited that after a couple of frustrating weeks I've got this little
>bugger of a system happily communicating.  
>
>--Aaron
>
Gosh, you mean it didn't just SLIP right in?  You couldn't possibly be anywhere
near as arrogant as the average University Terminal Server, no way.  I, too,
have to deal with an Annex terminal server.  I run DNet to a number of Sun4
machines on the other side of the Annex, and the blasted Annex is worse than
a randomly initialized AI program.  When it wants to do me in, it will pass
downloads with getfiles from the Amiga or putfiles from the Unix csh, but for
uploads, it puts up the required server, then goes into an endless loop of
announcing the same set of three or four checksum errors, waiting ten seconds,
then trying again with the same result.  This is the case for either getfiles
from the Unix machine, or putfiles from the Amiga.  There are two consistent
things about this that make me think that the terminal server is the culprit.
If I ask for a 7-bit path with Xon-Xoff flow control as "dnet -X -P1 -Z0 -m1"
it works ok for both uploads and downloads.  But for "dnet -X -P0 -Z0 -m0 -8"
sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.  The server doesn't understand
commands like "login goose -8 -l snarfy"; and the help screen doesn't say a
word about path width.  Whether I get the 8-bit path I ask for seems to go
more or less according to time of day or system loading, with the lower port
numbers being more likely to succeed.  I've been thinking about trying SLIP
to get around these problems, but from what you imply, I may need to try
some other approach.

A thorough discussion/guide for installation of Amiga NOS and dealing with
terminal servers is needed as an FAQ somewhere, and soon, if you please...
(It may even be needed if you don't please).  So if you and Dan Zerkle will
send me what you have, I can add my 2 cents for DNet, and we should have a
fairly good net article, possibly for use as an FAQ...   Thanks!
						Best Regards,  Howard Hull
						hull@ncar.ucar.edu

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    But if you try to stand on it, well, could be it'll just run out on you.'
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From: dgay@litsun.epfl.ch (David Gay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
Subject: Assorted Unix utilities available for download.
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:23:40 GMT
Reply-To: dgay@litsun.epfl.ch (David Gay)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications

TITLE
	Some GNU Unix utilities

VERSION
	v1.6 of GNU grep
	v3.3 of GNU fileutils
	v1.3 of GNU textutils

AUTHOR
	Various
	Amiga port by David Gay

DESCRIPTION

While working on emacs, I ported several Unix utilities to provide
programs which are called by emacs (eg, ls is used by dired, rmdir is
used by the delete-file command). I am now releasing these, along with
the unix compatibility library which I wrote to assist porting these
various utilities (and emacs).

Ports of the following software (written or distributed as part of
the GNU project) are available for download:

- grep (version 1.6). The standard unix utility of the same name.
- textutils (version 1.3). A dozen odd standard unix utilities
for handling text, like sort, cat, head, etc.
- fileutils (version 3.3). A set of standard unix utilities
for managing files, like ls, rm, chmod, etc.

The unix compatibility library, which is written for SAS C 5.10b,
provides a more unix-like environment for programs compiled with it,
along with a number of C functions which I needed to compile the
above programs. These are either new or replacements for similar
functions in the SAS C library (where these functions lacked
some features or were buggy).

LOCATION
	amiga.physik.unizh.ch	130.60.80.80	amiga/util/gnu
	and any of its mirrors

FILE NAMES

grep: 		amiga-grep-1.6.LHA
fileutils:	amiga-fileutils-3.3.LHA
textutils:	amiga-textutils-1.3.LHA
unix library: 	sas-unix-lib.LHA

DISTRIBUTABILITY

grep, the fileutils and textutils are covered by the GNU General Public
License, ie it is freely distributable but not in the public domain. See
the file COPYRIGHT in the distribution for details.

The C library needed to compile emacs is mostly in the public domain.
However, some parts are Copyright (c) 1987, 1989 Regents of the University
of California, hence the following notice:

  This product includes software developed by the University of
  California, Berkeley and its contributors.

David Gay
dgay@di.epfl.ch
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Laboratoire d'Informatique Technique.

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From: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
Subject: More info about show report 3
Date: 26 Sep 92 05:11:07 GMT
Reply-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Followup-To: sender

Some administrative notes about my last show report:

David Masterson (cimshop!prometheus!davidm@uunet.UU.NET)
has pointed out that the address of Comeau Computing
(who make a C++ front end that works with SAS C 6.0) is as follows:

Comeau Computing
91-34 120th St.
Richmond Hill, NY 11418
718-945-0009

(Thanks, David!)

Also, Doug Walker (walker@unx.sas.com) pointed out that he was the
"someone" at the SAS booth who knew that Comeau C++ works with the
latest version of SAS C.

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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
Subject: HotLinks 1.1 Upgrade announcement
Date: 3 Oct 92 21:06:28 GMT
Reply-To: soft-logik@cup.portal.com
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc


Soft-Logik Publishing Announces:

HotLinks Editions Version 1.1 Upgrade

PageLiner 1.1 has many new features, including an all-new Settings menu
to make it easier to set your preferences. You can even load and save 
settings. The new Font command allows you to specify fonts and type sizes.
(PageLiner now reads your PageStream fontlist!) You can program the 
function keys to switch fonts, sizes and tags, or to enter text strings.
PageLiner 1.1 is the ultimate text entry program to use with PageStream
2.21. (You will receive a 2.21 patch with your order.)

HotLinks >> We've taken many of the suggestions users have sent us to
create HotLinks 1.1. The new version has totally redesigned requesters 
which provide more edition information and are easier to use. The Publish
and Information requesters use popup menus to switch between blocks of
information. Like all the programs in this package, HotLinks follows the
latest Amiga interface guidelines and is compatible with WorkBench 3.0.
All three programs are now Locale compatible for better international
language support.

BME trace. BME 1.1 is an amazing upgrade to this indispensable bitmap 
editor. You can now load TIFF pictures in addition to IFF and GIF. But 
the biggest change is the addition of a single menu command: Trace. BME 
now has a built-in autotracer which converts selected areas of bitmap
pictures into structured drawings. With numerous options, you have total
control over the trace process. Save your traced drawings in IFF DR2D 
format for use with PageStream and other programs.

Compatability

Using HotLinks just got better. New Horizons has added HotLinks support to
ProWrite 3.3 and Black Belt has incorporated it into ImageMaster. More 
great HotLinks programs are on the way.

Upgrade to HotLinks Editions 1.1 now for only $35 US plus $5 shipping and 
handling ($15 shipping and handling outside the USA and Canada.) Mail
orders to Soft-Logik Publishing Corporation, P. O. Box 510589,
St. Louis, MO 63151-0589, USA or call 1-800-829-8608 (314-894-8608). Visa
and MasterCard are accepted.

Kevin (soft-logik@cup.portal.com)

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