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From: gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Make directory longer?
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:49:25 -0600
Distribution: usa
Organization: United Anarchists of the World Association, Inc.

In article <1992Dec17.174154.992@gdwest.gd.com>, stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas) writes:
> Well, the reason I wanted to try to extend the 1541 directory is to find
> my options available for a program I wanted to play with.  My 1581 has

How about using some flavor of GEOS VLIR (variable-length indexed record) file
structure?  Plain old random files might work, too; it sounds like you might be
doing something like this already (the bit about using extra sectors).

I would venture that the hardware dependencies are caused by doing BAM lookups
to find free sectors.  Assuming the manual is correct (!) a way to get around
hardware dependencies would be to use BLOCK-ALLOCATE to find your free sectors,
supposedly if the requested block isn't available, an available block will be
returned on the error channel.  I have no idea if it really works.

Enough rambling!!

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From: duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Make directory longer?
Date: 16 Dec 92 09:03:31 EDT
Organization: Pembroke State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pembvax1.pembroke.edu

In article <HERMIT.92Dec16042859@am.ucsc.edu>, hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
> In article <1992Dec14.234645.19234@gdwest.gd.com>, stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas) writes:
> ) Is there a way to make the directory on a 1541 handle double the number
> ) of files it currently can ? (memory says > 200, but < 300)
> ) I don't mind using another track to do it, IF it can be done.
> 
> If I remember correctly it was 144 files.
> 
> It can be done, but you have to not use some of the built-in DOS
> commands on a disk that has been so modified.  I saw a program a few
> years ago that will put up to 288 files on the directory by using
> track 19 as well as 18 for directory information.

What you do is to take a track and sector editor, copy an "empty" directory
sector (ie: create at least 8 files on a blank disk and then scratch them) to
all the sectors in track 19 or 17, then modify track 18, sector 0 the first two
bytes to point to your first sector in track 17, then modify the first two
bytes of that sector to point to the next track 17 sector etc. Once you're
finished with the track 17 sectors modify the last track 17 sector to point to
the old track 18, sector 1.

I forget offhand which DOS commands are now allowed but be extremely careful
using a disk such as this. *smiles* I imagine you would not want to validate
the disk either.

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- Craig Taylor   - 919-521-3814   All Relevant Disclaimers Apply!!!
        duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu (Pembroke State University)

"Yacc" owes much to a most stimulating collection of users, who have
goaded me beyond my inclination, and frequently beyond my ability in
their endless search for "one more feature".  Their irritating
unwillingness to learn how to do things my way has usually led to my
doing things their way; most of the time, they have been right.
		-- S. C. Johnson, "Yacc guide acknowledgements"
From: cb317@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephanie J. Kessler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Whelp... Bard's Tale II yet again...
Date: 20 Dec 1992 09:30:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Well, I thought I had this final snare caught, but its tricked me
once again... I have to have help on this one, too, I'm afraid.
I have solved the Magic Mouths, recovering the Zen Master and his
ring, however, I dunno what to do with them next, or where to go.
I have the feeling that I might not have the entire snare mapped,
because there is a lot of empty space still onthe map. *sigh
 
If those who have been helping me could do it again, I'd appreciate
it.. this is really sad... Anyway, if you could send me the
solution, I'd like it a lot...
-- 
The United States is a nation of laws:  badly written and
randomly enforced.     Frank Zappa

cb317 @ cleveland.Freenet.Edu
From: rigney_ne@cs2.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: IBM disk drive to C64
Date: 11 Dec 92 16:42:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs2.1992Dec11.104254.1

> C64. What I want to know is whether it is possible to connect an IBM
> disk drive (3.5 or 5.25 inch) directly to a C64, either through the user
> port or cartridge port. 

I don't kknow if I'm correct, and I'm probably not, but isn't the controller
REQUIRED for an IBM drive?  I thought also that after going through the
controller the data ended up being in essentially parallel format.  That would
b...difficult...on a C64.  I'm currently working on a parallel-type interface,
and am having trouble with it...

-Cy
From: mhm104@access.digex.com (Mitch Markowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Where is NovaTerm 9.4
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:37:05 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

Does anyone know where I can find a COMPLETE copy of NOVATERM 9.4 on an FTP site?

Mitch Markowitz
From: gt5953a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Jackson, SysOp Extraordinaire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 2400 baud possible on 64 easily?
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:30:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CS Building of the Trade School on North Avenue

In <Dec.15.12.46.32.1992.24046@gnumath.rutgers.edu> leahy@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Andrew Leahy) writes:
>Is the Swiftlink cartridge just an RS232 interface similar to the
>ones posted a while back, or does it do a more?  Since it sells for 
>less than $40, it doesn't seem like it should have too much hardware 
>in it.

It doesn't have any extra hardware in it other than the hi-speed UART
chips (similar to the WD16550N that IBMs and Amigas use for hi-speed
modems).  The 6510 processor can inherently handle speeds of 38400 baud
and more.  It's just that the user port on the 64 is structured such that
with the amounts of error checking it does on itself and its 8K buffer
memory, it cannot handle anything above 2400 reliably.

Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP (arthur moore)
Subject: Re: 2400 baud possible on 64 easily?
Reply-To: bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP
Organization: The Matrix
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 16:40:45 GMT

> 	Is >1200 Baud on the '64 a non-trivial problem?  I have a 
> 	   brother with 1) a '64 and 2) a 2400 baud modem.  All the
> 	   software I have for him fails at 2400 baud.  Is there an easy
> 	   way to give him 2400 baud, or should I trade him my 1200
> 	   baud modem off the Amiga :) :)  ?

Yeah, the 64 can do 2400..just need the right terminal.  Perhaps loan him 
the 1200 so he can find a copy of Novaterm, download it, the give him 
back his 2400.  CCGMS Elite V2 will do it also, but Novaterm is the only 
REAL terminal for the 64.


( ( Art Moore  | Usenet bbs-artmoore@jwt.uucp
 ) )           |  -or-  bbs-artmoore@jwt.oau.org
( (            | Fidonet CBM  -  Arthur Moore
 ) )__Ask me about the C64 qwk offline reader!__
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Robert Weiss)
Subject: 1541 to PC cable question...
Summary: could someone summarize?
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: c64 1541 msdos cable
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:00:10 GMT

Could someone please email me or post a summary of the discussion about
how to make/modify the cable needed to connect the PC to a 1541 disk drive?

  --Greg
     grweiss@phoenix.princeton.edu
From: edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Novaterm 9.4 bug??
Date: 19 Dec 92 01:44:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS

An online colleague had experienced a problem with Novaterm 9.4, and I'd like
to know of anyone else encountered this:

When the user wants to go into conference/chat mode, the terminal must be
set to "standard", and C= Q will go into conference mode.  While in 80-column
mode, the C= Q does not go into conference mode.  The user had to toggle into
40 columns, THEN hit C= Q.  It worked there, then toggled back to 80-columns
and had to hit C= Q -again- for it to start working in 80-column mode.

Happy Holidays!

 - Ed



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: rerickso@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ronald D. Erickson)
Subject: Re: Model 1670 modem/1200 died
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:24:47 GMT


Take your modem apart.  If it has socketed ICs as mine did,
purchase the ICs from an electronics supplier if not the
manufacturer.  If you can not get ICs, probably it is not
worth fixing.

Ron
From: sls16@po.CWRU.Edu (Samuel L. Shank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: 1541 chips
Date: 13 Dec 1992 01:11:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


I have a 1541 DD that had the "sit and spin" problem.  I am fairly sure that 
this is the only problem.  I took the beast apart the other day, and noticed
that the chips are socket in there.  I recieved much email on the topic, and
have determined that most likely my problem is the chip that has the part no
901229-05.  I got this from someone that has had this problem with many drives,
and I gather that he knows what he was doing.  It seems as though the chip 
should just pop out, but I'm not sure how to do it.  Is there a tool that I 
need.  I can get another 1541 that has a different problem, and steal its
chip, or if that doesn't work, find someplace that I can mail order.  Can
someone please help me?  Thanks,
-- 
Sam Shank
sls16@po.cwru.edu
From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: printer ribbons
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:14:32
Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
In-reply-to: hakari@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu's message of 17 Dec 92 15:17:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.151741.15748@news.stolaf.edu>, hakari@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (The Conformist Contrabass Clarinetist) writes:
) Does anyone know a source where I can get some printer ribbons?  I have an 
) Oki 120, and the Target stores in my area don't carry them anymore.  The 2
) ribbons I have are *ahem* 3-4 years old *gasp*...but they still print, 
) albeit not too dark.

You're in luck... The Okidata 120, aka Commodore MPS-1200 (they use
the same mechanism), is not very hard to find ribbons for.  All the
mail-order ribbon sellers that I've seen carry it, check some
magazines for such businesses.  Otherwise send me some email and I'll
dig up an 800 number or two for you.

[huge signature deleted]
Please trim that baby down!  That's a nasty waste of bandwidth.
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VoiceMail: +1 (408) 479-4072         _ \<,_  Internet:  hermit@cats.ucsc.edu
SnailMail: 1803 Mission St. #339    (_)/ (_) BITNet:    hermit@cats.bitnet
           Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:01:59 EST
From: <GAJ2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: UUENCODED BINARY: Graphics Transformer II
 <1gnkluINN8kg@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <1992Dec16.233638.3544@cactus.org>

In article <1992Dec16.233638.3544@cactus.org>, spacek@cactus.org (Mark S.
Spacek) says:

>>Has anybody actually been able to start this program?
>>When I tried to do so it seemed it didn't decompress correctly and just
>>crashed.

> Same thing happened to me...

I must be the odd man out - I got it to work.  However, I decoded it using
an arcutility program on our VM system before transferring the resulting
file to my C64.  It shows a Hi-Res graphics menu screen and a mouse pointer
which you move with a joystick around to various items (load, view, save,
etc.)  Many sections are incomplete, however.  Looks like a good program!

/Gordon\
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services)
Subject: Forsale: 1571 & 1581 Drives
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:04:40 GMT

	A friend of mine is trying to sell his 1571 and 1581 floppy
drives.  $90 for the 1571 and $100 for the 1581... O.B.O.

	If your interested, you can reach him at (919) 596-5431.  Ask
for Jerome Drain.   

	Thanks...

-- 
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' '   /       /   / ' )   /      // // ' '   love, joy, peace, patience,
     / ______/ __/   / / / __.  // //        kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
   _/ (_) (_/_(_/_  (_(_/ (_/|_</_</         gentleness and self-control."
From: georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Demo Pardy/Denmark 1992
Date: 17 Dec 1992 08:53:54 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de

In <1992Dec15.230353.21460@cs.mun.ca> georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:

>In article <1ghun0INNmmv@cardamom.compnews.co.uk> tonyc@compnews.co.uk (Tony Clark) writes:

>Why don't you  place the winning C64 demos on one of the FTP sites on the net?

Good idea, but I'm not among the organizors/participants of this event. I just
transfered the file to this newsgroup.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: cdminter@icaen.uiowa.edu (Corey D Minter)
Subject: archiver compatibility?
Summary: Are there any unix compress progs. compatible with cbm comp. prog?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:54:17 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Keywords: arc archive unix compression

I am sick of downloading uncompressed files that are non c64 originated.
I mean occasionally I find a text file on the net and want to download it,
but I don't have a way to compress it in the unix system and then decompress
it at my c64 end.  Are there any compatible programs, I have seen arc and
zip will these work?

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From: leahy@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Andrew Leahy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 2400 baud possible on 64 easily?
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:46:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski) writes:
> > 	
> > 	Is >1200 Baud on the '64 a non-trivial problem?  I have a 
		[ . . . ]
> The short answer is YES. >2400 is not even supported by the 64's hardware, but
> a SwiftLink cartridge will remedy that.  It will also clean up 2400.
> 

Is the Swiftlink cartridge just an RS232 interface similar to the
ones posted a while back, or does it do a more?  Since it sells for 
less than $40, it doesn't seem like it should have too much hardware 
in it.

Andrew Leahy
leahy@math.rutgers.edu
From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: ftp info
Date: 12 Dec 1992 16:34:09 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

"p. colagiacomo" <p..colagiacomo@canrem.com> writes:

>I live in toronto and would like to know if there is any local FTP sites
>to here or can someone tell me where I can get a list of FTP sites?  I
>would like to logon and check out the system.  Please tell me how to
>logon the system as well.  Thanx.

Have you used ftp, and do you know how to navigate directories from within
ftp?

The anonymous ftp site that I attempt to keep clean is at

ccosun.caltech.edu

To log on to any anonymous ftp site, at the "username" prompt type "anonymous"
and at the "password" prompt type your full E-mail address.  (This can be
challenging at times, since usually you can't see what you're typing :)
Thereafter, navigate the directories and GET the files as you desire.  Note
that it is usually important to issue a "binary" command before getting files
which are specifically for the 64/128.

On my site, the relevant directory tree is found under /pub/rknop.  I think I
have a (somewhat outdated) list of files somewhere on the site, and will
attempt to post it here soon.

-Rob
rknop@cco.caltech.edu
From: Russell.Alphey@p1.f570.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Russell Alphey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Mach-128 cartridge
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:26:02

Hi, just picked up a Mach-128 cart. second hand, and guess what?  No manual! 
):

Okay, I know <-M gives the help screen, but that talks about Mach-DOS, Warp
drive, and a few other things that are unclear.  So I'd really like a copy of
the manual!

Also, given its name (mach 128) does it work in 128 mode?  I haven't had any
luck there yet.

Thanks for any help...

Ralphey

ralphey@msl.oz.au

 * Origin: A pointed message from Ralphey! (3:635/570.1)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ncr:538 comp.unix.questions:14692
From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: NCR Unix to SCO Unix Tar incompatability question
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:16:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ncr
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.

dbg@crash.cts.com (Dave Gresham) writes:

>I am having a problem with bringing over a tar tape created on a NCR
>system running Unix 1.02/3.01.   I am trying to restore the tape to
>an SCO UNIX 3.2.4 system.  I keep getting Checksum errors on the SCO
>side.  I was able to generate and restore with these tapes on the 
>NCR system.  I also am using the same qic-02 Archive tape drive on
>both systems.  I have tested the Archive tape drive with another tape
>without having any problems. 

What tape device are you using on each machine?  It sounds like you may
have created the tape with error correction, or you may be reading the
tape using the error correcting driver (/dev/erct0).  Try using /dev/rct0
if you haven't already (on the SCO box).


JB
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr,comp.unix.questions
From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: NCR Unix to SCO Unix Tar incompatability question
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:20:31 GMT

From article <1992Dec15.035339.24343@jpradley.jpr.com>, by jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley):

> Am I in error to state that the NCR is running a big-endian architecture, whi
> the SCO machine is on a little-endian chip?
> So your bytes are swapped..

Oddly enough, perhaps not.  The machine architecture has nothing to do
with the endien in the tape driver.
When Convergent was building both Intel and Motorola boxes, they both ran
the same interchangeable tape format.
While Unisys was selling all three (Convergent Intel, Convergent Motorola,
and NCR Motorola), byte swap was needed to go to the NCR box.
I don't know about the newer NCR-Intel boxes.  I suspect that they would be
compatible with the old.
The current Unisys machines play interchangeably with IBM/RS6000, as well as
SCO UNIX boxes, and Sun.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
From: dbg@crash.cts.com (Dave Gresham)
Subject: Re: NCR Unix to SCO Unix Tar incompatability question
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:18:42 PST


The problem was resolved when I did the following on sco unix
dd if=/dev/rct0 conv=swab |tar xvf -

thanks for the people who helped me with this.


dave
From: ahby@ui.org (Shane P. McCarron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: UUCP over TCP
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:52:55 GMT
Organization: UNIX International, Parsippany, NJ  07054

We are trying to set up UUCP of TCP on an NCR 3445 running SVR4.0
release 2.0.  The WIN-TCP manual indicates that we need to set up the
uucp Devices, Dialers, and Systems files, but when we do this as
described it doesn't work.  Specifically, Uutry reports the following:

force flag set (ignoring uucico limit)
mchFind called (pegasus)
attempting to open /var/uucp/.Admin/account
Job grade to process - 
conn(pegasus)
Trying entry from '/etc/uucp/Systems' - device type TCP.
Device Type TCP wanted
Trying device entry 'tcp' from '/etc/uucp/Devices'.
processdev: calling setdevcfg(uucico, TCP)
Internal caller type TLI
tlicall: bound to 
t_connect to addr "\x00020401c0cb41af"
t_connect: Incorrect address format
Trying device entry 'tcp' from '/etc/uucp/Devices'.
processdev: calling setdevcfg(uucico, TCP)
Internal caller type TLI
tlicall: bound to 
t_connect to addr "\x00020401c0cb41af"
t_connect: Incorrect address format
getto ret -1
Call Failed: DIAL FAILED
exit code 101
Conversation Complete: Status FAILED

Our configuration looks like this:

Devices:

# uucp over ethernet added by md - 921211
TCP,eg tcp - - TLI \D tcp

Dialers:

tcp     ""      ""      NLPS:000:001:101\N\C

Systems:

pegasus  Any TCP - \x00020401c0cb41af


In this configuration, pegasus' IP address is 192.203.65.175.  Any
suggestions as to what we are doing wrong would be really helpful.
Please e-mail your replies.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
From: messmer@mamba.cc.lut.fi (Willi Messmer)
Subject: NCR 9300 system: some info needed
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:58:30 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Heips !

While looking some 6530 drives to my 9020, I'm offered with a 9300 cpu-unit
and two 6530 and soft for free. (only problem is transporting the dino)

I'd need some information & description on the cpu and operating systems
made for it.

Thanks, 

Willi
messmer@lut.fi

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