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From: kfisher3@mach4.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U)
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Summary: yah right 
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 17:15:45 GMT

In article <55283@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> tna@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Trevor Andrews) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.172316.591@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
>>(forwarded from bit.listserv.i-amiga)
>>(I am not related to Commodore.  I am merely forwarding this for your interests)
>...
>>TITLE: Commodore asks for help...
>>
>>Commodore is aware of the activity on computer networks in response to
>>the "Amiga/Slow Death" article written by Mr. Phillip Robinson.
>>Commodore wants to assure all you who are concerned that we are not
>>taking this lightly, and would appreciate your help in responding to
>...
>>
>>P.S. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
>   But then he's dead now isn't he...
>>                    -- Mark Twain, 1897
>...
>
>That was sad... Real sad...  Sorry but Mr. Robinson is right... That is
>just by the posting of this letter.... sigh... I agree with Mr. Robinson.
>
>
>Just my $0.02
>
>Take care,
>  Trevor

Oh give me a break, CBM.  You guys make me sick (CBM upper management).
First, you let the Amiga die a slow death, and then whine when someone
speaks the truth, like Mr. Robinson.
Let's see you deny what Robinson wrote, eh Irv!!!  He hit's pretty close to
home, doesn't he??

Come on folks, will CBM really do anything, do you think, to 'correct' what
Robinson said?  If their marketing is any example, then I think that answers
the question.


Tiger-tiger,
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			Down at the Globe.."  - - BAD II
From: Les_Jenkins@lppl.mi.org (Les Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Distribution: world
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:10:36 EST
Organization: Les's Place BBS

Would someone please be so kind as to EMail me the article which CBM posted
to the net? I missed it and my site has already expired it. Thanks a mill.



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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Fred Fish Disk contents needed
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:23:30 GMT
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division


Hi!

Is there, available for ftp somewhere, an ascii text file listing all
of the Fred Fish disks and their contents.  Or could some kind soul
email a list to me.  Thanks!

Steve
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From: Mike_Noreen%cave@sweden.eu.net (Mike Noreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Random Guru with JRComm1.02a. Can it be fixed?
Distribution: world
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:29:45 PST
Organization: The Misty Cave BBS +46 753 33132

I run JRComm v1.02a on my A3000 with 6Mb RAM, and kick2.04 in ROM, and I
love it.
However; every now and then, the computer will guru upon connect, with
errorcode #80000003. Doesn't JRComm handle A3000 well, or does it not
approve of kickstart 2.04, and - more importantly - is there a fix for it?

The problem does NOT seem to be due to any programs running in the
background; even when I strip down User-startup to a minimum, JRComm still
gurus on occasion - and theres no way of telling just WHEN.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Path *and* ALIAS for Workbench
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 25 Jul 92 22:43:37 PST
 <1992Jul22.083156.16631@lri.fr> <jbickers.0bss@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Jul24.074211.25535@lri.fr>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <1992Jul24.074211.25535@lri.fr> by jpr@sun4.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere):

> get that! Any way to port it to 2.0 (in a more efficient way (see
> further)) ?

    Well, it's possible. It's right down on my list of priorities
    though. Multiple programs can patch DOS vectors under 2.0 without
    as much hassle as it was under 1.2, and the patch could check for
    multiple Workbench LoadSeg()s to cut Workbench off at the pass,
    as it were.

>   Jean-Pierre RIVIERE        |     ///
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From: ggibeau@ucqais.cba.uc.edu (George G. Gibeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Printer driver for HP300XL
Keywords: HP300XL, Printer Driver, Request
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:29:22 GMT
Organization: U.C. Dept. of Biology

I need to find a printer driver for the HP300XL color printer.
The postscript option is not available yet, so we have to make
do.  IT will print B/W fine, but have not been able to get it
to do anything in color from the AMiga.

Any help GREATLY appreciated.

Regards,
George Gibeau

-- 
George Gerald Gibeau, Jr.   ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu
University of Cincinnati    Department of Biological Sciences
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PowerPacker
From: mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:33:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
Keywords: powerpacker

In <1992Jul21.192721.26503@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> amiga@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (philip.s.kasten) writes:

>Where can I find PowerPacker?  It seems that there are many utilities
>on Fred Fish disks for PowerPacked files, but I cannot find PowerPacker
>itself on any Fish disk.  Is it commercial?  If not, is it available from
>anonymous ftp somewhere?

Yep, I'm afraid it is commercial. At least the latest versions are - it's
up to version 4.0a currently. Several other smaller utilities are offered
along with it, like PPMore, PPShow, PPAnim etc... and I think these are
freely distributable. Sorry I don't have ftp capabilities so I don't know
where you'll find them.

>Phil Kasten

Cheers, Matt.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Compression
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 24 Jul 92 08:34:49 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> by cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung):
> Does anybody know of a program for the Amiga similar to SuperStor and Stacker
> on MS-DOS systems which will compress and decompress files 'on the fly'.

    Check out XPK 1.0 on amiga.physik.etc.

> Carson Cheung
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From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: LET'S RESCUE THE AMIGA!! WAS C= speaks!!! let's spread the word
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:15:57 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I posted a question three days ago about networking 6 a500's to a 3000
and have of yet only received _TWO_ responses (thanks for your
response guys).  Maybe this doesn't seem odd to you BUT IT'S DAMN
FRIGHTENING TO ME!  Maybe it was my fault.   Maybe my subject line was
too hard to  weed through all the C= speaks!!! let's spread the word
posts.  Maybe COMMODORE'S BIGWHIGS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN NETWORKING.  IT SEEMS
OBVIOUS AS ACCOURDING TO A POST BY ONE OF THEIR NETWORKING GURUS THEY
_ONLY_ EMPLOY _THREE_ PEOPLE IN THIS CAPACITY. It seems to me that the
Amiga has and if it continues to be a machine literally kept breathing
by ITS CUSTOMER FANCATIC SUPPORT AND LOYAL _GENIUS_ THIRD PARTY DEVELOPERS.
Increasingly customers are disgruntled and developers are broke.  

If we still subscribe to the notion that the Amiga is worth the
trouble (I'd say it is) maybe people with the means (Arthur C. Clarke,
Todd Rundgren, and other people with millions more than me) could lead
a buyout attempt in the good American tradition.  I know I would buy
some stock even with my paltry reserves.  Are there other people who
would?

Mr. Gould (That's the bosses name right?) bailed out commodore,
apparently when noone else would, right?  Well, I think this time the
Amiga needs not a bail-out,  IT NEEDS A RESCUE!  AND WE THE AMIGA
COMMUNITY ARE JUST THE PEOPLE FOR THE JOB!!

Oh, BTW, if you're looking to network, the only reasonable soloution
is with the amiga implementation of SLIP called AmigaNOS.  AGAIN NOT A
C= PRODUCT BUT THE PRODUCT OF ANOTHER BRILLANT MEMBER OF THE AMIGA
COMMUNITY. 
-- 
jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
James Miller

_chicchai .sig no ho ga ichiban iin janai ka_
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Path in WB 2.0
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 21:46:57 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I'm having some trouble with my WB path.  My startup sequence sets up a
path before calling LoadWB, and this path does appear to be passed to
WorkBench.  When I use the Amiga-E key to execute a command and I type
'path', it prints out the path that I supplied, so it appears that WB
knows where to search for things.  But when I try to load some IconX
scripts, I get the message "Unable to open your tool 'IconX'".  Why?
IconX is located in the C: directory, and C: appears in the path
listing.  If I change the icon to say C:IconX as the default tool, it
works, but it SHOULD work the other way, too.  Why doesn't it?

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From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Gnu emacs, amiga-set-geometry?
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:57:58 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

I could use some knowledge about the latest amiga port of GNU Emacs.  I am
using "GNU Emacs 18.58, Amiga port 1.25DG".

First, it doesn't seem to recognise amiga-set-geometry.

Second, the docs mention the full source can be found at amiga.physik.unizh.ch,
but it doesn't seem to be there, or at any of the mirrors.

Third, putting either of the following commands in my .emacs file results in
errors.

(auto-fill-mode)
(load-file ispell.el)

Thanks for your help,
Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: karkan@msdrl.com (Jim Karkanias)
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Organization: Merck Research Laboratories
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 19:30:35 GMT

:  *   Commodore recently signed a strategic product reseller agreement
:      with Digital Equipment Corporation.



They did what??!
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:11844 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:13176
From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Comments on BubbleJet printers ??? Canon BJ10EX esp ?
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:57:56 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University

From article <1992Jul24.131906.14573@hubcap.clemson.edu>, by charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV):
> c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang) writes:
> 
> 
>>Just wondering if anyone has had any success/failures with Canon BJ10ex
>>Bubble Jet printers ???
> 
> I have a BJ-5 ... essentially the same thing.  I'm quite happy with it.
> I move it around a bit and it takes the handling quite well.
> 
>>I've seen a demo in a shop and was very impressed....do owners find
>>they don't like the Amiga ??? Or are they expensive to run ?? or ???
> 
> If you buy the Canon, get the sheet feeder.  It gets annoying when you have
> to feed in paper for every page.  Also, before running, get the BJ10 driver
> from the Fred Fish disk.  It makes the print quality quite good.  (and in only
> one pass unlike the other "compatible" drivers.  
> 
> Ink cartridges will run you about $20 apiece (but they last a good while)
> and you can use most any sort of paper in it.  (I use Xerox paper ... it seems
> to give good results).  The only real problem with the BJ printers (and their 
> Star counterparts, I'm told) is that the ink is water-soluble.  Rain does not
> coexist well with this ink!  The type of paper you're printing on has a big
> effect on this, though.  Maybe Canon will address this problem?  
>

My dealer sells a kit to refill the cartridges.  I have had good
luck with one and one that I couldn't get to work so far... 
-- 
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Though all the world betrays thee.
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
One faithful harp will praise thee."         (Thomas Moore)
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: can't change screenfont in 2.04. Help?
Date: 21 Jul 92 07:14:05 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Jul20.120700.13853@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> tkt@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>I'm having a stupid problem with the new workbench under 2.04.  If I have
>a screenfont.prefs file in my prefs/env-archive/sys drawer, workbench
>halts on startup and reboot and presents a requester that says
>"To reset workbench screen, please close all windows except drawers."

You obviously changed your startup-sequence and encountered one reason
why this is officially *not* recommended. Point is this happens when
some output appears in the DOS window, *before* Iprefs is called in
the startup-sequence. Iprefs loads and activates all those prefs settings
it finds in env-arc. So go back to the original startup-sequence, do your
additions in a file user-startup (which is called *after* IPrefs), and
all should work smoothly.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: MANY QUESTIONS: Answer what you know!
From: avogel@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:29:30 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

Ok I have a bunch of questions that I have compiled into one post
Please feel free to answer one or more via E-mail or followup here goes:

1> I have WB 2.04 and the hard drive back-up utility that it comes with is
strange.  It first of all take s many disks to back-up on.  My 40meg quantum
has 36 megs used and this program took 46 disks.  Here is another thing I put
it in compression mode and it took more disks than normal mode 49 rather than
46.  Also you can set the drives that you want to use.  I have df0: and sf1
oops df1: (disregard sf1).  What happened was that it backed-up starting with
disk 1 in df0: went to disk 2 in df1: then from then on only prompted for disks
to be enteredt into df0: and totally ignored df1: why?
Also can anyone recommend a better hard drive back-up utility for floppies?  Is
it worth it to buy Quarterback 5.0 or how is AMI-back? Anyone?


2>  I am also in the market for an audio digitizer.  8 bit seems the only
affordable way to go.  Does anyone know how Perfect SOund compares with GVP DSS
and Audition4 or AudioMasterIV?  Also will prices for 16-bit (Sunrize
industries Studio-16) be coming down?  I have a friend who bought PAS-16 for
his IBM for $219 16 bit audio in the IBM for less than the AMIGA!! A crime!!


3>  Next: FTP sites for AMIGA software.  I have seen many postings listing many
different sites.  Does anyone have any opinion on which site or two or three is
the most comprehensive (has things like AMI-NET and Fish disks etc)?  I don't
feel like exploring 30 sites.  Anyone??


4>Finally here and on comp.sys.amiga.advocacy I have heard all this
hype/bashing about the A3000+ the A4000 and the A600 and the AAchipset.  This
has probably been discussed and explained before but would some kind soul
please either post or E-mail me if you don't want to re-hash on the net,
exactly what these machines (and chipset) are, when they are supposedly coming
out - how much is hype how much is rumor, expected prices, compatibility with
existing machines etc.  Especially because I am thinking of upgrading to an
AMIGA 3000 - is it worth it/realistic/affordable to wwaIT FOR AN amiga 3000+ OR
amiga 4000 - what is the deal?


To all who reply thanks - I'm trying to catch-up so I can be more aware and
hopefully contribute some interesting ideas.  Again thanks in advance.
					--Andrew
From: rickt@tcom.stc.co.uk (Rick Tait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: B2000 <---> Ethernet -or- B2000 <TCP-IP>?
Summary: Amiga, Ethernet, TCP-IP, Networking
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:58:04 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe, New Southgate, London.

Hi,
I am interested in installing my Amiga into an Ethernet and/or
TCP-IP based net. I was wondering if any companies out there have
marketed such products, or is it going to have to be 'build-it-myself'
job? 

The system in question would be a base 2000, with a muti-serial board,
and a 105MB HD. 

Any help, whether hardware or software oriented would be greatly
appreciated.

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From: cse_stu@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:53:21 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

>>>  Anyway, the hardware of the Amiga can't be emulated by software.
> 
>>mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) saids;
>>> How about "Can't be legally emulated" or "Can't yet be emulated at
>>> reasonable speed". If you want to fund it, I'll write the emulator for
>>> you. Just don't expect to run as fast as say, PC-task on an A500.
As I remember the first amiga software team was emulating the hardware before
the amiga Hardware was done. It is easyer then you think to emulate the amiga
hardware the problem is getting the emulated to run faster then a timex 1000.

=========
Video Man
=========
From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Unix style parent directory (..)
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:07:51 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

In <1992Jul30.050604.11167@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:

>>If you are not using csh (5.19 at the moment), then you are not using your
>>shell properly.

>	I tried csh (version 5.21 or something like that). I still have it,
>but don't like it all that much. I just want the cd .. command too!

Aside from the way it handles native amigados scripts, what don't you like
about it?  I can't concieve of going back to the native shell.  Granted it
takes a little getting used to.  Filename completeion alone is worth the
effort of installing it.

Ken
Organization: Ege University - Computing Center
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 14:37:51 TUR
From: Cem Turgay <PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Distribution: world
 <1992Jul24.125046.16117@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>
 <mwm.1azz@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>

In <1992Jul24.125046.16117@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>,
markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) wrote:
>  Anyway, the hardware of the Amiga can't be emulated by software.

mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) saids;
> How about "Can't be legally emulated" or "Can't yet be emulated at
> reasonable speed". If you want to fund it, I'll write the emulator for
> you. Just don't expect to run as fast as say, PC-task on an A500.

May you can write it only in your dream. B-)

IBM has a fund. Go and say; 'I will write an Amiga emulator for
you, if you give me more money...' to IBM guys.
I bet, they will only laugth to you.  They have money but
they have also knowledge about the Amiga hardware...

It is imposible my friend.
If you don't trust me, go and try my comments. IBM has a more
funds for R&D. (about 5,000,000,000 dollars)

So, real system programmers never come with the project of Amiga
emulator, because they know software and hardware capable of PCs.

Regards,
-Cem

+---------------+-----------+---------------------------+-------------+
| Cem Turgay    |       /// | Founder and owner of the  | A500        |
|PROHVK32@TREARN| Amiga///  | AMIGA-TR @ LISTEARN/TREARN| A590 +      |
|OPRJ65@TREARN  | \\\ ///   | Izmir, Turkey             | Quantum 105 |
|PROHVK38@TREARN|  \\X//    | Another Amiganoid B-)     | 1084S       |
+---------------+-----------+---------------------------+-------------+
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