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From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Idea For ToolManager 3.0
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:23:40 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


Okay, hit me in the head with the manual and call me Bill Gates.  I have been
using UPD since it was released with Term, but I never knew that it supported
passing commands to SPEAK:.  

I probably thought this way because Term uses it's own speach function, instead
of passing it through to UPD.

Thanks to everyone who helped.

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From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  WP PC -> Amiga
Distribution: comp
Date: 29 Sep 92 10:16:06 EDT
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <1992Sep28.120612.6581@htsa.aha.nl> edwarde@htsa.aha.nl (Edward van Egmond) writes:
>The only problem I have with the Amiga W.P. is that it doesn't understand
>MS-DOS WP4.2 files. So, the amiga version of WordPerfect has never worked 
>correctly, it has too many bugs, it just sucks.

   To load an MS-DOS WordPerfect 4.2 file into Amiga WordPerfect you simple
choose "Import/IBM WP 4.2" from the "Project" menu.  It works fine.  If you
forget and try to simply "Retrieve" an MS-DOS WordPerfect 4.2 file you'll
get a requester telling you the file isn't an Amiga WordPerfect file and
asking if you want to retrieve it anyway.  I've had no problem simply
answering "Yes".

   You are correct in your complaint that WordPerfect has too many bugs.
Perhaps WordPerfect Corporation would have found their Amiga version more
profitable if they had devoted more attention to quality control.  

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From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
Subject: Re: Looking for Mathematica-style pgm.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 18:06:20 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <1992Oct1.230653.16359@trl.oz.au>, aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) writes:
[...]
|> I got a bit of email in response, all pointing to MapleV.  Included was
|> the press release, which I have appended for all to see.  At $US450 and
|> 2 Meg, 2.04 OS it will have to wait.  I couldn't find mention of a demo
|> version for the Amiga, 'tho there is one for 386+ trash.

 You should ask for the student version. Should be around $50 (not complete
 version, a bit cripled). 
 Also ask you campus for a copy of their campus - license of Maple, many
 Universities/College have that. Ok, i don;t know for Australia, but give it
 a try.
 Demo Version for Amiga is not existant, btw.

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From: david@dbyrne.lonestar.org (David Byrne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  Soft-Logik Releases
Distribution: world
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:34:45 CDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <66613@cup.portal.com> soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson) writes:
>>
>>>>>>> On 19 Sep 92 04:13:23 GMT, soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson) 
>s
>>aid:
>>
>>Kevin> Hi! A little information on Art Expression has leaked out. Here it is:
>>
>>Speaking of SoftLogik releases... Kevin, do you (or anyone else),
>>know if the PageStream 2.2 competitive upgrade program packages are
>>shipping yet? I sent in my fee almost a month ago to upgrade my v1.8
>>PageStream to 2.2 and haven't heard anything from S-L since... The
>>program ends at the end of Sept and it would suck to miss out on the
>>upgrade deal because my order got screwed up or lost or whatever.
>>--
>>/**************************************************************************/
>>/* Kent Dalton                   * EMail: Kent.Dalton@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM */
>>/* NCR Microelectronics          * Phone: (303) 223-5100 X-319            */
>>/* 2001 Danfield Ct. MS470A      *   FAX: (303) 226-9556                  */
>>/* Fort Collins, Colorado 80525  *                                        */
>>/**************************************************************************/
>>PUNK ROCK!!  DISCO DUCK!!  BIRTH CONTROL!!
>>
>
>As far as I know, there is no delay on shipping these upgrades. A friend of
>mine got his quickly. If you have a concern, call the marketing number and
>check on it (800) 829 8608.
>
>Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
>               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
>        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057

I have found Soft-Logik to have a pretty poor turnaround time on orders.  I
ordered my 2.2 upgrade by phone on Sept. 10th.  They immediately charged
(overcharged, actually) my credit card (it has already appeared on my last
statement) yet I have not received the product.  The last word I have
received is that it will go out on Monday the 28th.  The last time I called
to check on it (the last few weeks they kept telling me it would go out
within a few days), they stated it usually takes them 2 - 4 weeks to ship a
product from receipt of an order.  I figure they must have some archaic
inventory or shipping system to take 18 days to ship a product that has been
paid for (credit check only takes minutes).  I would guess that if you
mailed in an order to them it could easily take over a month to receive
anything back.
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Dallas, Texas
From: s915426@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Leanne Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ProDraw3.0: Addtolabeldatabase Genie Help
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:11:27 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.

I have been having difficulties with the Addtolabeldatabase genie with PDraw 3.0

What are the units meant to be in.  I put in CM values as my whole setup is in
CM values, and I end up with something resembling what I would get with Picas.

However, I don't understand Picas.  For instance, UnitsConverter tells me that
2.5 CM is 5p10.  What is this, as it is more than 5p5.????

I am thoroughly confused (and I think I need a dictionary :-)

Justin Deeley


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From: skyluke@skylink.sublink.org (Luca Spada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmers
Subject: XL images viewer
Date: 3 Oct 92 14:02:25 GMT
Organization: Sky Link (Amiga BBS) - VA, Italy, Europe

I  have just taken the 'NASA...  the 25th year' CD-ROM, I have an Amiga
2000  68030/68882  50mhz  SCSI  with  NEC  CD-ROM  and  Xetec software.
Altough  after  some tricks I managed to run the CD as like on a CDTV ,
the supplied viewer is a real pain, it disables multitasking, eats TONS
of chip ram, and it's SLOW.

So, my question is: is there anywhere a CD-XL image viewer ?

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     with DLG Pro     +39/332/706009 12- 2400bps              v42bis 2:331/121
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From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: GRE or GMAT Study program?
Date: 27 Sep 92 22:27:00 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I'm looking for programs to help prepare for the GRE/GMAT.  If you
have or know where to find a program for either uuencode|mail it to me
or let me know where it can be ftp'd from, provided it's for Amiga,
Mac or Ms-Dos.  Thanks...
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From: bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Disk Doubler
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:26:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

As the author of XFH I think I should clarify a few things:

 - The current version, which is v1.12, does automatic compression and
is freely distributable.

 - Currently XFH requires Xpk to run. However, XFH was originally
thought as a general interface to various compression methods and this
is reflected in the design and code. For example, it would be relatively
easy to extend it to handle lharc etc. archives, making them appear like
normal directories. Whether this will actually be realised sometime
depends on factors like the amount of interest I receive in XFH, time
and financial considerations etc.

 - A lot of the people I hear from are using XFH as a general 'disk
doubler', compressing everything on a partition. While this is perfectly
possible, the philosophy of XFH is somewhat different. XFH was meant to
provide easy access to already compressed files stored away somewhere
deep in a subdirectory, and this is what it does the best.

 - The main goal of XFH has been safety, not efficiency. XFH could
easily have been both smaller and faster, but at the cost of data
security and cleanness of code. Things like lowmem decompression and
overlapped compression and IO are not implemented yet.

	- Kristian.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt "Some Guy" Bose)
Subject: Process KILL/LIST Program???
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 11:57:37 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Are there any programs out there for the Amiga that appoximate the PS and KILL
commands in UNIX?  Workbench activation would be preferred...

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu (Devin E. Parsons)
Subject: FCII is HERE!
Reply-To: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:14:17 GMT

Good news, I received my copy of FCII today!  I have not had a lot of time to
use FCII, but here are a few impressions.

	Installation was just the same as FCI.  The inst. said that only
2.5 MB of HD room are needed despite the 6 disks.

	The program loads somewhat faster /w no delay as in FCI. 

	You can now select to use a custom screen/w 2 - 16 colors, or
more is your system suports it., with the screen colors being conf.able.

	The drawing tools are GREAT.  lines, boxes, circles, but no arcs. 
Objects are resizeable and can be set front to back of eachother.  Boxes
can enclose text now, as well.

	Printing is about the same, with a little better interface.

	The screen interface is much better, and you can turn off the ruler
to allow more text on the screen at one time.  Hey, I think I have OS2.0!

	Text handling is nearly the same, with the addition of slanting, and I
could tell no difference in the readability of on screen text.

	I have not used the master pages, style sheets yet, but the man. 
gives a sample of how to use them to create a automatic outline generator
that looks powerful.

	Speaking of the man., it is very good, and explaines all features 
competly (that I have looked up) save Arexx comands, but I have not used Arexx
much, so I am not a good judge.

	Text can be set to a different color and the defult font and size can
be changed (yeah!).

	No undo, and no headers or footers!  I really did want headers and
footers, but no dice.  Maby with V2.? that will be a free update! haha.

In general, FCII is much better than FCI and is well worth the $35 to 
upgrade, and well worth the price to buy it for the first time!  The
print quality is the best I have seen (by a long shot) and that makes all
the difference in the world on my HP DeskJet +.  FCII is VERY stable on
my 1000/2.5megs/Q105HD/Adspeed/KS1.3.  One note, the man. states that
FCII will only run correctly under WB1.3.3 or greater.

If anyone wants any other info, just sent me some E-mail or post a reply.
                            Devin.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith)
Subject: Re: ToolManager 2.0 Likes/Dislikes
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:01:03 GMT

charlesd@ocean.ics.uci.edu (Charles Davis) writes:

>In article <amuser.718019228@marsh> amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith) writes:

>	<<stuff about App Window deleted>>

>>As ToolManager is virtually free, I can only be grateful and I love
>>version 1.5. V2.0 however has lost me. I'm glad the above windows are
>>'appwindows', but the program is still MUCH harder to use, with very
>>little benefit to the user.
>>
>>As I understand it, the idea of object-oriented programming is to make
>>re-use of objects easy, even though a little extra effort is required in
>>actually making those objects. That's great for programming, but for
>>Toolmanager, how many objects get re-used ? Absolutely zero in my V1.5
>>configuration.

>What about multiple docks?   Menus?   Pop-up docs?
>I reuse a lot of the same execs, images and sounds.  You are not limited
>to only ONE dock on ONE screen!!! This makes it easy to provide some
>of the same commands on various docks as well as in the Tools menu.
 
V1.5 could have been made to support multiple docks, and existing ones
could be copied and then modified. V1.5 made it trivial to use the same
command in a menu and dock anyway.

>And how more consistent an interface could you ask for?  This is one
>well-designed and well-implemented tool!!

Consistent, yes. Well implemented, Yes. Well designed, I'm not so sure.
I really miss the ability to drop a tool on TM's icon to IMMEDIATELY put
it in the menu. It just couldn't be simpler. Maybe Stefan will add
similar capabilities to a future version.       

>>
>>I repeat though, I love version 1.5 and am very grateful for it. I will
>>probably stick with it.

>Just give it a try and I think you'll find that the extra hour or
>so it might take to get the feel of it will pay off, BIG TIME!

Maybe when I get an A4000 and can afford animated dock icons and the
resident sound player. Currently I don't use docks at all because they
waste screen space. The Tools menu seems much more sensible to me. Each
to his own I guess...

>				Charles Michael Davis
>				charlesd@ics.uci.edu

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From: jaharkes@cs.vu.nl (Harkes JA)
Subject: Re: Idea For ToolManager 3.0
Organization: Fac. Maths & Computer Science, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:16:19 GMT

sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna) writes:
: Stefan, here is an idea for Tool Manager 3.0:
: 
: Include support for the Amiga's speech synthesizer.  I have always liked the
: way Term talks to me, and think that it would be useful to enter a
: speech string for each program.  Something like,
: 	"Attempting to launch Directory Opus"

 Have you've been looking in the Goodies-directory? There is this program
called upd (YES, used with the sound-objects), I believe it can also adress
the Speak: device. (Read the doc(umentation))

 Therefore instead of inserting something like 'FILE ....' type something like
'SAY ....' in the SoundObject window of ToolmanagerPrefs.


Hoping to be helpful,
                      Jan

PS  I haven't tried anything like this yet, so I could be wrong with the advice
    which I have given. Since my AMI is at home resting it's HDisk, I can't be
    more precize.

PPS Stefan, congrat's with your superb program. The only prob I have is that
    'There is so little room on a 640x256 WBscreen that a large APPwindow makes
    is very difficult to find, pick and drop icons into it. OK not impossible
    but difficult.'

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From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: WANT: Program to Play/Convert Mac sound sample.
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:52:56 GMT
Reply-To: dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Parts of the University of Chicago

In article <1992Oct05.064812.21944@CS.ORST.EDU> evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu (M.BiSON) writes:
>Like the titles says, I would like a program to convert or
>at least play macictosh sound samples on my amiga.
>I really didn't care until I discovered a disk
>full of Street Fighter II samples...  anyways, thanx
>in advance.

OmniPlay will play sounds from any platform supporting audio,
including most common file formats from these platforms.  Current
version is 0.98.  Available at wuarchive.wustl.edu, in directory
/systems/amiga/incoming/audio, and at aminet sites, in mus/play, as
the file oplay098.lha.

A new version is ready, but I forgot to send it to ftp sites.  Keep
checking these locations.

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From: evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu (M.BiSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Ami-Express and Prowrite 3.3
Date: 5 Oct 92 06:54:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Oct05.065416.22082
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept


Here's a longshot but here goes:  Any of you sysops have this problem:

I discoverd that prowrite 3.3 will crash my machine upon quiting, if
somebody is connected to my bbs.  Any ideas?  Why would it wait until
I quit?  Occasionally Jr-Comm crashes on quiting also....very occasionally
but still.  And yet one more question:  Users of SID probably know
of the "guru after un-lha'ing a file and updating the dir bug".  Has
he fixed it yet? Or any work arounds?  Seems to happen randomly.

-MIC
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Date: Thu,  1 Oct 92 09:24:52 +0100
From: Martin_Steppler@mowgli.fido.de (Martin Steppler)
Subject: Re: ToolManager 2.0 Likes/Dislikes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
X-Comment-To: (Peter Da Silva)
Organization:  ...  

Pd> Yes. I asked Stephan about a converter for 1.5 prefs or for a prefs<->text
Pd> format converter, and he didn't think there was much demand for such a 
thing.
Pd> Basically, I'm the only one who's asked...

That's what Stefan told you.

Pd> > How do you set up *HORIZONTAL* docks?  All I can seem to get it to do is 
make
Pd> > vertical ones.
Pd>
Pd> Yeh, I was wondering about that. I don't care much for docks myself (I've 
got
Pd> folders I've Left Out in Workbench for that... and I'm not so sure about 
Tool
Pd> Icons: they don't seem to fit the Workbench model that well), but I'm 
surprised
Pd> that horizontal ones aren't supported.

This is not true. Depending on the number of columns you specify in the
dock-edit-window you either get horizontal or vertical docks, e.g. if you
want to have a dock with ten dock items, specifying 10 in the columns
gadget will get you an 1 row/10 columns horizontal dock. Specifying 1
yields to a 10 row/1 column vertical dock, 5 to a 2 row/5 columns
horizontal dock.

Pd> I think this is a much more professional program than 1.5, but I also think
Pd> it's got a touch of the Macintosh Disease. I'm sticking with 1.5 for now.

If Toolmanager 2.0 is a disease, I got happily infected.

            Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: When Will 2.1 be Available?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 15:10:57 GMT

In article <da_capo.05p2@amisys.abg.sub.org> da_capo@amisys.abg.sub.org (Frank Gaertner) writes:
>Kick  2.1 will be shipping in the end of november (92 of course!), C= tries
>to present it on World of Commodore in Frankfurt (26.-29.11.).

There's no such thing as a Kickstart 2.1.

> / Frank Gaertner : da_capo@amisys.abg.sub.org ,8900 Augsburg,Germany /   //

--Martin
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