HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SPS files
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:03:40 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <C0GECs.MBt@ecf.toronto.edu> alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu (AL RASHID SHAHIR) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.182318.10233@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall) writes:
>>Can anyone tell me what the extension .SPS means? I assume it is a 
>>spectrum graphics file, like SPU or SPC, but none of my spectrum viewers
>>will cope with it.

>>Thanks in advance,
>>Keith.
{sig deleted}
>Hey!!! The exact same problem I was having a little while back!!! I thought it
>was a corrupted archive or a sight problem, though... Anyone out there figure 
>it out??

>Thatzit.
>AcEzE.

{sig deleted}

	.SPS is the Smooshed Spectrum format.  You can view/unsmoosh it with
one of the later Spectrum viewers such as spslidex (or some such - its been
so long since I got my TT that I have already forgotten a lot of ST specific
software - but I still wish I had a TT compatible photochrome (I think that
is the program that gives such great colors on an ST/STe) program - it would be
really cool to see some of those neat .jpg pictures in 640x480x24bit on
my stock TT).

	That and a working zoo.  :)

-MikeB
From: anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: atari archive??
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:15:43 GMT
Reply-To: anisko@usdtsg.UUCP ()
Organization: NCR Corporation, Dayton

In article <1993Jan12.111528.8418@fwi.uva.nl> storm@fwi.uva.nl (Richard G.C. Storm (I89)) writes:
>
>
>Can anybody tell me what happened to terminator's atari archive???
>Does anybody know where it has been moved to?
>Or is there another major archive?

   Try atari.archive.umich.edu - that's the official name I believe...

				Robert Anisko
				anisko@usdtsg.daytonoh.ncr.com

Haggar the Horrible: "I'm not myself today"
Lucky Eddie: "who are you?"
From: Jan_Willekens@p12.f202.n281.z2.fidonet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ICD Host Adapter
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 93 13:30:22 +0100
Reply-To: p12.f202.n281.z2.fidonet!Jan_Willekens@nextjk.wlink.nl
Distribution: world
X-FSC-PATH: 4202/12
X-FSC-PID: LED 1.00

In a message of <Sun  3 Jan 93 15:06>, Volker Tries (2:281/202.0) writes:

 VT> Where can I get the new ICD Software?


At their own BBS: +49-(0)610467582 (Germany, that is)

Don't use ZModem to download, their BBS software is old and ZModem crashes
after 6K, use YModem instead...

Greetings...                                                - Jan -
          FidoNet: 2:281/202.12, UseNet: jan@nextjk.wlink.nl

--- Bermuda v1.20
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From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TCP/IP for the ST and LAN Server
Date: 6 Jan 1993 01:18:00 +0100
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
Reply-To: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de

In <C0Dno6.7vo@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca () writes:

>A better way would be to use a MAC SCSI-ethernet board with an
>ICD ACSI-SCSI connector. This would be faster, but the same
>problem with lack of software drivers exists. Now if you
>could get software only from the German companies at a reasonable
>price...

A year ago or so I had some email contact with folks  at  the  TU
Wien  (Vienna),  who  had  written a TCP/IP package for the Riebl
Card plus. They had their stuff posted  to  an  ftp  site  called
fortec.tuwien.ac.at  (if I remember that correctly). I don't know
if they posted  the  source  code  too,  but  if  so,  that  will
certainly be useable for writing said software drivers, I figure.
If they didn't post the source, there may still be a fairly  good
chance  they're  willing  to share it, since this took place at a
university.

Greetinx, Jan

 +- Jan Kim -- X.400:    S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
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 *----=<  hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans  >=-----*
From: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: *.Z compression
Summary: .Z & .z extension
Keywords: compress zip
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:48:36 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informatiesystemen BV,dep.SWZ,Postbus 29, 4130 EA Vianen,The Netherlands

In article <1993Jan3.233757.22682@tdb.uu.se> m91der@tdb.uu.se
 (Daniel Eriksson) writes:
=>Paul Chan (chanp@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
=>:In article <A6780@M4.maus.de> Achim_Wilhelm@m4.maus.de writes:
=>: 	*.Z --> use uncompress
=>: 	*.F --> use freeze -d
=>
=>And while we're discussing extensions:
=>
=>        *.z (lower-case) --> use GNU ZIP
=>
=>It's supposed to become the new standard for the GNU-project. I can now
=>see LOTS and LOTS of people wondering where to get an Atari-version of

And how are we gonna see the difference between .Z and .z under TOS
on the Ataries?
What's wrong with the old .ZIP extension ?
--
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Europe: gert@targon.UUCP  Alternative: kanis.via@sni.de
From: wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: zoo21.ttp
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:41:00 GMT
Organization: Aston University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL241235]

When I use zoo, which admittedly is quite rarely, I always type the 
full command - i.e.
   Double click ZOO.TTP (or whatever)
and enter
   -extract filename.zoo
in the dialog box. You could probably get away with -x, but I don't
think it likes you to miss out the hyphen. Just a thought...


--
Tim Wright.                   \               Real Life sucks
wrighttj@cs.aston.ac.uk        \                   losers dry.
From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Stalker vs Uniterm!
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:10:42 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario

In article <1993Jan7.214014.29503@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
> For those of us that HAVE to use Kermit, Uniterm is still the program
> of choice.

Note that if your host has zmodem, either Uniterm or Flash 1.6 can use
zmodem perfectly with a good external program like XYZ 2.01. Kermit is
probably the worst protocol in the world.

--

ken@isgtec.com   [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ]  Ken Newman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: re W Magro's posting
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:45:13 GMT

My argument is STILL valid even in light of your comments.
I had stated that it was cheaper to dispose of STs than
PCs over the last 7 years. Your argument that this does
not apply to the present day situation because of PC
upgradability ASSUMES that an Atari is not easily upgradable.
Hey, I have recently boosted several TTs to 32 megs of
RAM; they can be boosted to 64 megs. Graphics cards are
pluggable, etc. You are assuming that Atari's will remain
less upgradable than PCs. We shall have to wait and see.
From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Last time on this one
Date: 12 Jan 1993 02:51:28 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: case.ai.mit.edu

In article <1isna6INNonm@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>Don't bother, the guy is obviously thick, saying there is no CLI for
>the ST, (ever heard of UNIX!?  And the hundreds of other PD/shareware ones)

Look Steve, get a grip.  You know I know what I'm talking about here;
I've written programs for the ST, remember?  There's no Atari CLI;
they're all third party products.  In other words, there is no
equivalent to DOS in the Atari world -- as far as ATARI is concerned
there IS no CLI.  That's all I meant, OK?  And most programmers know
that you can get a lot more work done with a CLI than you can with WIMP
interfaces anyway.

Second, the ST doesn't run Unix.  It can't run Unix because it isn't
capable of doing virutal memory.  (It does run Minix, though; I'll
give you that they're similar.)

Finally, if you're going to followup a post of mine, you could at least
insult me by name.

>Hard drives are not 'cheap', $250 is a lot of money for poor folks like
>myself!  (For a decent drive....)

Yet you (pl.) expect us to put in the X thousand hours required to
write something Game Workbench when you can't pay the $200 or so it
costs to justify making it?

>So GEM is not a Real OS is it!?  Damn, what have I been using for the
>last 5 years then!?

An early, buggy version of a poorly designed single-tasking OS.

Dave Baggett
--
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From: xx004@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Atari SIG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Programming & Atari News SysOp Wanted
Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:22:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: xx004@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Atari SIG)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



The Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIG is looking for a ST/Falcon030 programmer
and developer.

The main responsibility of yours would be the "16/32-bit Programming/Developing
Area" in the Atari SIG.

You would make it a good place for programmers and developers to obtain
information and have useful discussions.

Please be aware that this position may require 10 hours a week IF the
area gets busy enough.  Also, it will take some time for you to reorganize
the area so that it becomes a place where programmers and developers
will want to go.

This is a non-paying position.  All sysops are volunteers on the Cleveland
Free-Net.


The Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIG is also looking for an Atari News SysOp.

If you are interested in all types of news, rumors, tidbits related to
Atari Corporation and the Atari Community, this is a position for you!

You'll have a reason to find the latest info!  And you will also be helping
to deliver this information to other Atari users.

We already have a sysop that posts online magazines WEEKLY, so you will
not have to worry about this.


The Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIG continues to make efforts to be the
ultimate FREE source of Atari information and conversation!

If you want to help and feel you have the time, please leave e-mail.

Thanks!

Atari SIG (xx004@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)

Len Stys

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Subject: US Falcon sightings?
Summary: Any retail ones yet?
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:48:04 GMT

I heard a rumor from a usually-reliable source that Falcons have begun to
trickle into retail channels in the US.  Can anyone confirm this by direct
experience??  In particular, has anyone bought one or seen one offered for
sale in a store?
                                         Steve     saj@chinet.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I can't believe YOU!!!Re: NEW ATARI SUPPORT Part 2
From: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:28:59 GMT
Reply-To: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
 <1iljgsINNl6l@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,<C0Kt23.GqB@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

> It is not a case of being facetious or no. You are COMPLETELY out of
> line here. To ever (_EVER_) wish death on a CEO because you don't like
> the way he runs _HIS_ company is absolutely outrages.

Do you *really* think it was meant!?  Ever heard of sarcasm!? 

Almost anyone I know could do a better job of marketing machines than these
people - we bought our computers because we like them.  (Although people
take offense from 'your computer sucks' the same way people say 'your
house sucks'.)  If the company can't market - that's their own lookout,
they go bust, (unlikely), and little else happens.  Nothing the average
consumer can ever say, or do (less than a smalll bomb) is going to effect
the company at all!  (Apart from buying/not buying their machines).
From: rossin@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ted Rossin)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:05:47 GMT
Subject: Re: TOS 2.06 +$1 works in 1040ST
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st

The details have been uploaded to atari.archive.umich.edu. 

			atari/Misc/tos206up.zoo


It is just an ASCII file.   Thanks for all the email.  

				Ted.
From: peres@julie.laas.fr (Michel Peres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Help....I search a programm to save screen pages of french "minitel"
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:17:40 GMT


 I search a programm to save screen pages of minitel (like 3615 APEC
or 3615 JOB). And after, i want to read these pages slowly on my atari
terminal sm124. I have an atari 520STF with 2.5 mega of RAM memory.

All the suggestions are welcome. Thanks a lot.
                                     Michel Peres
 

         mail adress : peres@laas.laas.fr  
         post adress : PERES michel
                       Bat B
                       3 rue de gaillac
                       31500 Toulouse FRANCE

N.B.:Are there FTP anonymous serveurs and news group for atary in
french country???


 I search a programm to save screen pages of minitel (like 3615 APEC
or 3615 JOB). And after, i want to read these pages slowly on my atari
terminal sm124. I have an atari 520STF with 2.5 mega of RAM memory.

All the suggestions are welcome. Thanks a lot.
                                     Michel Peres
 

         mail adress : peres@laas.laas.fr  
         post adress : PERES michel
                       Bat B
                       3 rue de gaillac
                       31500 Toulouse FRANCE

N.B.:Are there FTP anonymous serveurs and news group for atary in
french country???
.
From: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: The compatibility story (Falcon & A1200)
Date: 9 Jan 93 13:20:32 GMT
Reply-To: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no
Organization: None
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992


Comodore officialy say that 60% of current A500 software works on the A1200.
Impressive? I don't think so!

Compo (large german company that develop and sell ST/TT/Falcon software and
hardware addons) have had a thorough test of a large base of existing ST 
software to see if it worked on the Falcon 030, and they found that 95% (no 
kiddin', ninty-five%) do run!
This is even better than what Atari self hoped for, and it is MUCH better
than what the TT can show up with. I have a TT and have little problems to 
get the software I need.


-- 
  _______________________________________________________
 / Joern F. Moe /  All above is my own personal opinion! \
/ Oslo, Norway /  Any lack of opinion above is also mine! \
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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Porky pig.
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:33:16 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:

>Atari's simply aren't competetive anymore.  Face it, if you bought a
>new machine, would it be an ST?

>If so, then you really are deluded
>beyond all hope.  Apple's soon not going to even HAVE a 68000 machine
>in their line -- they're just too darn slow by today's standards.

Wakey-wakey Dave.  Atari's soon not going to even HAVE a 68000 machine
 in their line -- they're just too darn slow by today's standards.

If you bought a "new machine" and it was an ST, then you've just popped
through a time warp.  Check out the prices 1040STe's are being flogged
off at by long-term Atari dealers - it's a runout sale.  I picked up
a SM146 for $AU190, which is quite a saving!!  They're all about to
become obsolete [though the SM146 is a *nice* monitor!].

Smell some roses for a change.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Stalker vs Uniterm!
From: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Steve Wells)
Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:07:20 GMT
Reply-To: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

> May be we should all wait for THE STORM...???

The company went bye-bye!

(Or did it!?)

 =============================================================================
 | O O    Computers:  Not just machines, they're a way of  |       |||       |
 |  o     life.  Your computer *IS* your religion!         |       ||| TARI  |
 | \_/    Steve Wells - Wellington, New Zealand.           |      / | \      |
 =========================WELLS_S@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ==========================
From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre GCR (Mac+ emulator) vs. Mac MS-Word 5.1???
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:06:24 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario

In article <1993Jan6.183944.7696@cbfsb.cb.att.com> hojo@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (HC Johnson) writes:
> It seems to be a problem with the INSTALLER.
> 
> I survive by installing on a real MAC, then use an archiever compresser
> to put it back on floppies that don't need to be INSTALLED.
> 
> Another input.  A friend (R. Dutt on the net) suggested that the following
> also works:
> 	1. copy each disk to be installed to a separate directory.
> 	2. tell INstall that the disk it wants is in that directory rather than
> 		a real floppy.

Ok, but an important question seems to be:

	If you get Word 5.1 installed somehow under Spectre, does it
	run perfectly? Or crash, misbehave, etc.

--

ken@isgtec.com   [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ]  Ken Newman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: John.Klassa@launchpad.unc.edu (John Klassa)
Subject: Re: Editor???
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:51:10 GMT

(Richard G.C. Storm (I89)) writes:

>I'm currently looking for a good editor for my atari.
>It has to save in ascii unlike 1st word does. If anybody
>knows which editor is good for that and where I can get it, I 
>will appreciate your help greatly.`

I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only ST owner in existence who uses
Pro*Ed by Jerry Cole...  I got it way, way, way back when (circa '86 or
'87), from a friend of mine who beat me to an ST purchase by about a
year and a half.  I've never seen a reference to Pro*Ed here on the net.
 Strange.  I don't even know if it's available from atari.archive.  I do
know, though, that it's PD...  At any rate, it's a decent editor -- not
great, but decent.  It has some nice features and some un-nice features,
but I still use it for most of my day-to-day editing when I'm using my
ST.

If anybody cares, I can provide more information via email.

Oh, yeah -- please reply to:

	klassa%aurfs1.aur.alcatel.com@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com

I'm using my "backup" account since news got a little hosed up on my
regular account.

John

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From: wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: The fight of the FLAMERS!
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:02:58 GMT
Reply-To: wmtwen@urc.tue.nl

Yoopeeeeyeah!
Finally the fight we have all been waiting for. Finally two of our best
Atari-bashers :) are flaming each other.
Who wants to place any bets?
The odds are a bit better for Mark K, but I have more respect for Darek
M's opinions because he seems more knowledgable.
But as we all know in flamewars facts are not as important as CAPITAL
STATEMENTS!!!! 

lets just hope this will make an end to all bashin of people in this
newsgroup so we can continue to share information.

Erlend.
From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: on the need for 'virtual memory'
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:02:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.C0r8vp.683
Reply-To: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Organization: Health Computer Sciences, U of MN, Mpls

Can someone who knows the history of UNIX please comment on whether the
early versions of UNIX 'required' virtual memory in order to work?  My
own impressions are that the PDP computers didn't have any virtual
memory, and that most programs that were larger than memory consisted of
a series of intelligent overlays.  (My impression is partially formed by
experience with UNIX 7.0 on a PDP-11/34, requiring a grand total of
10 megabytes of hard disk space, and the fact that one of the selling
points of the VAX series of computers was the fact that they had virtual
address space.)

-- DPZ
From: s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TCP/IP for the ST and LAN Server
Date: 31 Dec 92 20:27:54 GMT
Organization: S-E-Banken, Sweden
Nntp-Posting-User: s19184

In article <1992Dec30.175909.2268@zooid.guild.org>, kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski) writes:
> 
> Has anyone out here experiemented with TCP/IP for the Atari ST. I remember
> seeing a file on a german FTP site that was called, I believe, TCP_IP.LZH.
> How does it implement TCP/IP? Is it done via the RS-232 port? What I want
> to eventually do is to network my PCs with the Atari that I have.

I have been thinking about the same thing. I know there are Ethernet 
cards for various ST-models in Germany, but I think that most of them 
are for Megas (ie expansion bus machines).

The thought that struck me the other day (it did not hurt ;-) was that 
there are many "pocket" LAN adapters available for portable PCs. These 
plug onto the parallel port and supply a Token Ring or Ethernet 
(Thinwire or 10BaseT) connection.

Now an ST could not use the PC drivers which are supplied with the 
adapter, but the hardware could be of use even for my old 1040 STF. 
Has anyone looked at what is required to drive one of these adapters, 
and worked out what would be required to drive it though the ST 
parallel port instead?

Personally, I am most interested in a NFS client, as I have just 
collected the SOSS NFS server for the PC, but I imagine that the 
appetite would grow as soon as the function became available.

Is this anything more than an old man's wild ideas?

/Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: bjgrier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier)
Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:48:35 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research

> I use floppy disks with Spectre 3.0 on my TT, all the time. But 
> before I can do that, I have to perform a little voodoo, as follows:

> 1. Turn off CPU cache.
> 2. From the Atari desktop, format a *double density* floppy.
> 3. Launch Spectre.

> After that, I can read, write and format GCR disks without problems.
> This works _every time_ on my TT, and at least one other that I know of.

According to Dave Small, on GEnie, you should not need to format
a double density floppy, but you do need to access one. According 
to Dave this causes TOS to set the floppy controller to the required
density. Just thought I'd pass this along. However I can not confirm 
this as I own Spectre 128 not GCR.

Brian J. Grier
Bell Northern Research
Research Triangle Park, NC