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From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ICONS are just too damn slow.
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:28:26 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Michael Neylon) writes:

>slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:
>: Hi.
>: 
>: When I open a disk or a drawer on the workbench, the disk grinds
>: and SLOOoooowly... puts up the icons.  It is like the icons are
>: stored extremely far apart from each other.
>: 
>: Wouldn't the icons load in MUCH faster if they were all in a row on the disk
>: instead of spread out everywhere?  It is a real pain for the icons to pop
>: up so slow.  Is there a utility that will put the icons next to each other on
>: the disk for faster loading or something.  If so, how well does it work?

>I know B.A.D, a disk optimizer, has a workbench mode, such that all the 
>.info files are stored in one plaec.

I believe ReOrg also has this option.  B.A.D. is a (fairly old) commercial
product, whereas ReOrg is recent, has a neat interface, is faster than
B.A.D., and is available at FTP sites.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Subject: Re:  Booklet pagenumbering
Organization: Smith College
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 06:00:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.171855.23065@oracle.pnl.gov> dr_thiede@pnl.gov writes:
>I have had several people at work first state that "Sure! Package X on Y can
>do what you wan't".  But when we get to the manual it turns out that it can't
>be done automatically.  Big dissapointment!
>
>We will probably have to resort to either physical pastup or an electronic
>one by pasting pages from one document into columns in another.

...or use TeX.

1-up, 2-up, ..., n-up -- no problem.  I've done it.  Just take
you dvi file and run it through dvidvi with the appropriate
parameters for your layout and presto, exactly what you wanted.
No manual anything.

-john


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From: Don_-_Hirschfeld@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Tape Backups, Quarterback
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 18:37:30 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I just got an Archive 2525s this week. I had the hardest time getting it to 
work at first ( the connector on the drive was backwards), but it now works 
perfect. If you use Quarterback or Amiback, you don't need any other utility 
to get it recognized by your SCSI controller. I just boot my machine, go into
Quarterback, set the tape device to the right SCSI # and off I go. I just sent
for Amiback today which is superior to Quarterback with tape backups. It allow
for multible backups and differential backups on the same tape which QB does
not allow. I should get it tomorrow or Friday. Leave me E-mail if you want 
more info or my test results with Amiback.
From: jcross@ec.uwa.oz.au (Jennifer Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Printer driver for tek 4695 on 2.0x needed
Date: 11 Nov 1992 12:28:23 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au
Summary: need 2.0x tek 4695 printer driver
Keywords: printer driver color wanted tek 4695

  could some kind sole out there help me with this...
  I'm looking for a 2.0x printer driver for a Tektronix 4695 color inkjet
  there were versions for 1.2 on some of the early fishes
  (89 and 96 I think) but there doesn't seem to be any since then...
  was it included in later releases of the OS? (it doesn't seem to
  be one in my 1.3 distribution and I want to use it with 2.04 

  Thanks you in advance...
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From: cqn1676@tamsun.tamu.edu (Dr. Strangelove)
Subject: Final Copy II and Arexx
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:22:19 GMT

I think I remember seeing someone mention this a while back but I don't
remember seeing a response.  I was disappointed to find that the macro list
menu in FCII is not changeable to the name you desire (I've only skimmed
the manual but I didn't see a way to change it).  What I did was I used a
disk/file editor like Deksid, searched for the string AMACRO and then
changed it to whatever I wanted to call it.  I still had to have the macro
files named as AMACRO_x but that's no big deal.  It beats trying to
remember which menu option did what.  Remember, don't work on the original
and if you can, copy it to ram and edit it from there.  Don't forget to
de-compress it before you work on it if you have it imploded or
powerpacked.  Also, make sure that when you search, you edit where there's
a group of the AMACRO_x strings.  I remember seeing a single occurrance of
the string earlier in the file.  I didn't really look at it that hard so I
don't know what that single occurance was.  Probably the title for the menu
bar.  BTW, I'm not a hacker so I have no idea how to force the program to
load your macro files that you named in the menu.  I was only able to find
a single group occurance of the AMACRO_x's.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith)
Subject: Re: SOLUTION: ProWrite Page length problems.
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:52:00 GMT

johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:

>Bill Sharp-Smith (amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
>> The secret lies in the "No gaps between pages" button in the page setup
>> (?) requester. It must be turned ON, other wise your set page length is
>> ignored. NLQ mode works fine, however.

>What version of ProWrite are you using?

>I tried this out last night with V3.2.4 and it still has the same problem.

I've upgraded to 3.3.1, but I would have thought it would work with
3.2.4. Oh well, I guess not.

>What other settings are you using..Preferences, Page Layout etc?

In prefs mine is set to DIN A4 paper size, but that is probably
over-ridden by ProWrite anyway. In ProWrite I'm using the A4 letter
setting with aspect adjusted off.
>> Thanks to Mark for his interest even though he doesn't work for New
>> Horizons anymore.

>What happened?

I think he went back to Uni or something. He'll probably see this and
tell us for real (Hi Mark) :-).

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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Booklet pagenumbering
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 15:36:32 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>>
>>I am trying to layout a booklet that may consist of up to 100
>>pages.  We are wanting to print on legal size paper in landscape
>>mode with two pages per sheet... double sided of course.
>>
>>Programs such as pagestream don't seem to have a concept of two
>>pages per sheet not do they permit the fancy page numbering that
>
>Are you sure you're talking about Pagestream?  Two pages per sheet is
>trivial.  Layout two columns per sheet.  Each column is a page.  What's your
>problem?
>
I should point out that two columns per page is fine. However, if you want
to photocopy the result and fold it into a booklet, you will find that
page combinations like 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 won't be where you want them.

>>we will need.  I have heard that some Mac programs can do it and
>>posibly workperfect but have not actually seen it in action.
>
>Explain "fancy page numbering." Like 1,2,3 or i, ii, iii?  Do you have a
>manual for PS?  Are your registered?  Do you really know what you are
>talking about?
>
Also if you put two columns per page to simulate two pages per sheet, you
will have problems with page numbering.

What I did when confronted with this problem was to use PageStream's 
text routing to flow the text through the maze of pages that would
print properly. I then numbered the pages manually.

The alternative is to print only 1 per page and then colate and photocopy.


>>Does anyone know of a product that can do this?  Better yet, a
>>way in which we can get pagestream to do it.
>
>Read the manual.
>
>>Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: FinalCopy
Date:  8 Nov 92 09:58:33 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

Hello World,

I am reviewing FinalCopy II and trying to decide whether to buy it or not.
It seems to work well on my A3000 and A2500 and the output quality with a
PS laser is good.

BUT the fonts look horrible on screen.  In interlaced display modes they are
somewhat readable, in non-interlaced modes they look pretty terrible.  If
this was just a preview mode it would be okay, but I can't imagine of editing
texts for hours or days or weeks with that "quality" of fonts.

Yes, I could use the 150% or 200% magnification to make the fonts look
better - but then I could only see a small portion of the page (I want to
see all columns all the time, at least).

HOW do you ppl use FinalCopy?  Do you first edit your files with a normal
text editor which uses a simple Topaz-8 font which is READABLE and then
load the text into FC and print it out?

Or am I simply missing something?

Any help appreciated.  I like FC and would like to use it - but I want to
see what I'm typing!

  Jukka Marin

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From: khanraha@afit.af.mil (Kevin M. Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Looking for IntroCAD
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:41:09 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology

Does anyone know if Progressive Peripherals is still distributing IntroCAD?
I've called a couple of mail-order places and they have it on backorder.  One
of the local Amiga stores said that it had been included in one of the European
magazines that include a disk about 2 months ago.  Any info on this?  I just 
want a simple and relatively cheap CAD package.

--Randy--

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Subject: Re: FinalCopy
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:48:47 GMT

In article <jmarin.721216713@messi.uku.fi> jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:
|BUT the fonts look horrible on screen.  In interlaced display modes they are
|somewhat readable, in non-interlaced modes they look pretty terrible.  If
|this was just a preview mode it would be okay, but I can't imagine of editing
|texts for hours or days or weeks with that "quality" of fonts.
|
|Yes, I could use the 150% or 200% magnification to make the fonts look
|better - but then I could only see a small portion of the page (I want to
|see all columns all the time, at least).
|
|HOW do you ppl use FinalCopy?  Do you first edit your files with a normal
|text editor which uses a simple Topaz-8 font which is READABLE and then
|load the text into FC and print it out?
|
	I don't have that much trouble with how the fonts look in interlace
mode.  (And no, I don't have a FlickerFixer.)  What I DID do, though, was
set the Display prefs to 95x95 DPI which, on my 1084-clone, means that hte
margins fall off the sides of the screen but you can see all the text.  It
comes out quite nice.


Dennis F. Heffernan  dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com e4461005@apollo.montclair.edu
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From: jorngh@dhhalden.no (JORN GUNNAR HALONEN)
Subject: Re: DPaint 4.?
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:06:14 GMT

In article <c41.ANN@halmuc.muc.sub.org> dolittle@halmuc.muc.sub.org (Ludwig Hurt) writes:
>From: dolittle@halmuc.muc.sub.org (Ludwig Hurt)
>Subject: Re: DPaint 4.?
>Date: 1 Nov 92 10:17:11 GMT
>In article <16966@mindlink.bc.ca>,
>	Wayne_Paugh@mindlink.bc.ca (Wayne Paugh) writes:
>->Does anyone know when the new DeluxePaint version for the AGA chip set is to
>->be available. Does it include an Arexx interface.
>->Please E-mail
>->Thanks
>
>Please post it here - I'm sure a lot of people are interested in this.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Ludwig

Someone in c.s.a.advocacy (?) saw it in action at a fair in UK
running on an A1200. Seemed it was still pretty buggy.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Marty D Weil <mweil@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: looking for some PD utilities
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:23:28 GMT



hope this is the right place to ask for this stuff.  i'm looking for an FTP
site to get ahold of `disksalv' and also a file manager program called
'zippy'.  i'm not really sure 'zippy' is PD though.  i also was wondering if
anyone knew of a PD sound editor for a ROLAND MT-32.  please email any info
on how i might obtain these programs.

marty

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: What's new in CanDo 2.0?
From: gnome@gnome.amigans.gen.nz (Tony Christie)
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:44:28 GMT+12
Organization: The Gnomes Home
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Dave O'Brien (dobrien@sybase.com) wrote:
> I just ordered my CanDo 2.0 upgrade, but it's going to take a few weeks
> to get here.
>
> Does anyone know what major/noteworthy stuff was added to 2.0? Any
> comments from others who already have the 2.0 upgrade?
>
> Thanks in advance.

I am also interested in this. When I first registered for CanDo, Inovatronics
sent me details of all upgrades and other news regularly. Since then (about
the last 4 or 5 months) NOTHING ! Great service for the amount of US$ I have
spent with them ! Guess thats what I get for living outside the continental
USA, huh ?

Please post a summary of what you find out. Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: Final Copy II vs Wordworth II
Organization: City University, London
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 17:59:11 GMT

In article <92310.180904TPATTERS@ESTEC.BITNET> TPATTERS@ESTEC.BITNET writes:
>The subject says it really. Has anybody seen the new version of Wordsworth
>and is it better than Final Copy - and if so, why? (I'm trying to figure
>out which WP to buy, but as soon as I make my mind up something new/better(?)
>comes along!)

I have pondered this question myself. It will probably be a _huge_
battle. Let the games begin!

I am sending off for WordWorth2 in just a few minutes. It apparently
has 17 Agfa Intellifonts with it and is supposed to print at full
res of the printer. Its also supposed to have 2 column printing at the
request of over 2000 registered users.

I think we may well have the equivalent of ProPage v PageStream
here.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Subject: Re: Problems printing with TeX and DeskJet
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:39:31 GMT

mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Michael Neylon) writes:

>YATQ (yet another TeX Question)

>I installed TeX on my friends 2000 with a DeskJet 500, and I cant seem
>to get a good printout.  First off, the page is uncentered on the paper,
>and the vertical uncentering usually causes an extra page to be printed
>with 1 or less line on it.  I have tried playing with the -v and -h
>tags on DVIprint, but these are VERY sensative, and I'd rather not
>adjust it by trial-and-error until I am happy with the results.
>Does anyone know a good solution to this?  I am currently using
>the 'dviprint -d deskjet' command to print stuff out.
> (BTW this is PasTeX 1.3 :)

I'm also using PasTeX with a Deskjet500 and I never had any problems...
I recall I set -h to 3cm and didn't change -v at all.

>Michael Neylon   aka Masem the Great and Almighty Thermodynamics GOD!

winnie.
From: newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Reading and Writing ST disks!
Date: 8 Nov 92 05:38:13 GMT
Organization: APANA South Australia - State mail hub

arw@cs.nott.ac.uk (Andrew Roy Walker) writes:
> Could anyone please tell me if there is a PD/Shareware program available that
> allows you to read / write ST disks. Thanks..

Just use MessyDOS (MSH), the PC filesystem/device driver.  The Atari and
MS-DOS disk formats are identical, and their filesystems are very similar.

  - mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: mwills@su102c.ess.harris.com (Scott Wills)
Subject: Re: XPK 2.4 & XFH 1.12
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:04:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: Scott.Wills@dolphin.ess.harris.com (M. Scott Wills)
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne  FL

I decided to try XPK/XFH (external compressor
protocol/auto-compressing file system handler) to compress my usenet
news articles subdirectory (UUNews:) for AmigaUUCP 1.16D and ran into
a problem that others may be interested in:

The articles auto-compress/uncompress fine, but the ".next" file which
keeps track of the "next" article number (and file name) was not
updated properly.  So every new article was written to the same file,
overwriting the previous one.  I remembered reading that not all 2.04
file system requests (packets) are implemented by XFH 1.12, including
"open for appending".  So I tried manually uncompressing all the
".next" files (one per newsgroup) with hopes that XFH would leave it
alone.  It worked!  Now things appear to be working fine.  I get about
30% to 50% compression on most articles using the default (NUKE)
compression mode.  However, links are not supported by XPK either, so
I do loose some on cross-posted articles which are copied instead of
linked.

Anyone know of other gotchas waiting to bite me on this one?
Scott
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From: drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: The Amiga GUI jungle
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 92 08:02:11 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

2.04 Style Guide Compliance? Have the style police looked at the 2.04
workbench menus? Are they compliant with the style guide? Just curious. :-)
From: kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Keefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amos!
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:05:57 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

Of course, if there wasn't enough interest to spawn a c.s.a.amos group, we
could always make alt.sys.amiga.amos...  I also would be interested in some
kind of AMOS group though.  But I also have no idea how to go and start a
newsgroup.  Help?

keefer
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From: dworz@amazing.UUCP (Christoph Dworzak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: AIBB-Results was(More 4000 compatible software)
Date: 8 Nov 92 05:01:43 GMT
Organization: CREaTEC SA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <David_Corn.0ii2@fcircus.sat.tx.us> David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn) writes:
> D*mn braggart..grin!  How about some WritePixel and other AIBB4.x
> statistics?  Can you give us any numbers?

AIBBLogFile

Host Processor:   68040
ICache: ON     DCache: ON
IBurst: OFF     DBurst: OFF
Host State: Multitasking Allowed

Test: WritePixel
Benchmark result: 1.54 Seconds
This Machine : 1785.7 <---
A3000/25MHz  : 337.0

Test: Dhrystone
Benchmark result:      13661 Dhrystones/second
This Machine : 2051.2 <---
A3000/25MHz  : 560.2

Test: Sort
Benchmark result: 0.62 Seconds
This Machine : 1951.6 <---
A3000/25MHz  : 720.2

Test: Sieve -- Using Stack Variables
Benchmark result: 2.94 Seconds
This Machine : 1633.3 <---
A3000/25MHz  : 816.7

Test: Savage
Benchmark result: 5.28 Seconds
This Machine : 1666.7 <---
A3000/25MHz  : 610.3

Test: Matrix -- Using Stack Variables
Benchmark result: 4.38 Seconds
This Machine : 1889.5 <---
A3000/25MHz  : 766.3

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