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From: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Subject: Re: an FTP-site for Printer-drivers?
Reply-To: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:49:44 GMT

I have an SG-15 and use the delivered EpsonXOld driver and it works reasonable.
Frank
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: BaudBandit.device Problem Help!
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 09:29:27 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

two things:  1) did you do the same file on the same line?  different
files can vary the transfer rate by that minor amount( 5/1390 *100% = 
0.3%).  and 2) BaudBandit.device does not claim to improve the transfer
rate at all!, what it does claim to do is use less cpu time to do the
same transfer.  While this might increase the speed, not usually!
The speed of a download is determined by the sender(99.9% of the time).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulation,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: claudio@chsun.chuug.ch (Claudio Nieder)
Subject: Apple 2 Emulator for Amiga
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.emulation
Organization: CHUUG, Swiss UNIX Systems Users Group
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:56:28 GMT

Hi,

I'm writing an Apple 2 Emulator for the Amiga, which emulates a 48K
Apple 2 with two disk drives. Only the text page can be displayed
until now. It is in "alpha test" state, i.e. it works, it doesn't
crash, but some nice features are missing.

It runs BASIC programs at about 1/10 the speed of an original Apple 2.
Disk access can be as slow as 1/60 of an original Apple 2. So you have to
be patient when booting. This may take 5-6 minutes.

The disk drives are also emulated, i.e. you don't connect directly your
Apple 2 disk drives to the Amiga. You can use your Apple 2 to tranfer the
contents of a floppy to the Amiga. On the Amiga you can use the floppy
for reading and writeing, but at the moment it is not possible to save
back a floppy.

If you are interested to take a look at it, you can download it from
ftp.eunet.ch [146.228.10.15]. You'll find it in the /software/amiga
directory.

If you download it, then please tell me, what you think about it.

		Thank you

			claudio

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Zweierstr. 35               E-Mail: claudio@chuug.ch
8004 Zuerich                phone:  +41 1 291 45 80
Switzerland                 fax:    +41 1 291 46 42
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
Subject: Re: 2.1 is Eating up my RAM!!!
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:42:43 GMT

   I don't know about wasting money. Any attempts to leave the world of
Amiga OS version 1.anything is money well spent. Just play around with 2.1
for a while. Start using more and more of your utility programs and 
try some more public domain things for a while, I assure you, that you will
never want to go back. If you are interested in games, most of the newer
games I've played that seem to be the most system friendly run a good deal
faster with 2.x ROMS installed. I happen to have the pleasure of playing a few
with both 1.3 and 2.0 as I made the switch so I could see the difference. 
Basically, you will need to play around with your preferences and the 
screen mode until you get the amount of ram you like. When you have about
3 megs of total ram or more in your system, the 16 color workbench shouldn't
cause you much problems. The reason, the new ROMS make much better use of
fast ram and less use of chip ram (The more fast ram you have available).
It works much better than the fast ram first used to. 

   That's all I can tell you. I still have my system set up for 512K chip
so you shouldn't have much more trouble in finding the solution there.

 --- Hope this helps.
  Email: davereed@wam.umd.edu
  -- Mike

P.S. --- THere are a whole lot more reasons to like the new Workbench than 
mentioned, there are so many more things you can do with it so everybody
finds different ways to like it. It could be AREXX, it could be better
expansion support, it could be better requesters, it could be that people
are starting to leave the 1.x ROMs in the cold when it comes to some future
PD development, perhaps to spread to commercial; and the fact that the
coding routines for 2.0 and greater systems are so much better, they make the
previous look tedious, long, and rather a bit uglier. If you want to learn
about all the cool things 2.0 and greater offer you in that direction, I would
advise you to look at the 3rd edition of the RKMS Amiga ROM Kernal Manuals
 in the black cover booklets for more info.
From: d0per@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Hiller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: WANTED : A4000 Price in Germany
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:15:34 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

Prices taken from Amiga Magazin 1/93:

Amiga 4000, 120 MB HD, 6 MB mem  -  DM3799,-
Amiga 1200,     No HD, 2 MB mem  -  DM799,-

NEC 3FG  -  DM1249,-
NEC 4FG  -  DM1579,-

These prices are from Rotstift Vertriebs mbH i.G. in Braunschweig. But they
should not vary that much. Unfortunately I don't know of any resellers around
Saarbrucken.

/Martin.

--
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\\ //  Chalmers University of Technology     | for the King of Sweden at Lv6
 \X/   Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe            | in Gothenburg.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: rigby@pyramid.unr.edu (Wayne Rigby)
Subject: Re: FTP help
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:50:11 GMT
Distribution: inet
X-Posted-From: pyramid.cs.unr.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <TOO.93Jan1141902@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> too@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi (Tomi Ollila) writes:
>you can download files using get -command. if you want to read some files,
>the downloaded file can be piped to unix command using |  -- for example: 
>get RECENT |more  (notice, command must be right after |, no spaces
>in between)

Actually, I have always used spaces on both sides of a pipe. It has always
worked fine. I know you don't need the space but I like the way it works.
And, yes, 

get README | more

works quite nice while you are in your FTP shell...

Wayne Rigby
rigby@cs.unr.edu
From: dg@sundog.caltech.edu (DALE GARY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Opening shells on another screen
Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:06 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sundog.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.40    

In article <charro.726269783@ee.ualberta.ca>, charro@ee.ualberta.ca (Dan Charrois) writes...
>I am wondering if there is a way to open shells and the like on a
>screen other than the workbench.  I would like to have a 16 color
>workbench, but find that the extra bitplanes causes the scrolling when
>using commands such as 'list' turns out to be intolerable.
>I have WB2.05, and thus imagine that it would probably involve
>creating a public screen and making it the default screen (or
>something like that...)  Does anyone have any suggestions on what
>software to obtain, or if it can be done with the software in the 2.05
>distribution somehow?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>Dan
>-- 
>Dan Charrois - University of Alberta, Electrical Engineering
>INTERNET: charro@eigen.ee.ualberta.ca 

I have a question about this, too.  Here is what I know: the Workbench
2.1/AmigaDOS 2.1 docs say it is possible to open a console on a public
screen by typing something like NEWSHELL CON:////SCREEN <pubscreenname>
where the slashes separate the usual width/height/position numbers.
However, I have not been able to get the SCREEN switch to work.  It 
says cannot open FROM file (meaning it is interpreting the name after the
blank as the FROM file name.  I suspect the documentation is slightly
wrong, but I couldn't stumble on the right syntax.  Does anybody know
how to do this?

Dale Gary
dg@sundog.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
Subject: Re: What is .info?
Summary: .info needed for organisation of icons
Keywords: .info, icons
Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:43:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.181324.2733@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>I know that a file named xxx.info is an icon for file xxx, and that a
>file named disk.info in the root directory is a disk icon, but...
>What does a file called simply ".info" contain?  Where did it come from,
>and why is it there?  What happens if I get rid of it?

Under 1.x the .info file is created in every directory. This file contatins
informations for displaying icons in the directory(drawer). This was meant to 
speed up the display of icons when the drawer is opened.
Each time you delete or insert a new icon the .info file will be recreated.
If you delete .info workbench will sense it and rebuild it.

How to get rid of it? Easy: Upgrade to 2.x or greater :-)
The new operating system doesnt build .info files anymore.

Bye
  Matija
>#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
-- 
Best regards from Matija Milostinik           : matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch
                                              : matija@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Therefore, use local labels in the procedures as often as possible. 
Save the environment!  Recycle!  ;-)                 (Bjoern Reese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: cmarble@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Chris Marble)
Subject: Amiga-based ".Z" extractor wanted
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:57:46 PST

Where do I find an Amiga-based extract program for files with a
".Z" extension?  I've tried the latest LHA (1.38) without success.
Will Compress from the ancient Fred Fish disks (6 or 51) do it?
I have ftp access so a site location is fine.  Thanks in advance.
-- 
    Chris Marble - Publicist for Amiga Tech Users Group (ATUG)
     Unemployed engineer so my opinions must not matter much.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: meixner@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Matthias Meixner)
Subject: Re: lharc, ftp, unix, kermit, modes
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:21:44 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Keywords: arp

In article <16224@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, drh@Auspex.COM (David Ryan Hawley) writes:
> I recently got a copy of the latest cshell for the amiga.  It was
> in lharc format.  When i used my copy of lharc, it (lharc) said,
> "newer format of lharc".  I got a list of ftp sites, and downloaded
> a 9k copy dated 1992, using ftp's "binary" mode, and then used
> kermit to download to my Amiga (using kermit's binary mode).  When
> I try and use the copy i downloaded it said something about, "not
> an executable file".  I used "protect" to set the mode to executable
> on the Amiga, that didn't help.  I have since ftp'd another copy,
> which is only about 3k in size.  I'm a little confused about what is
> going on...  UNIX says the file is "data".  Do i need to use chmod
> on the file before using kermit?
> 
> I have used "od" the UNIX utility to dump some bytes in hex, in hopes
> that some guru out there can help.  Here is the first screen of  
> the 3k file:
> 
> 
> spock% od -x lharc | more
> 0000000  0000 03f3 0000 0000 0000 0002 0000 0000

Every executable begins with 0000 03f3, therefore this Version
should be an executable ...

> [...] 
> 
> Here is the od for the 9k copy of lharc (first screen))
> 
> spock% od -x lharc-too-big | more
> 0000000  7f45 4c46 0102 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000

... and this is not an executable.

>[...]
 
> Is anyone out there familiar with amiga binaries?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -drh-
> 
> 
BTW if you don't find an appropriate (<- is this correct ?)
Version of lharc, you can use lha to decompress your
archives.

- Matthias 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: phstu44@cc.uch.gr (Roger Kaputnik)
Subject: What is Enforcer?
Organization: University of Crete, Computer Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:24:05 GMT

Could someone please tell me what the Enforcer program is....????
I've been hearing about on the net but I can't understand what it does...

				Kaputnik the (puzzled)Time Lord
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: how can I get shell windows to scroll?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:56:56 GMT

> In article <1463@shrike.com> p690851@austin.lockheed.com (p690851) writes:
> >In spite of the documentation, is there a way to scroll shell windows?

Look for a PD-type thing called CB which stands for console buffer.  It will
add a scroll gadget to the shell window.

C= should add one like they added the close gadget, IMOH.

Rich...
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From: house@acsu.buffalo.edu (Heatseeker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Help needed for newbie
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:19:51 GMT
Followup-To: house@acsu.buffalo.edu
Organization: Gizmonic Institute

Excuse me, but I am in need of some assistance. I have recently purchased
an Amiga 2000 HD (I'm very proud of it). Anyhow, I have a few questions that
need to be answered.
1) I am thinking about buying a modem so that I may have access to the
school's system. I am considering (but not definate) a Supra 2400. 
Please be honest - is this a decent modem? Or is there a better one that I
should consider.
2) What would be a decent term program that I would need to connect to the
school computer? (Everything here emulates a vt100)
3) (new subject) I have AmigaDOS 1.3. Is it possible, or for that matter
wise, to upgrade to AmigaDOS 2.0?
4) (New subject) I have heard about a program called A64Program. It 
supposedly runs C64 programs on the Amiga. Is this any good? What does and
doesn't it run?

I believe that's all for now. Since I don't have a great deal of time to
read news, could any and all replies be sent to me. Thanx.
Tony.
house@acsu.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: how can I get shell windows to scroll?
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:24:50 GMT

In article <1463@shrike.com> p690851@austin.lockheed.com (p690851) writes:
>In spite of the documentation, is there a way to scroll shell windows?

You can use a replacement shell called "WShell" to add this capability
I'm not sure if it's commercial or PD, so you may have to do a little
searching.  I'm not sure what other capabilities it adds though.

>Thanks,
>Brett
>-- 
>Blessed are the programmers for they shall automate the earth.
>Brett J. Larsen, inet: brettl@austin.lockheed.com, office: (512)386-4313

--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: SYSDMCKE@VM.UWP.EDU
Subject: HD Lock up after approx. 15-20 minutes ?  Sticky ?
Organization: UW-Parkside
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:18:07 GMT

This should probably go to hardware, but...
 
I have a TC500 with a Seagate ST157N 48Meg harddrive.
The problem is that after about 15 minutes or so of no access, I get a
read/write error on it.  All I have to do is click on the RETRY gadget and it
will be ok.  It makes a very solid 'THUNK' when I first try to read or write
after it has been idle.
Is this a sticky Head Assembly problem ?  Should I trash it ?
It is actually more annoying than anything else, so please let me know.
Thanks,
Doug McKeown
sysdmcke@vm.uwp.edu
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: how can I get shell windows to scroll?
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:07:18 -0800
Distribution: usa
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <C0GJtF.KBo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
> In article <1463@shrike.com> p690851@austin.lockheed.com (p690851) writes:
>>In spite of the documentation, is there a way to scroll shell windows?
> 
> You can use a replacement shell called "WShell" to add this capability
> I'm not sure if it's commercial or PD, so you may have to do a little
> searching.  I'm not sure what other capabilities it adds though.

WShell is commercial.  Here's a blurb from the readme on disk:

   =====================================================================
                                 WShell 2.0
                     Copyright  1991 by William S. Hawes
   =====================================================================

   Welcome to WShell 2.0, a much-enhanced but highly compatible alternative
   to the Amiga's system shell.  WShell 2.0 provides many advanced features
   including console-window menus, a session history with a scrollbar,
   a configurable window titlebar, command piping, filename completion,
   an ARexx interface, and iconic drag-and-drop operations with Workbench.
   Its high degree of compatibility with the AmigaDOS CLI and Shell ensures
   that the standard commands in your C: directory and virtually all other
   software will work with WShell.

   Please note that the WShell software and documentation is a copyrighted
   commercial product and may not be copied or distributed in any way,
   except that you may make one backup copy for your own use.  This disk
   has not been copy-protected, but we ask that you respect the copyright
   and do not redistribute this software.

   For further information, support questions, or orders please contact:

      By Mail:                      By Telephone or EMail:
      -----------------             ------------------------------
      Wishful Thinking Devel Corp   Phone:  (508) 568-8695
      P.O. Box 308                  BIX:    whawes
      Maynard, MA 01754             CIS:    72230,267
      USA                           USENET: 72230.267@compuserve.com

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
Subject: Re: What is Enforcer?
Summary: Enforcer is basically a developper software
Keywords: enforcer
Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:02:48 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.132405.17456@csd.uch.gr> phstu44@cc.uch.gr (Roger Kaputnik) writes:
>Could someone please tell me what the Enforcer program is....????
>I've been hearing about on the net but I can't understand what it does...

 Enforcer is basically a developper software. Developpers use it to
spot some misbehavied software and to track down errors in the
code. 
  Here an examle: There are some memory location in the Amiga that
sholud not be written. If a misbeahvied programm writes in this area,
Enforcer senses this attempt to write, blocks the write and reports
this to the developper. This is called an 'enforcer hit'.
  Mamy user fond it to be useful to have enforcer always running on
their maschine, beacuse it helps fine baddly written software, and
prevents you from crashes. 
  Enforcer needs a MMU (Memory Management Unit) to work. If you have a 
68000 or 68010 you are out of luck. IF you have a 020 you need the MMU.
030 and 040 have the MMU builtin.

Hope this helps.
  Matija
>				Kaputnik the (puzzled)Time Lord


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Opening shells on another screen
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:26:42 GMT

In article <charro.726269783@ee.ualberta.ca> charro@ee.ualberta.ca (Dan Charrois) writes:
>I am wondering if there is a way to open shells and the like on a
>screen other than the workbench.  I would like to have a 16 color
>workbench, but find that the extra bitplanes causes the scrolling when
>using commands such as 'list' turns out to be intolerable.
>I have WB2.05, and thus imagine that it would probably involve
>creating a public screen and making it the default screen (or
>something like that...)  Does anyone have any suggestions on what
>software to obtain, or if it can be done with the software in the 2.05
>distribution somehow?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

   Find the program called PSX, which stands for "PublicScreenX".  It should
be on one of the Fish disks, as that's where I got it from. :-)  Anyway, I
have this A3000 setup with a 724x482 8-color Workbench and a 724x482 2-color
shell screen.  Here is what I have in my user-startup to do it:

psx open "Shell Screen" hires lace depth 1 pop
newshell "con:0/0/724/482/Amiga Shell/CLOSE/SCREEN Shell Screen"

   That should do it for you...

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
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From: mendez@taliesin.greco-prog.fr (Mendez Marc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: WANTED : A4000 Price in Germany
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:40:44 GMT
Organization: LMI (LaBRI University Bordeaux France)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

I would like to know :

	- The price of the A4000 (configuration: screen, 6MB of RAM, HD
	120MB) and the A1200 in Germany,
	- The address of Amiga shops near the French border (near Saarbrucken).
	- The price of the A3070 (Commodore streamer) (as well in
	Germany)

Answer via e-mail.

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Subject: Re: 2.1/3.0 FAQ
From: <PAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Saturday, 9 Jan 1993 08:50:56 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

 Many,many thanks!
  Paul Abreu