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From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: GIF -> IFF and vice versa
Date: 11 Aug 92 20:16:23 GMT
Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <kelso_j.713417382@kultarr> kelso_j@cs.uwa.oz.au (J Kyle Kelso) writes:
> I'm looking for a GIF -> IFF utility and a IFF -> GIF,
> if it exists.  Is there anything on the Fish disk collection?
> If so, which disks (I don't have a fish disk catalogue)?

Not sure if Mostra can do the trick, but HamSharp should...


> J Kyle Kelso 

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  Since I am the president of this company, I speak not only for myself!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
Subject: Re: 1.3 datestamp
Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:05:50 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <Bob_Rye.04qy@guru.pub.uu.oz.au>, Bob_Rye@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (Bob Rye) writes:
>Hello all! Can anyone help me with a problem regarding setting a file's
>datestamp from kickstart 1.3? I have  written a program which (under 2.04)
>sets the file's datestamp using SetFileDate(). But I cannot find a function
>akin to this for 1.3? Anybody know how to do this under 1.3?? Thanks...

Under 1.3, you have to send a packet to DOS to set the file date.

Arg[0] = 0
Arg[1] = lock on the file to set the date on
Arg[2] = BSTR of filename
Arg[3] = pointer to a struct DateStamp

Packet type = ACTION_SET_DATE

-- 
---------------
Jim Cooper
(jamie@unx.sas.com)                             bix: jcooper

Any opinions expressed herein are mine (Mine, all mine!  Ha, ha, ha!),
and not necessarily those of my employer.
From: wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: GNU gcc/g++
Date: 16 Aug 92 00:46:49 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH

In article <56939@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> tna@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Trevor Andrews) writes:
>My problem is I want to do some work in C++ and do not want to have
>to link with the excellent ixemul.library.  I know I know, not so easy.
>Are there any other Standard Libraries availible for GNU gcc??

Take a look on nic.funet.fi, there's at least one other library specially
targetted for GNU C, it's written buy Ray Burr, and should be in the BuRP
directory on nic, must be in the amiga subtree, in a directory called something
like gnu/gcc/port/.. or the like, you'll find it ;-)

-Markus


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Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving
from where you left them to where you can't find them.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Subject: Re: ToolMaker and CATS
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Digital Systems Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:19:13 GMT

Frederick.Theilig@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Frederick Theilig) writes:
:      Now, wait a minuete.  Am I to believe that this stuff is available 
:  only to registered developers, or do they only tell the price of it to
:  developers?  This is the second time I've called CATS...

Don't call CATS.  Lots of stuff is available to non-registered developers
from a different department of C=.  Quoting from an earlier post (which
itself quotes an earlier post):

|It's available to the public.  Order from
|
|Department C
|Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
|1200 Wilson Drive
|West Chester, PA  19380
|
|Send check or money order only (no credit card orders) to
|Department C at the above address.  These materials are shipped from
|the new warehouse location in Mechanicsburg, PA.
|
|Shipping and handling for USA is $3.00.  Shipping and handling for
|Canada and Europe (via Air) is $15.00.
|
|Add local state sales tax for the following states:  Pennsylvania, Virginia,
|California, Tennessee and Illinois.
|
|Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.
|
|AmigaDOS V2.0 Native Developer Update, P/N:NATDEV20       $20.00
|
|   The 2.0 Native Developer Update is a must-have for any Amiga
|programmer.  This four-disk set contains the final 2.04 function Autodocs,
|final 2.04 C and assembler Amiga include files, linker libs (Amiga.lib,
|debug.lib, ddebug.lib) FD files, offsets, a great deal of 2.0 example code,
|and the "Software Toolkit II" disk full of the latest Amiga debugging
|tools.
|
|   (The preceding was extracted from an article posted by Carolyn Schnepper.)
|
|--Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
|   350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South   | GEnie:    F.DUFOE3
|   St. Petersburg, Florida  33705 | internet: fgd3%nifty@tct.com
|   813-823-2350                   | uucp:     ...tct!deep6!nifty!fgd3

And ToolMaker is available from the author, according to a recent post.

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From: eb15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward D. Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: ToolMaker from CATS
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:14:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QeWxk2q00WB_B2dFlb
	<heinz.02xm@edohwg.UUCP>
Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

If anyone has some good example code for developing font independent
user interfaces, could they post it to alt.sources.amiga or email it
to me.  I want to investigate what this requires for a C programming
class I will give later this year at the Pittsburgh Commodore Group.
Thanks in advance.

-Ed Berger
eb15@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
Subject: Re: Does anyone out there know...
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 23:52:20 GMT

fizzit@milton.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:

> ...where I can get a public domain BASIC compiler for the Amiga?  I don't wan
> to shell out huge bucks for C, or something similar, but AmigaBASIC should be
> taken out to the game grid and shot.  Thanks for any help you can give!
> 
> 				---Fred M. Sloniker

 
There is a PD AmigaBASIC compiler called Cursor...I think it's on a Fish 
disk...it's okay, but many functions can'
...ugh!  can't be performed thru Cursor...
 
My previous message had an address for HiSoft, in the UK...write for a 
catalog; there's some stuff that may interest you.


Ken Thompson - cobra@coyote.datalog.com  - GEnie: K.THOMPSON23  
Alternate address: cobra@jab.tucson.az.us
From: Bob_Rye@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (Bob Rye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: 1.3 datestamp
Date: 11 Aug 92 10:15:04 GMT
Organization: Guru Meditation BBS

Hello all! Can anyone help me with a problem regarding setting a file's
datestamp from kickstart 1.3? I have  written a program which (under 2.04)
sets the file's datestamp using SetFileDate(). But I cannot find a function
akin to this for 1.3? Anybody know how to do this under 1.3?? Thanks...

Bob



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From: heiko@zoolook.ki.open.de (Heiko Voland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: WB 2.0 on A1000
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:21:56 GMT
Reply-To: heiko@zoolook.ki.open.de
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: none

In article <salnick.0f8y@dejavu.spk.wa.us>, There is no substitute for displacement... writes:

> This should be possible, shouldn't it?  As long as I avoid the fancy 
> screen modes...
> 
> I brought home my KS 2.0 disk  and WB 2.0 disk from my A3000 at work, but 
> my A1000 at home won't boot from them.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I might get my old (but reliable) A1000 to WB2.0?
> 

With "zkick", Kickstart (37.175) as file and RAM (at 0x200000 with
zkick < V3.01).

Good luck.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang)
Subject: Changing the colours of my string gadget ?
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 06:36:26 GMT

How do I change the colours of a string gadget ?

I've tried many of the obvious (I hope) methods...I have a string gadget
in a window on a custom screen, and it always uses the background colour
(0) for the background of the string gadget, and the foreground colour
(1) for the text within the same.

Even when I change the default colours of the screen, colours 0 and 1
are used...I've tried other things but can't get the darn thing to change
colour.

My intuition manual (1.3 only, *sigh*) tells me how to change the font,
but not the colour...

1.3 or 2.x solutions acceptable.

Any help ?

Thanks,

Robert.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Assembler question.
From: hoffmann@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:33:07 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

Hi, there
I have an A3000 here and am interested in Assembly language, but I have no idea
which assembler is most suitable for 68030/40 processors. Could you please email
me and give me some hints on which assembler I should get, I also would like to
buy a good book on assembly language for the above processors, it should be
a fairly precise and detailed one. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Arthur.

					Arthur Hoffmann
					hoffmann@pandanus.ntu.edu.au
From: carter@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK (David Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: PowerVisor
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:06:41 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK.


   Has anyone had any success running the debugger "PowerVisor" on a stock
68000 machine? The package looks rather nifty, in particular it seems to
handle mixed assembler and C programs far better than any other program that
I have seen.
   At the moment the program works perfectly until I try to set a breakpoint:
using "break n _main". This complains "PowerVisor crashed" (and then carries
on running!). "debug n" just causes a GURU.

Configuration:

Ancient A500 with original chipset, 1/2 Meg chipram, 1/2 Meg non-very fast.
External floppy
A590, with additional 2 megs of ram and poxy harddisc.
KickStart/Workbench 1.3 + ARP

   I am quite happy to upgrade to 2.04 (been looking for a reason to splash
out), but upgrading to the new chipset would hardly be economical. On this
topic, could someone summarise the benifits of the latest Agnus/Denise?

   Does anyone know if the author has an E-Mail address? This is one shareware
package that I will definitely register for (if I can convince it to work!)

Dave
From: James_Coulter@panam.wimsey.bc.ca (James Coulter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Modula 2
Distribution: world
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:46:40 PST
Organization: Commodore Computer Club / PaNorAmA

Does anyone know what happened to the Modula 2 package by Martin Taillefer?
Wasn't Oxxi going to handle it?

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From: peter@aristotle.sbi.com (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: C++ for the Amiga question
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:21:31 GMT
Reply-To: peter@avogadro.sbi.com
Organization: Salomon Brothers Inc.


Has anyone seen the Comoeu compiler for sale anywhere?
Do they offer a student discount?

Whats up with them I have never seen an ad for the product!!!!

peter
ttfn...
From: griffin@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting rid of requesters
Date: 22 Aug 92 17:28:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

hribnak@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Jim Hribnak) writes:

>is there a program out for 2.04 that can do this for those of us that cant
>program that well in C? 

My experience is that NoRequest will work, but *only* for the window it
was run from, not any others.
-- 
Dan Griffin
griffin@egr.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: as under GCC2.2.2
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:37:55 GMT

I would like to know what syntax does the assembler supplied with gcc2.2.2 use.
The reason I am asking is simple. Here at the university of NSW in Sydney, 2nd
year students are required to do some 68000 programing. While I had no problems
switching between gas and Motorola conventions (besides being annoyed) many
students here just want to write their stuff straight in gas.

So besides wanting to know which syntax gcc's "as" accepts, I would also like to
know what other parts of gcc am I likely to require in order to produce working
executables using as.

I assume that the linker and perhaps ixemul.library will be required, but I
really don't have any idea. I am quite happy with SAS/C and don't plan to get
gcc unless there is a VERY good reason for it.

		Peter.

Peter Urbanec				  peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au
University of New South Wales		s1013734@cs.unsw.oz.au
Sydney, Australia
		The only sin is stupidity  - Machiavelli
From: casey@zorro.lexmark.lex.usa.na (Patrick Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Speculations: Amiga and Mach?
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:16:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: zorro.CASEY.92Aug14141644
Reply-To: pacasey@lexmark.com
Organization: Lexmark International, Lexington KY
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark



MACH seems pretty cool to me, too.  But I would hate to see Commodore
move away from Exec.  It's small, efficient, and runs on all 680x0
processors.  IMHO, Exec is one of the most beautiful pieces of
software design I've ever seen.

Just thought I'd rave a little.

Patrick
--
Patrick A. Casey      pacasey@lexmark.com         Hi, I.S. big brothers!
From: thyerj@hamlet.uncg.edu (Jonathan S. Thyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: console device raw mode
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:43:00 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: North Carolina State University

In article <DEREKN.92Aug12113036@vw.ece.cmu.edu>, derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Derek B. Noonburg) writes:
|> I'm working on a program that needs to grab keystrokes from a console
|> (a shell window) as the keys are pressed (i.e., no line editing, no
|> buffering).
|> 
|> Using raw mode seems to be the only way to do it, but I can't get it
|> to work.  I wrote a little test program to send the escape sequence to
|> switch it into raw mode, read some events, and switch it back, but
|> it just hangs on the reads (I'm using the AmigaDOS Read() command,
|> which doesn't do buffering, right?).  The switching to/from raw mode
|> works fine alone.  It seems like something is swallowing the raw
|> information before it gets to my program.
|> 
|> [This is on an Amiga 1000 with 2.04 ROMs.]
|> 
|> - Derek
|> --
|> Derek Noonburg                                derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu
|> Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Carnegie Mellon University


	Why not get the key strokes through intuition IDCMP messages?
I think the NewWindow strcuture idcmp flag name is RAWKEY.  This should work if you just want raw keystrokes and don't want to print them.  If you want to print them on the screen, you can use PrintIText with an appropriate pointer to a buffer etc...  but it may be better to use console device in this case.
--
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InterNet: thyerj@iris.uncg.edu
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Ex problem with doule variable printf formatting
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 14:04:10 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

I posted a message a few days ago stating that I was getting
'weird' formatting of printf's of doubles. This was in addition
to the [later revealed] SAS/C printf bug where numbers less than
1.0 were printed as 0. when defined as %2.0f.

Today I located the spurious double problem.  It was a stupid
luser error.

I wrote in my code:

   printf("Headerbytes             %7ld (%2.2lf% of total bytes\n)"
          "Amount of quoted text   %7ld (%2.2lf% of total bytes\n)",

and when I ran the program I got very very weird printf values
[like 120+byte strings of zeros with an 'f' at the end]

The problem is the second percent symbol, which is, like, y'know,
a totally basic printf hurdle.

I should have used '%%' to print the percent symbol.

Now fixed. I feel rather foolish. SNAFU. :-)

Dac
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From: ricci@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Ricci - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: ToolMaker from CATS
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:49:52 GMT
Reply-To: ricci@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Ricci - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

Toolmaker is available to non-developers directly from its author, Michael
Erwin.  Send all inquiries to:


               Michael Erwin
               82 Gary Drive
               Trenton, NJ  08690
               (609)587-2885


The price is $99.00 in US funds. You may pay by sending:

      A check drawn on a US BANK.

      An international money order drawn in US funds with the address
      of a US bank on the front.

      Postal money order drawn in US funds.  However, foreign postal
      money orders must have a US bank address on the front and/or
      specify (usually on the back) that they are redeemable in the
      US.

      DO NOT SEND CHECKS DRAWN ON (PERSONAL) FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS.

         
      

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: rainblte@rtsg.mot.com (Eric J. Rainbolt)
Subject: Motorola:  Literature Distribution Centers
Summary: Here is te address for excellent resources on Amiga CPU's.
Keywords: assembler, hardware, reference
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: all
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:18:20 GMT

For the best resources on Motorola products, particularly for
the 030,040, etc... line of processors:

USA:

Motorola Literature Distibution 
P.O. Box 20912
Phoenix, Arizona 85036

Europe:

Motorola Ltd; European Literature Center
88 Tanners Drive, Blakelands
Milton Keynes, MK14 5BP, England

Asia Pacific:

Motorola Semiconductiors H.K.  Ltd.
P.O. Box 80300
Cheung Sha Wan Post Office
Kowloon Hong Kong

Japan:

Nippon Motorola Ltd.
3-20-1 Minamiazabu
Minato-ku,
Tokyo 106 Japan

I don't know what the prices are.  They don't put them on their manuals.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi (Risto Kaivola)
Subject: Pascal for the Amiga
Organization: Microdata International Telecomm Service, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:31:01 GMT

  Is there a Pascal compiler system with a source-level debugger available
for the Amiga (perhaps HiSoft ?), and if so, at what price?
  If not, is there a need for such a thing?

-- 
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(Internet address:   rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi)
From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:56:01 EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Program Fragmenting Memory

stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:
>I've been trying to track this problem down for two days now, so I ask here in
>case it has to do with something outside my code.

  Do you by any chance use Amigados Local environment variables?  I've myself
been trying to track down a fragmentation problem in my own software, and I
can't find any of my own memory allocations that are causing the problem.

  I haven't really spent a lot of time on it yet, so I'm not sure, but I'm
getting a little curious about whether or not local environment variables
are Free()'d when the process ends (IE: there is memory left over after I
exit the program).

>-- Greg Stelmack (stelmack@eggo.csee.usf.edu)
>-- FullTime Grad Student, PartTime Amiga Salesman, PartTime Amiga Developer
>-- Author of: Spades, Pro Port Analyzer Plus, more to come...
>-- DISCLAIMER: The opinions reflected here are mine and mine alone.
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From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Reentrancy problem - Help Needed
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:57:49 GMT
Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <199208181030.AAyrsa.ifi.uio.no13575@yrsa.ifi.uio.no> jkr@IFI.UIO.NO (Johan Kristian Rosenvold) writes:
>I'm using an interrupt based colour-cycler in my program. It's loosely
>based on Dan Silvia's CYCVB from the RKMs.  (Modified so that the cycling
> loops don't call GETRGB4 + some more stuff). The only external routine 
>my VB-interrupt routine calls is LoadRGB4().
>
	LoadRGB4 inside of an interrupt is not safe. LoadRGB4 attempts
to get a semaphore whihc protects the intuition copper lists. ObtainSemaphore
inside of an interrupt will hang.
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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Manx Make can't get path info from SkSh. Can any Make?
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:48:07 GMT
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
>> SKsh 2.0 uses System() to execute external commands.
> 
>jeez ... after they went and gave us RunCommand specifically for
>executing programs the way a shell does.

	It is a little bit suprising.  It does mean that sksh doesn't have
to figure out how to handle paths, scripts, rexx, etc, etc.  Certainly it
would have to do so for AmigaShell scripts and rexx scripts anyways, but for
normal executables RunCommand is fine (and that's what our shell uses).

-- 
"Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
 gone..."  Foreigner
-
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.