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Path: informatik.tu-muenchen.de!kellerer From: kellerer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Ignaz Kellerer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Amiga FAQ (Frequently asked questions) (Part 4 of 4) Supersedes: <AmigaFAQ-4-824230821@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Date: 9 Apr 1996 16:00:33 GMT Organization: InternetNews at TUM, Technical University of Munich, Germany Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Distribution: world Expires: Sunday, 12 May 96 18:00:24 MESZ Message-ID: <AmigaFAQ-4-829065624@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <AmigaFAQ-1-829065624@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Reply-To: kellerer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Ignaz Kellerer) NNTP-Posting-Host: hphalle3g.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: Frequently asked questions on the Amiga. New users should read this! Originator: kellerer@hphalle3g.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Posted-By: auto-faq 2.4 Archive-name: amiga/introduction/part4 Last-modified: Tuesday, 9. March 1996 Posting-Frequency: ever fourth week Frequently asked questions (FAQ) concerning the Amiga. [4/4] ------------------------------------------------------------ This is the fourth part of the Amiga-FAQ. It is in Ascii format to be easily read by everyone. It is also available in AmigaGuide, Dvi and html (for WWW servers) format as part of the Amiga-FAQ archive. (File docs/misc/AmigaFAQ.lha on any Aminet site) Please note the following: - Changes since the last posting are marked with a ! changed this line/section, respectively + added this line < removed something before this line - An index is at the bottom of this part. If this still doesn't help: E-mail me, probably I can include an answer into the FAQ. - Suggestions, contributions, critics and beer bottles are very welcome. :-) Send them to: Ignaz Kellerer Georg-Habel-Str. 11 81241 Muenchen (Germany) Tel. (+49) 089 / 885147 Internet: kellerer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de ===========================(Cut here)========================================= Disclaimer 1 CPU, Custom chips, RAM and other stuff 1 What are 68EC020, 68EC030 and 68LC040? 2 What's an FPU? 3 Can I use a 3.5' HD in my A1200? 2 The Operating System 1 Can I use another Kickstart than the builtin? 2 The Graphical User Interface 3 What is MUI? 1 Icon collections and Backgrounds 4 What is the Amiga equivalent of . (Current directory)? 5 The PIPE: queue-handler 1 Using PIPE: in a standard AmigaShell environment 2 The Pipe command 3 Pipe command support in AmigaShell 4 Quick usage guide 5 Related things 6 Troubleshooting 6 ARexx, the program control language 3 How about Graphics? 1 What are chunky and planar displays? 2 What is doublebuffering? 3 What monitors will work on my Amiga 1200/4000? 4 How do I switch between PAL and NTSC? 4 Programming 1 What documentation do I need as an Amiga programmer? 2 What is CATS? 3 Where do I get the Amiga includes? 4 How do I become a developer? 5 What compilers (assemblers) are there? 6 Those never working Esc sequences! 7 Is it possible to use AmigaBasic on the A1200? 8 How do I localize my program? 9 How to obtain a pointer to a console's window 10 What are pragmas? 11 My Compiler/Linker is complaining about missing symbol xxx. 12 Where do I find the function xxx? 13 The GNU C compiler: general information and installation 1 Current Version 2 Requirements 3 Authors 4 Sources for Gcc 5 Inline Headers 6 Amiga Libraries 7 Installation 8 Compiling 9 How to get help 5 Applications 1 Text Editors 2 What word processors are there? 3 Desktop Publishing 4 What is TeX and where can I get it? 5 Are there any Postscript interpreters? 1 Amiga Font Formats 2 Frequently Requested Amiga Fonts 3 Commercial Font Sources 4 Non-Latin fonts on the Amiga 5 Amiga Font Installation 6 Amiga Font Utilities 7 Making Outline Fonts 8 Problems and Possible Solutions 6 How to deal with Non-Latin texts? 1 Japanese editors and viewers 2 Chinese text viewers 6 Connecting your Amiga to the world 7 Emulators 1 Can I run Unix on my Amiga? 2 Is it possible to use the Amiga as X11 terminal? 3 Is there a way to start MS-Dos programs? 4 How to mount MsDos-formatted Syquests on Amiga 8 Miscellaneous 1 Is there any unix version of LhA? 2 What are files ending with ...? 3 Is there a Stacker-like utility to pack my hard drive? 4 Where do I get Fish disk xxx? 9 Where and how do I get software and other informations? 1 Files and databases on freely distributable software 2 A collection of tests 3 Getting files from a FTP server 4 Getting files from a Mail server 5 Getting files from a mailbox 6 The Fish PD series 1 The Amiga Library disks 2 The Fresh Fish CD-Roms 7 How do I Read and write MS-Dos disks? 8 How do I split large files? 9 Discussing things 10 Other FAQ's The Amiga-FAQ archive Contributions Credits Index 8 Miscellaneous *************** This last chapter contains some questions that don't fit in the chapters above. 8.1 Is there any unix version of LhA? ===================================== See Endings. 8.2 What are files ending with ...? =================================== Most endings on FTP sites or Fish disks tell you that the file is compressed and/or is an archive containing more than one file. Some programs even archive whole disks. Frequently found endings and programs to handle the related files are: *.sfx* Compressed archives which are included in an executable program: Just call the program and it will extract itself (sfx = self extract) *.lha* *.lzh* Compressed archives; recommended: LhA (`util/arc/LhA_e138.run' on Aminet or Fish disk 715) or Lx (`util/arc/lx100.lha' on Aminet), Unix version available (`misc/unix/lha-1.00.tar.Z') *.dms* Disks compressed using DMS (`util/arc/dms111.sfx' on Aminet or Fish disk 406) *.zom* Disks compressed using Zoom (`util/arc/Zoom_5.4.lha' on Aminet, Fish disk 682); an older version which you probably need for uncompressing PasTeX is found on Fish disk 459. *.zoo* Compressed archive; recommended: Zoo (`util/arc/zpp2-10.lzh' on Aminet or Fish disk 527) *.Z* *.z* *.gz* Compressed files; recommended gzip (`util/pack/gzip124x.lha' on Aminet), note that this are Unix files in most cases *.tar* Acrhive; recommended: tar (`util/arc/tar.lha' or `util/arc/gtar10.lha' on Aminet or Fish disk 445), note that tar is a Unix archiver and you often find soething like `.tar.Z'. *.arj* Compressed archive; recommended unarj (`util/arc/unarj-0.5.lha' on Aminet) *.zip* Compressed archive; recommended UnZip (`util/arc/unzip-5.1.lha' on Aminet), note that this are MS-Dos archives in most cases 8.3 Is there a Stacker-like utility to pack my hard drive? ========================================================== XFH does a good job. It operates as a handler and uses the XPK-libraries, so you have different compression modes (RAKE is a good choice) and possibly even more in the future. The only disadvantage is, that the size of a file is limited by RAM: Don't use it with less than 2MB of RAM. XPKDisk by Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert is another stacker program that takes advantage of the variety of XPK libraries available. Unlike other harddisk compressors it does not compress the files, but creates a pseudo partition and stores the whole tracks as compressed files on your harddisk. Its major advantage is that it does not limit the maximum file size, because it works similar to trackdisk.device and therefore does not need too much temporary storage. But be careful if you want to use ReOrg on a comprimized partition: ReOrg should be set to leave enough memory for the xpkdisk buffers. And because of ReOrgs buffering, you can use few buffers for xpkdisk (perhaps as few as 2 or 3). Don't use ReOrg if you don't know the memory needs of XFH or XPKDisk. Another possibility is EPU. It's shareware and should offer the same as XFH, but without limiting the file size. Sources: Aminet, directory `util/pack', Fish disks 754 (XFH) and 858 (EPU) 8.4 Where do I get Fish disk xxx? ================================= Those FTP servers have that much space (or a CD-Rom) to have all fish disks available online: ftp.isca.uiowa.edu (USA, directory `/amiga/fx/fxxx') ftp.hawaii.edu (USA, directory `/pub/amiga/fish') ftp.funet.fi (Finland, directory `/pub/amiga/fish') Note that the CD-Rom's are not always mounted. See FTP. Another possibility would be to ask your local dealer. :-) 9 Where and how do I get software and other informations? ********************************************************* Three questions arise in this context: Which programs can be found, where are they and how to get them and transfer them home? 9.1 Files and databases on freely distributable software ======================================================== Of course you need to know where you find things. Many good choices are listed in this paper, as I hope. Other sources are: *AmigaSciSchool* is a list of software and where you find it in Ascii format. It is posted monthly to the newsgroups `comp.sys.amiga.applications', `comp.unix.amiga', and `news.answers'. Additionally you will find it on Aminet sites (`text/doc/AmigaSciSchool-4.01'). It handles everything listed here and many more, for example GNU software, libraries (linked and shared), shells, Unix commands, educational and scientific software and much more. *FishCon* are lists of the Fish disk contents. (`fish/doc/fishcon-???.lzh' on Aminet) *FishXref* is a cross reference list of the Fish contents. (`fish/doc/fishxref-???.lzh' on Aminet) FishXref and Fishcon are in Ascii format. *KingFisher* A Fish disk database, (`fish/doc/Kingfisher1_30.lha', which is the program and `fish/doc/KFData850.lha' ,which contains the data, on Aminet or Fish disk 863) allows search by name and context. See Fish. 9.2 A collection of tests ========================= `Comp.sys.amiga.reviews' is a moderated newsgroup where tests of soft- and hardware, books and anything else relevant to the Amiga are posted. Its always a good idea to check this newsgroup for a review, if you are interested in something special. Of course you always find only the latest reviews, but the older postings are available per FTP from `math.uh.edu', Directory `/pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews' or on the Fish CDs. 9.3 Getting files from a FTP server =================================== Things are easy for those who have access to the Internet and a program called FTP (File Transfer Program). Nearly all Unix computers have it, but not all of them allow the use of FTP. FTP allows you to gain access to some other machines and store and/or retrieve files. Normally one needs an acoount on the remote machine to use it, bat a number of machines have a setup that allows everybody to log in as the user `ftp' or `anonymous', so anybody may get files from them. The most important of this servers are the Aminet servers, which mirror each other and hence should have the same files. They are the best choice if you are looking for Amiga software. Aminet hosts are Land Name IP Adresse Pfad Files USA (MO) ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 pub/aminet/ ALL USA (CA) ftp.cdrom.com 192.216.222.5 pub/aminet/ 9000 USA (TX) ftp.etsu.edu 192.43.199.20 pub/aminet/ 5000 USA (WI) ftp.netnet.net 198.70.64.3 pub/aminet/ 10000 Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 pub/aminet/ 10000 Switzerland ftp.eunet.ch 146.228.10.16 pub/aminet/ 5500 Switzerland ftp.math.ethz.ch 129.132.104.6 pub/aminet/ 1000 Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch 128.178.151.32 pub/aminet/ 300 Germany kelly.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.128.206 pub/aminet/ ALL Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.2.42 pub/aminet/ ALL Germany ftp.uni-stuttgart.de 129.69.18.15 aminet/ 4500 Germany ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.3.2 pub/aminet/ 7000 Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 pub/aminet/ 4000 Germany ftp.tu-chemnitz.de 192.108.33.193 pub/aminet/ 4000 Germany ftp.fh-augsburg.de 141.82.16.242 pub/aminet/ Germany ftp.uni-bremen.de 134.102.228.2 pub/aminet/ Germany ftp.uni-oldenburg.de 134.106.40.9 pub/aminet/ 2500 Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 pub/aminet/ 1500 Germany ftp.uni-trier.de 136.199.8.81 pub/aminet/ Germany ftp.uni-siegen.de 141.99.128.1 pub/aminet/ 1500 Germany ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 137.226.225.3 pub/aminet/ Germany ftp.stud.fh-heilbronn.de 141.7.1.41 pub/aminet/ 600 Germany ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de 132.187.1.2 pub/aminet/ 700 France ftp.cnam.fr 163.173.128.15 pub/aminet/ Portugal ftp.ci.ua.pt 193.136.80.6 pub/aminet/ UK ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk 155.198.1.40 pub/aminet/ ALL UK micros.hensa.ac.uk 148.88.8.84 pub/aminet/ 8500 All these mirrors have a directory `/pub/aminet', where you will find much stuff. Please use a mirror close to you! Some other important hosts are ftp.funet.fi (Finland) ftp.isca.uiowa.edu (USA) ftp.hawaii.edu (USA) ftp.cso.uiuc.edu (USA) ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Germany) Note that grind, aachen and erlangen have the full collection of Fish disks available! See Fish disk xxx. If you don't find a specific file on your local mirror, try `ftp.wustl.edu', `ftp.uni-paderborn.de' or `ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk'; they keep all files. To connect to a special host (ftp.uni-erlangen.de for example), you should type ftp ftp.uni-erlangen.de The host answers by requesting your login. You should type ftp No you are asked for a password. Please type your Email address here, if you have one. If not, use the password ftp. Now you're inside the host. There is a number of commands you may execute here. The most important are: *?* Prints the help text of the FTP command. Additionally you may type *? command* to get information on a special command. *bin* Tells the FTP program that you whish to transfer binary files. It is always a good choice to type bin as the very first command! Files you load without the bin command can be corrupt. *get <file>* Loads the given file from the host. On most Unix machines you can type something like `get file.txt -' or `get file.txt |more' to show a text on the screen. Note that there *must not* be any blank between the | and the word more! *mget <pat>* Loads the given files. pat may contain Unix style like wildcards. *put <file>* *mput <pat>* Like get and mget, but transfer files from you to the remote host. This is in most cases not allowed, except for a special directory called `incoming'. You can place files here which you want to make public. *cd <dir>* Like the usual cd command. The commands get, mget, put, mput, dir and ls refer to the current working directory. *dir [<dir>]* *ls [<dir>]* Like `list' and `dir' on the Amiga. Note that the FTP-dir corresponds to the Amiga-list! *bye* Leaves the FTP program. When you have used FTP for the first times you will notice, that you always begin with executing the same steps: 1. Type the login (ftp in most cases) 2. Type the password (your mail address in most cases) 3. Enter the bin command 4. Change the current working directory (`/pub/aminet' for example) This may get executed automatically. What you need is a file called `.netrc' in your home directory. Note that it needs to be protected against others! The FTP program doesn't use it, if it can be read by anything else than you. (Protection is set using the command `chmod go-rwx .netrc'.) The .netrc file contains some entries for your most favourite FTP sites, each separated by empy lines. A typicel entry may look like this: machine ftp.uni-erlangen.de login ftp password <your mail address> or <ftp> macdef init bin cd pub/aminet Note that on some machines it is possible to use the machine name `default' which meets all machines not listed in .netrc. 9.4 Getting files from a Mail server ==================================== Another way to get files is to use a mail server. This assumes that you can send mail to Internet addresses and get mail from Internet hosts. It works by sending a mail to the server specifying some commands, for example send commands for the files you want. Important mail servers are ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com mailserver@nic.funet.fi mailserver@leo.org mrcserv@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca mail-server@ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu ftp-mail@uni-paderborn.de The most important commands are: *Help* Tells the server that you wish to get an Ascii file containing detailed explanation how to use the server. *Limit <number>* Specifys that you wish to get not more than <number> Kbytes per mail. Larger files get splitted into small pieces of at most <number> Kbytes which are sent as separate mails each. Note that the mails may get larger because of overhead. *Cwd <dir>* Sets the current working directory to <dir>. This directory is used by the commands send and dir. *Index* will return a list of files and/or directories that the server offers. Note that this may be *very* large! *Index <item>* returns a list of files containing <item> in their names. *Dir [<dir>]* returns a list of the files and directories in the given directory. *Send <file1> <file2> ... <fileN>* Tells the server to send the given files to you. *Begin* Tells the server to ignore all lines above this command. *End* Like Begin, but specifies to ignore the lines below. (A signature for example!) A typical session would be to send the following mail to the mail server: BEGIN CD /pub/aminet/util/arc SEND LhA_e138.run END 9.5 Getting files from a mailbox ================================ You also can get files from one of the many BBS's (`Bulletin Board System'). Most of these are driven by private users, so there is nearly everywhere a mailbox which doesn't cause a too expensive telephone bill. I want to publish a list of all Amiga mailboxes here. So please send to me a list of all mailboxes which are related to the Amiga - in any way. I need all telephone numbers of the boxes and their name. Tell me the nation where the box resides and - if possible - some more info (Does the box have Aminet or the Fish PD or FRAS? Is the box especially for Amiga users?) Thanks, Ignaz Kellerer For a list of mailboxes in Germany or Austria or Switzerland, look at the German version of the AmigaFAQ. 9.6 The Fish PD series ====================== A very good source is the Fish PD series. One distinguishes between the floppy disks and the CD-Roms. 9.6.1 The Amiga Library disks ----------------------------- Fred Fish has started in the middle eighties to collect freely distributable software on floppy disks. There are 1000 disks and very much good stuff on it. Most Amiga dealers sell them and most magazines contain addresses of people mailing them to you for about 3$ per disk or less. Fred Fish has terminated offering software on floppy disks. Instead, there is a dealer who offers the new software from the CD-Roms on floppy disks. There are some things which can be found on the Fish disks, but not on Aminet. However, you can get them with FTP. See Fish disk xxx. 9.6.2 The Fresh Fish CD-Roms ---------------------------- Fred Fish is going on to offer freely distributable software. But now he collects it on CD-Rom's. He releases two different kinds of CD's: 1. Monthly released disks are divided into roughly three sections: 1. New material, which includes the material from the new unreleased floppy disks as well as material which does not appear in the floppy distribution, about 84Mb on the first disk. 2. Useful utilities that can be used directly off the CD-ROM if desired, thus freeing up the corresponding amount of hard disk space (GNU Emacs, Gnu C, GNU C++, Amiga E, PasTeX, AmigaGuide, Installer, 2.0 and 3.0-Includes, different archivers, tape drivers, the AmiCDROM filesystem and many other GNU and BSD tools, ...), about 150Mb on the first disk. 3. Older material from previous released floppy disks or CD-ROM's, about 404 Mb on the first disk. (Fish disk 600-910) 2. Disks containing the latest software as well as recent software in packed format only. (These are intended to be used for example in BBS's.) I recommend especially the first kind of Fish CD's. They cost about 20$ plus 3$ for shipping (5$ outside USA/Canada/Mexico) and are available from Amiga Library Services 610 N. Alma School Road, Suite 18 Chandler, AZ 85224-3687 U.S.A. Phone/FAX: (602) 917-0917 9.7 How do I Read and write MS-Dos disks? ========================================= No problem for owners of Workbench 2.1 or higher: The program CrossDos is part of the Workbench. All you have to do is mounting the device `pc0:' by putting it into the drawer `Devs:DOSDrivers' or by double-clicking the icon in `Sys:Storage/DOSDrivers'. Ms-Dos disks in drive `df0:' can now be handled in the usual manner replacing the word `df0:' by `pc0:'. For example the directory can be shown with the command dir pc0:. People still running Workbench 2.0 or lower need a program called `MSH'. You will find this on the Aminet (directory misc/emu) and on Fish disk 382. See Sources. After editing the file `devs:MountList' as described in the documentation you have to say Mount msh: in the CLI and can now do the same as above replacing the word `pc0:' with `msh:'. 9.8 How do I split large files? =============================== There are some archives which are too large to fit on one disk. To transfer them on disks you need to split them into smaller pieces and transfer each part on a separate disk. I recommend Martin Schlodder's `Splitter'. (Aminet, `util/misc/splitter_121.lha'. The archive contains binaries for MS-DOS and should be compilable without problems on any Unix system. 9.9 Discussing things ===================== A mailing list is a server that allows to discuss special things via Email. The server holds a list of people that are interested in the respective topic. For example, the gcc mailing list will discuss bugs, new features and other problems of gcc. (see Compilers) If a mail is sent to the server from someone he will forward this mail to all the other people on the list. You will be added to the list by sending a mail to the server which will usually contain the word `Subscribe' or something similar. Once you are no more interested in the mailing list you can unsubscribe. Unforunately the servers have a different syntax of subscribing and unsubscribing. The best way to find how to subscribe is to send a mail with the word `Help' to the server. He will reply a mail which should explain how to handle this special server. Some mailing lists are: Topic Server Amok listserv@amokle.stgt.sub.org Dice dice-request@castrov.cuc.ab.ca or dice-request@hactar.hanse.de (Germany) gcc listserv@lists.funet.fi Lisp amigalisp@contessa.phone.net Mui mui-request@taloa.unice.fr Oberon-A oberon-a-request@wossname.apana.org.au 9.10 Other FAQ's ================ This is not the only FAQ, of course. Lots of FAQ's are available either by being posted to newsgroups or by access via FTP. *German Amiga-FAQ* This is the german translation of the AmigaFAQ you are reading. Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.amiga.misc, zer.z-netz.rechner.amiga.allgemein HTML: `http://www.leo.org/archiv/amiga/misc/amigafaq/' Aminet: `docs/misc/AmigaFAQg.lha' Maintainer: Ignaz Kellerer, kellerer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de *Amiga related books FAQ* This is a list of books for the Amiga, including short discussions, prices and sources. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.sys.amiga.introduction, comp.sys.amiga.programmer (monthly) HTML: `http://eksl-www.cs.umass.edu/~atkin/amiga/books.faq.html' Ftp: rtfm.mit.edu, `pub/usenet/comp.sys.amiga.misc'. Maintainer: Marc Atkin, atkin@cs.umass.edu *AmiTCP/IP FAQ* This is for users of AmiTCP/IP, a set of programs which allows to include an Amiga into a TCP/IP network. (Most well known nets, Internet for example use TCP/IP.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.sys.amiga.datacomm, comp.sys.amiga.networking (biweekly) Ftp: rtfm.mit.edu, pub/usenet/comp.sys.amiga.networking Maintainer: Neil J. McRae (atcpfaq@domino.demon.co.uk) *Amiga Networking FAQ* Unlike the AmiTCP/IP FAQ this one wants to cover all aspects of networking, including TCP/IP and Envoy. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm, comp.sys.amiga.hardware Ftp: rtfm.mit.edu, pub/usenet/comp.sys.amiga.networking Maintainer: Richard Norman (norman@afas.msfc.nasa.gov) *Point Manager FAQ* Networking seems to be quite a problem: This FAQ os for Point Manager, a FidoNet-client (so-called points). Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Ftp: rtfm.mit.edu, pub/usenet/comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Maintainer: Eric Krieger (pm_faq@quasar.hacktic.nl) *All about FTP* Explains the usage of the file transfer program FTP. See FTP. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc (monthly) Ftp: Aminet, info/start Betreuer: Urban Dominik Mueller (umueller@amiga.icu.net.ch) The Amiga-FAQ archive ********************* The Amiga-FAQ is available in different formats: Ascii format (which is posted to the nets) AmigaGuide format (which is the adequate format on the Amiga) and in dvi format (to be printed). Additionally there is some stuff, that might be useful or interesting, but could not be included into the Amiga-FAQ: txt/amiga.history On the Amiga's history txt/story.txt The Commodore story (or: the Tramiel story ;-) txt/amiga.newsgroups Overview on comp.sys.amiga.* txt/amiga.sites List of FTP sites txt/AmigaOverview.tex A short overview on the Amiga-Soft- and Hardware txt/Hardware.tips For those people who can't live without solder src/JWSplit.c The source of a file splitter src/JWJoin.c The opponent to JWSplit src/addtoc.c Utility to add a toc to texinfo-created docs (this document uses it) programmers/* Some stuff for programmers: pragmas, vararg versions of some tag functions and some amiga.lib functions (HookEntry, DoMethod) I decided to collect these in the Amiga-FAQ archive. It is called AmigaFAQ.lha and can be found on Aminet, directory `docs/misc'. Contributions ************* This FAQ can neither get useful nor hit further development without your help. Suggestions, contributions, new answers, critics, anything is rather welcome. Please note, that very major subjects are absolutely missing yet: Nothing about sound, nothing on graphic cards, no Animation. These are some of the Amiga's best points! But I don't know them ... :-( So grab your keyboard (Your pencil? Well, if there's no other way...) and send mail to: Ignaz Kellerer Georg-Habel-Str. 11 81241 Munich (Germany) Tel. (+49) 089 / 885147 Internet: kellerer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Credits ******* My thanks go to: *Reinhard Spisser and Sebastiano Vigna* for the Amiga version of texinfo. This is written with it. *The Free Software Foundation* for the original version of texinfo and many other excellent programs. *Dylan McNamee* for contributing the sections on Editors, Word Processors, DTP and Postscript and some wording fixes. *Joseph Luk* for help in the section on chunky/planar, double buffering and PAL/NTSC *Urban Dominik Mueller* for the FAQ on FTP and Mail-servers. *Lars Hecking (lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie)* *Philippe Brand (phb@colombo.telesys-innov.fr)* for the complete gcc part *Jochen Wiedmann (zrawi01@decap2.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)* for the composition and posting of the Amiga FAQ until July 1994. Index ***** . (replacement) Dot-Replacement .arj Endings .dms Endings .gz Endings .lha Endings .lzh Endings .netrc FTP .sfx Endings .tar Endings .z Endings .Z Endings .zip Endings .zom Endings .zoo Endings 68EC020 68EC0xx 68EC030 68EC0xx 68LC040 68EC0xx A1200 (HD) A1200-HD AmiBooksFAQ FAQs Amiga Library disks Fish floppy disks Amiga networking FAQ FAQs Amiga-FAQ archive Amiga-FAQ Archive AmigaBasic AmigaBasic AmigaSciSchool Infos Aminet FTP AmiTCP/IP FAQ FAQs Anonymous FTP ANS Japanese ARexx ARexx Assemblers Compilers AutoDocs Includes Basic Compilers BBS Mailbox C Compilers C++ Compilers C-program (gcc) Compiling Catalog description Localizing Catalog translation Localizing Catalogs Localizing CatComp Localizing CATS CATS Chunky displays Chunky vs. Planar Commodore, Frankfurt Developer Commodore, West Chester CATS comp.sys.amiga.reviews Reviews Compilers Compilers Console window WindowPtr Contributions Contributions Credits Credits CrossDos MS-Dos disks Current directory Dot-Replacement DaggeX X11 Desktop Publishing DTP Developer Developer DoMethod Missing functions DoSuperMethod Missing functions Doublebuffering Doublebuffering DTP DTP Editors Editors Emulators Emulators endings Endings Enforcer 68EC0xx Esc sequences Printer control FAQ's, others FAQs FD-files Pragmas fd2pragma Pragmas file endings Endings Fish CD-Rom Fish CD Fish disks Fish disk xxx Fish floppy disks Fish floppy disks Fish PD Fish FishCon Infos FishXref Infos FlexCat Localizing Forth Compilers Fortran Compilers FPU FPU Fresh Fish CD-Rom Fish CD FTP servers FTP GadTools MUI Gcc The GNU C compiler gcc-amiga-libraries Amiga Libraries gcc-authors Authors gcc-compiling Compiling gcc-current Current Version gcc-how-to-get-help How to get help gcc-inline-headers Inline Headers gcc-installation Installation gcc-requirements Requirements gcc-sources Sources for Gcc GfxBase X11 GigaMem 68EC0xx Graphics Graphics GUI Workbench Guo Biao Chinese HD (A1200) A1200-HD HD compression HD-Compression Hirsch & Wolf CATS history Amiga-FAQ Archive HookEntry Missing functions HZview Chinese IBM emulator IBM-compatibles Icons Icons Includes Includes JemTeX Japanese JIStoJi Japanese jmore Japanese Kanji Japanese KingFisher Infos KitCat Localizing LibAllocPooled Missing functions Linux Unix Lisp Compilers locale.library Localizing Localizing Localizing MagicWB Icons Mail-server Mail mailbox Mailbox Mailing lists Mailing lists MakeCat Localizing Memory, virtual 68EC0xx Missing functions Missing functions MMU 68EC0xx Modula-2 Compilers Monitors Monitors MS-Dos (emulator) IBM-compatibles MS-Dos (Syquest) MsDos-Syquest MS-Dos disks MS-Dos disks Msh MS-Dos disks MUI MUI Multiscan Monitors MWB Icons NDA Developer NDK Includes NDU Includes NDUK Includes NetBSD Unix NewIcons Icons NTSC PAL-NTSC Oberon Compilers Oberon-A Compilers packers Endings packers on Unix Endings Page Layout Languages Word Processors PAL PAL-NTSC Pascal Compilers Pipe (command) Pipe command PIPE: Pipe Planar displays Chunky vs. Planar Point manager FAQ FAQs Postscript Postscript pragmas Pragmas Printer control Printer control Prolog Compilers Queue-handler Pipe Reviews Reviews RKMs Manuals Rom Kernel manuals Manuals Splitting files Splitting Stacker HD-Compression Syquest MsDos-Syquest TeX TeX Text Editors Editors Unix Unix Unix-LhA Unix-LhA VGA Monitors Word Processors Word Processors Workbench Workbench Wysiwyg Word Processors X11 X11 XFH HD-Compression XPK HD-Compression _mchar _mchar _pchar Pipe command