========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Wed, 27 Dec 89 Volume 89 : Issue 864 Today's Topics: CORRECTION: TOS 1.4 Incompatibility; Bad Source Archives? GEnie uplink is shut down.. How to get to panarthea.ebay.sun.com internal FAX packages for ST? Need help w/5 1/4" drive Simple (I hope) PageStream 1.8 Question Unexpandable megas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 89 12:07:50 EST From: Stephen Harold Goldstein Subject: CORRECTION: TOS 1.4 Incompatibility; Bad Source Archives? Message-ID: <8912271707.AA05281@SAIC.COM> See what you get when you type before you think? It was the "db" debugger, NOT "csd" that doesn't know how to deal with TOS 1.4. I just got off the phone with Mark Williams' Co., and they say they're aware of the problem and are working on an update. They also said that while csd runs, some weirdness might occur - no details on what kind of weirdness. BTW: I haven't used MWC for a while, and encountered this problem while trying to compile the source code in the mandlbx1.arc file from the unindexed directory at erminator (35.1.33.8). It appears to be missing at least one .h file, and has a few (so far) minor bugs. For example, numerous variables are defined and never referenced, and I've encountered at least one misspelling of a variable. Is this the state of most source code archives? Has anyone already fixed this code? Would anyone be interested in a repost if I manage to get it working? (It's (yet another) Mandelbrot set plotting program). --- Stephen Goldstein steveg@saic.com My first Atari system? A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, C(not G)TIA graphics Disclaimer: That's not what I said. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Dec 89 14:18:18 GMT From: crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen@uunet.uu.net (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Subject: GEnie uplink is shut down.. Message-ID: <1961@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> In article <4578@druwy.ATT.COM> dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) writes: | I happen to think that a Usenet to GEnie link, either one or | two way is a bad idea. Mainly because of the high S/N ratio on the | commercial nets like GEnie (at one time or another I've used all of | them). But if such a link goes up I'm not going to worry about it. | I'm already on several of the commercial nets, having what I say here | also posted there doesn't change things very much. I don't much like the idea of a one way link, for reasons previously stated. I would be in favor of a two way link, because it would allow feedback from the GEnie side, which possibly would contain useful info. I believe that I can write a copyright notice which allows redistribution of my articles to any forum which allows a response, should I feel that was needed. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon ------------------------------ Date: 27 Dec 89 15:24:04 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!caesar.cs.montana.edu!og icse!blake!ramsiri@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) Subject: How to get to panarthea.ebay.sun.com Message-ID: <5165@blake.acs.washington.edu> In article <8912261943.AA26911@es56.escd.uucp> karl@es56.UUCP (Karl Rowley) writes: > >Can someone tell me the numeric Internet address for panarthea.ebay.sun.com? >I have the address 192.9.203.56 but that doesn't work. I looked in the >NIC database and panarthea.ebay.sun.com is not listed there. > > Karl Rowley You can't FTP to the panarthea archive. mail archive-server%panarthea@sun.com then type "help" in the body of your message. wait for a reply... -kevin ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: 27 Dec 89 15:59:34 GMT From: brunix!rjd@uunet.uu.net (Rob Demillo) Subject: internal FAX packages for ST? Message-ID: <23721@brunix.UUCP> In article <260@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes: >I have a friend who is interested in finding out information about >boards, software and/or other solutions that will allow FAXes to >be sent or received directly from an Atari ST. The particular >computer she has is an Atari Mega ST 4 ... > Contact "ST Plus" in California. They have a complete line of FAX products for the ST line. (Sorry, I don;t have their number with me, but any issue of STart should have it.) Good luck. - Rob DeMillo | Internet: rjd@brown.cs.edu Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-273-0804 (home) "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!" ------------------------------ Date: 27 Dec 89 16:16:29 GMT From: jensen@cod.nosc.mil (Layne K. Jensen) Subject: Need help w/5 1/4" drive Message-ID: <1732@cod.NOSC.MIL> I have been trying to install a 5 1/4" floppy drive on my 1040ST. I think I have done everything that I have seen mentioned in this newsgroup. I removed the termination resistor pack (and replaced it with 1 K-ohm resistors) and replaced the drive select pullup resistor with a 1 K-ohm. I also buffered the drive select and side select lines coming from the sound chip. The computer now recognizes the external drive at boot-up, and seems to be able to read existing files written on other machines, but does not reliably write or format a disk. I borrowed a friend's external 3 1/2" disk just to check that the computer signals are there, and it worked just fine with no problems writing or formatting. Any help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated. Layne Jensen jensen@nosc.MIL Naval Ocean Systems Center ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen San Diego, CA -- Layne Jensen jensen@nosc.MIL Naval Ocean Systems Center ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen San Diego, CA ------------------------------ Date: 27 Dec 89 16:32:29 GMT From: jensen@cod.nosc.mil (Layne K. Jensen) Subject: Simple (I hope) PageStream 1.8 Question Message-ID: <1733@cod.NOSC.MIL> I have been unable to reproduce what appears to be a very simple text effect with PageStream 1.8, and would appreciate help in finding out what I am doing incorrectly. The manual gives an example of a text object which is duplicated numerous times with a small x and y offset to create a 3-dimensional effect. The instructions say to change the attribute of the topmost copy to "outline" so that it will appear white with the other copies forming a shadow. When I do the above, the outlined copy appears to be "clear" so that the background copies show through, i.e., the effect doesn't work. After several tries it appears that I just don't know how to make an object "opaque white", so that it obscures other objects behind it. I have tried to change the "fill" parameters, but am apparently not putting together the correct combinations. Can someone please straighten me out? (I'm sure it's trivial.) Layne Jensen jensen@nosc.MIL Naval Ocean Systems Center ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen San Diego, CA -- Layne Jensen jensen@nosc.MIL Naval Ocean Systems Center ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen San Diego, CA ------------------------------ Date: 27 Dec 89 17:26:48 GMT From: brunix!iris.brown.edu!mjv@uunet.uu.net (Marshall Vale) Subject: Unexpandable megas Message-ID: <23726@brunix.UUCP> In article <25353@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: > Atari made the changes to the Mega ST2, to enforce their > policy of non-expandability something like *TWO YEARS* ago.. Just this past week, I finally got my Mega2 upgraded to 4megs and TOS 1.4. My mega2 was bought in April of this year and according to my dealer(who's now out of business *sigh*), was a part of the first shipment with the kludgy blitter fix and the more IBM compatible internal drive. My board had all the lines to the empty ram sockets intact. I just want to say to everyone that there is hope for us Mega2'ers and lets just check ours first before we get too scared. I also want to add thanks to Andy Cassino for the ls373 warning, Greg Lindahl for pointing me to a person who could do the upgrade, KenB for TOS 1.4 (there are so many little things that make all worth it) and BobR for all those Dungeon Master hints... ps. Why does it feel like defeating Lord Chaos was a happier achievement than getting my diploma??? -- mjv@iris.brown.edu "And, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all, Bring me a big, red india-rubber ball." A.A. Milne "Now We are Six" ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V89 Issue #864 *****************************************