========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Fri, 27 Apr 90 Volume 90 : Issue 481 Today's Topics: Atari USA and TOS1.4 BUG in Turbo C V1.0 comp.sys.atari.st and the UK English Docs GULAM help wanted Reg. Exp. Parser Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23 Unsubscribe uudecode ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 12:41:54 +0100 From: Dave Hines Subject: Atari USA and TOS1.4 Message-ID: <15314.9004271141@cxa.daresbury.ac.uk> Steve, I have no idea why Atari UK are so slow to make the TOS 1.4 ROMS available, especially as they are in production... A friend who works in a computer shop says that new STFMs are being supplied with TOS 1.4 installed. As for using US ROMS, there are a few problems: 1) They set the colour screen parameters for 60Hz monitors, not 50Hz 2) The keyboard mapping is different - pound/hash etc. 3) The date format is different - mm/dd/yy, not dd/mm/yy I have a set of US ROMS (from Canada actually), and have blown new ROMS to fix (1) and (2) - I can tell you what I changed if you wish. What other problems may be lurking I have yet to discover. Dave Hines. JANET: D.Hines@uk.ac.daresbury EARN/BITNET: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@UKACRL UUCP: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ukc.uucp Ean: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ean-relay.ac.uk Internet: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk or D.Hines%daresbury@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 90 07:11:34 GMT From: mcsun!hp4nl!tnosoes!joep@uunet.uu.net (Joep Mathijssen) Subject: BUG in Turbo C V1.0 Message-ID: <1099@tnosoes.UUCP> While trying to 'port' the sunclock from John Walker to the ST (you know the map of the Earth, showing the portion illuminated by the Sun) I came across a very irritating bug in Turbo C V1.0. Maybe somebody can check if the bug is fixed in V2.0. void wrong() ? double e, delta; e = 10; delta = e - cos(e); e -= delta / (1 - cos(e)); <---------- printf("wrong e: %lf\n", e); ? void good() ? double e, delta, cs; e = 10; delta = e - cos(e); cs = 1 - cos(e); <---------- e -= delta / cs; <---------- printf("good e: %lf\n", e); ? void main() ? printf("cos: %lf\n", cos(10)); wrong(); good(); ? RESULT cos: -0.839072 wrong e: 9.000000 good e: 4.106226 The bug is 'solved' by using an extra variable. Maybe I go read some 68000, but the clock works and I am satisfied. I'll post the clock within some days. Joep, =============================================================================== Joep Mathijssen TNO Institute for Perception P.O. Box 23 Phone : +31 34 63 562 11 3769 ZG Soesterberg E-mail: tnosoes!joep@mcvax.cwi.nl The Netherlands or: uunet!mcvax!tnosoes!joep =============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 90 08:11:20 BST From: Mr. Simon Mark Christie Subject: comp.sys.atari.st and the UK Message-ID: <$TGQKCXJTDDRN at UMPA> Can anyone tell me how I can receive comp... from the UK? Also this idea of a comp...tech sound like a good idea - especially if I can get it. I like reading the info-atari digests but sometimes - mainly due to time pressures I'd rather not read large technical files. If a seperate techie section was available perhaps people would use it - but what's a 'technical' item? Steve C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 13:16:05 MSZ From: ONM65%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Operator Stefan) Subject: English Docs Message-ID: <9004271016.AA06143@hugin.dmswwu-ether> Hello! For all people who are interested in an english Gemini distribution: We're nearly through! We got english binairies and a Netherland (Ton van Overbeek) is halfway through translating the docs. So, it's only a matter of days... _____________________________________________________ | Stefan Eissing +----+ \|# | Dorfbauerschaft 7, D-4419 Laer-Holthausen | OK | |# | "Author of Venus@Gemini" +----+ |# |_____________________________________________________|# ####################################################### ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 13:51:46 From: "Simon Chappell" Subject: GULAM help wanted I need some advice here, I recently (about 2 weeks ago) saw on here a mention of the current Email address of the author of the Gulam shell, a Prof. P.Mateti, I cannot remember who posted it, but I would like them to confirm the address as the one that I copied from their message (carefully!) managed to reach the site named, but was returned with an unknown user error! The address that I used (from the UK JANET network) was: p.mateti%cs.wright.edu@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Everything to the right of the percent sign seems to work, because I got through to Wright State University, but the username seems to be non-existant. Now this is a real shame because the Gulam shell would be very very good value for money if I had paid for it, but I was wondering if there was a more recent version released than the beta test version that I seem to have, dated about 1987 if I remember the documentation correctly. I am after either, or both, any more recent versions of the binaries or a copy of the source code. Any help with any of the above will be gratefully received. Simon. | Simon Chappell | BSc(Hons) Computing and Informatics (final year) | Polytechnic South West (Plymouth) | | JANET S61304@uk.ac.psw.pa BITNET S61304@pa.psw.ac.uk | INTERNET S61304%uk.ac.psw.pa@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | /* Please do not send Email via the uk.ac.ukc gateway, as my college | hasn't paid their fees, so we don't get any Email through there */ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 12:26:24 +0100 From: Dave Hines Subject: Reg. Exp. Parser Message-ID: <11415.9004271126@cxa.daresbury.ac.uk> David Dawkins asks: > Can anyone tell me where I can find a PD regular expression > parser ? I have heard rumour that something called 'regex' is floating > about somewhere, but I can't find it at any archive site. I suspect that the regex code you have heard of is the regular expression matching code from GNU EMACS. This has been written as a general subroutine, and is useful for including in anything. It's not PD, but is freely available for non-profit making use. I can send you a copy if you don't have access to the GNU EMACS code there. Dave Hines. JANET: D.Hines@uk.ac.daresbury EARN/BITNET: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@UKACRL UUCP: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ukc.uucp Ean: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ean-relay.ac.uk Internet: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk or D.Hines%daresbury@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 11:43:32 MSZ From: ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Julian Reschke) Subject: Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23 Message-ID: <9004270843.AA01353@freya.dmswwu-ether> In article <2167@atari.UUCP> Allan Pratt writes: > What threw me was the original subject line, saying this bug was in > GEMDOS 0.23 (Which is Rainbow TOS's GEMDOS). It's not there, and it's ---- > documented as a change, and the previous, undesired behavior is also > documented. I thought that the return value of Sversion() is to be interpreted as: 0x1300 -> Gemdos 0.19 (TOS 1.0 and TOS 1.2) 0x1400 -> Gemdos 0.20 (this buggy french thing called Turbodos) 0x1500 -> Gemdos 0.21 (TOS 1.4 and TOS 1.6) So the meaning is: high byte: minor revision number low byte: major revision number ___________________________ cut here _____________________________________ Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241 eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, "Julian Reschke" @ MAUS MS (++49 251 77216) ____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 9:35:30 CET From: -valdez- Subject: Unsubscribe Please unsubscribe me from newsgroup. Thanx for previous info ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 9:21:21 CDT From: "Norman R. Frech CPSL" Subject: uudecode Greetings, Thanks to Bill Slivert, Andie Ness, Rainer Klute, and Bertrand Decouty for the help with uud/uue. The most recent version of uud/uue which compilied under system V came from Bertrand Decounty. Thanks again for the support. Norman Frech < frech@mwraaa.army.mil > ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #481 *****************************************