========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Mon, 30 Apr 90 Volume 90 : Issue 493 Today's Topics: Cordless Mouse--Practical Solutions:REVIEW/ENDORSEMENT! GEMFast & MWC (possible?) My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal ST to Portfolio Transfers UUCP Impelmations Virus questions Word Perfect STUDENT DISCOUNT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 Apr 90 03:47:27 GMT From: dsl.pitt.edu!pitt!cuphub!kar7481@pt.cs.cmu.edu (Dan Karbowsky; Cal.Univ.of PA-USA; AtariEliteOfPittsburghPA:bbs=(412)384-5609) Subject: Cordless Mouse--Practical Solutions:REVIEW/ENDORSEMENT! Message-ID: <6455@cuphub.cup.edu> ATTENTION Mouse Mongers!!! Th PERFACT and most Practical mouse you could EVER get your grubby little hands on is the Cordless Mouse by PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS!!! Price at the NORTHEAST-AtariFest was $85.00 from Joppa Computer Products. I DID have a REAL NICE REVIEW typed up, but the system editor KILLED it before I could POST it :-( Anyway, GET THE P.S. Cordless (MSRP=$119)... You WILL NOT be DISSAPPOINTED!!!!! Makes the ST mouse look like a U-HAUL RENTAL TRUCK.....It looks/handles like a Ferrari!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yes, It realy DOES deserve all those exclaimation points...) Joppa Computers can be reached at: (301)679-4102 or (301)676-1948 or write: Joppa Computer Products 3909 Pulaski Hwy. Abingdon, MD 21009 USA Practical Solutions, Inc. can be reaced at: (602)322-6100 or Practical Solutions, Inc. 1135 North Jones Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85716 USA -Dan PS: I have no affiliation with either Practical Solutions or Joppa Computer Products---other than that I am a VERY VERY VERY VERY satisfied customer! Ps#2: My mouse was only having LEFT button problems too....but I bought the PS mouse because it allows ones hand to rest in a much more natural position--instead of having to cramp your fingers over the ST mouse, you can essentially lay your fingers FLAT on the mouse (lower profile) and not lose any responsiveness +--------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ !Dan Karbowsky kar7481@pitt!cuphub! S U P P O R T T H E S T ! ! ! ! !102 Lee Drive __________________/ Call the ATARI ELITE of PITTSBURGH'S ! !Belle Vernon, PA / BBS (Forem-ST,fnet node 19) at (412) 384-5609 at 300 ! !15012 U.S.A. / thru 19.2k baud 24 hrs./day 7-days/week!! ! ! / **** WE NOW SUPPORT USRobotics 38.4k/ARQ PROTOCOL !!!! ***! !(412)929-4023 /---Also--Now the NEW H.Q. of the Atari-Users-Association--- ! ! / For more info, send email TITLED "AUA-INFO-REQUEST" ! +-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 90 08:32:14 GMT From: snorkelwacker!bu.edu!bucsf.bu.edu!harryk@think.com (Harry Karayiannis) Subject: GEMFast & MWC (possible?) Message-ID: <56471@bu.edu.bu.edu> Hi folks, has anyone managed to get GEMFAST 1.3 libraries work with MWC? Since I don't have the source code of GEMFAST 1.3, I tried to extract all the .o files from AESFAST.A & VDIFAST.A, convert them to MWC's format and built them back to 2 libraries that MWC can understand. Unfortunately it didn't work....MWC (and its support utilities : ar, drtomw, etc) keep complaining about GEMFAST's object files. So if someone has already done it PLEASE let me know.... (if I remeber well, the source of GEMFAST 1.2 was written in the Madmac assembler which happens to be a very "unique" assembler - i mean it uses commands that give headaches to any other assembeler -, and since i don't have madmac (you see i'm not an ST developer) i couldn't use the source- code even if i had it) Since this is not of general intersest please answer via E-mail Thanks in advance HARRY KARAYIANNIS 4th Year Computer Science Boston University E-mail: harryk@bucsf.bu.edu or cscrzcc@buacca.bu.edu ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 90 03:55:20 GMT From: attcan!lsuc!maccs!johns@uunet.uu.net (Conan the Barbarian) Subject: My opinion of the comp.sys.atari.st.tech proposal Message-ID: <263BB728.13004@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> I would also like to see the comp.sys.atari.st newsgroup divided into technical and non-technical groups. I think that separate technical groups would encourage that kind of discussion. -- John Schmitt johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca ...!unet!utai!utgpu!maccs!johns ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 90 02:17:23 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!whitten@ucsd.edu Subject: ST to Portfolio Transfers Message-ID: <23064.2638a8d6@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> I've been trying to get things going between my Portfolio and 1040ST but haven't been having much luck. Could anyone who has any of the following programs please mail me a copy? I guess it appears I'll need something like the XTERM2 package, as well as BINHEX.COM and CHKSUM.COM. Is BINHEX in a form which is capable of being copy directly to the portfolio thru the AUX port? Also, I saw mention of a program called PFBOOT.ZIP which is availiable on CIS which is suppose to make the process of getting transfers started alot easier. Anyone know anything about this? Thanks for any help you can give me. Chris ============================================================================== WHITTEN@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU Chris Whittenburg, Univ. of Kansas WHITTEN@UKANVAX.bitnet Electrical Engineering ============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 90 21:38:12 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!b oss!gtc!aragon!merkur!rodney@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Rodney Volz) Subject: UUCP Impelmations Message-ID: <5343328@merkur.UUCP> Hiya. This time - and never again on this item. In article <4068@uafhp.uark.edu> bbs00021@uafcseg.uucp (John Bunch) writes: > I am looking for a reliable implementation of uucp for the Atari ST > line. I understand that there are some bbs programs that have uucp > ability, but I would rather something that is usable from the gem > desktop. I know of mailtruk, but I also need to be able to unbatch and > read news. Some weeks ago there already was a question like this, and I decided to let out a posting to c.s.a.st. I said some gibberish about the uucp/news-implementation for TOS I wrote, and thw stuff written by an aquaintence. For it seems, that not only my postings but *all* postings from the area of Stuttgart get lost, I'd appreciacte if ya could send me some replys via mail. I am not going to write kilobytes of text not knowing, if they arrive or not. If anyone should be interested in the news/uucp-packege for the ST, he may send me a mail, or, for the above mentioned reasons, tell it here. -Rod -- Rodney Volz - 7000 Stuttgart 1 - FRG ============> ...uunet!mcsun!unido!gtc!aragon!merkur!rodney <============= rodney@merkur.uucp * rodney@jolnet.orpk.il.us * rodney@aragon.uucp \_____________ May your children and mine live in peace _______________/ ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 90 00:01:04 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!nuug!ifi!gille!larserio@tut.cis.ohio- state.edu (LarsErikOsterud) Subject: Virus questions Message-ID: Yes, there are link-viruses on the ST Over here in Europe there are several. The AVK or VDU virus killer checks for link-viruses too... They can destory/conteminate ALL the files on a hard-disk in a few secs !! Nasty things !!!! Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 90 02:32:26 GMT From: dsl.pitt.edu!pitt!cuphub!kar7481@PT.CS.CMU.EDU (Dan Karbowsky; Cal.Univ.of PA-USA; AtariEliteOfPittsburghPA:bbs=(412)384-5609) Subject: Word Perfect STUDENT DISCOUNT Message-ID: <6451@cuphub.cup.edu> In article <5873.263811fd@uwovax.uwo.ca>, 35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: > In article <879@ncs.dnd.ca>, balkwill@ncs.dnd.ca (R. J. Balkwill) writes: > >> Now if only the price were to come down a little... >> --- >> Bob > > There should be a student price on Word Perfect at about $200... > > -- > Kevin-john Conway > ...a librarian from hell... > > School of Library and Information Science > University of Western Ontario > London Canada > "...deviants from the norm..." > > > 35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca > conway@uwovax.bitnet > kjc@uwovax.bitnet -- If you call WP corp. I believe you WILL find that a Student-Discount IS STIL IN EFFECT......(someone correct me if I'm wrong) I believe it was someting like $89.00!!! +--------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ !Dan Karbowsky kar7481@pitt!cuphub! S U P P O R T T H E S T ! ! ! ! !102 Lee Drive __________________/ Call the ATARI ELITE of PITTSBURGH'S ! !Belle Vernon, PA / BBS (Forem-ST,fnet node 19) at (412) 384-5609 at 300 ! !15012 U.S.A. / thru 19.2k baud 24 hrs./day 7-days/week!! ! ! / **** WE NOW SUPPORT USRobotics 38.4k/ARQ PROTOCOL !!!! ***! !(412)929-4023 /---Also--Now the NEW H.Q. of the Atari-Users-Association--- ! ! / For more info, send email TITLED "AUA-INFO-REQUEST" ! +-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #493 *****************************************