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Info-Atari16 Digest Wednesday, August 23, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 407
This weeks Editor: Bill Westfield
Today's Topics:
Xanth Demos
awk and MT C-Shell
Re: My last comments about ST multitasking
re:multi-tasking
Stadel 3.3
Re: C.E.K.A.
GEM/VDI/Window programming
Atari GEM/VDI programming
Re: Latest version of PageStream?
Towards a real, somewhat compatible multiTASKING TOS
Re: Multitasking on the ST
QUESTION ABOUT USING SPECTRE WITH COLOR MONITOR
QUESTION ABOUT SEAGATE HARD DRIVE
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Date: 16 Aug 89 13:46:30 GMT
From: brett@umd5.umd.edu (Brett Bourbin)
Subject: Xanth Demos
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
Does anyone know of an archive that has the sources to the old
Xanth Park graphic demos? I noticed in one STart issue, they had an article
about the Atari Fuji demo and said that source was available. Thanks.
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Date: 16 Aug 89 15:25:20 GMT
From: ogccse!blake!bissiri@husc6.harvard.edu (Moja Fritzah)
Subject: awk and MT C-Shell
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
Has anybody gotten beyond the bus error running
awk under MT C-Shell? Perhaps my 1 meg ST isn't enough...
though I have over 360k+ remaining after the shell is installed.
awk works fine in GULAM.
-kevin
bissiri@blake.acs.washington.edu
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Date: 16 Aug 89 16:57:43 GMT
From: cbmvax!daveh@rutgers.edu (Dave Haynie)
Subject: Re: My last comments about ST multitasking
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
in article <8908160401.AA01009@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg
Csullog) says:
> Look, I can format floppies from within all my ST applications,
But you have to either have the Format command available as a desk accessory
(don't know if it's possible?), or each individual program must worry about
including a disk format option. Certainly if that's important to the market,
most will, but it's still something a program's author shouldn't have to
worry about -- debugging the real application should occupy all their time.
Plus, when I format a floppy, I can click back to my WordProcessor or
Terminal or whatever else I have running, while the format takes place.
> I can run a word processor, a spreadsheet and a painting program at the same
> time and switch between them.
But you can't have the word processor ask the data base to find you client
files, extract some data, pass it to the spreadsheet, generate a color
image, then pass that to the paint program for conversion to black and
while, before being inserted into your word processor. You need several
programs active for that kind of interaction.
> BUT, when I want to crank out dbMAN reports from my databases (one is
> almost 4 megabytes), I don't want to slow down my 68000 by using another
> application at all. I want the dbMAN stuff out asap.
DataBase stuff is often disk intensive. If my DB program is thumbing through
100 megs of database to prepare a report, I'll likely have lots of CPU time
left for other stuff.
--
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests"