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Info-Atari16 Digest         Thu,  6 Jun 91       Volume 91 : Issue 318

Today's Topics:
                           `pretty goo' ???
                    Booting in 50Hz mode (2 msgs)
                    Fleet Street Publisher 3 fonts
                       G++ for ST, where again?
                            lharc (2 msgs)
                         Man w/ pipe (2 msgs)
                     More than 4 Meg ?? (3 msgs)
                  New version of BASH 1.05 for MiNT
                          Price of MultiGem
                               ps files
                           Re: Man w/ pipe
                      Reading IBM and ST disks.
                         Requirements for g++
                             Spectrum 512
                           System for Sale
                             Umich atari
                      Using BART for large files

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Date: 6 Jun 91 16:47:36 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.ed
 u!cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash!timbuk![e-mail] (Marc Bouron)
Subject: `pretty goo' ???
To: [e-mail]

Does this guy have serious finger trouble, or what?  I meant to say
`pretty good too'.  And it's only Thursday...

[M][a][r][c]

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Date: 6 Jun 91 12:41:30 GMT
From: noao!ncar!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu![e-mail] (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Booting in 50Hz mode
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Stephen Harold
 Goldstein) writes:
>I'm trying to view a couple of demos from the archives at umich, and
>am having some problems - they seem to load fine, but
>the screen starts 'rolling' immediately - I assume I need to put my system
>in 50Hz mode, but the following 'fixes' also from the archives ALSO make the
>screen roll (before the demos load):  hertz.arc, swaphz.arc, 50hzboot.prg
>
>I've got a Mega 4 running U.S. TOS 1.4.  Any suggestions?

You need to adjust your color monitor.  I had to when I first bought my
machine, and have not had to since (so you should not have to do it every
time you switch Hz).  However, others have stated that they did not have
as much success.  It does not hurt to try though.  There are a couple of
marked plastic pot screws embeded in the back of the monitor.  Find the
v-hold one and turn (ONLY use a plastic TV screwdriver, and be careful).

>Stephen Goldstein     [e-mail]
>My first Atari system? A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, C(not G)TIA graphics
>Disclaimer:  That's not what I said.

Wow, me too.  I bought my first computer in 1979, and it was a 16k Atari 800.
Best damn computer they made (I still miss the keyboard feel).

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             Mickey R. Boyd          |  "Kirk to Enterprise.  All clear
          FSU Computer Science       |      down here.  Beam down
        Technical Support Group      |      yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ."
      email:  [e-mail]  |
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Date: 6 Jun 91 17:11:26 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!asdsun.larc.nasa.gov!klassa@ari
 zona.edu (John Klassa)
Subject: Booting in 50Hz mode
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Stephen Harold
 Goldstein) writes:

                        ... stuff deleted ...

>You need to adjust your color monitor.
>Find the
>v-hold one and turn (ONLY use a plastic TV screwdriver, and be careful).

                        ... stuff deleted ...

>--
>    ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
>             Mickey R. Boyd          |  "Kirk to Enterprise.  All clear
>          FSU Computer Science       |      down here.  Beam down
>        Technical Support Group      |      yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ."
>      email:  [e-mail]  |
>    ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------

When I bought my ST (in '87), I was disappointed by the quality of the color
monitor I received (I'd seen a friend's ST & color monitor -- one of the
original ones that was nice and crisp).  Soon thereafter, I took the back off
of the monitor & proceeded to adjust every pot in sight, hoping that I could
get it to look like my friend's.  Needless to say, I got everything all out of
whack...  I managed to get it looking decent again, but have always wondered
if it's adjusted the way it should be.  Can anyone offer suggestions on how
to check my adjustments -- rules of thumb, and the like?  Perhaps a color bar
program...  That sort of thing...

Thanks in advance...
John Klassa
CS Graduate Student, College of William and Mary
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 17:28:10 WET DST
From: "Ian McCall (Scorpion)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fleet Street Publisher 3 fonts
To: [e-mail]

Does anyone know where I can get any PD fonts for this? Or if I can use
genuine Postscript fonts at all? All information appreciated.



Cheers,
        Ian McCall ([e-mail]1)

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Date: 6 Jun 91 15:58:05 GMT
From: otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!ghiggins![e-mail] (Graham Higgins)
Subject: G++ for ST, where again?
To: [e-mail]

++ I have tried repeatedly over the last week to ftp to this site, but it
++ is unresponsive.

Just another depressing instance of "It's not what you know, but who you know

;-)

++ Alternately, could some kind soul who has a working connection to the
++ uni-koeln site upload the stuff to atari.archive?

Done. It's on atari.archive, in
inc++.lzh. I haven't managed to track the lib++ down yet though.

Graham
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Date: 6 Jun 91 17:51:38 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.u
 iuc.edu!vela![e-mail] ( EVENSONG)
Subject: lharc
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Thomas Quester) writes:

>I have fixed that problem in LZH 1.13.20

>Alle vier Jahre ist ein Maikaeferjahr und alle vier Jahre ein Schaltjahr.
>(Net)

Why doesn't someone send a copy to atari.archive.umich.edu?  Or send me
a copy at [e-mail] and I will see that it is sent to
the proper location.

swood

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Date: 6 Jun 91 18:41:48 GMT
From: convex![e-mail] (William Rosencranz)
Subject: lharc
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Thomas Quester) writes:
>If you send me a disk and the stamps you'll receive the LZH 1.13.21 or
>a newer version. The bugs you described are fixed at 1.13.20.

months ago i started a debate on the (current) weakness of lharc. since
then, it seems nothing has changed: MANY people still have compatibility
problems (at least 10 articles complaining in the last month). and still
we bicker over pennies (i can get bulk DSDD disks for $0.39US each).

and now we have yet another potentially incompatible version, with a
new version numbering scheme. why can't you guys who write these
versions get together and decide on a standard already? i say "potentially"
incompatible because i have not used it nor read its docs. but where
lharc is concerned, it is safe to expect the worst :-(. and the terminator
guys and steve grimm should be on that "committee", too, so we at least
try for compatibility (already). sheesh...

oh well...

-bill
[e-mail]
(i NEVER use lharc :-)

BTW: i am pleased to see compressed tar files appearing :-). hint, hint...
the .taz file is the wave of the future! now if only GEMDOS could support
file.tar.Z naming...
--
Bill Rosenkranz            |UUCP: {uunet,texsun}!convex!c1yankee!rosenkra
Convex Computer Corp.      |ARPA: [e-mail]

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Date: 6 Jun 91 14:06:33 GMT
From:
 noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.ed
 u!ira.uka.de![e-mail] (|S| Florian Dingler)
Subject: Man w/ pipe
To: [e-mail]

Hi folks!

I wonder if anyone knows who the man smoking a pipe is. You know, the one you
find in the ATARI-ST charset with the codes 28-31 or so. Is he just a little
joke or a special person or what ?
Please write followups, no mail.

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Date: 6 Jun 91 16:15:45 GMT
From: spacsun.rice.edu![e-mail] (Brian D. Moore)
Subject: Man w/ pipe
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (|S|
 Florian Dingler) writes:
|> Hi folks!
|>
|> I wonder if anyone knows who the man smoking a pipe is. You know, the one you
|> find in the ATARI-ST charset with the codes 28-31 or so. Is he just a little
|> joke or a special person or what ?
|> Please write followups, no mail.

     Hey buddy, that's Bob Dobbs, leader of the Church of the Sub-Genius.
Slack off! Quit your job!  Send your money to Bob!!

Repeat after me...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
Bob...
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Date: 6 Jun 91 10:47:06 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!warwick!nott-cs![e-mail] (Dave Gymer)
Subject: More than 4 Meg ??
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Graham
 Higgins) writes:
>[stuff about 'what to do with >4meg' deleted]
>Try CScheme --- it takes 2.5 Mb (itself!) just to see the intro text. If you
>actually want to *do* anything (even in 4Mb) you have to forget about MGR, et
>al. and run it direct from the DeskTop (gasp).

I think GNU SmallTalk is similar. It does seem strange that Atari limited the
machine like this. Surely it wouldn't have been much more work to allow the
MMU to address the full 16 meg that the 68k can? At least it's better than
the Amiga A500 (1 meg max!).
--
/* 'Grave' Dave Gymer --------- Internet: [e-mail] *\
+* 42 St Marys Park, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 0EF, England *+
+* Olivier's Law:    "Experience is something you don't get *+
\*-------------------------- until just after you need it." */

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Date: 6 Jun 91 15:21:36 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail] (Roger Sheppard)
Subject: More than 4 Meg ??
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dave Gymer)
 writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Graham
 Higgins) writes:
> >[stuff about 'what to do with >4meg' deleted]
> >Try CScheme --- it takes 2.5 Mb (itself!) just to see the intro text. If you
> >actually want to *do* anything (even in 4Mb) you have to forget about MGR, et
> >al. and run it direct from the DeskTop (gasp).
>
> I think GNU SmallTalk is similar. It does seem strange that Atari limited the
> machine like this. Surely it wouldn't have been much more work to allow the
> MMU to address the full 16 meg that the 68k can? At least it's better than
> the Amiga A500 (1 meg max!).
> --
> /* 'Grave' Dave Gymer --------- Internet: [e-mail] *\
> +* 42 St Marys Park, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 0EF, England *+
> +* Olivier's Law:    "Experience is something you don't get *+
> \*-------------------------- until just after you need it." */

There was some thing posted here , was it last year from a German
chap, that could bank switch the rams to give , was it 6-8 megs, but I
could be wrong, I could still have the Posing stuck on a follopy some where,
if I remember gave details on how to do it.
but a still can't see how you can refresh the rams.
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***  85 Donovan Rd          *  *   At least I don't Flicker, not     ***
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Date: 6 Jun 91 18:11:49 GMT
From: noao!ncar!gatech!udel!brahms.udel.edu![e-mail] (Donald R Lloyd)
Subject: More than 4 Meg ??
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dave Gymer)
 writes:
>MMU to address the full 16 meg that the 68k can? At least it's better than
>the Amiga A500 (1 meg max!).

     There are plenty of third-party expansion devices to take the A500
to as much as 9 megs; you just can't get such devices from Commodore.


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  is spoken   fork() be      Amiga Student On-Campus Consultant, U of D
    here.     with you.      DISCLAIMER:  It's all YOUR fault.

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Date: 6 Jun 91 11:03:56 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!warwick!nott-cs![e-mail] (Dave Gymer)
Subject: New version of BASH 1.05 for MiNT
To: [e-mail]

I've just finished a new version of MiNT-BASH 1.05. Question is, do people
want me to post the binary to atari.archive or will the diffs (from the
original (but patched) distribution) suffice?

The new version has the follow advantages over Eric Smith's original port:

        o It's about 30k smaller (not much :-( )
        o It doesn't die if given a 14 char filename (Minix partition)
        o You can now put a hostname in PS1/PS2 prompts (I call my machine
                tiny68)
        o It doesn't appear to suffer from the bug afflicting both BASH
                and ksh which causes them to send themselves SIGSTOP at a
                random point in time. (I haven't found the bug, though.)

If anyone wants any other particular features, nows the time to say so. :-)
--
/* 'Grave' Dave Gymer --------- Internet: [e-mail] *\
+* 42 St Marys Park, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 0EF, England *+
+* Olivier's Law:    "Experience is something you don't get *+
\*-------------------------- until just after you need it." */

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 20:27:42 WET DST
From: "Ian McCall (Scorpion)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Price of MultiGem
To: [e-mail]

Someone said they saw an advert for MutliGem. Does this mean it's
actually out NOW, or is it yet another 'send us your money and it'll be
out sometime, perhaps...' type job? And how much is it?


Cheers,
        Ian McCall ([e-mail]1)

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Date: 6 Jun 91 15:12:20 GMT
From: pa.dec.com![e-mail] (A.S. Turnbull)
Subject: ps files
To: [e-mail]

Does anyone know of a way to convert a picture format (Degas for
example) to postscript format? I have looked through atari.archive but
have found nothing. Perhaps I'm missing it, but could someone point out
where I can get hold of something like this please? Thanks for any help
you can give.

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Date: 6 Jun 91 17:25:00 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve@a
 rizona.edu (Steve Yelvington)
Subject: Re: Man w/ pipe
To: [e-mail]

[In article <[e-mail]>,
     [e-mail] (|S| Florian Dingler) writes ... ]

> I wonder if anyone knows who the man smoking a pipe is. You know, the one you
> find in the ATARI-ST charset with the codes 28-31 or so. Is he just a little
> joke or a special person or what ?
> Please write followups, no mail.

Bob is indeed a special person, being the revered icon of the Church of the
Sub-Genius.

Speaking of cutting some slack, I flipped through the cable television
channels the other night and caught the last minute or two of a half-hour
Bob special. I don't know what channel it was; we have too many to keep
track of.

 ----
 Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / [e-mail]

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Date: 6 Jun 91 12:59:08 GMT
From: noao!ncar!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu![e-mail] (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Reading IBM and ST disks.
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
 writes:
>I remember hearing that START magazine had published information on how
>to make disks formatted on the ST (?) so that they can be read on IBM
>compatibles as well as the ST.  This was supposed to be done by altering
>three bytes somewhere on the disk.  Do any of the readers know of this
>information?  I tried looking back through what issues I have of START but
>couldn't find the info and am afraid that it is in an issue I have not
>bought.

A much easier way is to use a formatter that does it for you.  Most programs
that offer formatting do (including the hardcoded one in TOS 1.4).  For a
quick solution, ps2form.tos from atari.archive.umich.edu works for me.  It
will format disks so they can be read by any IBM compat (including the ps/2,
which for some reason has more trouble that others).  I have been using it
for about 3 years with no problems.  Also, Neodesk 3.0 formats to IBM specs,
as does (I think) Universal Item Selector III.
--
    ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
             Mickey R. Boyd          |  "Kirk to Enterprise.  All clear
          FSU Computer Science       |      down here.  Beam down
        Technical Support Group      |      yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ."
      email:  [e-mail]  |
    ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------

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Date: 6 Jun 91 16:39:27 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash
 !timbuk![e-mail] (Marc Bouron)
Subject: Requirements for g++
To: [e-mail]

Hi People,

Simple question time: do I need gcc if I want to use g++?  Having forked out the
dosh on Lattice C v5 (pretty goo, BTW) I'd rather not have to get another C
compiler :-)

Cheers,

[M][a][r][c]


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Date: 6 Jun 91 12:31:23 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail] (Roger Sheppard)
Subject: Spectrum 512
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
 writes:
> Anyone who know how I can make my Spectrum 512 work on my MEGA STE
> It dooesn't work on standard STE's either...
>
> Who distributes Spectrum 512 these days ?
> The old adress and fax-number to Electric distribution doesn't work :-(
>
>  Lars-Erik  /  ABK-BBS [phone]  /   ____ ______ ________________________
>   Osterud  /  [e-mail]  /   /___    /            The norwegian ST
> __________/ ______________________/   ____/   /   Klubben,  user association

Well you could try the firm that makes it, Trio Engineering,,
But I think that Spectrum was replaced with Unispec, now Unispec II,
if I remember,
It has the option to copy other sceens to Unispec (Sectrum), can run as
a ACC.
I would like to find out my self if they are still supporting the
Atari computers, ?.
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***  Roger W. Sheppard        *    [e-mail]  ***
***  85 Donovan Rd          *  *   At least I don't Flicker, not     ***
***  Kapiti New Zealand..    *     like a dying light globe. !       ***

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Date: 5 Jun 91 20:06:21 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu
 !paul.rutgers.edu!njin!njitgw.njit.edu!tesla.njit.edu![e-mail]
Subject: System for Sale
To: [e-mail]

My friend has the following for sale:

520 St computer
External DS Drive
Color Monitor
Atari 20 Meg Hard Drive

-He does not read the newsgroup, and my account expires in a few days.  If
interested CALL HIM at 908-276-5447 - His name is Mike.

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Date: 6 Jun 91 17:50:30 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.
 ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ysub!psuvm!dearn!dmswwu1c![e-mail]
 (Ulrich Kuehn)
Subject: Umich atari
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mike
DeMetz) says:
>
>Anyone know what happened to [e-mail] server?
>I have gotten no reponse to requests in about 2 months.

atari.archive is now at 141.211.164.8

U.Kuehn

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Date: 6 Jun 91 18:17:51 GMT
From:
 noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!
 ncratl![e-mail] (Chris Scullion)
Subject: Using BART for large files
To: [e-mail]

I've been trying to retrieve the file 'printing/gsbin.zoo' with BART, but I
never get a response.  I've gotten plenty of other files with BART, so I
believe I'm using it correctly and I've checked the spelling many times.  I
think that the fact that this is a large file (605K, according to the Index)
may be the problem.  Assuming that this file's size is greater than the daily
retrieval limit with BART, and that I don't have ftp capability, does anyone
have suggestions on how I can get this file?

Thanks.
--
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