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- @5{CROSS DOS TUTORIAL
- @6}by Slade / PTK
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- [7
- Introduction:@1
- WorkBench 3 only, as it involves the use of CrossDos. (See Workbench 3.0 -
- Chapter 7.)
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- This text file can also be used with Messysid, although I don't have any
- experience with the program. It should be available from most PD libraries.
- The following article was wrote by SLADE - PTK. It is a tutorial on how to
- transfer text and graphics to the PC and Arche. Good Luck !!
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- Well I am currently sitting at my
- keyboard and have just played a game
- of Klondike (Yeah sad, I know). I am
- wondering what type of article to
- write for the wonderful diskmag -
- Beyond Sanit-E. Any Clues!?!? There
- are always the ones about the scene,
- piracy and "My computer's better than
- your computer!". But these do get
- extremely boring.
-
- Instead I'm going to show you how to transfer graphics and text to the
- computers that we all use in school. Yes, the Arche. "Why?", I hear you
- shout. Well the fact is that you can collect up all of those Grapevine
- articles and transfer them. Then spend all your free lessons using the
- school's brand new laser printer to print them all out. The same goes for
- IFF's although this is a bit harder.
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- The following is on how to transfer text:
-
- First you must make sure that all text is in uncrunched ASCII format.
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- 1. Load Workbench. (God! I'm lost already.)
- 2. If you wish to have "PC0:" active all the time, copy it from
- Storage/DOSDrivers into Devs/DOSDrivers. Otherwise just double click the
- icon in Storage/DOSDrivers. It is now active until you reboot.
- 3. When a disk is inserted into "DF0:" you should now get two icons. One
- called "DF0:" and the other "PC0:".
- 4. Format a blank disk using the "PC0:" driver.
- 5. Create the text that you want to transfer.
- 6. Go to the "Save As" option and click on "PC0:".
- 7. Enter a filename and then click on "Save".
- 8. Go into school.
- 9. Load a word processer on either the Arche or PC.
- 10. Select "Load Document" from the "File" menu.
- 11. Make sure that you have ASCII text selected.
- 12. The document should now load.
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- * If using the above procedure on an Arche it is easier to load the text file
- into Edit before loading it into any other program. (e.g. Impressions)
-
- * You can transfer text, even to a PC, by just using the disk you copy the
- text to on a PC. Remember to select "Read ASCII Text" when using a program
- such as a word processor.
-
- There that wasn't too hard, was it?
-
- Now on to the graphics.
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- I have spent the last five years using the process below to print out my
- pictures on a colour inkjet printer and at no cost. I currently only know how
- to transfer graphics to the Arche, but I believe it's easier to transfer them
- to the PC. All the pictures must be in IFF.
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- 1. Follow the instructions above and mount the "PC0:" driver.
- 2. Copy the IFF picture on the "PC0:" disk.
- 3. A number of Arche programs are needed for this. You will need the
- following programs if you are using a RISC OS 2 machine, otherwise
- RISC OS 3 reads the disk as normal. The programs are PCDir or MultiFS.
- 5. They should be available from any Arche PD library but if you send me a
- jiffy, the return postage and a disk I will send you them.
- 4. I will also send you an Arche program called Translator. This program is
- needed by both machines to resettype the graphics once transferred.
- 5. Full instructions are given on how to use Translator with the package.
- But a basic understanding of Arche command line procedures is really
- essential.
- 6. Please remember that Translator, PCDir and MultiFS are shareware and I
- hope that you will support the authors.
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- If you need any help then just write to me. Address should be in the adverts
- page.
-
- If I get enough replies I will do another tutorial on the use of Translator and
- it's brother program - Creator which would, of course, be in a future issue.
-
-
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- [Hope Slade won't mind me adding a few additional comments down here. Firstly,
- remember you can use Cross DOS on WB2.0 machines (even the version straight off
- the WorkBench 3.0 disk). Regarding the conversion of graphics to PC's, you
- will need some sort of file converter. While the Amiga generally uses IFF as
- it's standard graphics save format, PC's have a wide range of file formats.
- Therefore you need to convert the file from IFF to a PC-compatible format.
- This could be the BMP type for example which is used in the Microsoft Draw
- utility (I won't say art package coz it's too shyte to earn that sort of
- title!). There are various programs and many art packages that are now able to
- save in alternative formats to IFF.
- Anyway, I`ll probably do an article in the next issue where I can go into this
- in a little more depth. Meanwhile, if you're looking for a GFX converter
- program check out "Transition". It was on an Amiga Format coverdisk a few
- months ago. zYLAX!]