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Info-Atari16 Digest Vol. 89 Issue 407
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"
uunet|pyramid|rutgers !cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy
Be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 13:43 CDT
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
From: Gordon Meyer
<TK0GRM1%NIU.BITNET@UICVM.uic.edu>
Subject: re:multi-tasking
>How about dowloading a file to one drive, formatting a disk
>in the other, and editing some text at the same time.
I do exactly that on my ST already! Using SHADOW and Mystic
Formatter (both by Double Click Software) it's a piece of
cake.
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 16:02:37 EDT
From: Brian Holmes <BHOLMES%WAYNEST1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Stadel 3.3
To: Atari Newsgroup <INFO-ATARI16@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU>
I just FTPed all the Stadel 3.3 files to terminator.cc.umich.edu
They are in atari/new/stadel . I just thought I'd let everyone
know they are there.
Brian Holmes
CSC Operating Systems & Communications
SNAIL : Wayne State University, 5925 Woodward, Detroit MI 48202 U.S.A.
BITNET : BHOLMES@WAYNEST1
INTERNET : Brian_Holmes@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
UUCP : UMIX|ITIVAX !WAYNE-MTS!BRIAN_HOLMES
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Date: 16 Aug 89 20:41:48 GMT
From: zodiac!weaver!rlee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Richard Lee)
Subject: Re: C.E.K.A.
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
In article <114@bdt.UUCP> bms@bdt.UUCP (Vance Chin) writes:
|[James McHugh] will tell some pretty TALL tales, one was that he was
|doing some work for the National Security Agency and that he sold 500
|(yes 500) ST's to them as smart crypto terminals.
Now _that's_ a good trick, since "Agency Standard Terminals" are IBM PC
AT's and XT's.
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Date: 15 Aug 89 11:34:36 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!axion!fulcrum!chrisl@uunet.uu.net (Chris Parkin Lilley)
Subject: GEM/VDI/Window programming
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
Oops, forgot to include my email address for replies. Here it is...
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Chris Parkin Lilley, CS1.2, | JANET: chrisl@uk.co.bt.fulcrum
B.T. Fulcrum, | ARPA: chrisl@fulcrum.bt.co.uk
Fordrough Lane, Bordesley Green, | chrisl@cat.uucp
Birmingham B9 5LD, UK. | Phone: +44 21 771 2001 ext 5673
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Date: 15 Aug 89 11:28:45 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!axion!fulcrum!chrisl@uunet.uu.net (Chris Parkin Lilley)
Subject: Atari GEM/VDI programming
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
Hello AtariLand,
I am about to embark on the writing of a fairly major piece of programming on
a 1040 ST with Mark Williams C (I think). I am writing a windowing application
which will also have to gather data from the ST serial port.
Can anyone recommend
a) a good introductory text on programming, particularly the serial
interface and the windowing features,
b) a good reference work for the same features
Thanx in advance,
Chris Parkin Lilley
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Date: 15 Aug 89 20:40:53 GMT
From: asuvax!hrc!gtephx!covertr@handies.ucar.edu (Richard E. Covert)
Subject: Re: Latest version of PageStream?
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
In article <1605@cod.NOSC.MIL>, jensen@cod.NOSC.MIL (Layne K. Jensen) writes:
> I have the version of PageStream that was released toward the end of 1988,
> the first really "usable" version. (I don't have the disk with me at the
> moment, so I can't give the numerical version number.) I use it occasionally,
> but the more I do the more frustrated I become with the bugs.
>
> Can someone tell me the number of the latest version? I haven't received
> any word from SoftLogik about availability, but I recently saw a message
> on the network that made me think there may be a newer one.
>
> I've been giving SoftLogik the benefit of the doubt since the days of the
> original Publishing Partner, but it's beginning to wear thin. If there has
> been an upgrade sometime in the last six months or so, what are the terms?
>
A couple of things about Softlogik. First, SL is a very small company
and they have always had a bad reputation when it comes to Publishing Partner
or PageStream (PgS). The last,offically released, version of PgS was 1.52.
SL is working on a version of PgS for the Amiga, but I don't know much about
it. My feeling is that PgS for the ST is pretty much dead. I use Calamus, which
has much better support. There are rumors of 'beta' versions, up to 1.59, being
tested. In fact, I read in ST REPORT about a custmoer out in San Diego who got
1.59 by mistake. The folks at SL accussed him of piracy when he asked SL about
it.
Another, I read an article about SL. It seems that a disgruntled (to put
it mildly (-( ) sent a mail bomb to SL after he was fired!! The SL people called
the Police, who disarmed it. I have to admire those police officers! I have no
idea
why or who the former employee was.
If you can get an account on GEnie you can get more info, and leave questions
to SL.
rec
