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Info-Atari16 Digest Vol. 90 Issue 159
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INFO-ATARI16 Digest Mon, 5 Feb 90 Volume 90 : Issue 159
Today's Topics:
MicroEMACS 3.10...thanking Steph
MicroEMACS 3.10 Cursor/Bell
PANARTHEA ADDRESS DIFFICULTIES (NEW?)
The 'PHANTOM TYPIST' (2 msgs)
where can i get TeX/ST ?
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Date: 5 Feb 90 19:33:19 GMT
From: bucsb!harryk@CS.BU.EDU (Harry Karayiannis)
Subject: MicroEMACS 3.10...thanking Steph
Message-ID: <251@bucsb.UUCP>
(Since my mail to Stephen Jacobs keeps bouncing, i reply through the net)
Steph, thanks a lot for your information...but what do you mean it's not
stable? Do you refer to the comparison between ver 3.10 and ver 3.9 1/4,or
you compare it with another implementation of EMACS for micros?
I just didn't understand whether you consider ver 3.9 1/4 to be stable or not
IMHO ver 3.9 1/4 is good enough(i admit it's slow while reading or writing to
the drive, but,perhaps it's due to the fact that it uses the UNIX-like function
fwrite() and fread(), instead of the BIOS ones: Fwrite() and Fread()...I don't
know for sure, though)
Anyway, it has some other neat features (like C-mode for .c and .h files, sup
ports MWC's and Personal PAscal's enviroments + a lot more) and thus I can live
with its slow drive-access. Does ver 3.10 support all of the features of ver
3.9 1/4?
I would like to thank you again, and if you have the time please reply this
message too!
Take care!
HARRY KARAYIANNIS
3rd Year Computer Science
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
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Date: 5 Feb 90 17:20:00 GMT
From: voder!pyramid!athertn!alex@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Leavens)
Subject: MicroEMACS 3.10 Cursor/Bell
Message-ID: <17815@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Chris Lilley writes about the 'Bong!' in MicroEmacs 3.10.
You haven't configured it correctly. I had this going for a while too,
and it was annoying as you know what. Then I read the manual. MicroEmacs
3.10, unlike earlier versions, is a _GEM_ program, so if you're running
it from a CLI, you have to do something like:
"GEM .../path/emacs.prg <file>"
in order to run it correctly. If I recall, you also have to
INSTALL it as a GEM application from the desktop. Can't recall
right off the top of my head, though. Read the docs (yeah, I
realize that they're huge.), it's mentioned in there somewhere.
BTW, MicroEmacs 3.10 is _great_! (Supports the mouse and a whole
bunch of other stuff.)
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|--alex | alex@Atherton.COM | Caution! Falling Opinions, next 6 miles |
| "Ha! That's it! Hold it right there!.....(Pronoun trouble)!" |
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Date: 5 Feb 90 21:50:00 GMT
From:
swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!grapevine!koreth%panarthea.ebay.sun.com@
ucsd.edu (Steven Grimm)
Subject: PANARTHEA ADDRESS DIFFICULTIES (NEW?)
Message-ID: <35224@grapevine.uucp>
In article <900204.15173008.021770@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252)
writes:
> For the past few months I've been successfully getting files from
>ARCHIVE-SERVER%PANARTHEA%CHROME@Sun.COM.
That is a really old address. You should be using
archive-server@panarthea.ebay.sun.com
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" !" - Marcel Marceau
Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.?sources,binaries?.atari.st
koreth@ebay.sun.com ...!sun!ebay!koreth
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Date: 5 Feb 90 19:02:32 GMT
From: prism!warningm@cs.orst.edu (MICHAEL WARNING)
Subject: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
Message-ID: <15500@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
In article <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252)
writes:
>
> There has been an increasing amount of talk about the 'phantom
>typist' on the ST, in which the computer appears to slow down and
>whatever characters are stored in the keyboard buffer, appear, albeit
>slowly. Some programs which have keyboard commands, such as WordPerfect
>can have work saved when you see this happen by pressing the save file
>command, typically <S>. It may occur a minute later (!!!! grrr) but it
>will occur.
> [...]
I had a similiar problem on my Mega... The only difference was that
the characters were appearing <very> quickly in the keyboard buffer. The
fix was to open the keyboard and put some shielding between the boards in
there, apparently some leads were touching or something. I could also
(sometimes) fix it by unplugging the keyboard for a second and replugging it.
I'm not sure if this is the same problem that your encountering, but it may
be similiar...
Mike Warning
warningm@prism.cs.orst.edu
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Date: 5 Feb 90 17:13:58 GMT
From: voder!pyramid!athertn!alex@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Leavens)
Subject: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
Message-ID: <17814@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Regarding the phantom typist and hunting it down...
The TSR Newbell.prg (which replaces the bell on the Atari with
digitized sound playback) seems to make this bug happen fairly
frequently; all you need to do is pop up the 'About GEM' dialog
box from the desktop, click on anywhere _but_ the OK button, and
wait for the sound to stop playing. About 1 in 4 times, you'll
get multiple playbacks of the sound, followed by a whole series
of keyclicks (the phantom typist!). As soon as you press a key,
the typing stops.
Since Newbell uses the timer A vector, might something be going on
there?
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|--alex | alex@Atherton.COM | Caution! Falling Opinions, next 6 miles |
| "Ha! That's it! Hold it right there!.....(Pronoun trouble)!" |
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Date: 5 Feb 90 16:48:11 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!uniol!wahlers@uunet.uu.net (Claus Wahlers)
Subject: where can i get TeX/ST ?
Message-ID: <1677@uniol.UUCP>
Hi.
Can anyone tell me the way to get those five TeX-disks (adress, price..) ??
Does TeX run on a Meg1 ST with two doublesided disks ?
thanks in advance
Claus.
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Date: (null)
From: (null)
To: info-atari16
Subject: external drive
I am attempting to connect a home-brew external disk drive to my 1040
with little success.
Parts used. Case with power supply.
Floppy cable bought from Best Electronics.
NEC FD1037A 3.5 floppy drive.
I am 99% certain I have the wires properly connected as listed below
1040 Drive
1 -- 30
2 -- 32
3 -- 3
4 -- 8
5 -- 10
6 not connected
7 -- 7
8 -- 16
9 - 18
10 -- 20
11 -- 22
12 -- 24
13 -- 26
14 -- 28
I stepped the ribbon cable to a db37 to make it look custom and
verified the wire placement with an ohm meter to make sure every-
thing matched.
The NEC has a four position dip next to its' 34 pin out and I have tried
it in all four positions and found no improvement.
When I power up with the external connected and turned on, only the
A drive responds and it does not recognize any data on the disk
( a window opens as A with 0 files. This disk has files on it).
If try to open drive B it asks for a disk for drive A as drive B. It
stills refuses to recognize any data. If I disconnect the external drive,
A responds properly.
I am missing something? I do not know if I need some more parts in the
loop or if I just have something wired improperly.
HELP!!!
Please respond to me directly, I don't get the digest. Thanks!
Norm Frech ( frech@MWRAAA.ARMY.MIL )
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