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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri,  8 Dec 89       Volume 89 : Issue 775
 
Today's Topics:
                            Absoft Fortran
                           GCR vs. Mac Plus
                        How to read PC format?
                       LYNX Development System
                      Problem with Uniterm 2.0e
                        TOS 1.4 -- thanks!!!!
                       tv show and the Mega ST
                           Zmag & STReport
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Date: 8 Dec 89 08:48:28 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!nikhefh!t19@uunet.uu.net  (Geert J v Oldenborgh)
Subject: Absoft Fortran
Message-ID: <582@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
 
In article <891207024528.958022@DMZRZU71-UNI-MAINZ--GERMANY>,
 Ritzert@DMZRZU71.BITNET writes:
> Well, do You really have a library manager with a script command? Mine
> doesn't have one.
>
> If You want to use a common block only in some subroutines You have to
> declare it in Your main program. Otherwise You will get unpredictable
> results.
>
> Michael Ritzert
 
Ad 1). An input redirection from a decent shell should do the trick
       (my makefiles do something like 'echo "a $whatever" > aap;
       f77lib lib < aap')
 
Ad 2). This is as defined in the Standard, though Absoft seems to be the
       only one taking the liberty.  The 'SAVE' option might work, I always
       have a main program with all common blocks which just calls the former
       main as a subroutine.  Much easier debugging too.
 
New ). I cowrote a little linker for Absoft which is ?30 times faster than
       theirs and does not have the EXTERNAL bug.  It is commandline oriented
       because I use 'make' all the time.  The only feature lacking is support
       for BLOCK DATA in libraries.
       Would there be interest in this as a shareware product?
 
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh,
NIKHEF-H
 
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Date: 06 DEC 89 18:56:56 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: GCR vs. Mac Plus
Message-ID: <891206.18562778.024049@SFA.CP6>
 
ERIC HOBBS writes:
 
"       I have heard in circles that the Spectre GCR is faster than a 8MHz Mac
Plus. Just how much faster is faster? I you can, maybe you could give me some
benchmarks for comparison. Thanxs."
 
    No benchmarks here, but I can tell you that SuperClock is off by
about eight minutes after the Spectre has come on-line in a one hour
period.  By being off, I mean that it is eight minutes too fast.  I
wish that Dave could fix that, but it does impress MACers who wonder
why my clock is always running fast.
    Secondly, a good demo which shows how much faster Spectre GCR is
than a real Mac is Aldus's FreeHand self-running demo.  After one
minute, the Spectre is about four pages ahead of a real Mac plus
equipped comparably, i.e., memory, hard drive, etc.
    Also, putting a Mac Plus and Spectre equipped ST will reveal that
the Spectre offers a snappier screen.  No doubt about it, the Spectre
is just faster.
 
Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
 
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Date: 7 Dec 89 19:58:46 GMT
From: imagen!atari!apratt@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Allan Pratt)
Subject: How to read PC format?
Message-ID: <1866@atari.UUCP>
 
PMR2@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>What differences are there between TOS and PC-DOS 3.5" disk formats?  What do
>I need to do to read files from an IBM disk?
 
Ideally, the answer is "zero: there is no difference."  In practice, you can
always read PC disks on ST's, but you can't always read ST disks on PC's.
 
This assumes that the disk is readable at all on the ST: PC 1.44MB
disks aren't.  Use a format which gives 720K or less.
 
>Also, can anyone out there tell me what the differences between pc-ditto and
>pc-ditto II are? (Besides $225, of course.)
 
PC Ditto I is all software: the 68000 runs a program which attempts to
do all the same things as an 8086 and some PC hardware.  It's like a
BASIC interpreter, only it's an 8086-machine-code interpreter.
 
PC Ditto II is hardware: there's actually an 8086 out there to execute
the 8086 instructions.  The ST is used for I/O: disk, screen, keyboard,
serial, parallel, etc.
 
(All this from a man who's never used either product...   Informative,
I hope, but not authoritative.)
 
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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily     -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.      ...ames!atari!apratt
 
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Date: 7 Dec 89 18:41:00 GMT
From: inmet!hedger@uunet.uu.net
Subject: LYNX Development System
Message-ID: <30200030@inmet>
 
Where did you get this little tidbit ????
 
 
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Date: 7 Dec 89 18:47:00 GMT
From: inmet!hedger@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Problem with Uniterm 2.0e
Message-ID: <30200031@inmet>
 
Addendum:
 
Currently, the way I recover from this is to move the mouse until the
'I' cursor appears, click the right mouse button, select reset.
This resets the terminal and puts me back in the right mode.
 
I am using a Mega2 ST, stock, with a Megafile 30 HD and a color monitor.
 
 
 
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| Keith Hedger :  ?...!?uunet!inmet!hedger   hedger@inmet.inmet.com |
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Date: 07 DEC 89 10:17:00 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: TOS 1.4 -- thanks!!!!
Message-ID: <891207.10164882.024842@SFA.CP6>
 
Hello all,
 
    With all the flack and so forth that I've been reading concerning
TOS 1.4... maybe I'm doing something wrong--EVERYTHING WORKS!  Thanks
to Ken and the others who are and were involved in the TOS 1.4 project.
After having it now for about three weeks, I'm shocked as to how much
faster and snappier my ST.  I positively *love* how much faster memory
'drains' from this four megged monster of mine after a power off.  Turning
on the ST under 10 seconds after a power-off results in a clean system.
It used to take nearly a minute before.  MANY THANKS!!!
    File backups are easier with the archive bit installed.  THANKS!!!
    /AUTO/ multiple program pre-loads just flat haul.  THANKS!!!!
    All in all, from a "Joe End User" point of view, I feel like I
have a totally different machine.  It's speed is amazing to me and I only
have one program out several that is 'broken', that is, Blood Money.  I
just can't get it to work but I blame that on Psygnosis's stupid and
idiotic copy protection scheme.
    To Ken, Alan, and John, and the many others involved...thanks for
a great job.  If only Atari's customer relation department would march
to the beat of your drum...
 
Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
 
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Date: 06 DEC 89 19:21:33 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: tv show and the Mega ST
Message-ID: <891206.19213238.024049@SFA.CP6>
 
FLASH!
 
    I just saw on the television the sitcom, Growing Pains.
In plain view of everyone, was a Mega ST during an office scene.  Wow!
Gee.  Revolution???
 
Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
 
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Date: 8 Dec 89 08:38:08 GMT
From: stan!katmandu!stevem@uunet.uu.net  (Stephen Matson)
Subject: Zmag & STReport
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.083808.25332@Solbourne.COM>
 
  After just having changed Jobs I need an address to get my
  subscription back on-line.
 
                     Anyone........?
 
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 E-mail == stevem@Solbourne.COM
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