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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Mon, 23 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  470
 
Today's Topics:
          (1) OCR experiences? (2) EMACS/shell capabilities?
          Atari Mono & Color Monitors Sound Levels Different
                          Fax for the Atari?
                      GEMINI TRASHDIR & CLIPDIR
      Possible to Have BACKGROUND IMAGE on Desktop like in Macs?
                    Request: Head Parking Software
                 Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
                         UUCP implementation
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Date: 23 Apr 90 20:15:51 GMT
From: hp-pcd!hplsla!andyc@hplabs.hp.com  (Andy Cassino)
Subject: (1) OCR experiences? (2) EMACS/shell capabilities?
Message-ID: <5440115@hplsla.HP.COM>
 
|
| Am I missing something?  Why not use the "me" that comes with Gulam?
| It supports the "~Z" to suspend an editing session.
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|     Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
 
Well, one thing I've found is that the "me" built into gulam has difficulties
with large files (>100K or so). I've found microemacs to be considerably more
reliable - and faster.
 
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Date: 23 Apr 90 21:12:13 GMT
From: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!ia4@rutgers.edu  (Imran
 Anwar)
Subject: Atari Mono & Color Monitors Sound Levels Different
Message-ID: <1990Apr23.211213.592@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
 
:-(
 
Not only were the colors on my previous and present color 1224 mintors
different enough to require changing all my control panel settings on
all disks but also the maximum volumes on my new 1224 and 124 monitors are
worlds apart....
 
The mono can be barely heard while the color one's beeps arealmost clanks
at max volume!
 
The least Atari can do is make things consistently (bad :-)  )
 
Imran
 
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 22:18:36 EDT
From: "Hiscocks, Peter" <FCTY7284%RYERSON.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Fax for the Atari?
Message-ID: <90Apr23.212539edt.57516@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
 
Anyone in Netland have any experience with Fax for the ST? One of my
 students asked if he could submit an assignment by Fax, so I guess
 I have to start taking this seriously.
 
Rather than buy a stand-alone fax machine, it seems to make sense, for the
 limited occasions I'll be using it, to use a computer based fax card and
 external scanner. That way, the scanner could be used for desktop
 publishing as well.
 
The one lead I have for fax machines that work with the ST
 is a firm named Telefax, (thanx to Mark at Atari Canada for that lead)
 but I'm a bit leery of using something that doesn't have local support,
 and this machine is not (to my knowledge) available in Canada. Also, the
 dealer was busy vacuuming when Mark phoned, and asked him to phone back
 later. Doesn't exactly sound like a major corporation....
 
So the alternative (he said, putting on his asbestos suit) is to put
 a fax card in my new MS-DOS clone, currently used as the world's largest
 EPROM burner. This is attractive because there is a 9600 baud fax card
 for the MS-DOS world, for $275 Cdn. (Frecom FAX96 card, recently reviewed
 in 'The Computer Paper', out of Vancouver). One could then sneakernet
 files between the Atari and the MS-DOS machine. I assume this would
 work for outgoing ASCII files, but it requires that there be some way
 to convert the fax bitmap on receive to something the Atari can show. The image
 card can work with are .TIFF, .PCX or .FAX format.
 
 
The Questions (finally):
 Has anyone out there got FAX to work on the Atari (Mega2 in my case)?
 Are there programs to convert from some Atari image format (Degas would
  be convenient) to something a fax can send?
 
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Date: 23 Apr 90 17:24:00 GMT
From: dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec@uunet.uu.net
Subject: GEMINI TRASHDIR & CLIPDIR
Message-ID: <16000060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
 
        Gemini users... can someone who has successfully redirected
        TRASHDIR and CLIPDIR please tell me how?  I have the setenv
        directives in mupfel.mup e.g. "setenv TRASHDIR 'F:\TRASH'", but
        it still puts trash in C:\GEMINI\TRASHDIR.  hmmm.
 
        -- Greg
 
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Date: 23 Apr 90 21:16:05 GMT
From: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!ia4@rutgers.edu  (Imran
 Anwar)
Subject: Possible to Have BACKGROUND IMAGE on Desktop like in Macs?
Message-ID: <1990Apr23.211605.22151@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
 
Hi. I was wondering if it is possible to have a picture or image in the
background instead of the dull desktop?
 
I have seen such stuff on the Macs....so obviously it should be available on
a better machine like the ST :-)
 
Imran Anwar
 
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Date: 23 Apr 90 23:49:16 GMT
From: jensen@cod.nosc.mil  (Layne K. Jensen)
Subject: Request: Head Parking Software
Message-ID: <1883@cod.NOSC.MIL>
 
Does anyone out there have software to park the heads of a floppy disk?
I need it for a 5.25" add-on disk drive.  Because of the faster step rate
in effect at boot time, if the heads aren't at track 0 the heads don't move,
the computer doesn't sense the track 0 signal, and comes to the conclusion
there is no drive there.  Then, even when the step rate is changed to the
correct value, it's too late.
 
I don't have any documentation on how to write a program to do this or to
tell the computer that the drive is really present.  Any help is appreciated.
 
Layne Jensen                           jensen@nosc.MIL
Naval Ocean Systems Center             ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen
San Diego, CA
--
Layne Jensen                           jensen@nosc.MIL
Naval Ocean Systems Center             ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen
San Diego, CA
 
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Date: 23 Apr 90 19:33:59 GMT
From: portal!atari!apratt@apple.com  (Allan Pratt)
Subject: Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
Message-ID: <2167@atari.UUCP>
 
ski2@milton.acs.washington.edu (Chris Kacoroski) writes:
>In article <1401@opal.tubopal.UUCP> alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
>writes:
>>My RAM TOS 1.0 (GEMDOS V0.21) also clobbers files with Dcreate () !
>>Also the ROM TOS 1.0 in all machines at FU Berlin's physics department.
>I tried the posted program on a 1040st with TOS 1.0 in ROM and it did
>clobber files with the same name as the directory I was trying to
>create while returning successfully.
 
What is your (collective) point?  I didn't say this didn't happen in
original TOS (1.0), just that it's not in GEMDOS 0.23!  And it's not.
 
This is even documented: Rainbow TOS Release Notes, August 7, 1989,
page 37:
 
        "Attempting to Dcreate a directory with the name of an
        existing file will return EACCDN.  Previously, it would
        delete the file, then create the directory."
 
What threw me was the original subject line, saying this bug was in
GEMDOS 0.23 (Which is Rainbow TOS's GEMDOS).  It's not there, and it's
documented as a change, and the previous, undesired behavior is also
documented.
 
If your subsidiary doesn't make the Rainbow TOS Release Notes document
available with TOS 1.4, you should take it up with them.  It's part of
the developer's package in the USA.
 
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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: 23 Apr 90 06:53:52 GMT
From: mcsun!cernvax!chx400!fatcat!acadch!impch!subch!wopr!marc@uunet.uu.net
 (Marc Balmer)
Subject: UUCP implementation
Message-ID: <31@wopr.UUCP>
 
SA44@liverpool.ac.UK (Kevin Maguire) writes:
 
>Yeah, Minix CAN run UUCP. Well UUPC to be exact, is what I've had working.
>                                     .... You can even create a uucp
>log in for other people so that they can get their news and mail from
>your ST!!!!!
 
For OS-9/68000 which is source code compatible to UNIX(tm) a complete
UUCP/News/Mail implementation exist and works really nice. E.g. I m using
NN to post this message.
 
UUCP fort OS-9 is part of the TOP Distribution.
 
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