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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Thu, 26 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  477
 
Today's Topics:
 
                   Almost all the goodies are gone
                      Anonymous FTP help needed
                         Atari USA and TOS1.4
              personal finance program for Atari ST512 ?
                           Reg. Exp. Parser
                    yet another feature of TOS 1.4
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 90 14:30 EDT
From: <RJOHNSON%CEBAFVAX.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject:
 
     I really hate to beg, but since the net is my only good source of info on
Atari related subjects, ( there is no dealer within 100 miles, and the local
bookstores don't even carry the ST magazines) could some of you PLEASE!
provide answers ( even if the answers are that there is none/its impossible/I'm
crazy for even thinking about it ) to any of my questions? This is my third
posting of this, with only one response so far, and I'm really getting
desperate! Email to me OR to the net, as I have discovered from the 'if you
find it, let me know too' responses I have gotten that there is some
general interest in answers to the following questions.
 
     1) Is there any software for the ST that can convert DEGAS, NEO, CAD-3d,
or ANY of the ST picture formats into HPGL and/or DXF files OR HPGL and DXF
to an ST format?
 
     2) Can someone recommend a good X-Y type plotter for the ST? Preferably
capable of color and able to handle HPGL files? Addresses and/or telephone
numbers in North America would be appreciated.
 
     3) Has anyone been able to successfully install the Hewlett-Packard
version of MS-DOS on a hard disk so that you can boot from it with the software
version of PC-DITTO? Does anyone know a phone number for Avant-Garde that is
not always busy or a recording? Does anyone have a GT-1000 5.25" drive that
WORKS with their ST?
 
                             BITNET:   RJOHNSON@CEBAFVAX
                             INTERNET: RJOHNSON%CEBAF2.DNET@SURAGATE.CEBAF.GOV
                             DECNET:   44507::RJOHNSON
                             Reality:  Rick R. Johnson
                             =================================================
 
     P.S. Can anyone tell me what the Atari Developer's Defense Group ( or
something like that ) is? I saw it mentioned in a recent START letters column
and wondered what it is, how one might join, etc...???
 
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Date: 26 Apr 90 04:36:02 GMT
From: cs.yale.edu!pekowsky-larne@CS.YALE.EDU  (Larne Pekowsky)
Subject: Almost all the goodies are gone
Message-ID: <23944@cs.yale.edu>
 
Almost everything I was selling has been taken - I tired to respond
to everyone, but my apologies to anyone I missed.
 
Anyway, the only thing left is the Magic sac.  Granted, this is no spectre;
it runs less sofware, doesn't do sound, and is currently unsupported, but
there is plenty it can do, and it's a very cheap way to get about 60% of
a mac. $40 + shipping, or best offer over $20 takes it (the ROMs alone
cost more then that!)
 
 
Larne Pekowsky
pekowsky@yale
pekowsky@Yale-Sun3-Nebula
CIS: 73715,1552
 
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Date: 90/04/20 14:15 MESZ
From: Thomas Neser <So01%Dmarum8.BITNET@forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Anonymous FTP help needed
Message-ID: <9004251814.AA01018@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>
 
Dear netters,
1) could anybody mail me please inexes of the following archives?
a) tolson.oulu.fi b) ummts.cc.umich.edu c) umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
d) wuarchive.wustl.edu e) dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu f)jyu.fi
g) rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de h) sol.cs.ruu.nl
i) terminator.cc.umich.edu
2) Does anybody know other places with ST-Software?
Thanks in advance
Thomas Neser <so01@dmarum8.bitnet>
 
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 08:47:56 BST
From: Mr. Stephen Culshaw
 <XUUM24%PRIME-A.CENTRAL-SERVICES.UMIST.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Atari USA and TOS1.4
Message-ID: <$TGQCDCFVBXXN at UMPA>
 
To anyone at Atari USA - Can you tell me why Atari UK are so slow in
releasing TOS 1.4 ?
I and a number of friends have seen comments flying around on the nets
for months now but still nothing seems to be happening in the old UK.
 
Anyone else have any ideas how to get it - would a 'non-UK' version
work ie. could I mail order one from a supplier in the states?
 
Does anyone know i) where to get a copy of Gemini 1.1 and ii) if it
works with the old version of TOS in my Mega - a friends got a new STe
and we had a quick play with version 1.0 - very nice, especially the
movement of the dialog boxes using the blitter. My it almost made my
wish I had a blitter in my Mega - whatever happened to the blitters
that Megas were meant to have in them?
 
Steve C.
 
 
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Date: 25 Apr 90 23:19:55 GMT
From: genesis.Eng.Sun.COM!rayc@sun.com  (Ray Chan)
Subject: personal finance program for Atari ST512 ?
Message-ID: <134854@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
 
Is there any personal finance management program for an Atari ST512 with
a hard disk ? Can someone please make recommendation. Thanks.
 
Ray.
 
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Date: 25 Apr 90 18:11:55 GMT
From:
 swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!water!
 ljdickey@ucsd.edu  (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Reg. Exp. Parser
Message-ID: <1990Apr25.181155.6592@water.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <2317@onion.reading.ac.uk> djd1@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (David Dawkins)
 writes:
>
>    Can anyone tell me where I can find a PD regular expression parser ?
 
Yes
--
    Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
        ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
        ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca     ljdickey@water.bitnet
        ljdickey@water.UUCP             ..!uunet!watmath!ljdickey
 
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Date: 26 Apr 90 05:34:55 GMT
From: silver!kclenden@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (Kevin Clendenien)
Subject: yet another feature of TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <43155@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
 
In article <1669@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>Yet another "feature" of TOS 1.4.
>
>I use wildcards in desktop.inf to display only part of a folder.
>I find that two such, as in P*D*.prg does not work.  OK, so I'm limited
>to one *.
>Now I find that 2*.prg works, listing only programs starting with 2.
>BUT, *2.prg, which should find programs inding in 2, like pcditto2.prg,
>list none of these; but does list pc_d.2 !
>
>Now that is a feature!
>
I don't know for sure, but I would assume that the wildcards in
TOS 1.4 were designed to work like those in MSDOS.  If that's the
case, then everything you mentioned is a feature.  When using the
'*' as a wildcard, it means fill the rest of this portion of the
file name with '?'.  The file name consists of two portions,
the name, and the extension. So:
P*.PRG really means P???????.PRG
*2.PRG really means ????????.2
 
You can only use one '*' in each portion of the file name
because it means fill the rest of this portion with '?'.
A '?' means to accept any character as a match.  So:
?2*.PRG would match A2.PRG and A2A1.PRG, but not A1A2.PRG
BA?IC.* would match BASIC.PRG and BA1IC.TXT, but not VASIC.PRG.
 
Your example of *2.PRG sits on the dividing line.  On the one
hand you have the '*' which says to fill this portion of the
file name with '?', but you also have the '2' on the left
side of the period, which is meaningless, since the '*' has
already filled out this portion of the file name.  So, either
the '2' should be ignored, or it should be used as the match
for the extension portion of the file name.  TOS 1.4 chose the
latter method.
 
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kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu                          Kevin Clendenien
BLAST BBS - (812) 332-0573                                BLAST, President
               "I want someone like you, only nicer."
 
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 11:18:30 BST
From: Barry Moody <MT04%LIVERPOOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Message-ID: <9004251814.AA01014@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>
 
I'm trying to join an ATARI discusion/software archive group, hopefully
on EARN/BITNET.
 Can you help?
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