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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 26 Dec 89       Volume 89 : Issue  862
 
Today's Topics:
                 How to get to panarthea.ebay.sun.com
                        LHARC source and UNIX
               Malloc on 2.5 Meg 1040stf - help needed
           Pagestream 1.8 and the HP Paintjet Color Printer
                      TOS 1.4 Incompatibilities
                          Unexpandable megas
                    Usenet messages on CIS, GEnie
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 89 11:43:48 PST
From: escd!es56!karl@decwrl.dec.com (Karl Rowley)
Subject: How to get to panarthea.ebay.sun.com
Message-ID: <8912261943.AA26911@es56.escd.uucp>
 
Can someone tell me the numeric Internet address for panarthea.ebay.sun.com?
I have the address 192.9.203.56 but that doesn't work.  I looked in the
NIC database and panarthea.ebay.sun.com is not listed there.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
                                Karl Rowley
                                Evans and Sutherland Computer Division
                                1808 N. Shoreline Blvd.
                                Mountain View, California, USA
                                escd!karl@decwrl.dec.com
                                ...!amdahl!escd!karl
 
 
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 0:48:53 MET
From: LarsErikOsterud <larserio@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: LHARC source and UNIX
Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.630719333.larserio@kyrre.uio.no>
 
I have both ARC and LHARC on my BBS (to PACK and download new mail) and
95% of my users use LHARC.  99% og the uploaded files are LZH-files !!!
 
 Lars-Erik  /  ABK-BBS +47 2132659  /   ____ ______ ________________________
  Osterud  /  larserio@ifi.uio.no  /   /___    /            The norwegian ST
__________/ ______________________/   ____/   /   Klubben,  user association
 
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Date: 26 Dec 89 14:30:39 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzaz!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (HC Johnson)
Subject: Malloc on 2.5 Meg 1040stf - help needed
Message-ID: <897@lzaz.ATT.COM>
 
In article <1055@dutrun.UUCP>, hans@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Hans Buurman) writes:
>
>
> This linker uses gemdos call 0x48 (Malloc) at least twice for
> each file read. It appears that this call can only be issued
> some 300 times, after which it fails, regardless of the amount
> of free memory.
 
I had this problem using MWC.  There is a real Malloc() call to get space
for malloc() to distribute.  Since there is a real limit on how many
times you can call Malloc, I found that
MWC has a variable that changes the size of the chunk each Malloc() asks
for.  I find the free space, divide it by 32, and tell malloc to ask for
that much each time it does a Malloc(). (in MWC the variable is
_aclicksize).
 
 
Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
att!lzaz!hcj
hcj@lzaz.att.com
 
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Date: 26 Dec 89 22:09:34 GMT
From: att!cbnewsj!rcd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (rana.c.dutt)
Subject: Pagestream 1.8 and the HP Paintjet Color Printer
Message-ID: <3032@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
 
I've been using Pagestream 1.8 with the HP Paintjet printer for a few
days now. This combination has opened up a completely new dimension in
ST computing for me: high-resolution color desktop publishing.
 
Pagestream can import all resolutions of Degas and Neochrome files, and
print them with their color palettes intact. It can even import IFF format
files containing Amiga ILBM/HAM pictures with hundreds of colors, and they
come out in their full spectral glory at 90 dpi. At this resolution the
Paintjet offers up to 330 colors using a 2 x 2 dot dithering scheme per pixel.
 
With Pagestream, you can also draw object-oriented drawings, and assign each
object a color from the default set (which includes colors like cyan, etc).
Although you will not see the full range of these colors on screen (you
can map only a couple of them in medium-rez), they will print out correctly and
brilliantly on the Paintjet. Thus, creating purple triangles, orange pentagons,
and complicated grouped objects in color is a breeze.
 
Pagestream also has fantastic text capabilities, since it uses outline fonts
and comes with a set of serif, sans serif, and artistic fonts. Needless
to say, text can be assigned colors as well.
 
Summary: for the ST, this is one heck of an impressive color DTP system.
 
P.S. If you would like to see good-quality color printouts of any of your
     ST files (Degas, Neo or IFF format), send me email (rcd@mtqua.att.com).
 
I have no affiliation with Softlogik or HP other than as a user of their
products.
 
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Rana Dutt               PALINDROME: Doc, note I dissent. A fast never
rcd@mtqua.att.com                   prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
 
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 89 11:31:35 EST
From: Stephen Harold Goldstein <steveg@SAIC.COM>
Subject: TOS 1.4 Incompatibilities
Message-ID: <8912261631.AA04656@SAIC.COM>
 
Add Mark Williams' CSD (source level debugger) to the list of
software incompatible with TOS 1.4.  It comes up with something like
"TOS version dated 04061989 unknown" and terminates.
 
I haven't had a chance to contact them on the availability of an
update yet.  Anyone know of one, or why they'd explicitly not allow
their code to run on a new TOS version? Highly illegal calls made
perhaps?
 
---
Stephen Goldstein     steveg@saic.com
My first Atari system? A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, C(not G)TIA graphics
Disclaimer:  That's not what I said.
 
 
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Date: 26 Dec 89 13:22:26 GMT
From: fox!portal!cup.portal.com!R_Tim_Coslet@apple.com
Subject: Unexpandable megas
Message-ID: <25392@cup.portal.com>
 
In Article: 17472@rpp386.cactus.org
        mark@rpp386.UUCP (Mark Lehmann) Writes:
>
>Now, what about for Atari.  I hardly see people refer to much other than TOS.
>But, at least we don't have the TOS only stereo type.
>
>I have seen TOS, DOS, MINIX, OS/9, C-SH, Apple MAC OS, and CP/M run on the
>ST, and do it well.
>
>Kind of interesting trivia.  Does anyone have any other operating systems to
>add to the list?
 
Yes, I would like to add the UCSD p-System (or as its current vendor, Pecan
Software, prefers to call it the "Power System").
 
I run it all the time (under NeoDesk), and am in the process of developing
GEM libraries for UCSD Pascal.
 
Last I heard they had even developed a NEW p-machine interpreter for it that
will permit access to the entire memory space (not just 64K + codepool as the
old one did). But I don't know for sure... I am still using the old one.
 
                                        R. Tim Coslet
 
Usenet: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
BIX:    r.tim_coslet
 
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Date: 26 Dec 89 17:47:43 GMT
From: samsung!soleast!turner@think.com  (James Turner)
Subject: Usenet messages on CIS, GEnie
Message-ID: <57@soleast.Solbourne.COM>
 
jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) writes:
 
>In article <2327@sactoh0.UUCP> mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark F. Newton) writes:
>>Hmm. Alot of traffic on comp.sys.atari.st screaming, pleading,
>>apologizing, etc, about the posting of Usenet articles on GEnie.
>>
>>From what I have read, a majority of the posters disliked the idea
>>very strongly, that Usenet messages appear on a pay service, that
>>is, a one-way link- Usenet on GEnie, but nothing from GEnie to
>>Usenet.
 
>     This is a long standing problem and we've been wrestling with
>it on BIX.  If I can blow our horn a bit, at least on BIX we *care*
>about how people feel about moving messages from Usenet to BIX.
>I've shared messages from 'rec.arts.anime' with some specific people
>on BIX, but I've only made general postings of things on special
>occasions and usually with specific approval by authors.  You people
>must realize that there are specific *commercial* Usenet nodes
>around, don't you?  Actually, I've long felt that it was improper to
>post *anything* on the Net which was not FULLY PUBLIC DOMAIN.  This
>has nothing to do with legality, but simply a recognition that the
>Net exists because the NODES PAY FOR IT.  Since every node contributes
>effectively to everyone else on the Net, how can you justify stopping
>anyone on the net from making the fullest possible usage of anything
>that you post to it?  If you've been following 'comp.os.os9' you'll
>know that *every* program I have posted to Usenet which was my own
>work over the years has been declared fully public domain.  Nor do
>I restrict any other postings I make which are my own work (not that
>most people care about whether I declare my opinion messages as
>public domain or not :-).
 
As Managing Sysop of the SF & Fantasy Roundtable on GEnie, I had to respond
to the implied remarks above regarding GEnie.
 
The SFRT has never carried any Usenet material that I did not explicitly
clear with the author or moderator beforehand.  I am very respectful of
the personal rights of the Usenet authors. If and when a Usenet gateway to
GEnie is available, the policies I apply to it will depend a great deal on
how the gateway is technically implemented
 
Quite frankly, I really don't NEED 1E6 new messages coming in over the
net.  I've already got more message traffic than I can handle just from
the regular users.  A lot of my users would like an EMAIL gateway, and
I'd be all for that.
 
>     But this leaves me with a problem:  If people are doing this on
>Compuserve and Genie, then BIX may be at a competitive disadvantge
>because I've been the "good guy".  So maybe I should change my practice
>and start posting a digest of 'rec.arts.anime' on BIX?  I don't know.
>How do you people feel about this?
 
Do you really think you're going to get a consensus on this?  You could
ask "Should I go around killing babies?" on Usenet, and you'd get opinions
on every side of the spectrum.  Frankly, Usenet is it's own worst enemy,
because it is almost impossible to reach consensus of any kind on non-binary
decisions.
 
If you want to port over the message traffic here, it's between you and the
users here.  For the moment, I've I consider it more effort than it's worth
compared to the more interesting projects I'm working on.  I MAY contact
folks about individual articles of merit, but that's between me and the
author, and the rest of the net has no say in the matter.
 
James Turner
Managing Sysop
SF & Fantasy Roundtable
GEmail: SF
 
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