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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 17 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  453
 
Today's Topics:
                              'POOLFIX4'
                   Atari ST->MAC->IBM compatibility
                   DIY UUCP in UK (I love initials)
                         GEM to PS converter
                     Have you had yours>>>s ????
                     Info request on rumoured TT
                               New GDOS
                             TOS 1.4 info
                       UltraScript help needed
                 World ST penpals list (5th posting)
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 12:40:02 MSZ
From: ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Julian Reschke)
Subject: 'POOLFIX4'
Message-ID: <9004170940.AA00571@freya.dmswwu-ether>
 
MFAGKCHR%HMARL5.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU writes:
>
> However, *I THINK* I know why CBHD redirects TRAP #1. With this driver
> you can boot from all harddisk partitions. Which means that:
>
> 1) All auto folder programs are read from the boot partition
> 2) The same goes for the ACC's
> 3) And for the DESKTOP.INF
>
> 4) If you save the desktop it is saved on the boot partition.
>
> The latter is new in CBHD 3.5. Formerly the desktop.inf was allways saved
> on C. I think Claus had to redirect the TRAP #1 vector to make this possible.
> Is there another way?
 
Of course:
 
1. Ignore the problem.
2. Write a stand-alone auto folder utility for those people who REALLY
   need such things.
3. Add a 'save desktop.inf' option to an already existing DA (as I did
   for my harddisk software).
 
By the way: what about 'patching' CBHD and calling it CBHD 3.6??? This
would be the same thing Claus did to Allan Pratt and his Poolfix...
 
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Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241
eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, "Julian Reschke" @ MAUS MS  (++49 251 77216)
____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________
 
 
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Date: 17 Apr 90 16:30:24 GMT
From:
 dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!bucc2!mrsmart@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Atari ST->MAC->IBM compatibility
Message-ID: <56200004@bucc2>
 
I am considering buying a new computer this summer (I have an Atari 400 now).
 
I would like to know exactly how compatible you can make an ST
with Macintosh and/or IBM.  I know it is possible to run some
softwares, but exactly what can and cannot you do with the
emulators.  Also, I plan to go shopping in the Chicagoland area,
and where would be the best place to go looking for an entire
ST system at good prices.
 
Thanks......
Rob Knautz
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mrsmart@cc2.bradley.edu
mrsmart@bucc2.UUCP
bucc2!mrsmart@bradley.UUCP
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 14:50:45
From: "Simon Chappell" <S61304%PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: DIY UUCP in UK (I love initials)
 
On a subject totally (almost) seperate from the ST list I am constructing!!
 
Does anyone anywhere (but preferably the UK) know anything about setting up
your own UUCP site on either an ST or (horrors!) another type of machine!?
 
When I finish college I would like to have a crack at getting set up, as
I shall be in a highly paid job and looking for ways to spend my money (wife
permitting! :-)
 
Regards,
 
Simon
 
 
| Simon Chappell
| BSc(Hons) Computing and Informatics (final year)
| Polytechnic South West (Plymouth)
|
| JANET      S61304@uk.ac.psw.pa     BITNET   S61304@pa.psw.ac.uk
| INTERNET   S61304%uk.ac.psw.pa@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
| /* Please do not send Email via the uk.ac.ukc gateway, as my college
|    hasn't paid their fees, so we don't get any Email through there   */
 
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Date: 17 Apr 90 12:32:05 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!laura!heike!klute@uunet.uu.net  (Rainer Klute)
Subject: GEM to PS converter
Message-ID: <2106@laura.UUCP>
 
Such a converter is in the panarthea archive. Look for gem2ps.
 
  Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute      klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
  Univ. Dortmund, IRB             klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet
  Postfach 500500         |)|/    ...uunet!mcvax!unido!klute
D-4600 Dortmund 50        |\|\    Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
 
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 14:47:03
From: "Simon Chappell" <S61304%PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Have you had yours>>>s ????
 
Netters,
 
As many of you may now have realised, I am in the process of trying to
construct a list of ST users around the world, so that those of us who
will soon have no Email access can still keep in touch!
 
On this point I would like to ask all those who have posted to me asking to
join the list to repost to me if they have not received a copy of the list
to this date (17th April 1990) as I have just distributed an updated version!
 
All other volunteers to join the list are, of course, welcome!
 
Regards,
 
Simon.
 
 
| Simon Chappell
| BSc(Hons) Computing and Informatics (final year)
| Polytechnic South West (Plymouth)
|
| JANET      S61304@uk.ac.psw.pa     BITNET   S61304@pa.psw.ac.uk
| INTERNET   S61304%uk.ac.psw.pa@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
| /* Please do not send Email via the uk.ac.ukc gateway, as my college
|    hasn't paid their fees, so we don't get any Email through there   */
 
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Date: 17 Apr 90 16:17:07 GMT
From: bsu-cs!mseidle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (Mike Seidle)
Subject: Info request on rumoured TT
Message-ID: <11081@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
 
        Well, whats this Atari TT buisiness I keep hearing about ?
I hear that it runs Unix (if so who's and what ver), has vga equivilent
graphics, and is dirt cheap.  Could some one fill me in on this beast
before I loose my cool and go out and buy an Amiga ?
 
Thanks in advance
 
mike
 
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Date: 17 Apr 90 14:20:50 GMT
From:
 pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan!ggreenbe@t
 ut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Gerald Greenberg)
Subject: New GDOS
Message-ID: <2987@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
 
I just read in the April 1990 issue of Current Notes (this is
in the ST Update article) that Atari will be releasing a new
version of GDOS...The article on page 11 says that "Atari is
totally redoing GDOS and may issue it as soon as this summer."
I was just wondering if anybody knows anything about this,
and/or what are the ramifications of a new GDOS?  For example,
I was hoping to buy G+Plus soon...but should I wait for a new
version that is will be more like the newer version of GDOS?
Will programs that use GDOS now, e.g. WordUp, be able to
handle the new GDOS?
 
I guess the stock answer to some of these questions would be:
If the new GDOS is compatible with the original, and if
programs handle the current GDOS in a "legal" manner, then
everything will be OK.  But are there other things to
consider?...I just don't know that much about these things.
 
If this has already been discussed extensively, I guess
there's no need to post to the net, and you can email me
directly.  Otherwise, posting to the net will be just fine.
 
One last thing...notice that this is the April issue of
CN...is there any possibility that this is an April-fool type
thing.  I am being serious when I say I have no idea...it is
so hard to tell what is going when it comes to matters like
this.  Thanks.
 
--Gerry
 
 
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Date: 17 Apr 90 16:18:03 GMT
From:
 snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan!jfbruno@tut.cis.ohi
 o-state.edu  (John F. Bruno)
Subject: TOS 1.4 info
Message-ID: <2988@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
 
In article <596@opus.NMSU.EDU> jficklin@nmsu.edu (Jim Ficklin) writes:
 >
 >Here is a brief summary of "Rainbow" TOS 1.4 features:
 >  [ Some features deleted ]
 >3.  MOVE FILES -- You can now MOVE as well as COPY files.  To do a MOVE,
 >    first mark files just as you would for a COPY.  Then hold down
 >    [CONTROL] key while you drag the files to the destination.  TOS
 >    1.4 will first copy the files to the destination, then delete them
 >    from the source -- all in one operation.
 
Don't tell me they screwed up again!!! What if I have a volume with
10K free and I want to move a 20K file into a folder?!?! Doesn't it just
modify the directory entries instead of actually copying the folders?
Seems kind'a silly to require a disk to have (2x)K free just to move a
file that is (x)K bytes long, right?
 
 > [ More deleted ]
 >Jim Ficklin, KRWG-TV at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
 
---jb
 
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Date: 17 Apr 90 16:30:28 GMT
From: dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec@uunet.uu.net
Subject: UltraScript help needed
Message-ID: <16000057@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
 
        Could someone who uses UltraScript on hard disk mail me their
        set up... I followed the manual, but I still get a
 
        %% Lucida not found, switching to Courier %%
        %% illegal command: get %%
        %% skipping to eof %
 
        With no output.
 
        Just a list of folders would be nice.  I can't understand it.
 
        Thanks a lot,
 
                -- Greg
 
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 14:39:17
From: "Simon Chappell" <S61304%PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: World ST penpals list (5th posting)
 
To *ALL* Atari ST owners worldwide!
 
Are you interested in becoming involved in a snail mail list of ST
users? I know that most of you will be like me and quite happy using
the Email facilities at your site, but spare a thought for us final
year students who will soon be losing all access to such facilities if
the company we join has not got network links!! (Arrgghh, too horrid to
consider!). So to get around this I was wondering if any of you would
like to help me get a list together of interested parties who could then
keep in touch and prevent themselves losing touch with the ST community
at large (this would be especially easy if someone who still had net
access could summarise current topics or forward news and advice!)
 
I'm not thinking of anything major league for the entries on the list,
just sort of name, address, interests and optionally a few lines about
yourself.
 
eg     Simon Chappell.
       s61304@uk.ac.psw.pa (goes away after June)
       51 Amherst Road, Penny-Come-Quick, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 4HJ. UK.
       C, operating systems (UNIX, VMS) & relational databases.
 
This would be roughly what my record would read, so if you are interested
compose something for yourself along the above lines (you can have 5 lines
of text about your self if you want! :-) and send it to me either by Email
(until June) or at the above address (anytime). I am working now on a list
for the UK and when both lists are complete I will Email a copy to everyone
that wants one.
 
I hope that this generates a reasonable level of interest, so don't be shy!
Contact me sooner rather than later and lets all keep in touch! :-)
 
Regards,
 
Simon
 
| Simon Chappell
| BSc(Hons) Computing and Informatics (final year)
| Polytechnic South West (Plymouth)
|
| JANET      S61304@uk.ac.psw.pa     BITNET   S61304@pa.psw.ac.uk
| INTERNET   S61304%uk.ac.psw.pa@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
| /* Please do not send via the uk.ac.ukc gateway, as my college has
|    not paid its fees and hence do not get Email from them! :-(     */
 
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