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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri,  1 Dec 89       Volume 89 : Issue 736
 
Today's Topics:
              HELP! inaccessible file within ARChive ...
                        Help with Uniterm 2.0e
                      How can I get more memory?
                looking for a portable 68K C compiler
                Still searching for a TIMECLOCK cart!
                               TOS 1.4
    Where to find software (was Re: "kneecapping" and TOS piracy)
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Date: 1 Dec 89 08:30:14 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!puzzle!khijol!erc@tu
 t.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Edwin R. Carp)
Subject: HELP! inaccessible file within ARChive ...
Message-ID: <347@khijol.UUCP>
 
In article <10148@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
 writes:
>
>and really only a minor problem for some determined person to decrypt.)
 
Oh, really?  Would you like to post the program to decrypt an ARC file?
Thank you!
 
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Date: 1 Dec 89 06:32:56 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!mark@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Mark Lehmann)
Subject: Help with Uniterm 2.0e
Message-ID: <17388@rpp386.cactus.org>
 
Aaron,
  I have noticed problems with Uniterm 2.0e also.  The only way to get
unstuck from the dialer is to press and hold down Alternate-H until the
program runs out of retries.  The modem will freak out while this is
happening, but it will accomplish the goal.
 
  The problem is so frustrating that I don't use automatic redial when using
Uniterm.
 
Mark Lehmann
 
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 89 16:15:35 MEZ
From: Theo Schmid <UZR514%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: How can I get more memory?
 
In more then a few Letters I read about memory-upgrade for the
ATARI ST. Now I'm interested in upgrades for an ATARI 1040 STF,
the less work or money it costs, the better.
Please send me all information you can mail about this.
 
Thanks for lot of mails
                        Theo Schmid (UZR514@DBNRHRZ1)
Acknowledge-To: <UZR514@DBNRHRZ1>
 
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Date: 1 Dec 89 15:11:55 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!db.toronto.edu!jonah@tut.cis.ohio-state.e
 du  (Jeffrey Lee)
Subject: looking for a portable 68K C compiler
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.101155.27193@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
 
jonah@db.toronto.edu (Jeffrey Lee) writes:
>I'm looking for source to a portable C compiler.
 
I should have mentioned that I do know about (and have) gcc.  It's too
big and complex for the task I have in mind.  I also know about Sozobon
C, but I have yet to find a copy of this that is bug-free and can be
cross compiled under gcc.  (The source I had seemed to expect its own
Atari-based libc.a and the source for that was not part of the compiler
distribution.)
 
I need a compiler that can be run under Unix as a cross compiler AND is
small enough to compile itself on a 1Meg ST with ONE 720K floppy drive.
Standard K&R C preferred.
 
---
Jeff Lee  jonah@cs.toronto.edu jonah@ai.toronto.edu jonah@cs.utoronto.ca
 
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Date: 1 Dec 89 06:42:55 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!mark@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Mark Lehmann)
Subject: Still searching for a TIMECLOCK cart!
Message-ID: <17389@rpp386.cactus.org>
 
In article <1576@bnlux0.bnl.gov> atc@max.UUCP writes:
>       Do you know of any vendors that make a timeclock cartridge
>for the 1040ST?
 
A company named QMI makes a cartridge called "DeskCart!".  It includes
a clock and lots of desk accesorie software.  The clock works fine, but the
software is not good and usually doesn't work.  The software does have a
nice calendar function, which links to a scheduler.  However, the automatic
alarms on the schedulernever seems to work properly.
I have DeskCart! and I have decided to just use the clock part of it.
 
Oh, DeskCart often costs around $70 (bought mine for aout $100).
 
Mark Lehmann
 
 
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| Mark Lehmann                       |                                   |
| mark@rpp386.cactus.org             |                                   |
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 89 15:12:24 GMT
From: Chris Ridd <RiddCJ%computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <8912011512.aa11864@peter.Cs.Bham.AC.UK>
 
Does anyone know when TOS 1.4 hits the streets in the UK?  Why is there such
a big delay?  Is Atari UK hopeless?  (Yes...:-)
 
   Chris
 
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Date: 30 Nov 89 16:24:12 GMT
From: thelake!steve@UMN-CS.CS.UMN.EDU  (Steve Yelvington)
Subject: Where to find software (was Re: "kneecapping" and TOS piracy)
Message-ID: <1030891024122619@thelake.UUCP>
 
In article <1349@uvm-gen.UUCP>,
     pegram@uvm-gen.UUCP (pegram r) writes ...
>          ...  We can do little about those things, but
>isn't there something we can do to turn around the small and
>shrinking (at least in the U.S.A.) applications software base?
>I can't find software titles that were out years ago, e.g. some
>compilers, an on-the-fly keyboard macro program, an outliner-word
>processor like More on the Mac (all there ever was was Hippo Concept),
 
Doesn't Word Writer ST have a built-in outliner? (I don't use it.)
Todd Burkey's free, portable FoldEd also works as an outline processor.
 
>and new ones are not out there replacing them.  If this doesn't
>change soon I may be forced to go to permanent emulation (haven't
>done it at all - yet ;-?).  Constructive suggestions desired.
 
I don't think "small and shrinking" is an accurate description of the
software base.
 
Access to the software base, however, is another matter. Atari's (IMHO
ill-considered) anti-mail-order policies have driven most of the
mail-order firms to simply kiss off the Atari line. Without mail-order
access, you're stuck with local dealers. And local dealers of ANY
persuasion are notoriously unstable, undercapitalized, understocked and
underinformed.
 
One access tool you should know about is the E. Arthur Brown catalog.
 
Eben Brown is not an Atari hardware dealer, but rather an software dealer
specializing in the Atari ST. The catalog is a 16-page tabloid newspaper,
composed with PageStream, that features hundreds of items for the ST (and a
few for the Amiga and IBM-PC, too). Eben has a knack for picking up
closeouts, so once in awhile you'll see some VERY aggressive prices. He
doesn't carry everything under the sun, but he does have an interesting
assortment.
 
Here are some items from the latest catalog (No. 24), which I received
last week. All prices are U.S. dollars.
 
Tweety Board (stereo for the ST)              $24.95
IMG scanner (1000dpi, mounts on your printer) $64.95
Z-RAM 2-4mb upgrade (no chips)               $129.95
Tempus II                                     $47.95
PageStream 1.8                               $119.95
Fleet Street 3.1 WITH ULTRASCRIPT            $179.96
Calamus                                      $189.95
Calamus Font Editor                           $64.95
Spectre GCR                                  $249.95
 --Mac ROMs                                  $129.95
Universal Item Selector III                   $19.95
GFA Basic 3.0 with compiler                   $99.95
 
One of the more interesting items I noticed is SGS Net, a low-cost
networking package that uses MIDI and coax cabling to connect up to 32
STs. A two-computer hookup (server and one node) is $149.95; additional
nodes are $99.95 including hardware and software. I saw this at a dealer a
month or so ago and flipped through the manual, which I noticed had code
examples for developing network applications.
 
Some of the oddball items I saw included a stock market-tracking package,
programs to generate crossword puzzles and word jumbles, and even a
needlework pattern creator (you paint the needlework on the screen with
your mouse and the program prints out a counted cross-stitch pattern).
 
The catalog includes the usual assortment of games and books, too, plus
the Current Notes public-domain/shareware disks ($4 each plus shipping).
 
To get the catalog, call (612) 762-8847 or write:
   E. Arthur Brown Co.
   3404 Pawnee Drive
   Alexandria, MN 56308
 
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the above company. I have ordered
items from them and found their service to be prompt, efficient and
courteous. (This is generally true of Minnesota people. It's too cold to
be antisocial.) I do not know their policies on shipping out of the United
States.
 
   -- Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota
  ... pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve             (UUCP)
 
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