 
INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Wed, 25 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  476
 
Today's Topics:
             CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
                         Clearing the screen
                          Fax for the Atari?
                      Help, where can I get LINT
           PC-DITTO II pcdsettd.com sets the time, not date
                            Phantom Typist
                           Reg. Exp. Parser
              summary of responses: changing resolutions
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Date: 25 Apr 90 03:58:26 GMT
From: fernwood!portal!cup.portal.com!Doug_B_Erdely@uunet.uu.net
Subject: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Message-ID: <29278@cup.portal.com>
 
Ned, is there SOME reason why you cross posted this to umpteen newsgroups!
 
        - Doug -
 
Doug_B_Erdely@Cup.Portal.Com
 
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90  16:45 EDT
From: CPIAZZA@UMES.UMD.EDU
Subject: Clearing the screen
 
I have a question that probably has been aswered before, but since I
didn't see it before I'll ask anyway. My problem is this: I'm trying to
write a GEM application using the AES and VDI routines. The AES manual
states that after a dialog or alert box has been interacted with and closed,
the appliction must respond to a WM_REDRAW message from the event handler.
The AES manual goes on to say that this may be done by "...a series of
VDI calls."
 
Well, I can get the WM_REDRAW message from the event handler ok, but how
in the world do you redraw the screen. From playing around I gather it
has something to do with the rectangle list and some raster operations.
I think I understand how to get the rectangle list...but what about the
raster ops?? Anyone know?? I'd prefer if you sent mail (with examples
if possible) directly to me at CPIAZZA@UMES.BITNET
 
    Thanks much!
 
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Date: 25 Apr 90 17:29:11 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!hyc@ucsd.edu  (Howard
 Chu)
Subject: Fax for the Atari?
Message-ID: <11823@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
 
Michtron markets an ST fax package. Dunno what it's got, I think the
name is TurboFAX but I'm not sure.
--
  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
  ... the glass is always greener on the side ...
 
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 12:30:52
From: "Simon Chappell" <S61304%PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Help, where can I get LINT
 
Netters,
 
 
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of LINT that I can use with
Sozobon 1.01 (I'd use it with 1.2 if I could get working binaries!)
 
I need it in sort of a hurry as I keep shooting myself in the feet and it
would be very useful to use it before starting another long error doomed
compile!
 
Also, does anyone have any short comments on how to use MAKE? I have split
my main program up so that it covers a number of smaller .c files, but at
the moment I am doing the following:
 
#include "filename.c"
 
I realise that this is possibly not the best thing to do as I am constantly
recompiling code that is tested and debugged, so I need help!
 
All replys welcome, either by Email or through this digest (I think that
enough other people may find this information of interest.)
 
Regards,
 
Simon.
 
 
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Date: 24 Apr 90 17:10:09 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzsc!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (HC Johnson)
Subject: PC-DITTO II pcdsettd.com sets the time, not date
Message-ID: <1663@lzsc.ATT.COM>
 
I have just noticed that when running PCD II, that the date isn't
being set by pcdsettd.com; only the time.
 
Has anyone else experienced this?
 
p.s. My 68000 connector is soldered on.  So reseating it is not approapriate.
 
Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
att!lzsc!hcj
hcj@lzsc.att.com
 
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Date: 25 Apr 90 09:59:04 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!Tokyo!grunwald@tut.ci
 s.ohio-state.edu  (Grunwald Betr. Tichy)
Subject: Phantom Typist
Message-ID: <90.115.09:59:04@ira.uka.de>
 
May be your mouse cable is broken. This makes the mouse response awful, until
the mouse breaks down and there is no more response. Because the cable moves
the error is not stable. Try what happens, if you stretch the cable. But do
it careful. I had that problem for several months until I had to recognise,
that the mouse keys did not work and the pointer moves only in one direction.
 
Knut Grunwald
 
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Date: 24 Apr 90 23:43:05 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!reading!csug.cs.reading.ac.uk!djd1@uunet.uu.net  (David Dawkins)
Subject: Reg. Exp. Parser
Message-ID: <2317@onion.reading.ac.uk>
 
    Hi there.
                   Can anyone tell me where I can find a PD regular expression
    parser ?  I have heard rumour that something called 'regex' is floating
    about somewhere, but I can't find it at any archive site.
 
    Many thanks,
 
               Dave.
 
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Date: 25 Apr 90 03:05:34 GMT
From: usc!chaph.usc.edu!nunki.usc.edu!rjung@ucsd.edu  (Robert allen Jung)
Subject: summary of responses: changing resolutions
Message-ID: <9379@chaph.usc.edu>
 
In article <18997@eagle.wesleyan.edu> ncastellano@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>The people who wrote me all said some combination of the following things:
>
>1) You can't do it.  This is not a supported operation in Gemdos.
>2) A soft-boot is the only supported way to get Gem to recognize the new rez.
>
> [Other stuff deleted]
>
>The main reason I'm dying
>to get my hands on a way to do this is it's really hard to develop
>low-rez software because I have to edit in med, switch to low to test,
>switch back, etc. which means exiting gulam each and every time.
 
  Don't bother. There is NO (TOS-legal) way to switch resolutions _and_
have GEM recognize the switch. All the GEM-oriented variables and stuff are
set up at startup/reboot, and are not meant for mortal men.
 
  If you want to write resolution-changing code that doesn't use GEM, no
problem. Setscreen() won't care. If you want to use GEM, however, forget it.
I've spent a similar number of time at the problem (yeah, I program on a color
monitor too  B-), and I finally accepted defeat. Learn to live with
compile/link/save/exit/switch/run/*crash*/switch/load/compile...
 
  And the reason you are having "color change" problems is that the GEM
numbering of color palettes does not correspond to TOS's numbering of
color palettes. Just because the second color palette contains dark red
in TOS doesn't mean you can you GEM color #2 and get it. I suspect that Atari
GEM remaps the TOS palettes to comparable GEM values to maintain compatability
with Digital's original GEM definitions (DRI GEM was started up on IBM PC's
without alterable color palettes, I believe).
 
                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)
 
(Don't have an Atari-specific .sig yet, but since Atari makes the Lynx,
this will have to do)
 
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