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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue,  5 Dec 89       Volume 89 : Issue 754
 
Today's Topics:
                              C question
                        Current Notes Magazine
                              Form Doc's
                        GET ATARI16/FILES.DOC
                              OS9 for st
                         Rainbow Tos Porblems
                          Software for sale
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Date: 5 Dec 89 10:51:36 GMT
From: mcsun!inria!irisa!engel@uunet.uu.net  (Jean Christophe Engel)
Subject: C question
Message-ID: <1776@irisa.irisa.fr>
 
From article <8912050802.AA12717@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by
 S61304@PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK (Rat):
> Question.
>
> Why wont Sozobon, Lattice or any other C compiler I've tried compile the
> following, from K&R?
>
> main()
>      $
>      char fred[] = "Some string constant";
>      <rest of routine>
>
If you want to initialize an array (and a string IS an array of char) WITHIN
the body of a function (whether "main" or not), you should declare it as
"static" like in:
 
static char fred[] = "Some string constant";
 
Thus, the array will be static, i.e. memory will be allocated once at
compilation-time and initialization can be performed AT COMPILATION-time.
Otherwise, i.e. if not declared static, memory will be allocated each time
the function is called, and de-allocated each time the function ends, thus
discarding any value the array had previously.
 
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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 89 09:22 EST
From: JOHNBARNES@ENH.NIST.GOV
Subject: Current Notes Magazine
 
A couple of people have asked for information regarding Current Notes Magazine.
I have an information packet that I downloaded from GENie, where "Current
Notes Online" is category 15 of the Atari ST Roundtable.  Since policy
on this newsgroup restricts advertising I will be happy to respond to
individual EMail requests for this data.
 
I also expect to send ti to Steve Grimm so that he can determine whether
it should posted as a public document in the panarthea archive.
 
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Date: 5 Dec 89 09:33:51 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!nikhefh!t68@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Jos
 Vermaseren)
Subject: Form Doc's
Message-ID: <575@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
 
Something more about the doc's of FORM.
 
1:      The manual was written in TeX format because it looks nice
        this way. It uses a customized macro package that was made
        by someone else that makes for a very booklet format when
        printed with two A5 pages on one A4 sheet in landscape
        format. It has some more features that are quite handy.
        The sources of the manual are nearly as long as the dvi
        file and because the future versions of FORM will be
        commercial it is considered bad policy to part with the
        LaTeX file.
2:      It would be quite hard to change the paper size anyway
        because all examples are in verbatim and the size of the
        lines in the verbatim is trimmed to the A5 page size.
        It would look quite ugly with a different paper size.
3:      I am preparing an article with a short description of
        the syntax, some examples etc. for publication. If there
        is a demand for it I can post the LaTeX sources of that
        article. Be warned though that it will be much easier
        to work with the manual. The manual is rather complete,
        and contains a tutorial.
 
It should be possible to fit 2 A5 pages on one legal size page.
 
I am sorry that in a posting of yesterday I sounded rather
agitated about the paper size. There was somebody complaining
about paper size and the fact that I didn't use `user(m/f)' and
`he/she' everywhere, making the manual unreadable for everyone.
Considering the amount of work it was to type in nearly 400Kbytes
of text in a language that isn't my native language I think I'll
exclude people that complain like that from the licensing in the
future.
 
Jos Vermaseren
 
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Date: Tue,  5 Dec 89  14:08:55 MEZ
From: Bconlin%DACTH01.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: GET ATARI16/FILES.DOC
Message-ID: <8912051408301F6.CNTC@CY175.RZ.RWTH> (UMass-Mailer 4.04)
 
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Date: 5 Dec 89 11:29:39 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!Katmandu.Berkeley.EDU!Grunwald@uunet.uu.net
 (Grunwald Betr. Tichy)
Subject: OS9 for st
Message-ID: <1280@iraun1.ira.uka.de>
 
The port is from Wolfgang Ocker, Lochhausersstr. 32, 8039 Puchheim,
 West-Germany. The firm is called recco-ware.
The Version is sold only bundled with the C-Compiler, Basic09, Stylograph and
 the Sculptor database package. It comes with tools to access TOS files and some
 PD-stuff. The database is very nice and fast, and has anything,but an SQL
 interface. So it's quite up to date. (it runs under UNIX, VAX, MSDOS, ... too,
 so
really professional stuff).
 
This explains the price of 1598.- DM.
 
It will not run on the STacy, because the Screen-Hardware is different. The
 Drivers for the Harddisk will have to be changed also, because of the power
 consumption. You might phone Mr. Ocker to ask him, if he is doing the port or
 has already done it.
 
He sells also other nice OS9-Software and distributs the TOPS-Packet, if you
 send
(8-10) disks and a properly stamped and adressed envelope.
 
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Date: 4 Dec 89 17:24:09 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!grahamt@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Graham
 Thomas)
Subject: Rainbow Tos Porblems
Message-ID: <1871@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
 
From article <1838@atari.UUCP>, by kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher):
..
> especially if you don't know its lineage.  TOS ROMs have been available
> for years, and Rainbow TOS ROMs now for months (UK users aside - but
> that's another story, and hopefully one that is getting fixed).
..
> --
>    |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
>    |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
>   / | \  #include <disclaimer>
 
Thanks for all your efforts on behalf of us stranded UK users, Ken.
I'm going to wait until after Christmas and then start asking Atari UK
about this again.  Hopefully, by then dealers will have the TOS 1.4
ROMs and I won't have to start hassling.
 
Incidentally, the Stacy was given a big front-page review in the
December issue of the UK's leading micro mag, Personal Computer World,
so I expect to see real live Stacys very soon now.  After all, the
same mag put the Atari CD-ROM player on its front page in December
1987 issue, so I expect the mag will have taken steps to ensure
they're not fooled again into reviewing prominently something that
wasn't released.  (Surely??  Yes??)
 
 
--
Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK
 JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma  EARN/BITNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk
 ARPA:  grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
 UUCP:  grahamt@syma.uucp          Phone: +44 273 686758
 
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Date: 4 Dec 89 21:11:29 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!shadooby!sharkey!cfctech!teemc!ka3ovk!lake@tu
 t.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Marshall Lake)
Subject: Software for sale
Message-ID: <1989Dec4.211129.423@ka3ovk.uucp>
 
ST Software for sale (only some items have the original boxes (I normally
hate saving boxes - they take up too much space) but all items come with
original disks and docs of course):
 
Archipelagos                   9
Space Harrier                 10
Barbarian                      9
Brataccas                      8
Marble Madness                10
Road Runner                    8
Garfield                       8
Better Dead Than Alien        10
Daily Double Horseracing      10
Zany Golf                     12
Rogue                          8
Passing Shot                  12
Menace                        12
Bubble Ghost                  10
Vampire's Empire              10
Space Station                  8
Little Computer People         8
Batman                        12
Heroes of the Lance           12
Typesetter                     8
 
Most of the following should have the original boxes as well:
 
War in Middle Earth           15
The Hunt for Red October      15
International Soccer           8
Universal Military Simulator  13
Legend of the Sword           10
Wargame Construction Set      13
Roadwar 2000                  10
Fire Zone                     13
Paladin                       13
Elite                         15
Warship                       15
Red Lightning                 15
Global Commander              13
 
 
Marshall Lake
POB 7332
Washington, DC  20044
Tel 703-533-2132
Fax 703-538-4598
uucp: ...?media,teemc,tcsc3b2,ki4pv?!ka3ovk!lake
      ...?media,teemc,tcsc3b2,ki4pv?!ka3ovk!irscscm!mlake   (checked more often)
CIS 73717,3174
GEnie MLAKE
 
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Date: Tue,  5 Dec 89  14:11:33 MEZ
From: Bconlin%DACTH01.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Message-ID: <89120514113127E.CNTC@CY175.RZ.RWTH> (UMass-Mailer 4.04)
 
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