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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 13 Mar 90       Volume 90 : Issue  320
 
Today's Topics:
                            40-Folder Bug
                       Calendar Formula needed
                           Computer Wanted
                    GEMINI... My evil twin.. HELP?
                      Mac Emulator, what to buy?
   Print Desktop (Alt-HELP) with Epson 24 pin printer - HELP NEEDED
                           Rwabs/Hard Disks
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Date: 12 Mar 90 17:21:51 GMT
From:
 eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!reading!csug.cs.reading.ac.uk!djd1@bloom-beacon.mit.ed
 u
Subject: 40-Folder Bug
Message-ID: <2124@onion.reading.ac.uk>
 
     Firstly, thanks to everyone who replied to my request for info on the
40-Folder bug - I'll try reading the FAT instead of visiting each folder.
 
        Now..from what I have read here recently, am I to understand that even the
lastest ROMs do not fix this pathetic bug?? _Surely_ a bug like this could have
easily been fixed (although I do not profess to know the 'ins and outs' of it),
and make the ST nearer to the perfect machine than it is already?
 
   While on the subject of new ROMs, can anyone suggest a valid reason for
purchasing them, how much , where from etc? I apologise in advance if this
information has been posted before, but I don't get to read rn that often.
 
      Cheers,
              David.
 
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Date: 13 Mar 90 10:39:52 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!
 uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!eer36024@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Calendar Formula needed
Message-ID: <46300089@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
 
This may be more than what you need.  This converts a year, month, and day
to a "Julian Day" number.  A Julian Day number MOD 7 = 0=Monday to 6=Sunday.
 
ALL '/'s = DIV, i.e.  A/B = A DIV B = TRUNC(A/B)
 
JD = 367*Y - 7*(Y+(M+9)/12)/4 - 3*((Y+(M-9)/7)/100+1)/4 + 275*M/9+D+1721029
 
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Date: 12 Mar 90 16:39:28 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!digi!rg
 oseweh@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Roy Gosewehr)
Subject: Computer Wanted
Message-ID: <409@digi.UUCP>
 
Atari 130XE system for sale.  System includes the following:
 
Hardware:  Atari  130XE,  Magnavox  Color 40 Monitor, Two (2) XF551
           Disk  Drives, and P:R: Connection (std serial & parallel
           ports)   with   cables.   ALL  HARDWARE  IN  "LIKE  NEW"
           CONDITION!
 
Software:  DOS XE, DOS 2.5, Paperclip XE (word processor), Newsroom
           (basic   desktop  publisher),  Speedcalc  (spreadsheet),
           disk-based  games  (commercial  &  PD),  and  several PD
           programs  (including a word processor, (2) communication
           (terminal) programs, a database program, etc.)
 
Misc.:     Two   disk   caddies,  40+  (DSDD)  disks,  dust  covers
           (computer,  monitor  and  one disk drive), several books
           and magazines.
 
The  hardware  alone  is  worth  around  $1000  retail. I will sell
everything  listed  above for $550 plus shipping or I will sell the
system *without* monitor for $350 plus shipping. Items not for sale
separately.  If interested, reply to this message or contact:
 
        Roy C. Gosewehr
        6205 Oregon Court
        Plano, TX  75023
        (214) 517-4981 (evenings/weekends)
        GENIE: R.C.Gosewehr
 
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Date: 12 Mar 90 07:33:31 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!tub!tubopal!ripley@uunet.uu.net  (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Subject: GEMINI... My evil twin.. HELP?
Message-ID: <1269@dalarna.tubopal.UUCP>
 
In article <1080.25efe70e@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
 writes:
]In article <16000017@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
]>      Anyone try out Gemini yet?  I run Gemini.prg after booting
]>      with either AMCGDOS or GPLUS and get two bombs...???
]>      -- Greg
 
]Well, I was looking foward to using it too. I de-zoo'ed it, and started
]picking throught the DOC files, which are in German, of course. Well, the
]first paragraph answered the problem I had. It requires TOS 1.2, 1.4, or
]1.6. So if you have 1.0, thats probably your problem, like mine.
]                       Ryan
 
That can't be. When I took my Gemini-disk to a friend who only has TOS 1.0
it behaved correctly. It displayed an alert-box "I only run on TOS 1.0 or newer"
and afterwards it went back to the desktop.
No bombs.
 
Anyway, the posted version is out of date. It is 1.0 and I already got 1.1,
which is much better...
 
Greetings,
                                RIPLEY
 
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Date: 12 Mar 90 02:06:04 GMT
From: att!drutx!druwy!dlm@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Daniel L. Moore)
Subject: Mac Emulator, what to buy?
Message-ID: <4699@druwy.ATT.COM>
 
in article <1188@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White)
 says:
>       I've got an Adaptec controller / 65meg RLL setup which I'd like to
> use for Spectre GCR if/when I buy it.  The ICD host adaptor tells me that
> because the Adaptec uses FAT bad-sector mapping rather than SCSI, I shouldn't
> use it with Spectre.  But I do have a few error-free partitions.  Can I use
> Spectre with these partitions?
 
        Adaptec controllers will do bad sector mapping at the controller
level, if the software tells them to.  The format code needs to send down
the bad sector info to the controller and have it remap those sectors.  I
thought that ICD's software did this, you may just have an old version.
(I know that most of Dave's STs are using ICD controllers/software so you
shouldn't have any problem.)
 
                                Dan Moore
                                AT&T Bell Labs
                                Denver
                                dlm@druwy.ATT.COM
 
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Date: 11 Mar 90 20:08:26 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!unido!tub!tubopal!ripley@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
 (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Subject: Print Desktop (Alt-HELP) with Epson 24 pin printer - HELP NEEDED
Message-ID: <1268@pulz.tubopal.UUCP>
 
In article <5440107@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
]| You need to get a program called PRTST24 written by Dan Wilga of
]| Gribnif software. (These are the people that sell NEODESK).
]Whoops, that program is really named SCRDMP24! The brain was a bit fogged
]when I posted this. :-)
 
Anyway, there are many more programs which allow this. I for example am
using a program called fx_emu.prg which is by NEC.
 
I hoped TOS 1.4 will overcome this nasty "feature" but it isn't. Sigh.
If Atari used the right Codes, the could have made a hardcopy which works
on both, 9 pin and 24 pin, printers.
 
Stefan Lindner's TeX-Driver (nl10.ttp) does this. The output isn't too well,
and the pagesizes are distorted, but you can print with it.
 
Allan, what about including 24 pin support in the next release of TOS?
It can't be that much work and it is well worth it (IMHO)...
 
Greetings,
                                RIPLEY
 
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Date: 12 Mar 90 15:57:29 GMT
From:
 eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!reading!csug.cs.reading.ac.uk!adp1@bloom-beacon.mit.ed
 u
Subject: Rwabs/Hard Disks
Message-ID: <2121@onion.reading.ac.uk>
 
Hello,
 
A)...
  I tried yesterday to write a program to read in the FAT table and the root
directory off a disk using the Rwabs(..) call in sozobon C. It seemed to do
this fine on disks A and B, but an attempt to do this off my hard disk caused
a crash/lockup on the Rwabs call.
  I understand that some problem with Rwabs has been discussed in this group,
but I must have missed it. Could some kind soul send me a summary of what
the discussion was about and/or tell me if I am doing anything stupid!!!
 
B)...
  The aforemetioned hard drive is one that I have just obtained. It is a Power
Computing Series 900 Drive (48Mb 28ms). It came with an external power supply
with a 2 pin round pin plug on it!!). It seems to have some kind of clock in
it, but it is really strange, it seems to remember the time and date at which
it was turned off at, as long as the length of time isn't longer than about a
day! It seems to require 2 attempts at booting after being turned on for the
first time, however long you wait before powering up the ST, and after resetting
the ST the screen flickers horrendously (like putting the screen to 60Hz mode)
before it boots and restores the white blank screen.
  Has anybody else got any experience with this make of drive, and if so could
they let me know if it does similar things.
 
Thanks,
 Andrew.
 
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| Andrew Pollard            | adp1@uk.ac.reading.cs.csug                       |
| Dept of Computer Science  | adp1%uk.ac.reading.cs.csug@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay    |
| Reading University        |                                                  |
| England                   |                                                  |
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