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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri,  2 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  147
 
Today's Topics:
                               barcodes
                                HiSoft
                     MicroEMACS 3.10 Cursor/Bell
                   MX2 Multitasking Kernel Problems
                            Right Way?????
                                SPICE
                         ZMODEM WITH UNITERM
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 17:21:18 EST
From: csrobe@cs.wm.edu (Chip Roberson)
Subject: barcodes
Message-ID: <9002022221.AA27041@cs.wm.edu>
 
I noticed that someone was asking about barcodes recently and in
my metafont searches for [La]Tex, I discovered the barcodes.mf.  I
know nothing more that what it says in the header and I have not
tried it.  If you decide to use this you will need TeX (or LaTeX)
and metafont (available from archive-server@panarthea.ebay.sun.com).
 
barcodes.mf can be anonymously ftp'd from sun.soe.clarkson.edu's
pub/tex-fonts directory.  I will also ship a copy to comp.sources.
atari.st for Steven Grimm to post.  (Sorry, I think it is a bit
too big to post to this list/newsgroup.)
 
cheers,
-chip
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                    Fur:  The look that kills.
 
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Date: 2 Feb 90 15:53:19 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!neil@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Neil
 Forsyth)
Subject: HiSoft
Message-ID: <4296@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
 
Recently I posted an article here about bad product support from various UK
companies. One of these companies was HiSoft who market Dave Small's
Spectre (Mac Emulator). Since reading the article, HiSoft have phoned me
and apologised for the lack of support due to them being very busy and
being a rather smaller organisation than I had originally thought.
They assured me of much better support and update information in the future.
Indeed they are going to send me a software update today.
This posting is to clear the air and to let Dave Small himself know how
HiSoft have reacted to my criticism and are not as bad as I made them out to
be. HiSoft themselves are able to read newsnet articles but are unable to
reply to the net as yet.
 
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Date: 2 Feb 90 16:42:22 GMT
From:
 eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!kl-cs!nott-cs!cat.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!masalla.fulcrum.bt.
 co.uk!chrisl@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Chris Parkin Lilley [cs12])
Subject: MicroEMACS 3.10 Cursor/Bell
Message-ID: <B#3Y4*@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
 
I've just compiled up MicroEMACS 3.10 on my ST (Using MWC), and at first
I thought all was hunky-dory. Then I went and used it on another machine which
happened to have the monitor sound turned up (mine's turned down 'cos I don't
like keyclick). Imagine my surprise when, every time the cursor was XOR'ed,
a sound like a chiming bell was emitted. Not the normal beep/click sound, but
a *really* annoying bell sound. I then tried it on my own machine with the
sound turned up, and it does exactly the same. I hate it!
 
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what the heck causes it? I can't
see anything obvious, and I've certainly never come across it in the
documentation anywhere. All help gratefully received.
 
Thanx in advance,
 
-Chrisl.
--
                "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
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Chris Parkin Lilley, CS1.2, BT Fulcrum, UK               chrisl@uk.co.bt.fulcrum
 
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Date: 2 Feb 90 22:36:34 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!w
 atserv1!bmaraldo@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Commander Brett Maraldo)
Subject: MX2 Multitasking Kernel Problems
Message-ID: <947@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
 
        Hello.  I recently downloaded MX2 to be used in a Gulam
enviornment.  Now, I'm no programmer and the manual that came with
the distribution looks like it's written for a person who is intimate
with the system.  I can type 'mx2' from the shell alright, and things do
happen, but I can't seem to get processes to run in the background or at all.
All I can really do is start cli and login, get a new shell, at that's
it.  Maybe I am confused, but am i not supposed to be able to set
processes running (any processes?).  This doesn;t seem to happen.
Can somebody please set me straight and/or give me a little tutorial on
how to use MX2?  Thanks.
 
Brett L Maraldo
Searching for multitasking on the ST,
without having to learn to programme...
 
 
 
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                      bmaraldo@watserv1.UWaterloo.ca
                   ?uunet!clyde!utai?!watserv1!bmaraldo
 
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Date: 2 Feb 90 21:18:38 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!dparsons@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
 (Daniel Parsons)
Subject: Right Way?????
Message-ID: <4117@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
 
In article <25C9E532.8848@paris.ics.uci.edu> wngai@ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai)
 writes:
>       Ok, you are in a Jungle and it is getting dark. You must find
>your way out of the jungle.  In the Jungle lived two tribes, one tribe
>is good and always tells the truth while the other tribe is bad and
>alway tells lies.  You are on a dirty path and came upon a Y-intersection.
>Right in front of you is a sign pointing right and reads "This way to
>Safty------->".  Behind the sign is a native, You can only ask him
>one question with a yes or no Answer to determine if the native is telling the
> truth or lie and determine which way is the right way out of the jungle.
>Remember you are Allow to ask only one question and it must have a yes
>or no anwer.
 
        "If you were from the other tribe, would you tell me that this sign
really does point out the way to safety?"
 
If the safe path is path A, and the sign points down path A:
A truth-teller will say no, as he realizes the liar would lie.
A liar would also say no, as he would have to lie.
 
If the safe path is A, and the sign points down B:
A truth-teller will say yes, and a liar would also say yes.
 
        Whichever answer comes up, take it at it's opposite meaning.  In this
situation you are combining a truth with a lie, which gives a lie, just as
1 * -1 = -1.  Hope this helps.
 
                                                            A  A  A  A
  . . . . .                                                -=--=--=--=-
.           .   @@//////////////@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|-~--~--~--~-\,,
 .       . . .:.@//////////////@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|-v--v--v--v-/``
   . . .            The Mighty Mace of Self-Destruction    -=--=--=--=-
                                                            V  V  V  V
                                  Lord Daniel, dparsons@jarthur.claremont.edu
 
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Date: 2 Feb 90 21:11:23 GMT
From: janus.Berkeley.EDU!mitchell@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Evan Mitchell)
Subject: SPICE
Message-ID: <34085@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
 
In article <10740@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
 writes:
>In article <E58565397B9F604933@UBVMS.BITNET> V067MAJP@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
 (Arion) writes:
>>Does anyone know if SPICE (I guess it would actually be PSPICE) is there
>>somewhere for the ST?
>>If not, is it public domain?
>
>SPICE is supposed to be in the public domain, but I've never seen source
>code for it, only PD versions of Mac & PC PSPICE. Good luck finding it,
>maybe you can convince someone to port it when you get hold of the source.
>--
>  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
 
The source code for Spice (including a 720K MS-DOS version) can be
obtained from:
 
EECS/ERL Industrial Liaison Program
479 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkley, CA  94720
(415) 643-6687
 
Note:  Spice is NOT a public domain program.  If you have any questions,
please call the office, do NOT respond to this account.
-Evan Jay Mitchell
 mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu
 
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Date: 2 Feb 90 21:19:05 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!uci-ics!gateway@tut.cis.ohio
 -state.edu  (Wayne Ngai)
Subject: ZMODEM WITH UNITERM
Message-ID: <25C9F949.14597@paris.ics.uci.edu>
 
Has anyone sucessufully integrating ZMODEM protocol with Uniterm??  If is,
which ZMODEM program do you use?  If it's shareware or PD, could you send
me a copy of it??  Thanks
 
 
wayne
 
wngai@paris.ics.uci.edu
 
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