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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Wed, 14 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  201
 
Today's Topics:
                       Atari ST monitor needed
                         Bug in TURBO-C V1.0
                        Key virus NOT harmless
                     mail in your warantee cards
                     Some Atari dealers in Canada
                      Spectre + keypad functions
                        ST substitute monitor?
                         Substance under keys
                          UniTerm metafiles
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Date: 5 Feb 90 17:19:33 GMT
From: uupsi!rodan!rodan.acs.syr.edu!jfbruno@cunyvm.cuny.edu  (John F. Bruno)
Subject: Atari ST monitor needed
Message-ID: <1983@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
 
This post is for a friend, but you may respond to this account
since he doesn't have one...
 
I need either a monochrome or color monitor for an ST. If you happen
to have a spare, please let me know.
 
--- jb
 
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Date: 14 Feb 90 10:37:03 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!tnosoes!joep@uunet.uu.net  (Joep Mathijssen)
Subject: Bug in TURBO-C V1.0
Message-ID: <801@tnosoes.UUCP>
 
Look at this C-code:
 
     #define MAX  -32768
 
     main()
     ?
          printf("1: %d\n", MAX);
          printf("2: %d\n", (int)MAX);
     ?
 
Result:
 
     1: -1
     2: -32768
 
 
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Joep Mathijssen
TNO Institute for Perception
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Date: 14 Feb 90 14:56:42 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!mrsvr.UUCP!jupiter.uucp!krieg@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
  (Andrew Krieg)
Subject: Key virus NOT harmless
Message-ID: <2059@mrsvr.UUCP>
 
I have been infected by a virus.  Using VKILLER 2.2 I have learned that I
have the 'Key' virus that everyone is talking about.  It is waiting for a
certain disk to be inserted before it does its damage.  Thankfully, I never
inserted that disk.  By the spread of the virus (about 25 of my disks) I have
determined that I have had the virus for about 3 weeks.  Now, I probably still
have the program that generated the virus in the first place.  Is there any
way to test for that?  I'd like to determine where I picked it up from.
--
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=       Andrew Krieg            2to1 Keeper     Marvel Historian        =
=               G.E. Medical Systems - CT - New Berlin, WI              =
=                    USENET: krieg@jupiter.med.ge.com                   =
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=     "Big clocks are never wrong!!" - Bob Newhart in _Cold Turkey_     =
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Date: 13 Feb 90 16:50:57 GMT
From: orc!mipos3!omepd!nosun!cfj@decwrl.dec.com  (Charlie Johnson)
Subject: mail in your warantee cards
Message-ID: <579@intelisc.nosun.UUCP>
 
I recently mailed in my registration card for my SE/30 and it got kicked back
with a message stamped on it that the post office box had been closed.  Did
Apple change the address where the registration cards are sent ????
 
--Charles Johnson
  Intel Scientific Computers
  Beaverton, OR
  cfj@isc.intel.com
 
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Date: 13 Feb 90 22:44:30 GMT
From: ssc-vax!uvicctr.UVic.CA!rwilson@beaver.cs.washington.edu  (Richard Wilson)
Subject: Some Atari dealers in Canada
Message-ID: <917@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP>
 
>>In article <25CC88FC.14033@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>,
 johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes:
>>>     Someone asked for a list of Atari dealers in Canada.
According to my local Atari dealer, he can lose his dealership if he send's
machines to the U.S.  Since Canadien Atari computers are not FCC approved, they
cannot be sold to the U.S.  Please ask your dealer before posting his address,
he (or of course she) may not want to be bothered by lots of requests for
STe's that he can't fill.
 
Rich   (rwilson@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP)
 
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Date: 14 Feb 90 08:23:00 EST
From: "V5120::MENTON" <menton%v5120.decnet@nrl3.arpa>
Subject: Spectre + keypad functions
 
      A short time ago, I asked if anyone knew why the keypad functions did not
seem to work in the terminal program Mac240, under Spectre GCR.  Many thanks to
a correspondent (sorry - don't have your name here at work; hardcopy of msg is
at home) who pointed me to the page in the GCR instructions on which David
Small states that the extra keypad functions are NOT presently supported.
 
      Below is David Small's answer to my request for future keypad support.
 
                                        - Bob Menton KG3J
                                ARPAnet: MENTON%V5120.DECNET@CCF.NRL.NAVY.MIL
 
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 02:14:05 pst
From: well!dsmall@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (David Small)
Message-Id: <9002131014.AA25459@well.sf.ca.us>
To: lll-lcc!nrl3.arpa!menton%v5120.decnet
Subject: Re:  Keypad function
 
Numeric keypad is fully supported in Spectre 2.65, the next release.
Things like Word and Excel that use it work just fine with it, so I
expect Mac2420 to work okay too...
 
        -- thanks, Dave / Gadgets
 
 
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Date: 5 Feb 90 20:32:57 GMT
From: uupsi!rodan!rodan.acs.syr.edu!jfbruno@cunyvm.cuny.edu  (John F. Bruno)
Subject: ST substitute monitor?
Message-ID: <1988@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
 
Can a regular IBM CGA-type monitor be used with the 1040ST? Any special
cables needed? loss of resolution? etc...
 
Also, what kind of monochrome monitors can be used with the ST? Is there
a special cable needed with 'em?
 
--- jb
 
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Date: 14 Feb 90 13:33:57 GMT
From:
 snorkelwacker!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan!ggreenbe@bloom-beacon.mit.
 edu  (Gerald Greenberg)
Subject: Substance under keys
Message-ID: <2077@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
 
I had been noticing for a while that there was some sort of
brownish/beige greasy substance under my "return" key, and
last night I finally decided to investigate.  I popped up the
right  shift key and the return key (that was an adventure,
since I wasn't sure how much pressure to exert) and found two
metal "hooks" that were inserted into little white plastic
pieces that themselves were inserted into the keytop.  This
greasy substance what smeared over these metal pieces in the
plastic, and I guess it had begun to melt/run(?).  That is why
I saw it under the keys.  I wiped it up a bit and returned the
keys...now I'm just curious...what is this stuff? and what is
its purpose?  (It seems almost like pipe fitting grease.)
Replies to the net will be fine.
Regards,
Gerry
email:  maxg@suvm       (bitnet)
        ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu  (internet)
 
 
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Date: 14 Feb 90 11:10:34 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caesar.cs.montana.edu!icsu805
 3@think.com  (Craig Pratt)
Subject: UniTerm metafiles
Message-ID: <3122@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
 
In article <287@blnosz.UUCP> ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier) writes:
>In article <3095@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu8053@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Craig
 Pratt) writes:
>>In article <286@blnosz.UUCP> ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier) writes:
>>>In article <9002040802.AA11879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WACKER@CERNVM.BITNET
 (Klaus Wacker) writes:
>>>>[...]
>>>>When I try to print directly from Uniterm by selecting 'Printer' rather
>>>>than 'Metafile' after hitting Alt-F3, I get an alert box telling me
>>>>'Unable to open VDI device'.
>>>>[...]
>>>I have the same problem like you ('Unable...'). I have written to Simon Poole
>>>but I have not got an answer.
>>>Ralph
>>I have used UniTerm to print and save Tek MetaFiles with no problem. It seems
>>to work depending upon which GDOS you're using.  Of course, the printer and
>>meta.sys file must be in your assign.sys file.  But, I have found that with
 
 [some of my stuff deleted]
 
>Look please, this is my assign.sys for G+Plus; is there any mistake ?
 
Sorry to post this here but mail bounced and bounced HIGH.
 
>Pfad=C:\GEMSYS.SYS
 
I don't know if this is a typo but it should read: PATH=C:\GEMSYS.SYS
 
>01p SCREEN.SYS
 
> 02p SCREEN.SYS
> ATSS10.FNT
 [ bunch of font names deleted ]
> ATTP10.FNT
> 03p SCREEN.SYS
> ATSS10CG.FNT
 [ more fonts deleted ]
> ATTP10CG.FNT
> 04p SCREEN.SYS
> ATSS10.FNT
 [ yes, that's right, more fonts deleted ]
> ATTP10.FNT
> 21r SLM804.SYS
> ATSS10LS.FNT
 [ more fonts with 1:1:1:1 correspondance ]
> ATTP10LS.FNT
> 31r META.SYS
> ATSS10MF.FNT
 [ ... ]
> ATTP10MF.FNT
 
 
Why do you have this last set of fonts here?  I've never seen that done before.
Anyway, the only real problem UniTerm should be giving you is if it can't find
META.SYS or SLM804.SYS.  These must be located in C:\GEMSYS.SYS\ or bad things
will happen.  It also doesn't hurt to tell G+Plus to load ASSIGN.SYS before
running UniTerm.  If none of these suggestions do the trick, you should
probably get in touch with a GDOS expert.  There's more on your side of the
pond than on mine!
 
By the way, the metafile converter might show up soon.  I had to figure out
how to post to binaries.  It's always difficult the first time.
 
 
Craig Pratt
BitNet: Craig.Pratt@msu3.oscs.montana.edu
 
"The ships hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't."
Douglas Adams, _The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_
 
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