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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri, 27 Apr 90       Volume 90 : Issue  481
 
Today's Topics:
                         Atari USA and TOS1.4
                         BUG in Turbo C V1.0
                     comp.sys.atari.st and the UK
                             English Docs
                          GULAM help wanted
                           Reg. Exp. Parser
                 Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
                             Unsubscribe
                               uudecode
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 12:41:54 +0100
From: Dave Hines <vj%cxa.daresbury.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: Atari USA and TOS1.4
Message-ID: <15314.9004271141@cxa.daresbury.ac.uk>
 
Steve,
    I have no idea why Atari UK are so slow to make the TOS 1.4 ROMS
available, especially as they are in production... A friend who works in a
computer shop says that new STFMs are being supplied with TOS 1.4 installed.
 
As for using US ROMS, there are a few problems:
 
   1)   They set the colour screen parameters for 60Hz monitors, not 50Hz
 
   2)   The keyboard mapping is different - pound/hash etc.
 
   3)   The date format is different - mm/dd/yy, not dd/mm/yy
 
I have a set of US ROMS (from Canada actually), and have blown new ROMS to fix
(1) and (2) - I can tell you what I changed if you wish. What other problems
may be lurking I have yet to discover.
 
        Dave Hines.
 
JANET:       D.Hines@uk.ac.daresbury
EARN/BITNET: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@UKACRL
UUCP:        D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ukc.uucp
Ean:         D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ean-relay.ac.uk
Internet:    D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk or D.Hines%daresbury@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
 
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Date: 27 Apr 90 07:11:34 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!tnosoes!joep@uunet.uu.net  (Joep Mathijssen)
Subject: BUG in Turbo C V1.0
Message-ID: <1099@tnosoes.UUCP>
 
While trying to 'port' the sunclock from John Walker to the ST (you know
the map of the Earth, showing the portion illuminated by the Sun) I came
across a very irritating bug in Turbo C V1.0. Maybe somebody can check
if the bug is fixed in V2.0.
 
 
void wrong()
?
    double e, delta;
 
    e = 10;
    delta = e - cos(e);
    e -= delta / (1 - cos(e));              <----------
    printf("wrong e: %lf\n", e);
?
 
void good()
?
    double e, delta, cs;
 
    e = 10;
    delta = e - cos(e);
    cs = 1 - cos(e);                        <----------
    e -= delta / cs;                        <----------
    printf("good e: %lf\n", e);
?
 
void main()
?
    printf("cos: %lf\n", cos(10));
    wrong();
    good();
?
 
 
RESULT
    cos: -0.839072
    wrong e: 9.000000
    good e: 4.106226
 
 
 
The bug is 'solved' by using an extra variable. Maybe I go read some
68000, but the clock works and I am satisfied. I'll post the clock
within some days.
 
Joep,
 
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Joep Mathijssen
TNO Institute for Perception
P.O. Box 23                     Phone : +31 34 63 562 11
3769 ZG  Soesterberg            E-mail: tnosoes!joep@mcvax.cwi.nl
The Netherlands                     or: uunet!mcvax!tnosoes!joep
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 90 08:11:20 BST
From: Mr. Simon Mark Christie
 <XUUM23%PRIME-A.CENTRAL-SERVICES.UMIST.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: comp.sys.atari.st and the UK
Message-ID: <$TGQKCXJTDDRN at UMPA>
 
Can anyone tell me how I can receive comp... from the UK?
 
Also this idea of a comp...tech sound like a good idea - especially if I
can get it. I like reading the info-atari digests but sometimes - mainly
due to time pressures I'd rather not read large technical files. If a
seperate techie section was available perhaps people would use it - but
what's a 'technical' item?
 
Steve C.
 
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 13:16:05 MSZ
From: ONM65%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Operator Stefan)
Subject: English Docs
Message-ID: <9004271016.AA06143@hugin.dmswwu-ether>
 
Hello!
 
For all people who are interested in an english Gemini
distribution: We're nearly through! We got english binairies
and a Netherland (Ton van Overbeek) is halfway through translating
the docs. So, it's only a matter of days...
 
  _____________________________________________________
 | Stefan Eissing  <onm65@dmswwu1a.bitnet>    +----+  \|#
 | Dorfbauerschaft 7, D-4419 Laer-Holthausen  | OK |   |#
 | "Author of Venus@Gemini"                   +----+   |#
 |_____________________________________________________|#
  #######################################################
 
 
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 13:51:46
From: "Simon Chappell" <S61304%PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: GULAM help wanted
 
I need some advice here,
 
 
I recently (about 2 weeks ago) saw on here a mention of the current Email
address of the author of the Gulam shell, a Prof. P.Mateti, I cannot
remember who posted it, but I would like them to confirm the address as
the one that I copied from their message (carefully!) managed to reach
the site named, but was returned with an unknown user error!
 
The address that I used (from the UK JANET network) was:
           p.mateti%cs.wright.edu@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
 
Everything to the right of the percent sign seems to work, because I got
through to Wright State University, but the username seems to be
non-existant. Now this is a real shame because the Gulam shell would be very
very good value for money if I had paid for it, but I was wondering if there
was a more recent version released than the beta test version that I seem to
have, dated about 1987 if I remember the documentation correctly.
 
I am after either, or both, any more recent versions of the binaries or
a copy of the source code. Any help with any of the above will be gratefully
received.
 
Simon.
 
| Simon Chappell
| BSc(Hons) Computing and Informatics (final year)
| Polytechnic South West (Plymouth)
|
| JANET      S61304@uk.ac.psw.pa     BITNET   S61304@pa.psw.ac.uk
| INTERNET   S61304%uk.ac.psw.pa@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
| /* Please do not send Email via the uk.ac.ukc gateway, as my college
|    hasn't paid their fees, so we don't get any Email through there   */
 
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 12:26:24 +0100
From: Dave Hines <vj%cxa.daresbury.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: Reg. Exp. Parser
Message-ID: <11415.9004271126@cxa.daresbury.ac.uk>
 
David Dawkins asks:
 
>               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.
 
   I suspect that the regex code you have heard of is the regular expression
matching code from GNU EMACS. This has been written as a general subroutine,
and is useful for including in anything. It's not PD, but is freely available
for non-profit making use. I can send you a copy if you don't have access to
the GNU EMACS code there.
 
        Dave Hines.
 
JANET:       D.Hines@uk.ac.daresbury
EARN/BITNET: D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@UKACRL
UUCP:        D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ukc.uucp
Ean:         D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk@ean-relay.ac.uk
Internet:    D.Hines%daresbury.ac.uk or D.Hines%daresbury@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
 
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 11:43:32 MSZ
From: ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Julian Reschke)
Subject: Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23
Message-ID: <9004270843.AA01353@freya.dmswwu-ether>
 
In article <2167@atari.UUCP> Allan Pratt writes:
> What threw me was the original subject line, saying this bug was in
> GEMDOS 0.23 (Which is Rainbow TOS's GEMDOS).  It's not there, and it's
         ----
> documented as a change, and the previous, undesired behavior is also
> documented.
I thought that the return value of Sversion() is to be interpreted
as:
0x1300 -> Gemdos 0.19 (TOS 1.0 and TOS 1.2)
0x1400 -> Gemdos 0.20 (this buggy french thing called Turbodos)
0x1500 -> Gemdos 0.21 (TOS 1.4 and TOS 1.6)
 
So the meaning is:
high byte: minor revision number
low byte: major revision number
 
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Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241
eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, "Julian Reschke" @ MAUS MS  (++49 251 77216)
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 9:35:30 CET
From: -valdez- <valdez@pirmasens-emh1.army.mil>
Subject: Unsubscribe
 
Please unsubscribe me from newsgroup. Thanx for previous info
 
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 9:21:21 CDT
From: "Norman R. Frech CPSL" <frech@mwraaa.army.mil>
Subject: uudecode
 
Greetings,
 
Thanks to Bill Slivert, Andie Ness, Rainer Klute, and Bertrand Decouty
for the help with uud/uue.  The most recent version of uud/uue which
compilied under system V came from Bertrand Decounty.
 
Thanks again for the support.
 
Norman Frech < frech@mwraaa.army.mil >
 
 
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