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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri, 16 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  213
 
Today's Topics:
                          Flash 1.6 Problem?
                              Geneology
                              Key virus
                        Looking for Assembler
                  Manipulation of Courtroom Evidence
                        Monitor advice sought
                        New Atari ST keyboard
                      Reading from a data stream
                            Right Way?????
                            ROMs for 1040
                         The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
                             zoo problems
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Date: 16 Feb 90 08:21:43 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu!zincke@uunet.uu.net  (zincke christian)
Subject: Flash 1.6 Problem?
Message-ID: <1611@sparko.gwu.edu>
 
Can anyone give me more information on th DO command in flash 1.6.
and also how do you send a break?
 
                                    thanks ahead,
                                      Chris Zincke
 
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Date: 15 Feb 90 03:10:11 GMT
From: leverich@RAND.ORG  (Brian Leverich)
Subject: Geneology
Message-ID: <2404@randvax.UUCP>
 
In article <1272@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>
>I am looking for a good geneology (family tree) program.
>
>Howard C. Johnson
 
There are many genealogy packages available.  There are several tolerable
PD packages out there, but for $35 you can buy a first-rate package called
Personal Ancestral File (PAF) that the Mormon Church publishes.  You can
order by phone - call the Latter Day Saints' Family History Library in
Salt Lake City and they can probably direct you to the right people.
 
(The Mormons are heavy into genealogy for religious reasons, but they are
remarkably nice about helping all us J. Random family historians, too...)
 
COMMSOFT up in the Bay Area somewhere publishes Roots III, which is arguably
the cadillac of genealogy packages.  If you buy it from them it will cost
around $300 (depending on what utilities you order), but you can save $50
by ordering from one of the mail order catalogues.
 
I used PAF until I had about 2500 people on file, then switched to Roots
because I wanted the fancy footnoting and book-generating features it has.
(That's right - Roots III will turn your data into a formatted, publishable
family history...)
 
Incidentally, you might want to check out soc.roots on the net, the roots-l
mailing list, and the National Genealogical Conference on fidonet.
 
Happy hunting for bears!  -B
--
  "Simulate it in ROSS"
  Brian Leverich                       | U.S. Snail: 1700 Main St.
  ARPAnet: leverich@rand.org           |             Santa Monica, CA 90406
  UUCP:    decvax!randvax!leverich     | Ma Bell:    (213) 393-0411 X7769
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 10:20:54 MET
From: Rob Vousten <U218008%HNYKUN11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Key virus
 
I found the much talked about Key virus on my legally purchased PC-DITTO
disk (Euro version 3.96). Luckily I check every new non-empty disk using
George Woodside's VIRUSKILLER. Also, I found the so-called Mouse virus
on my legally purchased TURBO-ST 1.6 disk. Of course I've informed my
dealer right away, guess what: the copies in stock had the virus too.
Who said virusses won't harm you if you only BUY software?
 
Rob Vousten  U218008@HNYKUN11.BITNET
 
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Date: 15 Feb 90 09:39:03 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!uniol!simon@uunet.uu.net  (Frank Simon)
Subject: Looking for Assembler
Message-ID: <1719@uniol.UUCP>
 
Hello !
 
klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
>In article <9002110802.AA09174@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> AD0834@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
 writes:
>>        I am looking for a PD assembler, does anyone know where I could
>>find one?
 
>Get Jas from the Sozobon C package.
A new version of the commercial Assembler package Omnikron Assembler is
now Shareware. The Assembler is named Turbo-Ass. It's very fast (assembly
2.000.000 Lines/minute) and the Debugger it one of the best i ever seen.
 
Send a Disk and an Envelope to: Frank Simon,
                                Kennedystrasse 12
                                2900 Oldenburg
                                West-Germany (even now)
 
regards Terra
 
 
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Date: 16 Feb 90 09:28:02 GMT
From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov  (Eugene Miya)
Subject: Manipulation of Courtroom Evidence
Message-ID: <6237@eos.UUCP>
 
This is very easily done.  It has been done for years.
You don't need a computer, in fact it is easier without one.
If you look hard you will find a book on the Soviet doctoring of
photographs.  I saw a copy at Printer's Inc in Mtn. View.
But not since that time.  The quality varies.  Manipulation is
strictly a matter of cost: how much it is worth to you and how
much you are willing to pay.  Remember, the hand is quicker than
the eye.  I dare say you can completely stage a scene to fool even
the most fervent pro/con gun control fanatic. 8)
 
This message had no place in ba.general.  Please keep it in the
amiga groups.
 
Another gross generalization from
 
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov
  resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
  "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology."
  ?ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet?!ames!eugene
  Do you expect anything BUT generalizations on the net?
  [If it ain't source, it ain't software -- D. Tweten]
 
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Date: 16 Feb 90 08:14:41 GMT
From: WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU!sajima@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Takahiro Sajima)
Subject: Monitor advice sought
Message-ID: <9002160814.AA13241@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
 
Hi folks,
        I apologize if I'm beating a dead horse, but I'm new to ST's -
ich bin neu hier.  I'll keep this short.
 
        I understand that ST monitors come in two flavors - color and
monochrome.  Monochrome has high resolution (good text, but can't run
anything written for the color monitor), and that color has medium (?)
resolution (garbage text - no offense intended.  Has impressive color
graphics).  I'd REALLY hate to have two monitors sitting on my desk.  In
other words, I want a monitor that can handle BOTH color and monochrome
capabilities with a switch to select one of the modes.  On an unrelated
note, if the monitor can also accept TV/VCR signals, that would be nice
too :-).  I heard that someone on this newsgroup is very happy with a
Magnavox monitor; what's the model?  Any other suggestions are
appreciated.
 
/Taka Sajima
sajima@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
 
P.S.  I'd also welcome any interesting tidbits, tips, horror stories,
work-arounds, etc.  Thanks.
 
 
                    ( ( ( (((( IN STEREO )))) ) ) )
 
                            Where available
 
 
 
 
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Date: 16 Feb 90 03:41:30 GMT
From: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu  (Mark Boyd)
Subject: New Atari ST keyboard
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.034130.3887@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
 
I'm the person who adapted a DEC keyboard to the ST. I did it because
I wanted a better keyboard that retained the DEC layout. I also do
stuff with PC's and I seriously considered using an extended PC keyboard.
 
There would not be a problem with shift keys or the alt key or whatever.
The ST, in many ways, copies the PC. The keyboard is one of those ways!
PC keyboards and Atari keyboards send similar scan codes. They send those
codes whenever a key is pressed and whenever it is released. No problems
there. The problem is in the interface between the keyboard and the PC.
It requires extra circuitry to interface, while the DEC keyboard does
not. On the other hand, the DEC keyboard doesn't distinguish between
the two shift keys. Big deal.
 
        Mark Boyd
        mark@ccvr1.ncsu.edu
 
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Date: 16 Feb 90 04:42:41 GMT
From: km44+@andrew.cmu.edu  (Kimble Charles Marshall)
Subject: Reading from a data stream
Message-ID: <AZqsH1W00Xo78hhEYj@andrew.cmu.edu>
 
>Sounds a lot like Apple/Localtalk
>to me, why don't ya wait for Dave Small to finish his board...
 
Why wait, help him finish it up.  I believe he said it still needs
driver software.
 
K.C. Marshall
km44@Andrew.cmu.edu
 
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Date: 15 Feb 90 16:05:49 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!uniol!schwuchow@uunet.uu.net  (Michael Schwuchow)
Subject: Right Way?????
Message-ID: <1725@uniol.UUCP>
 
Ask: Is this the way to your home?
Clue: Take the way to his/her "home".
Micha
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 11:10:17 EDT
From: Wolfgang Thiel <UPSYF173%DBIUNI11.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: ROMs for 1040
 
     You should have no problems with the 6 cip version.
 
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Date: 15 Feb 90 21:55:31 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzsc!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (HC Johnson)
Subject: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
Message-ID: <1305@lzsc.ATT.COM>
 
Lets try to catch and fix this.
 
Does anyone having the problem also have a memory switcher?
If so, when the problem hits, if you can talk to the switcher, SAVE the
memory image.  Perhaps we can pass the image around and many more people can
look at the problem, and if its constant with the image, maybe even
get Atari interested.
 
Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
=====NEW address====
att!lzsc!hcj
hcj@lzsc.att.com
 
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Date: 16 Feb 90 04:46:56 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!w
 atserv1!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: zoo problems
Message-ID: <2994@water.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <9221@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> wao@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (william.a.oswald,alc,)
 writes:
>Has anyone on the net successfully unpacked a zoo file
>(anything.zoo) using any of the available zoo programs?
>I have down loaded several .zoo files using XMODEM and
>KERMIT and have tried to unpack them using several ZOO
>programs (booz for example). Nothing works. I always
>get a CRC error.
 
Sure, many.  Never had a problem.  There are two ways to do it.
One is to make sure that your file transfer protocol handles
full 8 bit bytes.  Many are oriented to handling only graphic
characters (94 or 95 or so).  The other, which I use, is to
"uuencode" the file first, then "uudecode" it at the other end.
This is the choice I use.  I have zoo on the Atari ST and the
PC and UNIX system at the office.
 
The uu-encoder and decoders that I like best are UUE and UUD by
J-J.Dumas.  His code is highly reliable and overcomes some of
the difficulties of certain notorious gateways between BiTNET,
and UseNet and InterNet.
 
--
    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
        ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca     ljdickey@water.BITNET
        ljdickey@water.UUCP             ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey
        ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
 
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