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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri, 23 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  249
 
Today's Topics:
                        Bug in Turbo C v. 1.0
                            dSuperCharger
        Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.) (2 msgs)
                    Hard Disk info (Bounced mail)
          How To Partition Megafile 30 for ST/PC/Mac s/ware
                            PCB-DESIGNING.
                               poolfix3
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 10:16:46 MEZ
From: KPH107%DJUKFA11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Bug in Turbo C v. 1.0
 
Date: 23 February 1990, 10:16:03 MEZ
From: Vilmar KLemt              (49) 02461/61-4391   KPH107   at DJUKFA11
      KFA Juelich
To:   INFO-ATA at WSMR-SIMTEL20
 
In the IBM C language Manual (SC09-1128) I read the following:
     Integer constants are always positive. If you want to write a
     negative constant, use a unary minus operator, as in -53. This is
     actually a "constant integer expression", but the compiler accepts
     it anywhere an integer constant is permitted, and it computes the
      value for you at compile time. (On System/370, the expression
     -2147483648 must be type cast to int to represent the negative
     integer with the largest magnitude.)
 
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 13:06:25 MEZ
From: ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Julian Reschke)
Subject: dSuperCharger
Message-ID: <9002231206.AA00494@freya.math.dmswwu>
 
In article <27192@cup.portal.com> Peter Ted Szymonik writes:
> I have a SuperCharger and have absolutely nothing but good things to say
> about it!  Its simple, easy to use, and I have yet to find anything that
> doesn't run on it!  I did a full review of the unit in the last ST-Report
> nr. 407.  SuperCharger promises to blow PC_Ditto II and PC-Speed clear out
> of the water.
>
> Peter Szymonik
> xorg@cup.portal.com
>
Warning: Supercharger doesn't understand the standard ACSI-commands
as described in SH204/205-manual. So DON'T (!!!) start any tools
that assume that you have only standard hardware connected to your
ACSI bus. Yesterday, RATEHD formatted my hard disk drive, because
Supercharger was confused by the inquire command...
 
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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 80386)
____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________
 
 
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Date: 23 Feb 90 08:58:50 GMT
From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!nikhefh!t19@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Geert J v
 Oldenborgh)
Subject: Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
Message-ID: <788@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
 
The cheapest easiest way to get money from the US to Europe: put the dollar
bills in an envelop and put a stamp on it.  I know enough people going
to/coming from the States and East European countries to make them useful.
 
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
 
(From the Netherlands, the country with the smallest number of credit cards
and lowest cheque usage of the developed world)
 
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Date: 23 Feb 90 14:07:38 GMT
From: shlump.nac.dec.com!norge.enet.dec.com!chad@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Foreign exchange (was Re: Shareware Policy.)
Message-ID: <8627@shlump.nac.dec.com>
 
When I lived in Germany I was told I could deposit my US checks from my
private bank if I had an account at the bank and I was willing to wait
until the check had cleared the US (and a very small fee).  It was to be
handled as a "Nur zur Verrechnung" check -- I didn't get Bargeld (sorry,
cash), the money had to be deposited in the account when the check
cleared.  Of course, I could then go in and withdraw it.
 
Chad
chad@norge.dec.com
DEC has no opinions!
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Date: Fri,23 Feb 90 12:25:40 GMT
From: D.Wade%sysd.salford.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK
Subject: Hard Disk info (Bounced mail)
Message-ID: <23 Feb 90 12:25:40 A10256@UK.AC.SALF.D>
 
Will the Michael @ unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de who tried to send mail
back via UKC either post his reply to the net or try sending it to MS2@UKACRL
as UKC won't talk to salf.d. Ta. (Sorry for using net bandwidth like this but
sometimes getting mail to the UK is about as easy as getting info from ATARI)
 
 Sorry no signature file but replies outside the UK may be sent to:-
 D.WADE@D.SALF.AC.UK - Most Places, MS2@UKACRL - Bitnet.
 
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Date: 23 Feb 90 07:02:36 GMT
From: cunixf!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!ia4@columbia.edu  (Imran Anwar)
Subject: How To Partition Megafile 30 for ST/PC/Mac s/ware
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.070236.20529@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
 
Hi. I am sure these questions have been asked (and answered) previosuly but
I have no other source to ask....
 
I have the Mega4, Megafile30 and color & B/W monitors.  I need to be able to
partition the hard drive so that I have 2 ST partitions for work and music
s/ware and one each for PC-Ditto and Mac s/ware. How do I go about doing it.
 
Another question...before the hard drive I had a RAMDISK program in my auto
qwfoldewhich gave me a C: Ramdisk.  Now that I had formatted the Megafile
as 4 ST partitions of C, D, E and F I reinstalled the RAMDISK as G but it
does not work.  Is the RAMDISK supposed to be logically before the Hard drive
partitions?  So do I have to re-format the HD with new drive letters?
 
Please oblige with your help. thanks.
 
Imran
 
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Date: 23 Feb 90 14:51:27 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!lth.se!newsuser@uunet.uu.net  (Peter Tomaszewski)
Subject: PCB-DESIGNING.
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.145127.24219@lth.se>
 
On request I send the following examples of pcb-designing software for Atari
 Stto this net:
 
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Name: MPEII+
 
Price: Evaluation kit      DM 277:- (Deutch Mark)
       Complete version    DM 877:-
       Library disk        DM 123:-
       Gerber disk         DM 154:-
 
Complete version: Pc-boards up to 505x422mm, multi layer, componet list,
                  rubber band style connecting, auto-pan. Output as Bitmap for
                  laser printer, Gerber, Bohr coordinates, 24 needle printer.
 
Evaluation kit: Same as Complete version except that you are limited to
                175x115mm pc-boards.
 
Library disk: 200 components already defined.
 
Gerber disk: Will let you read and write from/to disk in Gerber format. Gerber
             format is used by companies who make pcb-film and boards.
 
You need: 1 meg, monocrome monitor.
 
Address: Marek Petrik
        Vogelsbergstrasse 13
        3550 Marburg 7
        Germany
        Phone: 06421/47588
 
An updated version will be released in a few months.
 
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Name: PcBoard Designer
 
Price: about $ 149:-
 
Has: auto routing, rubber band style connecting, double sided design. Output to
     plotter or printer.
 
You need: monocrome monitor
 
Address: Abacus Software Inc.
         5370 52nd St. S.E.
         Grand Rapids, MI 49508
         USA
 
This kit has been out for a couple of years. It might not be as sophisticated
as the new ones.
 
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Name: Haba Cad
 
Name: Layout St
 
Name: Pcb-edit 1.7
 
These three kits I just know the names of at the present. I've ordered demo-
disks of these three kits and will be able to give some info on them in a week
or two. If any interrest I will mail comments on them to the network to.
 
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                             d88pt@efd.lth.se
 
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 11:37
From: "Rainer Seitel"
 <UJ0A%DKAUNI2.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: poolfix3
Message-ID: <"90-02-23-11:37:20.38*UJ0A"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
 
Allan Pratt writes:
> Poolfix3 should print a message when it runs; that message either says
> it was INSTALLED or says there was some error.  The most common error
> is that it can't find GEMDOS: if some program has run earlier in the
> AUTO folder and swiped the GEMDOS trap, that'll do it.  (Other messages
> include detecting that your GEMDOS doesn't need poolfix at all, and
> that your GEMDOS *does* need poolfix, but it can't be installed for
> some reason.  That one should "never happen.")
That message happen to a friend. But I believe that's because I've
patched his Rainbow-TOS for the 68020. The TOS14FIX also doesn't work
(because of Line F). This doesn't matter because I'd included this
patch. Now I'm not sure if FOLDERxxx works after including the poolfix
patch. Which way do FOLDERxxx add memory to the pool in Rainbow TOS?
 
 Rainer
 
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  Rainer Seitel               EMAIL: UJ0A@DKAUNI2.BITNET
  Zaystrasse 13
  D-7550 Rastatt
 
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