 
INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri,  9 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  177
 
Today's Topics:
                      Abaq: Or should it be ATW.
                            FTP'ing files
          GNU-Emacs 18.55, reported problems (and solutions)
                  GNU-Emacs 18.55, timeout problems
                         Hard Disk Defragger
                         Review of Sozobon C
                          TOS 1.4 UK Version
                     WORD4.ARC shareware program
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Date: 8 Feb 90 12:59:50 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!turing!q1cbw@uunet.uu.net  (D.C. Halliday)
Subject: Abaq: Or should it be ATW.
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.125950.21625@newcastle.ac.uk>
 
I have missed the discussion on Abaq whatever that is but if it is the
ATW  (Atari  transputer  workstation)  Then  they do exist. We here in
Newcastle University (UK) have a few. These  systems  where  perchased
either from ATARI UK or PERIHELION. These systems are being used for a
major  research  project  into  fault  tolerent  distributed computing
(ARJUNA).
 
Dave H.
 
(D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk)
 
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Date: 8 Feb 90 16:13:50 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould!zmacu06@uunet.uu.net  (F S Taylor)
Subject: FTP'ing files
Message-ID: <ZMACU06.90Feb8161351@tsun10.doc.ic.ac.uk>
 
In article <9002070806.AA13282@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> S54394GR@ETSUACAD.BITNET
 (Robert Gambs) writes:
 
>   I am new to the FTP system and was wondering if someone could give me some
>   help.  All the files I have tried to download have gone bad.  when I try to
>   unARC them, they give me a 'bad header' error.  Can someone with experience
>   in this area help me?
 
Well, when a file is ARCed it turns it from whatever format it was in
into binary format (ie. requiring all 8 bits in a byte). ftp, by
default, transfers ASCII which is only 7 bit data and it will do
conversions on things like 'end of line' characters etc. To stop it
doing all this you need to type:
 
ftp> binary
 
at the ftp prompt. This allows any kind of data to get through without
change.
 
I hope this works for you.
 
>                         Thanks,
 
Thats ok,
 
>                                Robert Gambs
>                              (S54394GR at ETSUACAD)
 
Frank.
 
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Date: 8 Feb 90 20:40:03 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!sbsvax!roeder@uunet.uu.net  (Edgar Roeder)
Subject: GNU-Emacs 18.55, reported problems (and solutions)
Message-ID: <2688@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
 
Now that GNU-Emacs 18.55 has finally appeared on comp.binaries.atari.st, I
think it's time to summarize some of the problems people had with the
installation.
 
        1. missing termcap file
 
        Although mentioned in the README, the /etc/termcap-file was missing
        in the distribution. Sorry about that. I have posted a sample time
        some time ago here in comp.sys.atari.st.
 
        2. "termcap file not found"
 
        Emacs looks for the termcap file as "\etc\termcap" (this means in the
        directory termcap on the same drive where emacs was started) or it
        looks at the place specified in the environment var TERMCAP. But it
        expects the filename in unix-syntax.
        A value of "\emacs\misc\termcap" IS WRONG (uses \ instead of /).
        A value of "E:/lib/emacs/termcap.em" IS WRONG (uses E: for a drive
        instead of /dev/E as suggested in README).
        A value of "/dev/E/emacs/stuff/termcap" IS OK.
 
        3. "terminal cannot position cursor"
 
        Then you have possibly edited the file or used ascii-file transfer.
        The file contains ~M at the end of the lines. For emacs, ~M is just a
        char like any other. So the backslash intended to mask the end-of-line
        in continuation lines only masks the carriage-return. The next ~J
        (end-of-line) will end the current entry.
        If you see no way to remove the carriage-returns, you can at least
        concatenate all lines of an entry (until you can edit them with emacs).
 
        4. incorrect display, missing characters
 
        There was a bug in the stdio-library used to compile emacs. Therefore
        you cannot use ~J for the 'do'-capability (cursor-down). Please use
        'do=\EB' instead.
 
        5. temacs complains about missing files with dashes in their names
 
        This is a problem of some zoo-versions. For example the zoo compiled
        with Turbo-C (and posted in comp.binaries.atari.st) converts '-' in
        filenames to '_'. You have to rename the files (or use another zoo).
 
        6. temacs is unable to find any lisp file
 
        Temacs will not look in the current directory for lisp files until it
        is dumped. It searches them in "../lisp". So please move the files
        into a directory named lisp.
 
        7. dumpfix says that the two xemacs versions have the same basepage
 
        As mentioned in dumping.txt, you should create the dumps at DIFFERENT
        LOCATIONS IN RAM. You can achieve this by adding another accessory or
        calling a second shell.
 
        8. what are the correct answers to dumpfix' questions ?
 
        I don't know. If you get a problem with the dumped emacs and are not
        sure wether this can be related to "incorrect answers" to the questions
        of dumpfix, you can always try to reproduce the problem with the
        initialized, but not dumped temacs (call "temacs -l loadup.el"). If
        the problem is not there, you can for example switch the two first
        parameters to dumpfix and try again.
 
        9. emacs gets a bus-error (address-error, ...) after the initial screen
 
        See my previous posting about the timeout-problem. Don't apply the
        binary patches posted here some weeks ago. The problem was not so
        easy than i thought after a first look (:-().
 
        10. how can i swap the meanings of Backspace/Delete ?
 
        Please see the regular discussions in comp.emacs and gnu.emacs on
        this topic. The documentation for global-set-key might also help you
        (press Help f global-set-key Return).
 
I think this should be enough for today. If you have more questions (but please
not "can you mail me parts xx-yy?" :-)), you can always send mail.
 
        - Edgar
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Date: 8 Feb 90 18:14:14 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!sbsvax!roeder@uunet.uu.net  (Edgar Roeder)
Subject: GNU-Emacs 18.55, timeout problems
Message-ID: <2683@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
 
Some weeks ago, before emacs came out on comp.binaries.atari.st, i posted a
binary patch for temacs. This patch seems to change the probability of the
bug, which should be fixed from 1:100 to 50:100 (:-(). More and more people
tell me that they have problems with this patch (system crashes after the
timeout for the startup-screen). The correct solution for this problem can't
be done with a simple binary patch (the program size will increase more than
a few bytes).
                So please forget about this patch!
 
The original bug will probably never hit you anyway.
 
        - Edgar
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Mail:  Edgar R\"oder                    E-Mail: roeder@cs.uni-sb.de
       Liesbet-Dill-Stra\ss e 3
D-6602 Dudweiler                               -o-   -o-
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Phone: 06897/74643                               '---'
 
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Date: 7 Feb 90 21:22:35 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!reading!rosemary!adp1@uunet.uu.net  (Andrew Pollard)
Subject: Hard Disk Defragger
Message-ID: <2045@onion.reading.ac.uk>
 
Hello,
 I would like to know if there is a Public Domain Hard Disk Defragger available
for the ST. If so, from where can it be obtained?
 Reply by an article, or email me.....
 
Thanks, Andrew.
 
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                       adp1@uk.ac.reading.cs.rosemary
                        Andrew.Pollard@uk.ac.reading
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Date: 8 Feb 90 14:05:29 GMT
From:
 mcsun!ukc!axion!masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!beta.its.bt.co.uk!jvt@uunet.uu.net
 (John Trickey)
Subject: Review of Sozobon C
Message-ID: <$D6V0=@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
 
In article <521.25cd965f@ccvax.ucd.ie> Padraig writes:
>
> ....... Well this months issue of
>ST World ( the UK mag ) carries a review of both Sozobon and Mark Johnson C.
 
Well there's even more fame on its way.  Another mag (ST Format) has just
started a series on C programming and is using the Sozobon implementation
as its reference.  No guesses for the number of punters who will be raiding
their pd libraries for a copy.
 
 
--
 
John Trickey                      British Telecom IT Systems.
jvt@its.bt.co.uk                  ..!mcsun!ukc!axion!its
G4REV @ GB7SUT                    Voice: +44 21 333 3369
 
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 90 02:08:30 PST
From: "Matthias Heiden, Advanced System Process Development  09-Feb-1990 1107"
 <HEIDEN@KBOMFG.enet.dec.com>
Subject: TOS 1.4 UK Version
Message-ID: <9002091008.AA17166@decwrl.dec.com>
 
In article <4336@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!
 neil@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Neil Forsyth) writes:
 
> Well I now have TOS 1.4 ("Great! Perhaps he'll stop moaning now"),
> I actually had to send Atari UK the blank EPROMs to get it which I guess
> beats anyone elses sob story. Do you think if I send them some chips and
> solder they could make me a TT :-)
 
        Which address did you send your EPROMs to ? Can only registered
        developers use this service ?                   Matthias Heiden
 
 
 
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Date: 8 Feb 90 17:17:35 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!grahamt@uunet.uu.net  (Graham Thomas)
Subject: WORD4.ARC shareware program
Message-ID: <2143@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
 
In ZNET mag recently I saw that a shareware (or possibly PD) program
called WORD4 was available.  This turns WordPerfect 5 (IBM) files into a
format which WordPerfect 4.1 (ST) can handle.  We can make use of such a
program, so could someone please mail it to me?  (Best send a short
message first asking if someone else has already sent it.)  Within
reason, I'd be prepared to mail it on to others.  Arc/Lharc/Zoo +
uuencode is fine.
 
Also, if anyone has got the new NeoDesk trashcan accessory, I'd like to
get that too.  (Yes, I do have a legit. copy of NeoDesk 2.05)
 
Thanks,
 
Graham
 
 
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 JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma  EARN/BITNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk
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