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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue,  6 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  162
 
Today's Topics:
               DEGAS Elite, Pub Partner Deskjet Drivers
                          LDW POWER problem
                   Marketing Kibbitz--Not Technical
                            Right Way?????
                             SLM804 & TeX
                               Warship
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Date: 6 Feb 90 10:23:56 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!thor.acc.stolaf.ed
 u!agnes.acc.stolaf.edu!pritchaj@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (John Pritchard)
Subject: DEGAS Elite, Pub Partner Deskjet Drivers
Message-ID: <11175@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
 
Could someone please post print drivers for an HP Deskjet to a FTP or
achive site for the following packages?
 
        Publishing Partner 1.2
        Degas Elite
 
Thanks in advance....
John Pritchard
1 North College
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
 
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 90 09:53:34
From: Rat <S61304%PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: LDW POWER problem
 
(From "The Masked Rat Fink"   "Computing and Informatics Yr4")
 
I have a problem with LDW POWER Spreadsheet and would like to know if any
other users have this problem. The version of LDW that I am running is
UK Version 1.03 (c) 1988, and I have a 520 STFM w/ 1meg.
 
The problem comes when printing out a spreadsheet (I use 70 line paper
instead of the more usual 66 line paper, although it doesn't seem to matter
how many lines I tell LDW I have!). During printing LDW inserts about 4 or 5
blank lines in the printout (whether to printer or file) in what seemed a
random manner at first, then I noticed that the position of the extra blank
lines seemed to be moving up the page each time I printed, until it reached
the top and then it would cycle round and start from the bottom again!
 
At the moment to get round it I am printing to a file and then editing it
using a text editor to remove the extra lines before printing.
 
Also, I have remembered to clear all the possible things that I could either
think of or find in the manual, such as margins etc.
 
Any help here would be appreciated, I remember seeing a number of people
talk about LDW and so I hope that someone out there has an answer.
 
Many thanks
 
Rat.
 
| Simon Chappell (The Masked Rat Fink)
| Computing and Informatics (Final Year), Polytechnic South West (Plymouth)
|
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| than the pride that divides, when a colourful rag is unfurled." - RUSH
|
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| Disclaimer: 'And you believed ME?' <falls on floor laughing>
 
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Date: 6 Feb 90 14:17:00 GMT
From: hp-sdd!apollo!rehrauer@hplabs.hp.com  (Steve Rehrauer)
Subject: Marketing Kibbitz--Not Technical
Message-ID: <487b7e9b.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
 
In article <19140@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> squibby@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Clark L.
 Breyman) writes:
>               Considering the amount of net traffic devoted to finding
>       reliable dealers, wouldn't it make sense for Atari to adopt a
>       similar policy and secure rights to distribute the good Atari
>       PD and shareware ( FSF software, Sozobon, ARC, ZOO, Gulam, TeX,
>       Uniterm...) with the computer.
 
I believe this has been asked before, with the official Atari response
being something along the lines of "it isn't our job to do that" / "we
don't have the time/money to do that" / "we don't want to distribute
stuff we don't have complete control over (ie: 'not invented here')".
(Ken and Allen and the rest of the hard-working crew at Atari, that wasn't
a knock on you.)  If there has been a change in policy regards this, it'd
be a welcome one.
 
I agree; in most parts of the U.S. it's tough to find any lifeform
vaguely resembling an ST dealer, let alone an excellent one.  Such a
"starter kit" would be a nice bonus.  Probably only 25% of it would be
deemed useful to any particular ST buyer, but surely everyone would
find something to be happy about.  I very much enjoyed getting Neochrome
when I bought my ST, and even ST BASIC and LOGO were worth a few
chuckles.  None of those influenced my decision to buy an ST, but then,
in 1985 (was it really that long ago??) nothing else on the market even
came close to the bang for the buck.  (The Amiga was introduced several
months after I bought my ST, so no flames from the Commodore row, please.)
In 1990 it very well might make a big difference to people.
 
> It would be a hit to their compiler
>       set (Alcyon tools), but wouldn't it they make it up in computer
>       sales?
 
Atari is a Hardware Company (tm).  Hardware Companies sell Hardware.
Hardware Companies don't use Software to sell Hardware; Software is
just a parasitical yet unavoidable fact of life to a Hardware Company.
 
>       If this is not the forum for this sort of posting, please flame
>       me by mail and I will refrain from further such postings.
 
Well, actually this is the forum for Bashing Atari, Spreading the True
Atari Religion, Uncovering Grand Conspiracies, and Indiscriminate Flammage
on All Sides.  But since you were so polite, in your case we'll allow an
otherwise heretical Thoughtful Suggestion, just this once...  ;-)
 
--
>>"Aaiiyeeee!  Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
   "Flee, lest we be trod upon!"    | The Apollo System Division of H.P.
 
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Date: 6 Feb 90 14:24:00 GMT
From: hp-sdd!apollo!rehrauer@hplabs.hp.com  (Steve Rehrauer)
Subject: Right Way?????
Message-ID: <487b8506.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
 
In article <1990Feb5.181710.17028@uokmax.uucp> gefagan@uokmax.uucp (Geoffrey
 Edward Fagan) writes:
>In article <25C9E532.8848@paris.ics.uci.edu> wngai@ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai)
 writes:
>>Can anyone of you people out there tell me the answer to the following
>>brainteaser???
>>
>>      Ok, you are in a Jungle and it is getting dark. You must find
>>your way out of the jungle.  In the Jungle lived two tribes, one tribe
>>is good and always tells the truth while the other tribe is bad and
>>alway tells lies.  You are on a dirty path and came upon a Y-intersection.
>>Right in front of you is a sign pointing right and reads "This way to
>>Safty------->".  Behind the sign is a native, You can only ask him
>>one question with a yes or no Answer to determine if the native is telling the
>> truth or lie and determine which way is the right way out of the jungle.
>>Remember you are Allow to ask only one question and it must have a yes
>>or no anwer.
>
>Ok, grab the native.  Grab your elephant gun.  Place the business end of the
>gun against the skull of the native.  State "I need to know if this path
>leads to safety and I'm gonna take you with me to find out." Finally, ask,
>"Do you suggest the left path?"
 
At which point the crummy Infocom parser chokes, the game responds "I don't
know how to 'YOU'", your machine locks, your harddrive fries, your power-
supply explodes, the carpeting catches fire, you inhale noxious fumes from
burning polyesters, and you die thinking, "Gee, I coulda had a life..."
 
Why is this cross-posted to comp.sys.atari.st anyway??
--
>>"Aaiiyeeee!  Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
   "Flee, lest we be trod upon!"    | The Apollo System Division of H.P.
 
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 90 08:14:08 GMT
From: Mr. Simon Mark Christie
 <XUUM23%PRIME-A.CENTRAL-SERVICES.UMIST.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: SLM804 & TeX
Message-ID: <$TGGHCZZBBNZV at UMPA>
 
Does anyone have experience using the SLM804 with TeX/LaTeX. I
have got TeX up and running and use the excellent program DVI2SLM
to output the results. The output however is not very good. Now as
I understand it the SLM is a 300dpi laser printer same as the HP
laser, Apple laser etc. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong
as the output I get at the standard 10pt size is -please excuse- very
thin. By that I mean eg. in cmr10 the lower sweep of the 'e' character
actually breaks into seperate dots. Someone at this site suggested
using METAFONT. I did get it working but I have no idea of the
setting for the SLM. Can someone i) send me the '.MF' file for the
SLM804 (this has to be mainly for interest as it takes a long....time
to make even CMR10) and ii) direct me to a place where I might get
the fonts - I can do mail but I'm not sure if I can FTP anywhere not
in the UK.
As I only get to read the list intermittently could you mail me and
I'll make up a summary and post it to the list.
Many thanks in advance
 
Steve C.
 
 
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Date: 6 Feb 90 14:36:18 GMT
From: pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (Paul Purdom)
Subject: Warship
Message-ID: <35052@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
 
If you are a fan of the game warship, I now have a copy of a program to print
out a human readable form of the save game file. If you want to know what use
this program has, it does not have much. You can optain most of the
information that it gives you by saving the game, restarting in two player
mode, and using the game itself to tell you all the information about both
sides. However, if you want to understand some of the bugs in the game, it
provides useful information.
 
Warship is a fine game inspite of little bugs. The bugs don't make the game
crash, they just play a little lose with the laws of physics. Some of them
probably result from the original version be crammed into an 8 bit machine.
 
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