 
INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue,  8 May 90       Volume 90 : Issue  523
 
Today's Topics:
                            format program
         FTP strangeness at dsrgsun (no response to ``dir'')
                     Mail to David Beckemeyer...
          Problems with GNU C++ (aka. G++) - version 1.35.0
                            Revolver again
                    Supercharger question and GDOS
                               Z-Modem
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Date: 8 May 90 07:50:14 GMT
From: snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!fauern!fauern!csbrod@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
 (Claus Brod )
Subject: format program
Message-ID: <2712@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
 
depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) writes:
 
>I also want to be able to format 10 sectors/track. Unfortunately, the
>procedure which writes boot sectors, Protobt, has 4 possible disk
>types, none of which are 10sectors/track.
 
Right, Protobt can give you four different standard disk parameter
sets only. If you want to have your own non-standard format (and
10 sectors are non-standard though perfectly safe) you'll have to
patch your bootsector yourself. No big deal, really, because you can
call Protobt first to create a standard BPB block in your bootsector
and then change some values like sectors per track, sectors per disk
and so on.
 
>And for double-sided disks, isn't it necessary to zero the second
>side of track 0 as well [if it is necessary to do the first side].
 
You should zero all FAT sectors and all sectors of the root directory.
Some early formatters wrote a $E5 pattern to the root directory, but
this leads to very long search times in the root dir. ($E5 means "hey,
GEMDOS, this dir entry has been deleted, but there might be some valid
entry after me").
 
Claus Brod
 
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Date: 8 May 90 08:13:02 GMT
From: mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!praxis!edwin@uunet.uu.net  (Edwin Kremer)
Subject: FTP strangeness at dsrgsun (no response to ``dir'')
Message-ID: <3224@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
 
In article <1990May7.131415.5753@diku.dk> jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk
(Jens Tingleff) writes:
 
   | When doing anonymous FTP to dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu, I can't get any
   | response to the ``dir'' or ``ls -l'' commands. FTP opens an
   | ASCII mode connection, waits, and reports that the transmission
   | is terminated; no data is written to the screen.
 
Yep. I've the same problem here. Even a simple "ls" fails from one
of our systems (Harris HCX-9). Judging from the fancy message of the
day that is displayed at dsrgsun, Bammi must be running a hacked up
version of FTP; it's probably just a bit to much hacked up ;-)
 
 
                                                --[ Edwin ]--
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Date: 8 May 90 04:18:47 GMT
From: unisoft!bdt!david@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (David Beckemeyer)
Subject: Mail to David Beckemeyer...
Message-ID: <2459@bdt.UUCP>
 
In article <3025@ultb.isc.rit.edu> rcc9885@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.C. Costello)
 writes:
>Dave,
>
>   I have been told that you can use The DCPort with RTX, but I need to
>know how.  I don't want to invest alot of time developing a package without
>know how to do this.
 
I'm answering this here because I couldn't get mail to Mr. Costello and
because a lot of people have asked about this lately.
 
I have just finished a first cut at RTX DC-Port drivers.  I think I will
give the source back to Double-Click and let them decide what to do with
it reather than sell it.  The other drivers I have for RTX I sell for $100.
 
I have posted to GEnie a description of the specifications of the RTX
d_cntrl interface for "standard" TTY drivers (i.e. how you check for carrier
and control DTR, etc.)  If there is interest, I can either mail this
documentation to those interested, or perhaps post it.
 
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Date: Tue, 08 May 90 11:26
From: "Andreas Wiethoff"
 <UA1S%DKAUNI2.BITNET@forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Problems with GNU C++ (aka. G++) - version 1.35.0
Message-ID: <"90-05-08-11:26:57.23*UA1S"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
 
Is there somebody out there having some experience with G++?
After installing it to work with Gemini/Mupfel (I had to patch the file
'g++.ttp'; no '+'-chars in names of environmentvars allowed, but G++
requires 'G++LIB' and 'G++INC'), taking the next hurdle: The
preprocessor 'gcc-cpp.ttp' has the same name as the preprocessor from
GNU CC, but it is especially designed for G++; I discovered some more
serious problems:
The usual
  printf("hello C world\n"):
program compiles and runs fine, but doing the same using streams:
  cout << "hello C++ world\n";
It compiles, but (I think) the linker shows up with the cryptic message
  "Bogon alert!  wrote 400 syms, expected to write 445"
What does THIS mean???
Another problem is as follow:
Compiling programs with syntax errors often results in dropping two
bombs, afterwards, I get the correct error messages about the syntax
errors, everything works fine again. This can't be o.K...
 
Is there anywhere a newer version of G++ than 1.35.0. (I can FTP from
here.)
Does any other C++-Compiler exist for the ST?
Any comments, any help welcome!
 
Andreas Wiethoff
 
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Date: 8 May 90 07:48:17 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!hyc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
 (Howard Chu)
Subject: Revolver again
Message-ID: <11950@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
 
In article <3358@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan
 EZUST) writes:
>Can anyone confirm or deny this rumour please? If Intersect
>is dropping support for Revolver, what should I get instead?
 
I've had real good luck with SwitchBack, from Alpha Systems. It's
a hardware/software package, and it's nearly infallible. (The only
real problem I've noticed is that I lose the sound when I Switch
during DungeonMaster...) I don't know of many dealers who carry
their products, but you can always order direct from them.
--
  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
  ... the glass is always greener on the side ...
 
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Date: 8 May 90 02:52:42 GMT
From:
 swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!aplcen
 !jhunix!rick@ucsd.edu  (Eric Ruck)
Subject: Supercharger question and GDOS
Message-ID: <5199@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
 
In article <29667@cup.portal.com> buggs@cup.portal.com (William Edward JuneJr)
 writes:
>>Wayne,
>>wngai@paris.ics.uci.edu
>>Hi, can someone please tell me what intel processor does the supercharger
>>uses, is it 286?
>
>I understand it to use a V20 or 30 processor, NO Intel processor.
>
>Gee, now WHERE ARE the '386 emulators, I'd like one of those!
>Ed June
>
 
Darndest thing...I just bought a 386/20 with 1024X768X256 colors out of
who knows how many, 4 megs RAM, 65 MByte hard drive, 2 floppies, and the
whole thing cost me not much more than my mono Mega 2 system.  Don't get
me wrong, I'm not abandoning my Atari (I need a Mac, or an ST that thinks
it's a Mac, running next to the PC) but this power without the price thing
is really a myth.  All it really is is Mac OS without the price.
 
Eric
 
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Date: 6 May 90 21:53:44 GMT
From:
 usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!einoed!utopia!neon!woju@ucsd.e
 du  (Wolfgang Jung)
Subject: Z-Modem
Message-ID: <1066@neon.UUCP>
 
Is there anyone, who has a real nice working RZ and SZ, which behaves
just like those found on this XENIX-Machine here(sending one DATAstrap)
The Version i have waits allways for the receiver to call for MORE Data.
 
If there is someone, who got those, could he post them to me...
And should he have the coresponding sources and they are PD, than i would
be glad to get those too..
 
 
 
Thanx in Advance
 
 
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