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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Fri, 26 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue  104
 
Today's Topics:
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           Chaos Strikes Back - Call for experienced people
                              DUCK31.PRG
                             FTP sites ?
                                ICONE2
                          SLM804 / HP LJIIp
               Words of wisdom on MWC behaviour needed
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Date: 26 Jan 90 18:16:57 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!w
 atserv1!watdragon!tiger!swklassen@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Steven W. Klassen)
Subject: (none)
Message-ID: <20217@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <9001260803.AA27568@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
 <FTJLH%ALASKA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> writes:
>RE: any Minix packages for sale out there?
>    this seems like a good idea, since Mr Tanenbaum wrote the text I'm
>about to start reading one of these nights. thanks       j harris\fairbanks
 
You can order Minix-ST from Prentice-Hall.  The people
on comp.os.minix should be able to help you out more (my book was
an old one which only had offers for the PC version of Minix - I
got my copy of Minix-ST from a guy who ordered it but decided he
didn't want it).  I'm cross-posting this message there.
 
 
Steven W. Klassen                       +-----------------------------+
Computer Science Major                  | Support the poor...buy fur! |
University of Waterloo                  +-----------------------------+
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 15:45:25 GMT
From: haven.umd.edu!cwilliam@mimsy.umd.edu  (Christopher 'Merlin' Williamson)
Subject: Chaos Strikes Back - Call for experienced people
Message-ID: <CWILLIAM.90Jan26104525@brillig.umd.edu>
 
Anyone out there played Chaos Strikes Back a lot?  I have explored all
four branches but am trying to tie everything together.
 
Also has anyone out there tried to make a map of CSB?  (god, it would
be a nightmare but Im curious what it would look like)
 
Finally, my characters fell down the multiple pits in the Priest
section which dumps you in the lower level with a zillion worms.  The
one where you have worms behind and in front of you and the only
escape is to kill one and back up...  Well, I got outta there and have
been doing well in the game since.  Only problem is that one of my
characters died in that one square in between the halves of that big
room and I cannot get back down there to get my characters bones and
goodies.  I would be grateful for some help.
 
Blitzkreig ('tanks in advance),
 
Chris
 
 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
     What I have said above may or may not be fact, you be the judge...
 
  Christopher Williamson | cwilliam@brillig.umd.edu | Arpa/InterNet
  Human-Computer Int Lab | cwilliam@UMDD            | BitNet
  Univ. of Maryland      |...!uunet!brillig!cwilliam| UUCP
  College Pk, MD 20740   | (301) 454 - 1517         | If all else fails
 
    " Horses are born trying to kill themselves.
          The best we can do is make it difficult for them... "
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 16:26:08 GMT
From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu  (Mike Matthews)
Subject: DUCK31.PRG
Message-ID: <6011@umd5.umd.edu>
 
In article <900125.16412988.013314@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252)
 writes:
>Hello all,
>
[stuff deleted]
>    If anyone can provide clues on how programs behave when booted
>from powerup from within A:/AUTO/ and when the hard drive is also
>given power at the same time, I sure would be appreciative.
>    ...just another reason why I wish we had some documentation.  SIGH
>    Note that DUCK31.PRG is available at Panarthea and on GEnie.
>
>Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
 
It could be that some hard drives, when queried, will lock the bus if they
aren't ready yet.  I had bus-locking problems (conflict between a Conner CP340
and just about the rest of my hard drive system...), and the no-floppy-icons
symptom sounds reeeeal familiar.
 
Mike
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 17:07:34 GMT
From: mcsun!inria!irisa!sanchez@uunet.uu.net  (Patrick Sanchez)
Subject: FTP sites ?
Message-ID: <1983@irisa.irisa.fr>
 
From article <9001260802.AA27507@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by
 K298027@CZHRZU1A.BITNET (Michael Mueller):
> Just two days ago, Joachim Vance gave a list of available anonymous ftp sites.
> Most of these sites were situated in the US. What about Europe ?
>
> P.S.: What does I.P. Address mean ? Are there interesting subdirecories at the
> simtel20.army.mil milnet node ?
>
> Please reply via EARN/BITNET: K298027@CZHRZU1A or in this conference.
try our ftp site
 
131.254.2.3     irisa.fr
 
We've got the last four volumes of comp.binaries.atari.st and
some other stuff
 
Patrick SANCHEZ
INRIA-IRISA (Rennes) Campus de Beaulieu  F-35042 Rennes Cedex  FRANCE
PHONE : +33  99 36 20 00 ext 492             EMAIL : sanchez@irisa.fr
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 16:55:09 GMT
From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekig5!roberth@uunet.uu.net  (Robert W Hall)
Subject: ICONE2
Message-ID: <5469@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
 
In article <1979@irisa.irisa.fr> decouty@irisa.fr (Bertrand Decouty) writes:
>I feel that icone.acc does not work under tos1.4, at least under french
>tos1.4 :-).
>It is our observation, from two different users.
It doesn't work for me, either, and I'm using TOS 1.2.
-Bob
 
 
roberth@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Robert A (not W) Hall)
 
Opinions expressed here are mine (Robert A Hall), not Tektronix',
and not Robert W Hall's.  (I'll have to get that straightened out.) :-)
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 18:24:53 GMT
From: weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Andrew Weaver)
Subject: SLM804 / HP LJIIp
Message-ID: <76233@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
 
Global Computer Supplies, February 1990 catalog:
 
Pacific Page - a cartridge-based (that is, the size of an HP font cart)
Postscript language interpreter for "your existing HP LaserJet II or
Canon LBP8-II".  Includes 35 scalable fonts (I assume these are of the
Apple LaserWriter II variety, namely Helv, Times, Courier, NC SchBk, etc.)
One year warranty. -- list $699 discount $599.
 
Global Computer Supplies
2249 Windsor Court, Dept. 11
Addison, IL 60101
1 800 8GLOBAL
(Fax) (708) 627 1742
 
(standard disclaimers apply.)
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 18:10:26 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!tiger!swklassen@
 tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Steven W. Klassen)
Subject: Words of wisdom on MWC behaviour needed
Message-ID: <20216@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
 
In article <633294579.26980@myrias.com> mj@myrias.com (Michal Jaegermann)
 writes:
>
>All test programs work beautifuly, echoing nicely input, until they
>hit exit(). THE CRASH does not happen when there are run under msh, OR
>when run under msh or gulam but were compiled with MWC-zed dLibs
>libraries.  But I need a floating point, which dLibs does not support.
>An attempt to use MWC printf with dLibs was partially successful in
>that the the program behaves nicely and exits in a clean manner but it
>does not print anything at all (probalby due to incompatible internal
>structures).
 
To be honest I had a hard time understanding your post.  Perhaps you
could repost, rewording things so it is a bit clearer.
 
One thing that I did understand is that you are having a problem
printing floating point from MWC.  Since printing floating point
can take a fair bit of code and since most programs don't bother
with floating point, the printf function in MWC does not normally
support floating point.  If you want to print floating point variables
you use printf as you would normally but you have to specify an
extra flag in the 'cc' statement to tell MWC to include the floating
point stuff.
 
This should all be explained in the MWC manual (probably under 'printf'
or under 'cc') and I suggest you look there since I have not used
floating point with MWC for quite some time (ie. I may not be
entirely correct).
 
Steven W. Klassen                       +-----------------------------+
Computer Science Major                  | Support the poor...buy fur! |
University of Waterloo                  +-----------------------------+
 
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