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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Thu, 22 Feb 90       Volume 90 : Issue  245
 
Today's Topics:
                        1040st system for sale
                  520ST RGB --> IBM CGA RGB monitor?
                                Booze
                 C programming. DAs VS PRGs (2 msgs)
                           Developer Forum
                       GDOS fonts.. correction
                         help with DEAD atari
                How to parse strings in Gulaam shell?
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 12:07:23 CST
From: "Norman R. Frech" <frech@mwraaa.army.mil>
Subject: 1040st system for sale
 
for sale:
 
1040st
Monochrome and Color Monitor
 
includes following software:
 
PageStream 1.8
Psion Chess
Leader Board
Dbman (ver 1.xxx, I never upgraded)
Degas Elite
1st Word, BASIC, Neochrome ( came with 1040st)
Misc Magazine Disks (Compute ST, Start, etc..)
Misc Pubdoman Disks (uniterm, etc)
 
I would like to get $900.00 if possible.
 
Please respond to me directly, I don't get the digest.  Thanks!
 
Norm Frech  ( frech@MWRAAA.ARMY.MIL )
 
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"Verbatum regurgitation is against my principles".  Neal - The Young Ones
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Date: 22 Feb 90 14:43:09 GMT
From:
 zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!rob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
  (Rob Logan)
Subject: 520ST RGB --> IBM CGA RGB monitor?
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.144309.5886@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
 
wow, I had no idea this group was so active!! anyway, I got an old 520ST
with 1 meg and a plug in double sided drive for $200 to run my $200 RC
flight simulator..  but this RGB connector on the ST is funny..  does
any one know the pin outs, line levels, or even where to get one of
these connectors so I can attach my old IBM CGA color monitor to it??
Better yet, a turn key cable made by some one would be even better.
Pls send me mail. Thanks.
 
                                Rob
 
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Date: 21 Feb 90 18:32:54 GMT
From: att!cbnewsk!ronw@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (ronald.g.wolenty)
Subject: Booze
Message-ID: <2104@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
 
Could some kind soul mail me a copy of booz?  I have had the zoo
binaries for some time but as they are cleverly compacted using
zoo itself, I have not been able to do anything with them.
Thanks.
 
Ron Wolenty
AT&T Consumer Products
inuxy!wolenty
 
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 12:40:02 GMT
From: Chris Ridd <RiddCJ%computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: C programming. DAs VS PRGs
Message-ID: <9002221240.aa00294@cottontail.Cs.Bham.AC.UK>
 
Richard E. Covert wrote:
>P.P.S. someone mentioned the great docs for the Prospero C compiler but said
>that the GEM AES/VDI was mainly from the DRI IBM version. Does anyone own the
>Prospero?
  Well, I read the Prospero newsletters whenever we get them here, and they
claim all the GEM docs were written from hands-on use.  That is, they ignored
the DRI docs.
 
>P.P.P.S. How about the Lattice C compiler version 5?? I have been trying to
>order it from my local (Phoenix AZ USA) ST store, but no one distributes it
>in the USA yet. Could someone from the UK tell me of a reputable mail order
>company who could ship overseas?? I would really like to get the new version
>of Lattice C from HiSoft. How good are the docs to it??
  It's not shipping yet, and is still in beta test.  Some figures from a
commercial company suggested about a 30% speed improvement, and about 20% code
size improvement.  Your milage may vary (I've always wanted to say that!)
 
    Chris
 
-- Chris Ridd, Computer Science, Birmingham Uni, UK -- RiddCJ@Cs.Bham.Ac.Uk --
 
"'It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it,' said War testily, 'the One
Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse.'" - Sourcery
 
 
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Date: 22 Feb 90 17:45:02 GMT
From: shlump.nac.dec.com!lowlif.dec.com!gilliam@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: C programming. DAs VS PRGs
Message-ID: <8582@shlump.nac.dec.com>
 
In article <48c733f6.14a1f@force.UUCP>, covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
 writes...
 
>
>P.P.S. someone mentioned the great docs for the Prospero C compiler but said
 that
>the GEM AES/VDI was mainly from the DRI IBM version. Does anyone own the
 Prospero?
>Care to comment about the docs?
>
The documentation is excellent. The distinction is between GEM Versions 1.1
(ATARI) and 2.0. Both GEM 1.1 and 2.0 AES/VDI bindings are described in detail.
The documentation clearly states 1.1 and 2.0 features of a particular
bindings or whether the function is new for V2.
 
---
Mason Gilliam
                (INTERNET,UUCP) gilliam@star.enet.dec.com
                (UUCP)          ...!decwrl!star.enet!gilliam
                (INTERNET)      gilliam%star.enet@decwrl.dec.com
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 11:04 EDT
From: <RJOHNSON%CEBAFVAX.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Developer Forum
 
     I was wondering if someone could tell me the net address of the developers
forum on USENET, or even if one exists. I am a registered developer, but I
don't have access to the forums on GENIE, etc... because of restrictions placed
upon me by my own organization. BITNET/USENET/INTERNET etc... are therefore
my only link with the developer forum and program areas. Can anyone help?
Alan? Charles? Dave?
 
"Certain it is and sure,     BITNET:   RJOHNSON@CEBAFVAX
love burns, ale burns,       INTERNET: RJOHNSON%CEBAF2.DNET@SURAGATE.CEBAF.GOV
fire burns, politics burns.  DECNET:   6415::RJOHNSON
But cold is life without     Reality:  Rick R. Johnson
them".- S'Task of ch'Havran  =================================================
 
 
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Date: 21 Feb 90 22:42:00 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!tellabs.c
 anada@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (TELLABS CANADA)
Subject: GDOS fonts.. correction
Message-ID: <90022123012218@masnet.uucp>
 
       I'm sure a few have caught the error in my posting some days ago
regarding the use of GDOS fonts. In my original posting, I'd stated that
the function used to select a font, vst_font(handle,font), required
'font' to be the Nth font loaded by vst_load_fonts.
 
       The function vst_font(handle,font), will load the font whose
unique font id is 'font'. The function returns the actual font set as a
result of the command (ie. its font id).
 
       One thing I neglected to mention in my earlier posting, if you
open more than one virtual workstation a program - if for instance, you
open up a virtual workstation for every window in your application, then
you must call vst_load_fonts(handle,0) for each one in order to access
your GDOS fonts when drawing in that virtual workstation. If the fonts
are already loaded for another virtual workstation, the function will
not load them again. The purpose of the call seems to be a matter of
GEM housekeeping.
 
 
Regards,
 
tellabs.canada@canremote.UUCP (Roman Onyschuk)
 
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The views expressed above, are my own.. Tellabs doesn't even know I hang
out in this newsgroup :-)
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Date: 22 Feb 90 17:18:52 GMT
From: tank!shamash!nic.MR.NET!ns!logajan@mimsy.umd.edu  (John Logajan)
Subject: help with DEAD atari
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.171852.1512@ns.network.com>
 
> Does anyone have or know how to get schematics for
> the Atari-520ST?
 
The original 520ST was released to Howard Sam's ComputerFacts.
 
You can often find these in libraries -- as I did.
 
However, later versions of the 520ST and none of the 1040's and
Mega's have Sam's for them.  I guess Atari decided to keep it
all secret.  Still, except for blitters, etc, the general chip
set is the same (I presume) so the 520ST schematics might be
a good starting off point for other versions.
 
 
--
- John Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428
- logajan@ns.network.com, john@logajan.mn.org, 612-424-4888, Fax 424-2853
 
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Date: 22 Feb 90 14:38:27 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!romwa@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
 (Royal Ontario Museum)
Subject: How to parse strings in Gulaam shell?
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.143827.2827@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
 
Is there any way to parse filenames that are used in Gulaam shell
scripts?  I am trying to convert a whole bunch of dBMAN file from
their PRG extension on XENIX to CMD.
 
 
I want to end up with filename-ext.
 
advTHANKSance
 
Pavneet Arora
...!utgpu!rom!pavneet
 
         or
 
rom!pavneet@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
 
Royal Ontario Museum
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