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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Sat, 27 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue  106
 
Today's Topics:
                             Gulam-Shell
            HELP!! Recovering Hard Disk Using Spectre GCR
                      High Sierra CD-ROM format
                       How to Fix a Dead ST???
                     How to inquire GDOS status ?
                       More info on Turbo C/ST
                             RAM problems
               Words of wisdom on MWC behaviour needed
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 90 13:50
From: "O. Steinmeier"
 <UK14%DKAUNI2.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Gulam-Shell
Message-ID: <"90-01-27-13:50:18.26*UK14"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
 
I got copies of an aphatest version and a betatest version of
the gulam-shell. Both are from 1987, so I wonder if there is a
new release. I would like to get some information how to get
a new version (if it exists).
 
Oliver Steinmeier, Karlsruhe, West-Germany (uk14@dkauni2.bitnet)
 
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 90 11:47 EST
From: S6473HEH%SEMASSU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: HELP!! Recovering Hard Disk Using Spectre GCR
 
Is there anyone out there (DAVE!!?!!) who can help me recover my partition back
back to GEMDOS form SPECTRE format.  I formatted Partition 1 by mistake, and I
would like to restore it to its original form(hopefully without losing all the
programs that used to be on that partition.  I haven't done a physical write to
the partition since I used your SPECTRE.PRG.
 
                                                Thanx, in advance
                                                Hudson E. Hardy III
 
/PJ                                                 SofPJF@VM.UoGuelph.Ca
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If you try to please everyone, somebody is not going to like it.
 
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 90 14:49:29 -0900
From: <FNDDR%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: High Sierra CD-ROM format
 
In message <17179@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM>, Alex Leavens asks:
>Is anybody familiar with the High Sierra CD-ROM format
>spec, and if so, how/where I can get information on it?
A CD-ROM VAR told me last fall that High Sierra was being phased out in
favor of ISO 9660 formatting, which is supposedly upward compatible.  I've
been using their ISO-compatible software with High Sierra disks on a PC with
no problem.  The ISO standard might be easier to obtain...I think that our
library has it on fiche along with the rest of the ISO and ANSI standards.
 
I'm beginning to think that CD-ROM is a passing fad like 8-track audio tapes.
They will probably be popular for another 4-5 years until R/W optical disks
come down in price and increase in speed.  Oh well, 4-5 years is almost
forever in the computer industry.
 
Good luck,
Don Rice   FNDDR@ALASKA.bitnet
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 19:01:42 GMT
From: pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu  (Paul Purdom)
Subject: How to Fix a Dead ST???
Message-ID: <34060@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
 
The Sams schematics for the 520 SR are fairly good. If I remember they cost
about $20.
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 19:07 GMT+0100
From: Thomas-Martin Kruel <kruel%vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: How to inquire GDOS status ?
Message-ID: <6:kruel@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de>
 
Hallo all,
 
   does anybody know how to inquire if GDOS is loaded or not ? Oh yes, I know
that Turbo C comes along with this nice function vq_gdos(), but this appears
not to be a genuine VDI-function.
   Furthermore, I need it for inclusion into Prospero Pascal, which uses GST
object format, not GST format.
   Are there any assembler codings available ? Any undocumented VDI Escapes ?
 
Thanks.
 
 
   Thomas-Martin Kruel
   Inst.f.Physikal.Chemie d.Univ.Wuerzburg
   Marcusstr. 9-11, D-8700 Wuerzburg
 
   BITNET: phch020@dwuuni21.bitnet
   EAN:    kruel@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de
 
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 90 10:04:25 GMT
From: Chris Ridd <RiddCJ%computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: More info on Turbo C/ST
Message-ID: <9001261004.aa00893@benjamin.Cs.Bham.AC.UK>
 
When I looked at the MACCEL2.PRG recently posted in RAINBOW.ARC, there was a
message like 'Turbo C 1.1beta Borland International'.  MACCEL2 was written by
KenB, no?  ie Atari seem to have a copy (or copies) of Turbo.  Lattice 5 is
supposed to blow away Turbo on executable speed, incidentally, so Turbo might
*not* be worth the wait.  I still haven't seen either (being the right side of
the pond doesn't help), so... :-)
 
    Chris
 
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 90 04:14 CDT
From: <JOHNMAR%IITVAX.BITNET@UICVM.uic.edu>
Subject: RAM problems
 
I tried to upgrade my computer to 1 meg.  It did not regester and by the
advice of some of you out there I got the March-B memory tester.  I ran it
and found that the mmu only showed 128k in the bank 1:  I changed the higher
address to 100 000 and it printed out error 'expected 0000, got 0001' and
other times 'expected 0000, got B243.'  Then I ran the program again and
the program found that there were no errors and the mmu showed 512 in 1
 
1:.  I ran it again and again and the program now said it had found no error.
I rebooted and the 512 still showed up in bank 1.  So I tried falcon to see
if the two player option (available on with 1 meg) worked.  The computer
bombed with vertical lines runibombed with vertical lines runi
ng down the screen.  <The computer bombed with vertical lines running down
the screen.  I then checked once again what the mmu said I had in bank 1:
Now it was back to 128k.  Again after the error messages the mmu message
changed to 512k and there were no more error messages.  I tried out Degas Elite
and again the computer bombed.  There were three bombs and then there were the
vertical lines.  Everything that doesn't take advantage of extra memory works
fine.  The error messages start at 80 000 and continued at all addresses.
What sort of error am I looking at?  Are the new ram chips bad or is my
mmu broke or have I hooked something up wrong?  I haven't checked all the
addresses > 80000 but what I did check gave an error message (except for the
times when all the memory tested fine).  Could anyone help me find my problem?
 
Thank you
 
Mark Johnson
johnmar@iitvax
 
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Date: 26 Jan 90 15:25:39 GMT
From: att!dptg!lzsc!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (HC Johnson)
Subject: Words of wisdom on MWC behaviour needed
Message-ID: <1247@lzsc.ATT.COM>
 
In article <633294579.26980@myrias.com>, mj@myrias.com (Michal Jaegermann)
 writes:
> Does anybody has a sage advice what to do with the following
> problem (short of replacing a compiler with something else)?
>
> An attempt to redirect on a command line stdin to come from a file
> causes an 'exit()' routine to bomb out in the most interesting and
> unusual manner. On my screen appears a messege "*** SYSTEM HALTED ***"
> in a company of some other nonsense which informs me that the system
> memeory is exhausted and advise me to use FOLDRXXX.PRG to avoid that.
> Which is obviously bogus.
 
I don't think its bogus.
It sounds as if you have not release some memory from one program to
leave enough for fsel().  AND OR
you have created recursive calls to the system to use up all the system
memory.
 
Give TOS a chance; use foldrxxx.prg to up the space avail to the system.
 
Just an opinion.
 
 
Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
=====NEW address====
att!lzsc!hcj
hcj@lzsc.att.com
 
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