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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Wed,  3 Jan 90       Volume 90 : Issue    7
 
Today's Topics:
                          1040 ST for Sale.
             Changing Rez:  What we _really_ want to know
       GnuEmacs 18.51-- should emacs be a PRG?//req for srcs...
                       My request about menus.
                        PC-DITTO II:  status?
             Subscribing to comp.sys.atari.st from BITNET
                      system() call in dlibs120
                     TURTLE 3.0'S archive option
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Date: 3 Jan 90 23:47:53 GMT
From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!coho.TEKTRONIX.COM!garya@uunet.uu.net
Subject: 1040 ST for Sale.
Message-ID: <5770@orca.wv.tek.com>
 
Hardware:
        Atari 1040st with tos 1.4
        Atari Monitor
        Micropolis 40 meg hard drive. (Without case or power supply)
        Supra ST -> SCSI controller and software.
        Clock module.
 
Software:
        Laser 'C' V2.1
        VIP Professional
        Turbo kit for hard drive. Michtron.
        ArtStudio.
  Games:
        Flight Simulator II
        Breach
        Battle Tech
        Dungeon Master + hint book.
        Starfleet
        Elite
        Zak McKracken and the Alien mind benders.
        Plus about 10 others.
 
Everything is in good condition.
 
 
Price $1500.00
 
If interested call me:
                        work (503)-685-2674
                        home (503)-692-6117
 
 
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                           SPAWN TIL' YA DIE
 
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Date: 4 Jan 90 00:27:42 GMT
From: eunomia!bro@rice.edu  (Douglas Monk)
Subject: Changing Rez:  What we _really_ want to know
Message-ID: <4096@brazos.Rice.edu>
 
Thought I might drop in my 2 cents:
 
I typically write routines dostart() and doexit(exitval) in programs
which run in low res but for which I want to use 80 columns:
 
dostart saves the current resolution and if it is low res, changes
to high res and plays with the palette (and whatever other changes I
need, like turning on the cursor, etc.). Thus dostart contains a call
Setscreen(-1L, -1L, 1) as needed - and it doesn't crash.
 
doexit restores the original palette and resolution, and then calls
exit(exitval). Thus doexit contains a call Setscreen(-1L, -1L, 0) as
needed - and it doesn't crash.
 
I just call doexit then wherever I would be calling exit otherwise.
If the system crashes, I might be screwed up, but the worst would be to have
the parent wind up in the wrong resolution with funny colors, and that can
be fixed. But my programs do not crash :-) of course.
 
I use a program like this from my auto folder - but only use bios and xbios
calls in it.
 
Doug Monk
 
Disclaimer: These views are mine, not necessarily my organization's.
 
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Date: 3 Jan 90 22:19:43 GMT
From: snorkelwacker!paperboy!pnh@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Peter Harbo)
Subject: GnuEmacs 18.51-- should emacs be a PRG?//req for srcs...
Message-ID: <PNH.90Jan3171943@pmin24.osf.org>
 
I have obtained Edgar Roeder's GNUemacs port from wuarchive.wustl.edu,
and other sites but when I copy it to my ST it does not copy as an executable.
Is this a problem in the copying or is there another step in the emacs
build, like temacs -> xemacs in the UNIX build? help.
 
Also, it would be great if source diff's could be published and cross-posted
to comp.os.minix since a number of people are interested in porting
GNU emacs to minix....
 
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Date: 3 Jan 90 23:36:51 GMT
From:
 cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!vms.macc.wisc
 .edu@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Neil Gilmore)
Subject: My request about menus.
Message-ID: <2909@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
 
>Call in C:
>       vro_copyfm(handle,wr_mode,pxyarray,&psrcMFDB,&pdesMFDB);
>
>Hopes this helps.
 
Sorry, it doesn't. Neither did any of the other numerous C examples. I
need a working example in assembly. C does quite a lot of the work
itself, and an example in it covers up details which I might need
(that's why you use C, right?).
 
I'll be posting an analysis of the menu probably sometime next week.
 
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| Kitakaze Tatsu Raito  Neil Gilmore     internet:gilmore@macc.wisc.edu |
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Date: 3 Jan 90 22:50:25 GMT
From: opus!verdi!whack@lanl.gov  (Warren J Hack)
Subject: PC-DITTO II:  status?
Message-ID: <478@opus.NMSU.EDU>
 
I have been away from the NET postings for a while now and I
know this question has been asked before, but I need confirmation
for a friend.  My friend ordered PC-DITTO II using the coupon
and had not received it yet.  Could someone tell me how things are
going on the distribution of these boards?
 
Thanks much.
 
Warren J. Hack
whack@nmsu.edu
 
Warren J. Hack               Dept. of Astronomy, New Mexico State
whack@nmsu.edu               "I'm just a poor grad. student"
Disclaimer:  Only I am responsible for what I say (God help me).
 
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Date: 3 Jan 90 16:05:38 GMT
From: clubok@husc4.harvard.edu  (Ken "The Snake" Clubok)
Subject: Subscribing to comp.sys.atari.st from BITNET
Message-ID: <3535@husc6.harvard.edu>
 
I have a friend who has no USENET, no INTERNET, only BITNET.  Is it
possible for him to subscribe to comp.sys.atari.st through a mail server,
and if so, how?
Ken Clubok
clubok@husc4.bitnet
clubok@husc4.harvard.edu
 
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Date: 3 Jan 90 01:06:48 GMT
From: lectroid!cloud9!jjmhome!m2c!wpi!mkentley@CS.BU.EDU  (Michael J Kentley)
Subject: system() call in dlibs120
Message-ID: <6453@wpi.wpi.edu>
 
        I've been having a problem with the system() call in the dlibs120
library with Sozobon C, and I'm hoping that someone can help me out.
        My bbs program uses the system() call to execute outside programs
(online games, file transfer, and STadel networking).  When I run the bbs
under Gulam or JSH, there are no problems.  Outside programs run normally.
However, to save 100K of RAM, I wanted to run the system without a shell,
leaving approx. 250K of RAM to run Galactic Empires etc.
        To run the bbs without a shell, I put a program in my \auto
folder set up the environment. From GEM, I run the bbs program.  The first
few times it calls outside programs, there is no problem.  After calling
a few different programs via system(), the whole bbs keels over with
2 or 3 bombs, at some point during the execution of the system() call.
        It looks like the problem is somewhere within the forkvpe() call that
system makes to run the program, but I really don't have a clue where to start
looking.
        Any help with this would be appreciated.
        Thanks,
        Michael Kentley
        The RAM BBS
        617-327-1181
 
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Date: 03 JAN 90 18:12:02 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: TURTLE 3.0'S archive option
Message-ID: <900103.18120124.038086@SFA.CP6>
 
George Woodside writes:
 
>>(If anyone has a few 300 day weeks they can spare, I could use them. :?).
>Working for a living sure cuts into my day.
 
 
    Now, George, you know if you got those extra 300 day weeks, that you'd
be even further behind.  GRIN  (more projects to do!)
    Your efforts and work are appreciated---IN A BIG WAY!  *THANKS*
 
>Meanwhile, there is a more frequently occurring problem dealing with
>directory create failures in the RAMdisk, which I've been trying to
>re-create. When I can get that to occur reliably, I can deal with
>it and the archive bit.
 
    I can get the directory failure to occur when I DON'T disable
ICD's buffers in their version 4.0 hard drive driver.  By killing
their buffered cache, my backups are reliable, with the exception
of the archive bit.
    At any rate, and again, thanks for your work, George!
 
Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
 
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