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#4765-
Bugreport n+
Message #4766
Christian, I've mailed out the V2.01 update notice to all registered V2.00 TxEd Plus owners, so if you haven't gotten the notice it's because I never got a registration card from you. Some of your requests are cleared up in V2.01, and I'll address as many of the other issues…
Jay – we'll be sending out another round of TxEd Plus update offers to owners of earlier versions of TxEd who did not upgrade to TxEd Plus when the V2.02 package is available (after the initial rush to handle getting V2.02 out to TxEd Plus owners). If you'd like to…
HUMM Im a TxEd (nothing) owner. I didnt upgrade to the plus version. Can I still do so?
I'll remove it promptly. FYI I have been running Blitzdisk for a couple of months on my 2090/st-251 setup with no problems. — Art
We gotta get whawes over here to answer AREXX things. My guess is you could put quotes around "REXX:", give that a try?
#PushCD in TxEd macro?
Message #4536
I'd like to change Current Directory with TxEd ARexx macro, ideally via WsHell's PushCD, but the one-liner * A Pushy TxEd macro*/ Address command PushCD REXX: is giving me Error 41 in line 3 Invalid Expression, which I think is due to the colon. What I am trying to accomplish…
I'll be testing BlitzDisk 2.0 with my CLTD controller soon. Now I've got it running with the StarDrive on the A1000, and a 2090 on the A2000, with betaS ters running on various drives. …cheath
I won't, I promise!!! Have you tried out the new one with any of the C-Ltd setups yet? Ron
Thanks for spreading the word, Ron. The FFS-compatible version of BlitzDisk will be available shortly as patch file "BDFIX1.ARC", we' re in final stages of testing now to insure that it will work with as many different vendor's hard drives as we can verify. Please do NOT use the current…
Yes – please do NOT use BlitzDisk V1.1 with an FFS hard disk, as we mentioned in the manual a year ago we didn't know if it would be safe and indeed it is not. There will be an update available shortly, which will be in patch file "BDFIX1.ARC" here…
We are releasing a new version of BlitzDisk that is FFS-compatible, and will indeed speed up most FFS hard disks depending your setup. The currently released version of BlitzDisk, which comes with the TxEd Plus package, is not safe to use with FFS, but we will be offering an update…
Art, to repeat for the 3rd time today – DON'T USE BLITZDISK WITH FFS until he releases an update. As for txed2.01 it is available here on the amiga forums if you are a registered owner and have the original disk. Ron
cheath, I just go a letter from you informing me about the TxEd+ 2.01 upgrade and saying I should not use Blitzdisk on a FFS disk. Huh? Can I or can't I use the Blitzdisk that came on my TxEd+ 2.00 disk? — Art
OH NO! I just reinstalled BlitzDisk on my FFS partition, with 1.3 chips and now it appears that I may have problems? I`ve done a lot of work since I reinstalled it @ a week ago, and haven't noticed any problems, but I gather from this thread that I should…
Another Dumb question
Message #4484
Does BlitzDisk offer speed improvments when used with 1.3 FFS? If so were does one get such a program?
The problems with the old BlitzDisk and FFS would appear when you read back something that has been written to the FFS partition. It is a definite problem, and I'd rather that nobody were using the old BlitzDisk with FFS, but it doesn't sound like what you're describing. But if…
#Blitzdisk vs ffs, 1.3?
Message #4333
Cheath, I'd been using blitzdisk all along even under FFS and 1.3 WB on my 2000 until yesterday with not a hint of trouble. Last night, I finally put in my 1.3 rom chip, and within a few minutes my 2000 was going crazy on file writes. Now, it may…
That is correct. The JX-100 hand scanner does not require a Twin-X board and therefore, can be used on the A500 as well as the A1000. How's that?
#4205-
#A couple of Questions
Message #4213
Hmmm, does the RS232 mean, then that it won't require the Twin-X board to make it work? I read RS232 as par: or Ser:, right?
#4139-
A couple of Questions
Message #4150
True that an FFS hard-disk doesn't need cache nearly as much as floppies, or as OFS, but for many things caching still improves performance even with FFS. On my 2620 card / FFS 2090 40Meg HD I've had make times cut by 50% using BlitzDisk V2.0. Some other things are…
#4132-
A couple of Questions
Message #4149
Ron – we gave permission to Commodore to use FastFonts, but not BlitzDisk. BlitzDisk is still a for-sale-by-Microsmiths-only program. Regarding responses to Perry, I won't initiate this sort of thing but when Perry gets out of line I will respond. But not 'till after Christmas, the boss says no more…
#4139-
A couple of Questions
Message #4141
I think you'll find in rereading my message that it contains reasoned arguments concerning the merit of FFS caching systems. I'm quite sure you'll find no personal aspersions. I'm also quite sure that the un- fortunate exchange between Ed and myself which took place two years ago, will not be…
Perry has problems with feathers in other people's caps. I'm just happy to be able to provide our customers with quality software, regardless of what the competition's doing. …cheath
Perry, BlitzDisk DOES speed up hard disks, even with FFS, and does it safely and reliably. Microsmiths has at least equal quality standards as ASDG. Microsmiths is very loyal to it's customers. I wish you'd stick to worrying about how ASDG conduct's it's business rather than throwing mud at others.…
C'mon Perry. We all respect your products and certainly your right to be controversial, but your innuendos are out of line here. Like yourself, cheath has been an ardent supporter of the Amiga and has put out top quality products right from the beginning. As far as people who paid…
Nothing of the sort. Rather, providing hard disk support for a caching system (now) seems not to be in the customer's best interest. I cite the following reasons: 1. The Fast File System acheives much of its speed improvement by el- iminating the buffering step between the user's program and…
I've been a very satisfied user of FaccII for a very long time, but since I now use a hard disk most of the time, I'm forced to look elsewhere for speed improvement. Why have you not upgraded Facc to work with hard disks? Is it that you're concentrating on…
#4080-
A couple of Questions
Message #4108
Thanks for the info, cheath. As I'm addicted to Emacs, I do not think that I will purchage TxEd+ (though I'm sure it's a superb product 😉 ), but I will surely be interested in obtaining BlitzDisk. I would therefore strongly recommend that you do market it separately. – Steve…
Beg to differ with you, but the Info magazine comparison between FACC and BlitzDisk to be comparable in performance, and easier to use; and that was for the original BlitzDisk, not BlitzDisk 2.0. "Both provide similarly spectacular improvements in disk speed, and both are well-behaved. But FastFonts/BlitzDisk provides much more…
Note that Blitzdisk appears to be an ongoing product, but FaccII appears to be on sentry duty.
#4077-
#A couple of Questions
Message #4081
I point you towards several reviews which compared FaccII and that other program head to head. In each case the reviewer found FaccII to be superiour for objective reasons such as performance and features as well as subjective reasons such as ease of use and ergonomics.
Yes…completely fill the JLINKed drive the first time you use it and then unlink it. Then re-link and delete those files and then start using the virtual drive normaly. I suspect what happened is that when you did the binddrivers, right after that you changed directories and probably made some…
#26101-
#Bridecard/JLINK
Message #26145
The symptoms that you are reporting concerning ARead and AWrite sound like a problem that I encountered (and resolved). When I issued the 'binddrivers' command in my startup sequence, the 'pc' and 'sidecar' directories did not exist on the _current_ Sys: disk. They were present when I later ran any…
#26125-
#Bridecard/JLINK
Message #26135
SUCCESSSSSSS!!!!! I was at dealers today looking at the new a2500.He mentioned that his bridgecard wasn't working since he'd reformatted and restored his hard drive.I started fooling around and at one point noticed that during boot when the binddrivers command was executing the IBM sides drive lite wasn't coming on.…
#25875-
#WB/CLI Interface
Message #25970
The runnable extensions are these: .PRG, .APP – GEM programs, no parameters .TOS – TOS programs, text based, no parameters. .TTP – "TOS Takes Parameters" – text based, parameter dialogue on execution.
#25909-
#WB/CLI Interface
Message #25933
I don't doubt that AmigaTeX is the best TeX available anywhere; it's been highly customized for speed, whereas many other versions are just pro-forma ports of the original Pascal code. AmigaTeX also comes with a very fast previewer that makes TeX almost a WYSIWYG system. It took me about 3…
#25832-
#WB/CLI Interface
Message #25932
AMigaTeX has fonts customized to the printer, so it provides the best possible print output quality that the hardware can support. My laser printer is a QMS Kiss with only about 75K of font download memory available, but I've never run out of space on any documents. I don't know…
Whoops. The first line in the program must be a comment, natch. Here it is again so you can just capture it and stuff in in REXX: if ~show('L','rexxarplib.library') then do if ~addlib('rexxarplib.library',0,-30,0) then do say 'ARP support library not in LIBS: directory!' exit 10 end end parse arg filename…
#3415-
TXED SUGGESTIONS
Message #3447
As cheath points out GET does not work as intended. It should bring up a requestor if no file argument is specified. Here's a little ditty you can use in it's place and just replace MYGET with GET in your macros when GET is fixed. if ~show('L','rexxarplib.library') then do if…
#3437-
#TXED SUGGESTIONS
Message #3444
You mean public screens, so you can pop TxEd+ onto shared screens with other AREXX applications? You betcha, we've been pushing for a system approved way to do shared screens for a long time. I feel this is really important for integrating applications, and particularly so for an AREXX editor.…
Good for youse! Ron
#3344-
#TXED SUGGESTIONS
Message #3353
OK. It be done. C-:
#2739-
TxEd+ Upgrade
Message #2748
Anybody who got TxEd Plus as an upgrade from us is automaticly registered, that's why we didn't include registration cards for the upgrades. If you have V2.0, you'll be able to update to V2.01 using "TPFIX1.ARC" which will be in DL14 as soon as it gets posted (I'll upload it…
Anybody home?
Message #2747
Hello out there. Anybody home? Is there an upgrade/revision/bug-fix for TxEd+? I am a registered user of TxEd+ and would be interested in any such info. Thanks David Hankins OTG Software