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#ProWrite Bug?
Message #34730
I seem to have found another bug which is related to the one I reported a couple of days ago. If I start up a program which closes the WBench before starting up ProWrite, then open the WBench, then start ProWrite there are problems which are not consistant. ProWrite will…
Mark, While you're working on the next revision, the Arexx support could use some enhancement. It would be a lot more useful if ALL the settings could be controlled via Arexx. I've been doing quite a bit of correspondence lately and grew tired of yanking the addressee's name and address…
ProWrite Bug?
Message #34286
I seem to have found a VERY reproducable bug, which may or may not be ProWrite's problem. The program will consistently crash the machine with an out of memory error (status B101 0009) if I exit ProWrite when I'm running something else that closes the Workbench to save memory. So…
What joke? I forgot to keep a copy of my message… Peter
Uuencode and uudecode are not compression utilities, they encode/decode files to/from 7 bit ASCII so that uucp can deal with them. Peter
If it comes up in the selection screen with BOTH mouse buttons down it has the old ROMs. If you want to run 2.0 on it you'll have to upgrade them (about $30). Peter
I don't know that I'd want to switch ROMs WITHOUT rebooting… I had some recent experience on one of our demo units when the clip going to the reset line came loose (the machine DOES get tossed (literally) into the back of cars a lot), the machine switched ROMs a…
Steven, I believe you are correct. I played around with it a bit after finishing up on CIS and it only seems to work when the root directory on a partition is set correctly. Peter
Kelly, Set the window with Show and Show by the way you want it and with the window selected still selected, pick Snapshow Window. That should do it. I've several windows set up to show all files and to view by names. If you do show all files and view…
To get the boot device selection menu you have to hold down both buttons much longer than you'd expect to for processor selection (it appears that you have to hold them until the boot ROMs have checked all the boot devices). Would have been nice if the upgrade documented the…
Edwin, I have the same results as you, nada… The only visible effect when I run it is the disk access when it's loaded. Peter
#2 files same name in LIB
Message #45343
OK, I give up. How to I get at the second NOCLIC.LZH listed below (the list is a captured output from the file finder. They are both in the same LIB with the same name and if I try to download the file I get the first one. Filename :…
Yes, I got the copy you gave away when you had the conference on CIS. I've been having a problem with Aztec C (the beta 5.2 version from their BBS) getting confused with some expressions (it seems to get rather confused sometimes when I use the assert macros), but other…
ProWrite Info/Suggestion
Message #32822
The ProWrite 3.2 supplement mentions your ProFonts I package. Are these bitmap or CG fonts? I'm getting better output with the CG fonts than with bitmapped fonts that come with PW, the character spacing seems to be inconsistent with the bitmapped fonts. It would be nice if the spelling checker…
So, how do I get an upgrade to 3.0 when it's available? Peter
I do something very similar with no problems. I have one of the current sensing power filters hooked up so that the computer, modem and external hard drive all shut down when I hit the switch on the monitor. Peter
You could try Kasara Microsystems (they are in NY) 800-248-2983. I got mine from them a few weeks ago. Tell Jim I said "Hi". Peter
If you don't already have the ROMs for your accelerator on order, try Kasara Microsystems 800-248-2983, tell Jim I sent ya. I ordered mine from him about a month ago and got them in a week. Peter
The Micropolis is an old unit I acquired for nothing from someone's junk pile and uses an ST-506 interface. The only time I have had problems with it was when I was working and left it on at home to transfer files to work and our wonderful power company spiked…
I've been running a 70 Meg Micropolis on a 2090A for the last couple of years with no problems at all. The only drive I have problems with is the Quantum 40. I never bothered geting the ROM upgrade I heard about and occasionally the drive locks up on boot.…
Lowell, Try talking to Jim at Kasara Microsystems, 800-248-2983. Peter
Can I take that to mean that it's 'on the list', but that's as much as you are willing to say at the moment? ;^) Peter
Oops, I forgot something. You need to change the kickfile program from 26X0_F.LZH to copy the 1.3 ROM. change the start address to 0xfc0000 and the size to 0x40000L. If you don't have a C compiler to rebuild the file I can Email you the modified program if you like…
Versia, Yes, you need SetCPU 1.6 to load the larger ROM image for 2.0. Please disregard what I said about the CHIP ram usage (unless you only have 512K). This morning I read through the SetCPU docs again (in preparation for switching over to straight 2.0 boot, my dealer called…
#WP 5 import
Message #30556
Do you have any plans to (or have you already) add WordPerfect format files to the Convert utility? I need to import WordPerfect 5 files from MS-DOS machines. Getting to a MS-DOS machine to convert the files to text format is a pain and all the formatting information is lost.…
Versia, I am running the same setup (2500/20/2090A) with 2.04, booting off the 1.3 ROM and loading an image of the 2.04 ROM from disk with SETCPU. I'm in the same position of waiting for QB upgrade before reformatting, so I have not tried booting a FFS partition yet. SETCPU.LZH…
Defender will not run (at least on my machine) when using a 68020. I have to boot with the 68000 or the program will crash. I assume somebody didn't play by the rules. Peter
#Scheduling SFTW Help
Message #40039
I am looking for software to handle planning, scheduling, calendar, appointments, etc. I'm aware of two packages, NAG Plus and Who! What! When! Where!, that sound like they might do the job. I was wondering if there are any others that I've missed and if anyone that has experience with…
May I ask why? Replacing the startup code by relinking is a MUCH better way to handle the required initialization than massaging the executable. It's unfortunate that it couldn't simply be done in main(), but of course it's too late by then.
The question about Manx concerned my own personal use. At work I need to be able to work with multiple Unix platforms (Sun, Apollo, 386 Unix PC's) and cross compilers from different vendors for different targets. I've got the Unix boxes internetworked and the compilers will be executing on different…
Greg, Nice to see the Amiga version is out, but I'm still using Manx so I guess I'll have to wait a little longer. And now for something completely different: I have been trying to convince some people here that we should be using C++ for our embedded systems developement.…
CIS Phones
Message #4315
Betty, I check the PHONES section all the time. I sort of live in the middle of nowhere, but I've already seen places that are even MORE in the middle of nowhere than I am get upgraded. Still stuck at 1200!
9600 baud service in 30 cities??? I've been griping at them for the last three years just to give me 2400!!!
Steve, Guess I'll have to leave my Mail turned off in TapCIS for a couple days until I see the email show up, oh well. Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software is never having to say you're finished"
#Whap re-registration
Message #1158
I'm having problems updating from 19A to 19C. The copy of the update program supplied in the archive with 19c prints a message that it is for updating from 19A to 19B when it is run and then claims I don't have a registered copy of whap. I was going…
Oops, I typo'ed the function name. He said ran(), double function returning a number between 0 and 1, not rand() which returns an integer (range depends on your implementation). Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software is never having to say you're finished"
Henry, double RandomNumber; int OneTwoFifty; RandomNumber = rand(); OneTwoFifty = (INT) (RandomNumber * 50.0 + 0.5); Should work, assuming that I'm awake today . Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software is never having to say you're finished"
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Version control systems
Message #236
Ray, I have not seen any cross compilers available anywhere, commercial or PD. There are a few cross assemblers (I uploaded a set for 68xx, 8080/85, Z80 a while ago) around. What I was referring to is the lack of a professional quality cross compiler. I need to cross compile…
Vic, I found RCS a while ago, but a revision control system does not a cross developement system make. (Yeah, I know, I'm a little strange today ;^). Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software is never having to say you're finished"
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Messages
Message #87
John, Not when I was pushing the machine (I didn't count the Ameristar solution, which at $1000 compared to a couple hundred to put a PC-CLONE on the LAN wasn't something they would go for). Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software is never having to say you're finished"
The problem is figuring out which 'different section' to point it at ;^). Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software is never having to say you're finished"
Catalogs
Message #68
Betty, Now that everything has been moved around ALL my catalogs are wrong. Any plans to put up archives containing the full library listings in the near future? Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software is never having to say you're finished"
John, As a designer of embedded systems I've noticed that there is NOTHING available for the Amiga in the way of cross compilers, version control systems, etc. Besides the lack of standard networking (TCP/IP, NFS, etc.), this was one of the major problems I had pushing the Amiga here at…
Nevin, When you first set up the drive did it format out to as many cylinders as your mountlist entry says exist on the drive? When I was setting up one of my hard drives the format kept bombing out before it got to the end of the disk and…
I do transfers from the 1.44 Meg drive on my Compaq at work to my 2000 almost every day with no problems at all. Unlike the 360K vs 1.2M 5.25 inch problems due to the different track widths, the 720K and 1.44M 3.5 inchers differ only in the data rate…
Thanks for the prompt response, Ben. Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software means never having to say you're finished"
I mean the package I was bugging you to write the information file for. Includes (if my brain is still functioning ;^) stuff for adding ARexx ports to one's software, NazCron, etc. Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software means never having to say you're finished"
Arexx support package
Message #18107
Ben, I ordered your ARexx support disk, going on a month ago, but have not received it yet. Did I get lost somewhere? Peter_S (LeCroy Corp) "Software means never having to say you're finished"
NOW it works
Message #114564
Mike, After flaming Manx a bit about the initial 5.0 release I figured you deserved to hear how the upgrade is working. GREAT!!! No problems porting my compiler, etc, etc (except for one little portability bug that was solved in 10 minutes once the compiler generated the correct code ;^).…
Now that makes sense. I am usually on every day between 7:00 and 9:00 AM eastern time. I must be missing the LIB 1 listings when I scan early in the morning, though I usually get some of them. This also explains why I totally miss some of the listings.…
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