This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Don, I use both Online! and Access! The former for heavily scripted message handling, and multitasking with Scribble! The latter is for simpler message handling and downloads. Lee
Don, I use both Online! and Access! The former for heavily scripted message handling, and multitasking with Scribble! The latter is for simpler message handling and downloads. Lee
Ben, You made up a quote, attributed it to me, then used the quote to to justify a comparison to cocaine dealers? Where did you learn your debating skills, from Roy Cohn? Lee
Ben, Your PBS station is local in the same way any network affiliate is local. When they ran the entire Shakepearean canon a couple of years back PBS stations everywhere carried the plays. And as many people had an opportunity to watch them, as they do to watch WHEEL OF…
Ben, Would the murder of Hitler by his generals have been an obscenity? Lee
Ben, Nothing, huh? Well, you finally got around to flushing Shakespeare along with Charles Dickens, Arthur Miller, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Herman Wouk, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and all the other hacks who have had their work presented on TV in the past year and a half.…
Ben, This is the funniest message you've written in the year I've been on this board! I thank you! Really. It explains so much so well nothing else needs to be said. Lee
Larry, Thanks. If it were only up to the people who actually write, produce, and direct TV, things would've changed a long time ago. I always saw Cable TV as a possible path to a partial solution: one channel of Shakespeare, one of horror movies, one of classical music performances,…
Henry, Your message was truncated by CIS, but I get the GENERAL idea. I've tried now in two messages to suggest that you find another way to make your points without GENERALIZATIONS. "… as a GENERAL attitude, 95% of commercial television…" Huh? "The GENERAL goal is what…?!" If you'd care…
Henry, Bigotry is not too strong a word. When you collectively lump an entire people, religion, even industry together, and use stereotypes and generalities to solidify your lump, you're being prejudiced. I'll give you an example: "Everybody knows all salespeople in computer stores are ignorant, and most of them are…
..continued from previous message… Here I sit on my friendly neighborhood AmigaForum listening to yet another group of apparently intelligent people employed in the easy exercise of TV bashing. Ben, I have news for you: you're not helping. You're part of the problem. As you desert TV, more people who…
Ben, I see visions of the audience being trundled forward to the guillotine of programming. "Where did we go wrong?" they cry, "I thought this was OUR revolution." (Must be tuned to PBS). There's a short history lesson in my message to Larry. Let me tell you about more recent…
Larry, It's much more complex than Amiga vs. MS-DOS. How do you suggest helping couch potatoes to acquire taste? Sour cream and chives won't do it. Commercial TV is programmed to reach as wide an audience as possible so that its advertisers will reach as wide an audience as possible.…
Ben, Television does not create its audience. It's the other way around. It always has been. Lee
Ben, We try in commercial television, too, Ben. Lee
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#Phony "Art"
Message #127849
Henry, It shouldn't be that easy to dismiss millions of your neighbors as "susceptible to just about any dribble," but if you feel qualified to do so, be my guest. The trouble with bigotry, whether it be racial, social, intellectual, whatever… is that it finds too much comfort in its…
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#excellence!
Message #126556
Doug, As Lynn has stated in an earlier message WP supports the preference printer drivers, if you want it to, and will allow you to add any one of its 250 drivers to the preference list. I suspect that's many more drivers than were available to Amiga owners when WP…
Henry, Actually everything seems to be working okay now. Thanks, Lee
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CoComm Help
Message #126551
Ben, Naw, consider the message Freeware. You two have provided me with much entertainment over the past few weeks, I'm happy to repay even in small kind. As for CoComm, it looks like a very powerful program, but I honestly can't figure out from what's available how to tap that…
#CoComm Help
Message #126085
I've downloaded both CoComm and Access because I'm looking for a Comm package that supports Quick B for faster downloads. I currently use Online! I find the ShortDox extremely difficult to follow, so maybe the answers to my questions are there, and I just can't find them. 1) Your default…
#CoComm Help
Message #126085
I've downloaded both CoComm and Access because I'm looking for a Comm package that supports Quick B for faster downloads. I currently use Online! I find the ShortDox extremely difficult to follow, so maybe the answers to my questions are there, and I just can't find them. 1) Your default…
Yes, PCMagnet is here on CIS. Bill Machrone says the review will happen when he can get his hands on one, says that he's asked before, but Commodore hasn't supplied one.
Yes, PCMagnet is here on CIS. Bill Machrone says the review will happen when he can get his hands on one, says that he's asked before, but Commodore hasn't supplied one.
PC Magazine
Message #125721
I also belong to the fledgling PCMagnet Forum. A gentleman named Jerry Novak and I seem to have convinced Bill Machrone, editor of PC Magazine, to review the 2000. He complains that they would have before this, but Commodore wouldn't send them one. He's willing to try again. Can anyone…
James, I'll be happy to send you a sample. And yes, I was planning to get the full Workbench 1.3. Thanks for the information! Lee
James, I'll be happy to send you a sample. And yes, I was planning to get the full Workbench 1.3. Thanks for the information! Lee
James, I'm very pleased with the new smoothing of the printouts. I also like the new driver for Toshiba's. It runs my older P351 just fine. I do get a venetian blind effect however, even with my 24 pins, if I'm talking about the same thing: that lighter line every…
Henry, I, too, was not automatically sent an upgrade, and I must still be registered since I got the WP Library mailing. But I didn't mind calling for one, or paying the extra bucks to get it the following day. For the record WP is my primary word processor on…
Don, Yeah, I'd done a lot of hunting through the AmigaDOS book, and hadn't found a way. But it was worth a shot. Thanks for the RunBack tip. Lee
Don, Yeah, I'd done a lot of hunting through the AmigaDOS book, and hadn't found a way. But it was worth a shot. Thanks for the RunBack tip. Lee
Don, RunBack works beautifully. Now it brings up another question. Is there a way to easily change the defaults of the CLOCK program (from Analog to Digital, dropping date, and seconds etc.) Thanks Lee
Don, Thanks, I'll download RUNBCK.ARC asap. Lee
Don, I tried adding RUN CLOCK to the startup-sequence after LoadWb, and before endcli, but it didn't seem to work. I got the clock on the screen, but no Workbench. Since RUN opens a 2nd CLI, do I need a separate command to end that one, too? Lee
#Misc. Inquiries
Message #124766
All, Near of these are very pressing issues, but I'm curious. Why does it take longer for my write-enabled Workbench disk to boot than it does when it's write-protected? And is there a way to addmy clock to my startup-sequence so it's there when my Workbench screen appears. Thanks, Lee…
#IntroCAD Driver
Message #121531
I would like to take you up on your offer to help (or your friend to help) with the P-351 driver for IntroCAD. The drivers are simple ASCII files of twenty-four short lines, each divided into four six line parts depending on desired print quality (60×60, 90×180, 180×180, 360×180). The…
#IntroCAD Driver
Message #121531
I would like to take you up on your offer to help (or your friend to help) with the P-351 driver for IntroCAD. The drivers are simple ASCII files of twenty-four short lines, each divided into four six line parts depending on desired print quality (60×60, 90×180, 180×180, 360×180). The…
the return of MAX
Message #121385
Yes, everybody suffers. It seems to negotiate anything these days everything must be pushed to extremes. From the Trade Bill debate to labor negotiations, people seem to act like kids in a schoolyard kicking sand on each other's shoes.
the return of MAX
Message #121385
Yes, everybody suffers. It seems to negotiate anything these days everything must be pushed to extremes. From the Trade Bill debate to labor negotiations, people seem to act like kids in a schoolyard kicking sand on each other's shoes.
Vic, Universal made 8 hours of PROBE: the two hour pilot, and 6 one hour episodes. It did poorly in the ratings against Cosby, there were production problems. I doubt that it will return. Although I wrote the first two hour episodes, I'm not all that upset. For me the…
IntroCAD Drivers
Message #119190
Larry, I'm going to be out of the country for two weeks, but when I return I'm going to tackle the IntroCAD driver. There are fairly explicit instructions, (the drivers are actually ASCII text files containing lists of escape codes), and the tech at Klamath Software suggested I use an…
IntroCAD Drivers
Message #119189
Lloyd, I'm going to be out of the country for two weeks. When I come back I'll try to piece together my own driver. If you *have* had some experience, I could use some help then. Also Larry said he knew of somebody who may be able to write it…
Lloyd, I printed out the file, and at the suggestion of the tech at Klamath Software I also printed out their Epson LQ-1000 driver. He said it would be easier to tweak an existing driver than create a new one from scratch. Now, the LQ-1000 driver doesn't work at all,…
Larry, Thanks for the reply. I figured I might have to go to the publishers. But you folks have me so well trained, I always ask here first. 8) Lee
#IntroCAD
Message #118678
Larry, I realize this one may be tricky. My P-351 isn't supported by IntroCAD. No Toshiba printers are, and I can't as yet find one of the supported printers that is "close enough" to get anything except gibberish. IntroCAD's drivers are in a format entirely unrelated to our regular drivers,…
David, Welcome! If I were you. I'd consider adding a second disk drive. It'll save you a lot of time and aggravation. Lee
Willie, I moved my Hayes 1200 Smartmodem from my Compaq Deskpro to my Amiga 500, and it works fine. Didn't change the cable, or a single switch. Lee
Don, Writing proper code. What a novel idea. :') In the meantime, if all I have is 1 meg in the machine, it sounds like it could help. Thanks, Lee
Does this new chip mean that programs that had trouble running in expanded memory before should be okay now? Since the chip won't differentiate (at least up to 1 meg)? Lee
Isaac, Try DL11. Lee
Isaac, I use the Toshiba P-321 driver here in one of the DL's for my P-351. It works fine. Since the P-1340 was the first of this family of printers, the P-321 driver may work for you, too. It's worth a try. Lee
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