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Great! As the famous saying goes… It's in the mail.
#R/T Upgrade
Message #70765
Hi, just received my R/T upgrade notice and I was wondering if the free upgrade certificate I received with Imagemaster usable for this upgrade.
I think there's an underscore in that name that doesn't belong there.
The BBS number I have is 908-542-2793, though I have not used it in months so I have no idea if it's still active.
Mangled manual
Message #48462
Well, my ProWrite upgrade finally got here. Looks pretty good. My only problem is trying to read the Version 3.3 supplement. A bunch of the pages are printed really faint, on the wrong side of the page and backwards. I can actually read some of it in the mirror, but…
MEI/Micro in Columbus Ohio has DC6150s at $15.67 each for 5+, $16.67 each for 2-4, DC6250s for $21.57 each for 5+, 22.57 each for 2-4, plus $0.40 each for shipping. 1-800-634-3478 I've been buying disks from them for years and just started buying my Deskjet cartridges from them with no…
Stephen, I wouldn't say that it's a non-existant problem (I've partially ejected a disk at least once, though I pop the wrong disk a LOT more often than that), but you definitely have the right solution. ALWAYS ask the user if you are in doubt as to what happened. Peter
I had (and still have) the advantage of being able to show the hardware people where the problems were instead of arguing over the fault being hardware or software, since I started out as a tech (and still manage to keep my secret cache of tools available for use when…
Oops, sorry, my mistake. My comment was based on the behaviour of my semi brain-dead Arexx support libraries (when I ran the install with the parts that didn't work commented out). It just exited the script instead of calling 'change' and I didn't read that part of the script, just…
My string.h is OK, but I'm going to have to change a couple of header files (the #include "Work:…"). I was complaining that it was hard coded into the install.rexx script, I had not gotten around to discovering that it's in some of the headers also. Anyway, it's nice to…
After getting everything install wth doio commented out, I started searching a bit more for the cause of the problems I've been having. After checking my rexxsupport.library and rexxsyslib.library against the 1.10 Arexx release disk, I went back and checked the files on the DOS2.0 release disks and discovered that…
Stubbing out 'doio' did the trick. Ran through the entire install with no problems at all. It didn't seem to like the way doio killed off the windows. Still bothers me that pragma('S'…) won't work. It didn't work on the version of Arexx I was running when I was using…
I removed everything extra from the startup and WBStartup drawer. Still bombs out in the install script. I ran it through a few times with the tracing turned on and the variables are getting trashed somehow. The coninfo variable that's used to build the window command is total garbage and…
>pay by check. I NEVER put my phone number on a check (except the one's to GTE, after all they have the number already ;^) Peter
I would love to figure out what is going on with the install, but so far no luck. The only things running in the background are the commodities in my WBStartup drawer, ClickToFront, Blanker and NoClick. I can remove them and try again. I had problems with the last release…
John, If you want to learn debugging by intuition, work on an embedded system for a while where the ONLY tools available are the assembler, compiler and linker (at least until you get the box up enough to get a monitor running). No I/O system, no emulator, no logic analyser…
I was asking about getting the path. Sounds like this will work, though there's an easier way to get the current directory: docpath = pragma('d') Thanks for the information, I'll definitely put it to use. Peter
We didn't beat on the keypunch that much, just the guy in DP that messed up our decks. We had fun stuffing stacks of formfeed cards into the jobs before he picked them up, then had fun watching the line printer throw paper all over the computer room before he…
>trouble maker! That's nothing. I picked up the package over the weekend and I can't get it to install! ARexx doesn't seem to want to accept 'pragma('s',100000)' for some strange reason. I'm using the 1.10 version that came with DOS2.0 (same as what I was using already, but the installation…
How about an F4? There used to be a CPU for a high voltage power supply lying around here somewhere that used one. Peter
Darn, I knew I should have turned it on before I said anything! Good time of year for it too. It makes a fairly good space heater. Peter
The other fun passtime was creating art with the multibus bus display we threw together (which someone decided needed some DACs on the address lines) hooked up to the XY inputs on a old scope. It was actually useful if you worked on CPU's often enough (which I used to…
This one was loaded up. The EPROM programmer and the glass tty were gone by the time I rescued it, but I got the rest, including all the nice 16 x 20 manuals with all the schematics. Peter
Actually, I didn't get the package yet. The shipping address you had was for the place I worked until last Nov. A friend saw it come in addressed to me and put it aside for me. I don't know when it showed up, but he called me about it today.…
Assuming I can still find the disk, mine will still run CP/M, but the disks to boot it as an MDS were trashed before I rescued the box. Peter
Yours has four floppies! Mine only has two. An entire 18 slot Multi-Bus card cage almost full of boards (it has 64K of 2114's!). It even runs. It's an early one that only says "intellec mds" on the front. The intel guys that saw it many moons ago (before it…
Hmm, never tried playing music on one, though we used to get some decent tunes playing RF noise on an AM radio. Peter
OK, I get two points for using one. Do I get any points for the Intel MDS 800 development station sitting three feet to my right? Peter
I guess I'll be using 3.0 for a LONG time ;^) Peter
Share it? I don't think Greg or ATT would be too happy about that. ;^) If I win the publisher's clearing house sweepstakes I'll buy you as many copies as you want! Peter
Mainframe or UNIX background… Still, I was hoping the 2.0 Shell would have REAL pipes. I WANT MY STREAMS!!! Peter
Thank you for your support! (Aren't I supposed to hold up a bottle of wine at this point in the commercial) ;^) Peter
Ah, come on John, gimme a break. ;^) Peter
>Why not tell us a good joke… That will NEVER work, I'm horrible at jokes. ;^) Peter
Apparently not. I wonder what sort of appeal would work. ;^)
Yeah, that's the one!
Double!!!! Don't I get the special discount for the terminally unemployed ? Peter
Greg, Due to the unique circumstances, I don't think that my upgrade fits the "50% of the purchase price you paid" . Does it put me in the 50% of the current purchase price category? Peter
Mark, Yes, testing for the ProWrite port is what I'm doing now, except that unless the file is in the same directory that the first copy of ProWrite considers 'current', there is no way to tell the first copy to load the file. Hence the need for the file path…
That sounds a lot like the way I handle that stuff here, with one additional tactic: When you get one that won't stop with the sales pitch after you say no, quietly put the phone down and walk away, leaving them talking to empty space. Come back 5 minutes later…
Mark, The whole point of this was to automatically handle the times when one forgets that the program is already running. It would be nicer if there was a Tooltype that would let you tell ProWrite to do this for you, maybe something like "MULTICHECK=YES". One of the disadvantages of…
Mark, The technical stuff helps to understand what's going on (I have not gotten the 2.0 Tech Refs yet). I'd still like to see the Arexx interface enhanced a bit. Peter
>> telephone … most rude piece of machinery yet invented. I'll second that. It does have one good point… if you ignore it long enough it stops ringing or the answering machine gets it for me. BTW, most of the phones in my house have had bell-ectomies, it's much easier…
Tom, First, I understand what you were doing with the macro, I was tring to come up with a solution that would take care of the situation where someone has forgotten that there's already a copy of ProWrite running and just double-clicked the document icon. I was using the ProWrite…
Tom, >> "A Hippy… Coping with the 90's" How about an almost hippy , I fall into the almost category, almost old enough to go to Woodstock… I HAVE 2.0… The problem is remembering that there is a copy of ProWrite loaded when the "ProWrite Deposit" icon is buried under…
Tom, ProWrite runs the "ProWrite Startup" macro if it finds it in the drawer containing ProWrite. I played around with hard links to ProWrite a little and it will load the ProWrite Startup macro from the directory containing the link (I've been using this to let me change some things…
Hard coding the path to the files in the macro is not useful since my documents are organized into several different directories. According to the docs, there can be only one "ProWrite FKeys" file in the same drawer as ProWrite, so I cannot have macro files for each working directory…
ProWrite questions
Message #35747
Is there any way for an ARexx script to get the full pathname of the file being edited? The DocName command doesn't return the full path of the document. I have been printing mostly in "High" quality and it takes quite a while to print multi-page documents. I'd like to…
Darin, Any printer which will work on an IBM PC SHOULD work on an Amiga. I just got through a frustrating experince trying to get a NEC P3200 to work. The older model P2200 worked just fine (I was using a borrowed P2200 for a month or so, which is…
NEC Pinwriter Help!
Message #20336
Does anyone know if it's possible to get an NEC P3200 to work correctly with an A2000? I was using a borrowed P2200 which worked perfectly, which was what prompted me to get the 3200 (the 2200 is no longer made). The printer seems to garble the ASCII codes being…
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