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Thanks Michael, that did the trick for me. I don't know if I would have thought to try selecting both the text and the curve before requesting the Align Text with Curve menu option. Tom
#PDraw Text Curves
Message #129914
I am trying for the first time to use the text wrap on a curve feature of Professional Draw 2.0 and haven't been able to figure out how to use the feature. The manual tells how to set up options but not how to actually apply them. I've tried every…
ProPage doesn't have keyboard equivalents for quite a few useful characters. The left and right double quotes are the most blatant omission in my opinion. I use “quotes'' (ie, use 2 single quotes to emulate the double quote) and it doesn't look to bad. For the actual double quote characters,…
As part of the AMIGA UNIX Version 2.1 introduction, Commodore has announced a reduction on their AMIGA 3000UX Systems effective until April 30, 1992. The AMIGA 3000UX CPU will include the UNIX Version 2.1 Operating System, a 200 MByte drive, nine MBytes of RAM, keyboard, 3 button mouse, the 2410…
"AMIGA UNIX is easy to use and structured for future growth," said Geoff Stilley, vice president sales, Commodore. "Version 2.1 can be installed on the same hard disk in different partitions as both AmigaDOS (TM) and MS-DOS (TM) for more extended functionality." Version 2.1 provides several user interface shells, including…
Mike– Thanks for the info. Too bad the caps lock and control keys aren't in the same locations as on the Amiga keyboard, the only decent arrangement as far as I'm concerned. For a long time, many millions of typewriters have had the caps lock key to the left of…
Mike– What is the key placement for the control and caps lock keys on the Northgate keyboard. I prefer the Amiga arrangment of control, caps lock, A, etc. All of the PC keyboards I've seen have only one key to the left of the A key. Tom
The Unix machines ARE on power-up. After some confusion, a message was posted on Usenet from someone at Commodore confirming that. I called a dealer and they gave me a price quote for power-up Unix. Anyone that is thinking about getting an A3000UX, should make sure they act before the…
Chris– I guess my message wasn't clear. The switch box I'm using is an electronic switch. Thus, it receives Centronics signals and then passes them on to the printer. Therefore, it needs to have circuitry similar to a printer that receives and handshakes Centronics parallel. It works just fine with…
Chris– Your parallel troubles remind me of mine. My A1000 will talk to the parallel port on my HP IIP directly but not through an auto switch box I got. All of my other computers work just fine with the switcher. I left a message on AMIGAT but got no…
I've been tempted to upgrade to 4 megs too. I suspect I'd get more productivity per dollar by getting an ICD adSpeed for my A1000 than by getting the extra printer memory. If you do upgrade to 4 meg., let us know how much speed gain you get. Tom
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#HP IIP PostScript
Message #14077
I upgraded to the new faster Pacific Data PE and the speed increase is very noticeable. Didn't do any timings though. If you have 4meg (I don't), they say that it will double buffer and be even faster. Sounds like it'll be formatting page N, while page N-1 is being…
Greg– Your message seems to imply that you are working on a cpu accelerator. If so, will it be released as a product? I haven't seen much need for the rejuvenator yet for my A1000, but more cpu speed is definitely on my wish list. Tom
Hector– I use the HP IIP with PPage 1.3 and PDraw 2.0. It works well. You can use it in bitmap mode using the CG fonts from Gold Disk, or with postscript by buying a postscript cartridge for it. In either case, you need to add 2meg of memory to…
I think 10-4 came into the national conciousness due to its use on the TV show "Highway Patrol" starring Broderick Crawford. They always used it to mean roughly OK and signing. This was in the 50's. Tom
I use a Microbotics controller with the 296N so I can't comment on your exact combo. But the drive works great for me and I wouldn't hesitate to buy another when I need some more disk space. Tom
Gordon– Have I got a deal for you. I have an old 1 meg board that I used to use with my A1000. It was made by CLtd, which is now defunct so support on it would be a problem but it always worked well for me. It you are…
Jim– I've been using 2 manual switch boxes for a couple of years with no problems. It's only with the new auto-switch that the problem occurs. My setup has 4 computers (including the A1000), and 2 printers: the IIP and a P2200. I used a 4 way to select a…
Welcome Gold Disk
Message #36176
Tom– First, I'd like to say how great it is to have you here. It makes a big difference in how we perceive Gold Disk, and in how well we are able to work with the products. It should help your sales too, I ordered a copy of PDraw 2.0…
Allen– We made our purchases last December. At the time, IIP's had just dropped to the $950 range, and DJ+'s were $750. My friend lives next door to a guy that works at HP designing DJ's. When he told the HP guy what I'd got my IIP for, the HP…
Hector– Sorry to see you having so much trouble with Gold Disk. They certainly have a solid reputation for poor support. The following lines show what must be changed in the postscript prolog file to fix the rmove problem. The file is psprlg in the data directory. This difference listing…
Greg– I have DataShield 300 Watt UPS and it works well. It is a standby power unit as opposed to a continuous UPS. For situations where brownouts are a way of life, a good unit to get would be the TrippLite OmniPower. It combines a standby UPS with a constant…
David– I have an NEC P2200, and an HP IIP. About the same time I got the HP, a friend got a DeskJet. When we discovered that we'd both made printer purchases, we compared output quality. Both the DJ or IIP look a lot better than the P2200. At its…
Tom– Here's another vote for GD and Bitstream working on fonts for the Amiga. I used the CG fonts with PPage and an HP LaserJet for awhile but then got a Pacific Data PS cartridge, mainly for the speed and the extra features postscript allows. The cartridge comes with Bitstream…
Yes, Pixelscript is commercial. Contact Piexelations at P.O. Box 547 Northboro, MA 01532. 508/393-7866. One of their people is on CIS but I can't think of his name right now. Perhaps someone else will pop in here with his name and PPN. Tom
I haven't had the null pointer "delete" problem for quite a while. Perhaps it went away when I switched to postscript from CGFonts. Or perhaps I'm not making some mistake any more. Talking to GD support guy the other day and he said that they found and fixed the problem…
How does the scanner hook up to the Amiga? Tom
As far as I know, there is no way to do Dot matrix landscape. You can do that and more with postscript output. Getting a copy of Pixelscript would be the cheapest way to go. Tom
Jim– I am editor of the "USUS Newsletter". It isn't have any Amiga specific coverage but instead deals with Pascal and Modula 2. I use Pro Page to produce it. If you are interested in an exchange let me know: Tom Cattrall Amity Software Inc. 7600 Seawood Road SE Amity,…
Wayne– You need an extra 2meg for a total of 2.5 in order to use the Pacific Data Postscript cartridge. You can have up to 4.5 total. While I haven't used any downloadable fonts, the manual talks about doing so. I suspect that you can't use true Adobe format fonts.…
When I was using PPage with the original 2 CG fonts, I had quite a few gurus. In general PPage was quite fragile. I don't know if it is that way for others or whether it was some interaction with something else that I had active (like conman). Now that…
To do full page graphics should only require an additional 1meg unless he has a lot of downloaded fonts too. I ran that way until I got the PDP postscript cartridge which requires an additional 1 meg for a total of 2.5 meg. Tom
Betty– You didn't say where the upgrade file is to be found. It wasn't in lib 1 which is where I expected to find it. Tom
Greg– My budget doesn't allow my buying the rejuvenator right now but I expect to do so by summer. I suspect that others will be in the same situation. Hope you'll still have them for sale then. I'd rather get the rejuvenator than try to figure out what to do…
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ppage postscript
Message #92732
Got the IIP from DH Systems in LA. Phone is 800/747-HPLJ. They gave very quick service. The items and prices: HP IIP Printer $980, Lower paper cassette $159 Pacific Data 1meg memory $269 Additional 1meg chips $ 113 (from Microprocessors Unlimited in OK) Pacific Data Postscript cartridge $390 You need…
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#C to Pascal
Message #24333
Jack– You shoulda asked me about C to Pascal conversions. I could have told you it was a pain. 🙂 (the sharp reader will guess how _I_ found out). Beats me why C programmers go all out to use such complicated incomprehensible structures and features. It's darned hard to get…
Chip– Yes. GO MUSUS and get DL2:m2pp.mod Tom
#Typing Philosophy
Message #86332
The 2nd and 3rd editions have the same thing to say on this subject. If you look at sect 9.1 of the report (page 152 2nd ed.), you'll see… Operand types are said to be assignment compatible if either they are compatible or both are INTEGER or CARDINAL or subranges…
Ed– Yes, for what a user gets from C-Ltd the price is in the right ballpark. But for most users what they want is just a hard disk that is decently fast and has all that space online at once. Using that criteria and a quick check in Computer Shopper…
#TDI Modula-2 3.00 bugs
Message #58364
Joergen– Perhaps you could get permission from Les to run the source of the modules through hdiff and upload the script files of the differences. Tom
Ed– Wish I could go to my dealer and take a look! They don't have a SCSI or hard disk drive and say that they pleaded with your outfit to get something but that due to low production levels they were left with nothing. Something about only 100/month being built…
Joergen– I haven't received the new M2 either. Have you changed the startup file to configure 35000 bytes for the stack? That has fixed the 1.2 crashes for me and some others here. Tom
Ben– Most all drives on micros are ST506 drives. SCSI is the interface between the computer and the controller, while ST506 is the I/F between the controller and the drive. Perhaps a picture would make it more clear for you and any others… ———————– | Computer I/F bus | ———————–…
What software options come with the SCSI interface for the various disk controllers and drives? Is there software support for an Adaptec ACB-4070 rll controller and perhaps for a Western Digital 1002-SHD? Also, could I configure for various disks with a choice of heads, tracks, etc? The controller looks like…
I think Les left a message a while back saying to up the stack size to make M2 run under 1.2. Try 30000 bytes to start. I don't have 1.2 yet so haven't had a chance to try it myself. Tom
Bela– Gee, I thought I had you all educated about the 386 vs. 020 and then you go say something like that! 🙂 If you remember from a while back, the IEEE Micro article has both dynamic and static ram test results. When using fast external memory there are no…
#M2 Link Error 359
Message #37446
Les– When linking a large program I get a linker error 359 after all of the link files are read in and it is working on writing out the load file. I raised my stack to 50000 with the same result. Do you have any idea what this error is…
#M2 Link Error 359
Message #37446
Les– When linking a large program I get a linker error 359 after all of the link files are read in and it is working on writing out the load file. I raised my stack to 50000 with the same result. Do you have any idea what this error is…
Yes, I just noticed the stopped clock problem myself. A make routine written in Modula-2 that I'm porting to the Amiga didn't seem to do the right thing. After some detective work I found that the TDI compiler stops the clock. This doesn't happen on every source file compile but…
Yes, I just noticed the stopped clock problem myself. A make routine written in Modula-2 that I'm porting to the Amiga didn't seem to do the right thing. After some detective work I found that the TDI compiler stops the clock. This doesn't happen on every source file compile but…
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