This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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WEIRD! When we tried saying LEAVE (that is the right command, isn't it? Whap makes me forget everything), it said that wasn't possible 'cause he was a new user. Hmph!
#48938-
#A1000 Expansion
Message #49348
Nope – don't know anyone with my setup (A1000 – Cltd memory – Supradrive), or the same in the other order. About the only encouragement I can give is that there is clearly an element of randomness in whether particular combinations work with any given A1000, so you might be…
Further on that little stunt of mine in the last message… With that disk, disksalvage 1.2 crashed all the way back to kickstart once (with Whap! running at the time), and guru'ed another time (without Whap!). Disksalvage 1.4 ran fine on it. Clearly, that's a strong recommendation for keeping up-to-date…
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#A moving story
Message #45286
I "translated" his problem to CLI-ese. Try the following on a junk disk: cd df1: makedir junk cd junk makedir junk1 cd junk1 rename :junk junk2 cd That last cd dies with a Software Error (haven't checked the disk yet; I assume it's probably not 100% well any more).
The Copyright Office decision may be new, but the problem is OLD and predates things like PostScript. Assume for a moment you have full copyright protection on a font you create. Somebody else produces an almost identical font. You try to sue for breach of copyright. The problem becomes -…
You don't need to go as far as Europe – just head north! Proper Canadian date notation is also dd/mm/yy.
Last I looked there wasn't a BT2 walkthru. I'll ask in GAMERS one of these days if I get too impatient waiting for my cheat sheets oops I mean cluebook to arrive.
#BT2 starter dungeon
Message #274
Anybody far enough in Bard's Tale 2 to help me satisfy my curiosity with the starter dungeon? I finally gave up on it when I couldn't figure out how to rescue the princess and I had built myself up enough to try the "outside world". Probably doesn't bode well for…
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#FileZapping ONLINE!
Message #132715
1.2?? You're using the OLD online then. I've got 2.01. It's got overscan, among a great many other additions.
#Old abbreviations!
Message #125711
Ick! As I was saying, CIS may have grandfathered the old commands, but they sure didn't grandfather the abbreviations! I tried b;4 like I do every week and exited the forum! Remember kidees; Sesame Street's letter for this week is A, not B.
#Old abbreviations!
Message #125711
Ick! As I was saying, CIS may have grandfathered the old commands, but they sure didn't grandfather the abbreviations! I tried b;4 like I do every week and exited the forum! Remember kidees; Sesame Street's letter for this week is A, not B.
So will SKIP ALL. I noticed real quick (mainly because I had it on a "hot" key) that SKALL is no longer kosher. As I mentioned in PRACTICE, they may have kept the old commands in the new software, but they didn't keep the old abbreviations. Oh well.
So will SKIP ALL. I noticed real quick (mainly because I had it on a "hot" key) that SKALL is no longer kosher. As I mentioned in PRACTICE, they may have kept the old commands in the new software, but they didn't keep the old abbreviations. Oh well.
Yes, posting the article would be naughty, but I can't see that listing the bugs would be a no-no. I'm curious!
You're third one is clearly bad – "NEWCLI con:30…Test Screen" says to take that whole business you gave between double quotes, treat it as a file name and find a command with that name.
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hitchhiker problem
Message #111591
Keep trying… Eventually you will find that it skips a sense when it tells you that you can't see, smell, … anything. Use the sense that it skipped.
I don't accept that absolutely; the mark of a beginner is that he forgets MORE. I take it you are careful never to go near your Amiga when you're tired; you make sure you have your TV and radio off (probably a good idea to unplug your phone too); and…
Non-amiga viruses
Message #110929
I thought people with "infected" Amigas might be interested in this message that got passed on to me today. I guess we're not the only people blessed with viruses! ====== Article 14266 of comp.sys.amiga: Path: myrias!alberta!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Guidelines for virus authors Message-ID:…
I personally still prefer the Mac idea in concept, although I realize that there's major problems in practice with implementing it on a multitasking system. Yes, people *should* be trained, but no, in many cases they aren't (I see lot's of idiot user's at work). By the way, if you…
#missing routines?
Message #108968
Sorry – I forget who I'm supposed to send this to… The Lattice C 4.0 book mentions dread, dwrite, dopen, dclose, etc. Where are they? Prototypes exist for them (in dos.h, as I recall), but blink doesn't find them. I realize (at least, I THINK I realize) that they are…
#missing routines?
Message #108968
Sorry – I forget who I'm supposed to send this to… The Lattice C 4.0 book mentions dread, dwrite, dopen, dclose, etc. Where are they? Prototypes exist for them (in dos.h, as I recall), but blink doesn't find them. I realize (at least, I THINK I realize) that they are…
#Newer virus
Message #108155
Not entirely sure if this one is serious, but there seems enough chance that it is that I thought I'd pass it along. Article 13433 of comp.sys.amiga: Path: myrias!alberta!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver! ssc-vax!uvicctr!klewall1 From: klewall1@uvicctr.UUCP (Kim Lewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: NEW Virus Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 88 07:45:36 GMT Organization: University of Victoria,…
#Newer virus
Message #108155
Not entirely sure if this one is serious, but there seems enough chance that it is that I thought I'd pass it along. Article 13433 of comp.sys.amiga: Path: myrias!alberta!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver! ssc-vax!uvicctr!klewall1 From: klewall1@uvicctr.UUCP (Kim Lewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: NEW Virus Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 88 07:45:36 GMT Organization: University of Victoria,…
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Terms & Definitions
Message #107758
Huh? Wha happened? Did you get a form-feed in your message or something? My screen blanks at the end of it. Makes it a tad difficult to read!
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#LATTICE_C_4.0
Message #107750
While you're patching the program, you might want to "patch" the documentation as well! I'll second somebody else's comment about there being problems with the documentation. Interesting that "open" is documented under "nofill". It would also be nice to have an concise statement of what the default options REALLY are.…
#GOMF
Message #106591
I recall mention of a new version of GOMF (that among other things lets you blow tasks out of the water that aren't nice enough to crash to give you GOMF 1.0's method of removing them). Has it arrived? If so, where is it? I ask primarily not because of…
Thankyou very much. Actually, it dawned on me last night that I still had a paper copy of the 1.2G1 autodocs, so I answered my own question. That business of having to watch for REQSET is a pain! (but, I did get my code working).
#auto-selecting gadgets
Message #106273
Unfortunately, I don't have up-to-date 1.2 docs for intuition etc., and I'd like to take advantage of a 1.2 feature in a program I'm writing. How do I set up a string gadget so that a user does not need to click in it before typing?? I tried setting SELECTED…
need
Message #104809
Yes, there is, although I've never used it (actually, the only thing I've made significant use of is the Address Book). Also a file compression utility (which I've also never used).
file recovery
Message #104806
If I read your implication correctly, you sound like you're blaming MM. The problem is quite likely not with it, but just a fact of life with the Amiga. DON'T eject disks without waiting a second or two after the last access to make sure trackdisk.device (I assume that's who…
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Supra Drives
Message #104366
A friend grounded the PALs (as per Larry's reply) on my daughterboard and it certainly made my Supra coexist much more happily with my Cltd memory. Back then the Supra ran OK without the memory and mod though, but maybe mine's more tolerant. When I put the daughterboard back I…
#104108-
Supra Drives
Message #104366
A friend grounded the PALs (as per Larry's reply) on my daughterboard and it certainly made my Supra coexist much more happily with my Cltd memory. Back then the Supra ran OK without the memory and mod though, but maybe mine's more tolerant. When I put the daughterboard back I…
It's here (I'll let the Sysops tell you where; I forget where I found it). However, it doesn't make a 1.2 into a 1.1; it just uses of all FAST ram so that programs like Arctic Fox that you can't fix by the conventional FixHunk means will work.
I haven't touched IN-COM either, and I'm running Online 2.01. I use 7S1 and it works fine.
I haven't touched IN-COM either, and I'm running Online 2.01. I use 7S1 and it works fine.
Eek!! I must be a pirate! I *think* I got my copy off of one of the first Fish disks (if not that, then one of the other sets of PD disks – a friend has a bunch of such disks). I wouldn't lose any sleep over it though; the…
I don't remember the details, but I'm fairly sure Gabrielle is correct in what he says about "unformatting" on the IBM. The reason it works is that the disk doesn't truly get formatted in the sense of truly overwriting everything in the world unless you use the low-level formatting utility…
I use KickBench as well. It doesn't require Disked. I "rearm" my KickBench disk (i.e. turn it back into KickStart) in my startup-sequence. Even after you "rearm" it you can still treat it as a DOS disk provided you avoid certain commands and don't take it out of the drive…
One problem that I've run into that seems to be a CIS bug – the "Personal Menu" (i.e. GO MENU) misbehaves with a 49 line screen (the bottom half of the menu gets cut off). I mentioned it in FEEDBACK (brilliant answer from them – "Make your screen smaller"!). Other…
Are you typing your messages on-line or off-line? I've done both many times and have never had problems (other than once or twice I've forgot to delete accidentally created empty lines from the end of my files when using ED). As #96796 says, make sure you use your return key.…
#old messages
Message #96820
To add to Steve's answer, you can also force your last-message number to whatever you want with the HI command.
How about delete OtherDisk:junkfile i.e. use the name of the other disk in your command, separated from the file name by a colon (:). If there's a space in the disk name, then do it as delete "Other Disk:junkfile"
OK – I have that version; I just didn't think it was called Scribble II.
Another way of getting the initial purchase if it's commercial software (as opposed to games) is having not overly ethical people pass out copies of software that they've had their place of employment buy! What is expensive for an individual to buy with personal money may be, relatively speaking, peanuts…
A nit-picking point (I LOVE nit-picking): Photocopying a book or copying software isn't theft; it's breach of copyright. I'm not condoning it, just getting definitions straight. Your question is easy to answer: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Presumably if someone gives away copies of…
Kermit & CIS-B
Message #94245
OK – what's the scoop? The CIS News mentioned Kermit and a faster CIS-B, and I notice Kermit is available as an option on downloads (I didn't try it, since I wasn't interested in downloading anything for the moment). Is it faster/slower than the new CIS-B? Any usage differences in…
Because traditionally a Carriage Return (CR) puts you back at the left margin and a Line Feed (LF) moves you down a line. The combination puts you back at the left margin AND down a line. The need for that combination is so common, however, that many systems assume that…
Scribble II ?? Has Scribble! been updated recently (i.e. in the past 6 months or so)? If you mean Scribble! it works like a charm with the extra memory. I don't have the other two, but I would expect that they would work OK.
I have one. I'm pretty certain it has no wait states. Perry's RRD (otherwise known as VD0:) works fine with it. The RRD is a special case since it requires memory that survives a warm boot (Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga); software in general either does or does not work with extra memory; the…
Don't you have your redirection the wrong way in your "type" commands? i.e. type > prt: …
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