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From: William Gorder Amiga Tech Forum · ARexx May 29, 1993 10:09 PM
Is the error you're getting something like "Arithmetic Mismatch Error"? If so, I believe that the problem is that the stem variables are not initialized to be numeric, e.g., time. = 0. Therefore when you attempt to perform: time.host = time.host + thistime The interpreter tries to add thistime (which…
#32929 Arexx problem Message #33093
From: William Gorder Amiga Tech Forum · ARexx March 14, 1993 4:00 PM
Bill, sorry about the delay in getting my reply to you. Ahhhh, well… hmmmm….. I think it was *my* stupid idea to include rexxsyslib in the ARexx libraries. I think I just looked at the list of libraries in LIBS: with the string "rexx" in their name and included them.…
#32748 #Arexx problem Message #32918
From: William Gorder Amiga Tech Forum · ARexx March 9, 1993 10:26 PM
I think I figured it out. I was loading the libraries I usually use in a Rexx script (using the ADDLIB function)… *including* rexxsyslib.library! I saw your message to someone else about rexxsyslib being the interpreter, and I started thinking (a dangerous passtime, I assure you 🙂 I then removed…
#Arexx problem Message #32719
From: William Gorder Amiga Tech Forum · ARexx March 4, 1993 12:01 AM
This has me baffled. Some of the library routines calls from ARexx don't seem to be working on my machine. In fact they're causing system crashes! Something as simple as: 9.> rx "say showdir('ram:')" ;from rexxsupport.library or 9.> rx "say getenv(username)" ;from rexxarplib.library Results in a software failure. Sometimes, before…
From: William Gorder Amiga Vendor Forum · Softwood February 23, 1993 9:59 PM
> Get an AGA machine… Nah, got *way* too much stuff installed in my A3000, much of which I'd have to abandon. Memory, SCSI devices… The lack of SCSI on the A4000 (and the lack on a hardware de-interlacer) *really* annoyed me! I've got four SCSI devices on my A3000,…
#51829- #Final Copy II Problem Message #51873
From: William Gorder Amiga Vendor Forum · Softwood February 22, 1993 10:12 PM
Well, well, well… It appears that cpublit (!) is the culprit. I went ahead a renamed the WBStartup directory as you suggested (Neat idea, that!) and I also commented out all of the "unusual" stuff I start in my User-Startup (This included QMouse, cpublit, upd and resethandler). FCII then printed…
#25437 #Babalon 5 Message #25585
From: William Gorder Amiga Arts Forum · Hot News and Rumors January 13, 1993 9:27 PM
Karl, If you make it to the February AmiCON meeting, could you bring this issue? I'd like to see it. Later, Bill
#84377 #CrossPC Message #84825
From: William Gorder Amiga User Forum · Hot News and Rumors January 12, 1993 7:10 PM
Hmmm… Well, it has worked for me. But then again I must admit that I haven't really exercised it much either. One thing that has happened is since I've upgraded to WB 2.1, the PCC: device icon now shows up on my Workbench. I don't remember that happening under 2.04.…
#CrossPC Message #84327
From: William Gorder Amiga User Forum · Hot News and Rumors January 9, 1993 1:32 AM
"I'd like to see HD access to a file instead of a partition" Ahhh, I'm doing that right now using Matt Dillon's FMS. Set up a 5Mb file as my Cross-PC IBM-HD partition. Can't claim credit for the idea, tho. I saw it on Usenet. Later, Bill
#60689 V32.bis modem Message #60730
From: William Gorder Amiga User Forum · Communications June 21, 1992 11:39 AM
Hi Karl! Computer Success had, as of Friday, three of the Supra v.32bis modems on the shelf. Amiga package too, I believe(w/ Fax SW). Later, Bill P.S. Did you go to the AirShow? We planned to go Saturday and we nearly froze our rears off! Low ceiling, too. Last year…
#35468 Final Copy v1.3 Message #35601
From: William Gorder Amiga Vendor Forum · Softwood February 16, 1992 12:05 AM
Final Copy sounds great, to whom do I send my $4.00? Do I need to mark the envelope somehow? Will you be sending out notices to registered users? Questions, questions, questions! 🙂 Later, Bill – via Whap!
From: William Gorder Amiga User Forum · Communications February 16, 1992 12:05 AM
Just a comment… "It sounds like it will be only a few more weeks before the Supra and the Zoom are out on the market" The Zoom V.32turbo modem has been available for some time now, since I had mine in early December. 🙂 Last I looked(a while ago), Direct…
#19682 No more Tech Journal Message #19801
From: William Gorder Amiga Tech Forum · Hot News and Rumors January 31, 1992 11:07 PM
Comments? Arrrrggggghhhh! I *really* enjoyed reading this magazine, almost as much as the late, much lamented Transactor for the Amiga. I don't program the Amiga for a living, or even develop for it, but I *love* digging around in the OS, etc. and AWTJ was a perfect source of information…
#32458 Final Copy Problem Message #32472
From: William Gorder Amiga Vendor Forum · Softwood December 29, 1991 8:33 PM
OK, sounds like a plan to me! Oh course, I bought FC just before I left on Christmas vacation, and I haven't sent the registration in yet… *sigh* I guess it goes in the mail tomorrow! BTW, I found that if I delete the blank line following the salutation, the…
#Final Copy Problem Message #32422
From: William Gorder Amiga Vendor Forum · Softwood December 28, 1991 7:40 PM
Help! 🙂 I've run into a strange problem with Final Copy (v 1.1). I have a letter which I've been editing. It printed out fine last night, but today after a few edits my system crashes! My equipment: A3000/25 — 50 Mb Quantum & 70 Mb Rodime — external floppy…
#44254 ZOOM 9600 ext Modem Message #44623
From: William Gorder Amiga User Forum · Communications December 28, 1991 12:18 PM
Bob, this is the same modem I bought recently from Direct Micro… I am *very* happy with it. It is a v.32/v.42/v.42bis modem and it implements the 12000 bps fall-back mode of v.32bis! This means that if you use this modem to connect to a v.32bis compliant modem the data…
#41803 #9600 Modem Message #41931
From: William Gorder Amiga User Forum · Communications November 28, 1991 8:15 AM
Tim, you've got the standards close but not *quite* right, if memory serves… v.22 1200 bps v.22bis 2400 bps v.42 — not related to speed, LAP-M error correction v.42bis — not related to speed, data compression v.32 9600 bps v.32bis 14400bps (all of the above speeds are full-duplex) Some others…
From: William Gorder Amiga User Forum · Amiga Hardware September 16, 1990 8:02 PM
Thanks, Don I'll give MaxTransfer a try(what are typical values?). BTW, IVS (Maker of the TrumpCard) says that I can set some flags in the mountlist to force the scsi.device to use handshaking, but I haven't been able to get this to work on my FFS partition yet. The flags…
From: William Gorder AMIGAUSER Forum · Amiga Hardware September 13, 1990 7:52 PM
Hi, I've got a strange compatibility problem. For the past 18 months I've been happly using A2000 w/45 Mb HD. Last night, however, I installed a used A2620 into my heretofore happy Amiga, and now, if I try to boot into the 68020 it says my boot partition has a…
#23299 DMCS Problems Message #23305
From: William Gorder Amiga Arts Forum · Audio/MIDI October 15, 1989 2:28 PM
Karl, I told you it wasn't as good as I remembered, didn't I? Or did I? *sigh* 🙂 Yep, tempo changes can make the piece, but isn't that one of the things you do in the score set-up window? Which brings us back to my ( now our, unfortunately )…
#23189 #DMCS Problems Message #23292
From: William Gorder Amiga Arts Forum · Audio/MIDI October 14, 1989 11:45 PM
Hi Karl! Considering that the sigfile is the one that always seems to have a "R/W Error", it does appear that you still have the CP'ed version. Put the wrong one on your HD? 😉 BTW, did you get the binary file I E-plexed to you? Later, Bill
#23111 #DMCS Problems Message #23212
From: William Gorder Amiga Arts Forum · Audio/MIDI October 12, 1989 8:15 PM
David, Yep, I think I tried that… but hey… since I don't remember the results so I'll give it another try. I think it tried to load the program from the floppy, but I'm not sure. BTW, I'd like to thank you from your help, and ask if you can…
#22939 #DMCS Problems Message #23087
From: William Gorder Amiga Arts Forum · Audio/MIDI October 9, 1989 10:05 AM
Thanks for the help David, I got most of the files (read: the important ones!) back by using a combination of DiskX and DiskSalv. After moving the splash file into a dmcs:c directory I do indeed have a title screen (for about .75 sec! Aren't HDs wonderful?). However, the score…
#22887 #DMCS Problems Message #22920
From: William Gorder Amiga Arts Forum · Audio/MIDI October 3, 1989 11:01 PM
Ok, thanks Rick, David. I'll try what David has suggested and see if it works for me. The DMCS fonts and commands in a sub-directory of DMCS: and NOT in FONTS: and C:, never would have thought of that! 😉 I'll leave a more coherent message later, I'm trying not…
#DMCS Problems Message #22843
From: William Gorder Amiga Arts Forum · Audio/MIDI October 1, 1989 2:46 PM
Hi Rick, I've noticed one a couple of other occasions that you seem to be know DMCS fairly well. Well, I've got a couple of problems that I can't seem to figure out. First: About six months ago I upgraded to a hard drive. After I moved (a Marauder'ed) DMCS…