This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Home Editing
Message #5453
I'm curious about putting together a Windows-based editing system to do "simple" home video editing. I'd like to be able to do titling, and some small number of transition effects. My environment is VHS (C). What does it take to do something like this? I've "overheard" stuff here about the…
Which CD drive to buy.
Message #41474
Thanx! – Mark
#Price Cuts?
Message #14937
Has anyone heard anything about the rumored price cuts Commodore was 'supposed' to announce?
No, you could go with more than 80 columns and user a smaller font…or you could relax your definition of WYSIWIG and only get to see part of the page at any one time. The latter is the approach a lot of software uses (and which I wish the Mac…
No, Bill, you're not asking too much, but it may be difficult to achieve on the Amiga. WYSIWYG is an acronym for 'What You See Is What You Get', i.e., the image on the monitor should look exactly like whta gets printed. Like all definitions taken over by the marketing…
Wonderful! Now let's hope Commodore nails down WB2.0 ASAP (as I recall hearing that Superbase needs the networking support built into the new OS…)
#Advice Needed!
Message #7323
Advice needed! I just had a somewhat harrowing experience: my trusty Apple Crate external SCSI drive (based, I believe, on an ST277N) failed for the first time since I bought it about four years ago. It did not go through its normal power on sequence (where a variety of chirping…
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dBase copyrights void ?
Message #7283
Probably depend on whether they disclosed that info in their applications, and if the judge's ruling stands up on appeal… – Mark
Which in fact they're gonna do (i.e., continue to sue Fox over 'theft of look and feel'). They just can't (unless the judge is overruled) try and collect by claiming Fox copied the language… – Mark
Michael, I'm running version 3.01, I think. I never asked for 3.02 because I was under the impression there weren't any significant changes. Should I ask for the upgrade? – Mark
Except, unfortunately, the query function sets the field size of the Superbase file it creates based on the width of the FIRST entry it creates for each field…which is weird at best and a bug at worst. Do you know if that was fixed in the upcoming upgrade? – Mark
Bug in DML
Message #20183
(This is NOT Mark from Precision!!) ALERT!!! SuperBase Professional cannot correctly store compound logical tests in DML programs (at least in IF…THEN statements). This is the kind of line that gets trashed during the storage process: IF (Flag1%=1) or (Flag1%=0 and not (Flag2%=1)) then When you reopen a program file…
Michael, Unfortunately, keeping the stuff in a separate file makes it a little tricky to keep it in order (i.e., in a multiple field, entry 3 always follows entry 2, but in a separate file you need to keep some tricky DML logic in the loop) – Mark
Russ, Probably because the market for Superbase isn't big enough to support that kind of development yet. That's why I really hope their messy dos version (actually windows, but who cares?) takes off — it'll help bootstrap what they're doing on the Amiga. – Mark
Russ, I'm not employed with Precision, but I have been mucking about with Superbase for a few years on the Amiga. I don't think multifield indices are 'aware' of anything other than the first entry in the field. I say this because I've never been able to get the report…
In fact that's just what I'm doing…although I seem to have strange gaps in the data stream I get back (i.e., some lines that I KNOW tymnet sends me are missing). – Mark
Martin, Your suggestion re: FileReadLine or using the Document approach would be a good one, except I'm dealing with a giant file (it's a bitmap that I dump to a LaserJet II; I'm looking to control the number of times it's dumped) that isn't ASCII. – Mark
CanDo and SerialManager
Message #553
Well, I managed tto figure out what was going wrong with my little CanDo terminal program. Turns out TymNet sends out characters with ascii codes above 127 — if you don't strip out the 8th bit you end up with what looks like garbage. Does anyone know why this 'extra'…
Maybe there's a way to adapt some of the gremlins, or whatever you call them (e.g., :)) to the task… – Mark
According to who, Bill? You? To me and many of the people I know it has — at least as I used it. – Mark
offensiveness
Bill, Since your own grasp of English apparently does not extend to understanding what I was trying to get at, I suggest you refrain from blasting others. I never once said I was censored. In fact, if you will bother to read my messages, you will see that I went…
Victor, Not at all. Please see one of my earlier replies. There is a substantial difference between the denotative and the connotative meanings of the 'g' word. A non-believer, like me, could quite rationally use the word to convey its connotative meaning. Many words are like that, BTW (e.g., my…
Victor, I like the idea. It's kind of like saying "that #!%#!#@*# piece of junk didn't work!". On the other hand, I kind of also like this thread. I haven't had this much fun on CIS in quite a while. I like seeing what bright and well-educated (after all, we…
Tom, That one completely blew by me. Or was that the intent? – Mark
Tom (what is the "cout
Kelly, Sounds like a good idea to me. It's here mostly because the original issue revolved around a posting I made in AMIGATECH. Besides, if this isn't rambling I don't know what is! Who cares where it is, anyway — you can just skip the thread. 🙂 – Mark
Kevin, Thanx for jarring my memory! You may have given me a rebuttal to both your point and Tom's (see other reply). There IS precedent for 'private' organizations having to follow pay attention to? constitutional issues. Consider private clubs (like the Johnathon Club here in LA) which for years excluded…
Tom, Fascinating. I didn't know that about the phone company and the FCC. Then how are all those 900 number 'adult' (I always thought they were kind of childish myself…) services? I'm confused — or is it that the content of those services is not (yet?) established as obscene and…
Michael, What?!? You don't look forward to paying off, over the next 30 years, for someone else to get rich?!? I bet you're just crying sour grapes that you didn't get in on the action . I agree with you — both about mileage varying and he S&L situation being…
Married With Children annoys me on an intellectual level…but I must own up to admiring what's her name in her skin tight outfits from time to time (I don't recall the character's or actress's name — I'm not what you call a loyal fan!) – Mark
Bill, I see your argument but I don't agree. There are lots of words whose connotative meanings and denotative meanings have changed over time, sometimes quite radically. I seem to recall that 'goodbye' comes from 'God be with you', but I'd be willing to bet that 99 people out of…
John, You're right: economics aside (see Don's reply to me), I >>was>another
Don, I suspected the economic aspect might be controlling . Actually, simply having to seek out material is not necessarily a guard against people taking offense. Consider adult theatres and pornographic magazines in stores. You have to seek them out (well, granted the movie marquis titles are visible to the…
John, Hmmm, didn't think of that. What I'm relying on is my experience using BaudBandit. There, as part of the logon process, you have to hit the 'a' or 'e' key to get the TymNet logon prompt. I don't think there's a LF or CR involved, but at this point…
Including a few s**** (I presume you meant the plural :)) doesn't fool anyone, though, bill. I know people who find even that much offensive A standard targeted at offending absolutely no one is not workable. Banning communications because they offend someone would almost certainly ban a lot of very…
Betty, Sorry, I don't believe that's a workable standard. As I said in some earlier messages on this subject, I can argue that forcing me (which didd not happen) to avoid the 'g' word offends me, as I do not share religious beliefs. – Mark
Steve, Since I'm not sure if my earlier message got to you (what happens when I REPLY to message sent by Person A to Person B? Who gets my message -A or B?) let me reiterate that the email I got certainly appeared official to me, as it contained reference…
Steve, Absolutely not! If it had been as one user to another do you think I would have burned up this much disk space by sparking the discussion?? I wish I had saved the message. But there was a clear statement in it that Betty had the ability to delete…
Hmmm, an interesting idea. But there are a lot of people who find what is on network TV to be offensive. – Mark
Don, My wife gave me an interesting idea (that I doubt a network firm would want to implement, but what the heck?) about this issue today. How about a filter program, user-configurable, that screens all messages and either blocks words the user considers offensive or blocks the entire message? This…
Martin, FileReadChars does not work correctly. It always reads 0 characters, regardless of how many you tell it to read. This makes it a little difficult to read text files, no? Or is there another way to do so? I called tech support about this and was told it was…
Ben, Don't get me wrong, I can understand why CS would be super sensitive to any hint of impropriety. >>I
Thomas, Please see my comments to Steve and Don. I can make a good case that making me kowtow to the religious sensibilities of other people is deeply offensive to me, and hence such actions should be 'banned' under the 'rules'. – Mark
Craig, I'm not sure about the private nature of the forums applying here, although I admit I ain't a legal scholar. The reason I would doubt it is it would seem to me such an approach would run afoul of the constitutional right of free speech. Put another way, the…
John, An interesting idea, but it still runs afoul of offending my own sensibilities! (For what I mean, see my responses to Don and Steve). – Mark
Steve, I appreciate your opinion, although, as you probably guessed, I don't agree with it. Without repeating my whole message to Don the Sysop (sorry Don, I forgot your last name and my text buffer isn't large enough!), I don't believe an 'editing' (let's not call it censoring so as…
You're right, Don, censorship did not take place…but the promise (?; I don't like to say threat without being certain I'm being threatened, which is hard to sense in a text medium!) was there in the message sent to me by email. The interesting part of the question is: how…
Hmmm, I'm 99% certain that WordPerfect does NOT have such a capability… and if it does, I'd like to know how to turn it on! – Mark
#Profanity and BBSs
Message #390
I would like to poll the feeling of this BBS community regarding an issue I became aware of a few days ago. In one of my postings I used the word 'g****m' in the context of (as I recall) "…I can't get the g****n module to work…". Now, where I…
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