CompuServe Thread

#AMosaic vs MosDnet

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#216797From: John F. WeberOct 27, 1995 1:18 AM
THanks for your patience. I'm in a bad mood with a bad cold and only getting 4-5 hours sleep. Have trashed and reformatted my WB2.1 HD on my A1000 twice, needed more space for MUI, which is now loaded along with Auto Pilot on my A1000. Where can I find Amigaguide.library which I need to make MUI work? Is it on WB3.0 and do I need an AGA Amiga to use MUI? Probably do need an AGA to load gif graphics files, right? Betty, yes I do have the AP.Docs file, all 50 pages and have read most. DOWNLOADING A FILE……..is on page 21, if they were numbered, or is it section 21???, actually it seems to be on page 35 from the front. I downloaded both iInst.lha and iInst151.lha. iInst150 won't work but iInst151 does. What about pull-down menus on AmiTCP? The only graphic screen closes as soon as the "on" window is unghosted. Or do you use the Mosaic screens. And do you need a registered version of Magic User Interface for it to work? And what about Rexx files. And how does one get the 600 + AP_Help files to work? Do they require Rexx command strings? (Now for philosophy) Spent 90 minutes yesterday with very pleasant CompuServe WinCIM techs on the 800 number and tried a jillion initialization strings for the MultiTech 1431 modem. They were friendly and nice to talk to. One had even heard about Amigas and wondered why CompuServe didn't have a graphic interface for what was a super graphic machine. I wonder?……is it Money? I guess if thousands of Amigans (Amigos?) have thousands of problems, then millions of Windows Users have millions of dollars to spend on Networking. Well, anyway, I've got AmiTCP, MUI, AMosaic (actually downloaded MosDnt.lha) and got Mosaic_1.2_DNet loaded, which it says is for reading local hypertext files but not for web browsing. And met lots of nice people on the AUForum. No, I haven't found many teen-agers around here any more, at not in Century Computer, the local Commodore store, where they all used to hang out. Century is still in business, mostly Toaster Graphic, good for them, but the kids must have gone Frys or Compu-World or Best Buy. The user groups meet once month in Santa Ana and Long Beach, each a 40 minute drive in southern California. I don't like to be out at nite around here, as you know it is possible to get by with murder here. About 30 civilians are killed every week in the streets, and a lot of spouse abuse. No fear or respect for law, order, or civility. Our popular heros all have feet of clay…and athlete's foot. They do run fast through airports! Thanks again.
#216894From: John DraperOct 27, 1995 7:40 PM
John, <I'm in a bad mood with a bad cold and only getting 4-5 hours sleep. Have trashed and reformatted my WB2.1 HD on my A1000 twice, needed more space for MUI, which is now loaded along with Auto Pilot on my A1000. Where can I find Amigaguide.library which I need to make MUI work? Is it on WB3.0 and do I need an AGA Amiga to use MUI? Probably do need an AGA to load gif graphics files, right?> Sorry to hear you're ill. Perhaps you might want to wait 'til you're feeling a bit better before digging into your system any more…just a thought….:) You don't need Amigaguide to make MUI work (though you might to read the docs), but you can find it here as AMIGAG.LHA (library 2, official updates). I thought Amigaguide came with OS 2.1, but if you don't have it, then maybe it didn't. You don't need AGA to load GIFS but you will only be able to see them in HAM6 (on your A1000). You will need Viewtek or another viewer that will show them to you though. Asha @}–,–`–