#Copy Utilities
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George, for clarification it is not Scribble!'s fault. Rather, it is an
oversight of AmigaDos. The comments you save along with a Document are called
FOOTNOTES. You can append such a comment using the 'FootNote' command from CLI
as well also. Unfortunately, copying files to a new disk or to the same disk
for that matter, will not preserve footnotes. You can do one of three things:
1) Copy the files to a new disk, and Footnote each one again.
2) Duplicate the Original Disk (This Preserves the Footnotes) and then delete
the files you do not want.
3) Load each Document into Scribble! one at a time, this will load the file,
and the footnote. Then save the file onto another disk.
GreG P.S. I can't recomend which of the above is the best. That depends
entirely on how many files you have, and how many different disks you want to
use. Good Luck!
Pretty close, Greg! They're called Filenotes, and you set them with the
Filenote command. I believe the ARP version of the Copy command _does_ copy
filenotes unless you specify otherwise with a command line option… this
provides a fourth possibility in addition to the three you mentioned in your
message.
Nick
Aaaaargh! Sorry about that! Been busy on 'footnoting' some papers and well,
no sleep will do that to you! <grin> I wasn't aware that the ARP Copy
command retains filenotes (almost said footnotes!), great to know that. And
Nick, thanks for the proof read! Speaking of which (nice segue huh?) how is
Transactor for the Amiga coming along?
GreG
TransAmi's looking good, Greg… still some minor details to attend to (like
editing all those articles, putting together a cover, and 4 or 5 thousand other
things) but we're very hopeful of getting it out on time. Only problem is, what
are we going to put in issue 2, since issue 1 already tells you everything you
could ever want to know about programming the Amiga. 🙂
Nick
Hehehehe…..I'm sure you'll think of something! Great to hear all is going
well. Best of Luck!
Regards, GreG
I think you need a regular column covering all the of tools available for
artists — indepth stuff, not just fluff like the other mags carry. Know any
artists who actually use all this stuff and can write too?
Hmmm… you could be right. One thing I'm not sure of at this point is how
tight the focus on programming in TransAmi is going to be. If we decide to stay
a strictly programming magazine, it would follow that any graphics (or music,
for that matter) stuff we do would have a very different orientation than you
would find elsewhere… and in that case, I'm not sure a graphics tools column
would fit, unless it was specifically "using graphics tools to make your
programs better". If we were to broaden our scope a little bit, though – to
"Amiga technical magazine" rather than "Amiga programming magazine" – then a
heavy-duty graphics column would make more sense.
Unfortunately, the whole domain of ray-tracing/animation/video is more or less
outside our expertise, so if we were to cover it well we _would_ need at least
a very good columnist/contributor, or preferably another editor with the
appropriate background. Which brings me to the answer to your question… no, I
don't know any hot artists who are also good writers (tempted to say it's a
contradiction in terms, but I'm resisting). Do you?
Nick
Nick, if you can't find any artists who can write, how the heck did you ever
find programmers that can write? 🙂 I'd love to contribute articles to your
new magazine, could you send or post the author guidelines? (I do art, too, as
well as program and write. I do watercolors, Japanese sumi-e and calligraphy,
as well as video. I wrote several technical "art" pieces for Amazing,
including a program that generates Aegis Animator scripts, and a long piece on
IFF standards (or lack thereof) between art programs. With all the new
ray-trace and animation programs out there, there is much potential for
technical interaction.)