========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Mon, 23 Apr 90 Volume 90 : Issue 470 Today's Topics: (1) OCR experiences? (2) EMACS/shell capabilities? Atari Mono & Color Monitors Sound Levels Different Fax for the Atari? GEMINI TRASHDIR & CLIPDIR Possible to Have BACKGROUND IMAGE on Desktop like in Macs? Request: Head Parking Software Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23 UUCP implementation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Apr 90 20:15:51 GMT From: hp-pcd!hplsla!andyc@hplabs.hp.com (Andy Cassino) Subject: (1) OCR experiences? (2) EMACS/shell capabilities? Message-ID: <5440115@hplsla.HP.COM> | | Am I missing something? Why not use the "me" that comes with Gulam? | It supports the "~Z" to suspend an editing session. | | Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. Well, one thing I've found is that the "me" built into gulam has difficulties with large files (>100K or so). I've found microemacs to be considerably more reliable - and faster. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Andy Cassino % % uucp: hplabs!hplsla!andyc domain: andyc%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com % % Hewlett-Packard Lake Stevens Instrument Division % % 8600 Soper Hill Road Everett, WA 98205-1298 % % (206) 335-2211 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 90 21:12:13 GMT From: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!ia4@rutgers.edu (Imran Anwar) Subject: Atari Mono & Color Monitors Sound Levels Different Message-ID: <1990Apr23.211213.592@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> :-( Not only were the colors on my previous and present color 1224 mintors different enough to require changing all my control panel settings on all disks but also the maximum volumes on my new 1224 and 124 monitors are worlds apart.... The mono can be barely heard while the color one's beeps arealmost clanks at max volume! The least Atari can do is make things consistently (bad :-) ) Imran ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 22:18:36 EDT From: "Hiscocks, Peter" Subject: Fax for the Atari? Message-ID: <90Apr23.212539edt.57516@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Anyone in Netland have any experience with Fax for the ST? One of my students asked if he could submit an assignment by Fax, so I guess I have to start taking this seriously. Rather than buy a stand-alone fax machine, it seems to make sense, for the limited occasions I'll be using it, to use a computer based fax card and external scanner. That way, the scanner could be used for desktop publishing as well. The one lead I have for fax machines that work with the ST is a firm named Telefax, (thanx to Mark at Atari Canada for that lead) but I'm a bit leery of using something that doesn't have local support, and this machine is not (to my knowledge) available in Canada. Also, the dealer was busy vacuuming when Mark phoned, and asked him to phone back later. Doesn't exactly sound like a major corporation.... So the alternative (he said, putting on his asbestos suit) is to put a fax card in my new MS-DOS clone, currently used as the world's largest EPROM burner. This is attractive because there is a 9600 baud fax card for the MS-DOS world, for $275 Cdn. (Frecom FAX96 card, recently reviewed in 'The Computer Paper', out of Vancouver). One could then sneakernet files between the Atari and the MS-DOS machine. I assume this would work for outgoing ASCII files, but it requires that there be some way to convert the fax bitmap on receive to something the Atari can show. The image card can work with are .TIFF, .PCX or .FAX format. The Questions (finally): Has anyone out there got FAX to work on the Atari (Mega2 in my case)? Are there programs to convert from some Atari image format (Degas would be convenient) to something a fax can send? ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 90 17:24:00 GMT From: dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec@uunet.uu.net Subject: GEMINI TRASHDIR & CLIPDIR Message-ID: <16000060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Gemini users... can someone who has successfully redirected TRASHDIR and CLIPDIR please tell me how? I have the setenv directives in mupfel.mup e.g. "setenv TRASHDIR 'F:\TRASH'", but it still puts trash in C:\GEMINI\TRASHDIR. hmmm. -- Greg ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 90 21:16:05 GMT From: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!ia4@rutgers.edu (Imran Anwar) Subject: Possible to Have BACKGROUND IMAGE on Desktop like in Macs? Message-ID: <1990Apr23.211605.22151@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Hi. I was wondering if it is possible to have a picture or image in the background instead of the dull desktop? I have seen such stuff on the Macs....so obviously it should be available on a better machine like the ST :-) Imran Anwar ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 90 23:49:16 GMT From: jensen@cod.nosc.mil (Layne K. Jensen) Subject: Request: Head Parking Software Message-ID: <1883@cod.NOSC.MIL> Does anyone out there have software to park the heads of a floppy disk? I need it for a 5.25" add-on disk drive. Because of the faster step rate in effect at boot time, if the heads aren't at track 0 the heads don't move, the computer doesn't sense the track 0 signal, and comes to the conclusion there is no drive there. Then, even when the step rate is changed to the correct value, it's too late. I don't have any documentation on how to write a program to do this or to tell the computer that the drive is really present. Any help is appreciated. Layne Jensen jensen@nosc.MIL Naval Ocean Systems Center ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen San Diego, CA -- Layne Jensen jensen@nosc.MIL Naval Ocean Systems Center ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen San Diego, CA ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 90 19:33:59 GMT From: portal!atari!apratt@apple.com (Allan Pratt) Subject: Severe Dcreate() bug in GEMDOS 0.23 Message-ID: <2167@atari.UUCP> ski2@milton.acs.washington.edu (Chris Kacoroski) writes: >In article <1401@opal.tubopal.UUCP> alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) >writes: >>My RAM TOS 1.0 (GEMDOS V0.21) also clobbers files with Dcreate () ! >>Also the ROM TOS 1.0 in all machines at FU Berlin's physics department. >I tried the posted program on a 1040st with TOS 1.0 in ROM and it did >clobber files with the same name as the directory I was trying to >create while returning successfully. What is your (collective) point? I didn't say this didn't happen in original TOS (1.0), just that it's not in GEMDOS 0.23! And it's not. This is even documented: Rainbow TOS Release Notes, August 7, 1989, page 37: "Attempting to Dcreate a directory with the name of an existing file will return EACCDN. Previously, it would delete the file, then create the directory." What threw me was the original subject line, saying this bug was in GEMDOS 0.23 (Which is Rainbow TOS's GEMDOS). It's not there, and it's documented as a change, and the previous, undesired behavior is also documented. If your subsidiary doesn't make the Rainbow TOS Release Notes document available with TOS 1.4, you should take it up with them. It's part of the developer's package in the USA. ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 90 06:53:52 GMT From: mcsun!cernvax!chx400!fatcat!acadch!impch!subch!wopr!marc@uunet.uu.net (Marc Balmer) Subject: UUCP implementation Message-ID: <31@wopr.UUCP> SA44@liverpool.ac.UK (Kevin Maguire) writes: >Yeah, Minix CAN run UUCP. Well UUPC to be exact, is what I've had working. > .... You can even create a uucp >log in for other people so that they can get their news and mail from >your ST!!!!! For OS-9/68000 which is source code compatible to UNIX(tm) a complete UUCP/News/Mail implementation exist and works really nice. E.g. I m using NN to post this message. UUCP fort OS-9 is part of the TOP Distribution. ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V90 Issue #470 *****************************************