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#: 17979 S1/General Interest
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26-Apr-93 21:34:20
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Sb: #17970-OS9MAX utility
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Fm: Keith Madden 75045,1345
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To: ole hansen 100016,3417 (X)
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Dear Ole,
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Thanks for the information! I'll get in touch with them.
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Best wishes,
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Keith Madden
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#: 17976 S1/General Interest
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25-Apr-93 13:55:51
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Sb: #17973-#New Magazine
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)
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Good news, Mark. I wish you the best of success with this new venture. If I can
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be of any help, let me know.
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Please enter my name on the subscription list.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 17980 S1/General Interest
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27-Apr-93 04:51:12
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Sb: #17976-New Magazine
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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Bob,
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> Good news, Mark. I wish you the best of success with this new venture. If I
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> can be of any help, let me know.
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I know you are writing for one of the other magazines, MOTD I think. If you
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ever want to start a column with me, let me know.
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/************* /\/\ark ************/
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#: 17990 S7/Telecommunications
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28-Apr-93 20:59:30
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Sb: #?t3 questions
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Fm: keith bauer 71102,317
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To: all
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I have just gotten my /T3 paddle board so my next set will be to pick up a 14.4
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Fax/Modem. I was wondering if you guys could answer a few questions that I have
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and thus keep me from pulling out what little hair I have left.
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First off what are some modems that are currently being used with an MM/1. If
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you could please give me make and model it would help.
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Second there are some jumpers on the paddle boards. I know what they are for
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from the docs but I am not sure as to why I would want to set them in either
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manner. I could use some reasoning here please.
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Thanks for the time and hopefully when I log back on next week I will be tring
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out InfoXpress to find some answers to these questions.
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Keith
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 17994 S7/Telecommunications
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29-Apr-93 17:31:03
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Sb: #17990-?t3 questions
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: keith bauer 71102,317
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> First off what are some modems that are currently being used with an MM/1.
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I'm using a SupraFaxModem upto 14.4. I'd give it a fair rating, but wouldn't
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purchase another until Supra fixes the current problems. (Lot's of problems
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connecting with other modems)
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> Second there are some jumpers on the paddle boards. I know what they are for
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> from the docs but I am not sure as to why I would want to set them in either
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> manner. I could use some reasoning here please.
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Jumper P4 controls the setting for RTS and DTR. You'll need to set this to
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toggle (rather than tied high) for use with a high speed modem. Also, the type
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bit on /t3 or /t4 will need to be xmoded to 80.
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> Thanks for the time and hopefully when I log back on next week I will be
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tring
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> out InfoXpress to find some answers to these questions.
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>
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You're gonna love it. If you need any help setting it up, just shout!
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*- Steve -*
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#: 17977 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Apr-93 10:00:22
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Sb: upload
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: sysop (X)
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I uploaded a program,(makpal.lzh), Saturday morning and I was wondering if
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there was a problem, since it hasn't been made available yet.
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Did the upload go ok ?
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larry
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#: 17978 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Apr-93 19:17:19
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Sb: MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)
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Mark,
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I spoke to Gary Latham today and he said I should ship my I/O board to
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you for repair. I received it from IMS on 01/28/92 and had no problem
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installing it. However, the machine did (and still does) hang on boot with the
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hard drive access LED on about half the time. I called Paul about the problem
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on 02/17/92 and told him that the WD33C93A SCSI chip had a #8 mask. He said
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the chip would probably have to be replaced. He's been promising to ship me a
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replacement I/O board (and the hard drive I paid for) since that time. I have
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a Seagate ST138N-1 and a Quantum 105 in the MM/1 as well as the deluxe boot
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ROM's. Installing a boot on either drive and configuring it as /dd (/h0)
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results in the fol- lowing message and results in a hung machine with the HD
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LED on. Powering off and having a bootable floppy in /d0 on power up is the
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only way to get a successful boot (when it doesn't hang).
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OS-9/68K System Bootstrap
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Attempting to boot from Floppy.
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Floppy disk drive not ready.
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Attempting to boot from Hard Disk.
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Attempting to boot from Rom.
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NO kernel found.
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Boot failed, error status $00F6
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The hard drives had been os9gen'ed and had valid boot files on them.
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Where should I ship the board and approximately how much will it cost me to get
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the chip replaced?
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Thanks in advance, Ernest Withers, MM/1 #120848
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#: 17981 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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27-Apr-93 20:19:38
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Sb: Questions
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Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
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To: All
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Two questions for the MM1:
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1. What is a good setting for maxcount on the hard disk descriptor so that I
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won't lose chars during modem sessions?
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2. What are all the possible environment variable I can use?
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Thanks,
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Hugo
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#: 17982 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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27-Apr-93 23:40:18
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Sb: #makpal
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Larry Olson 72227,3467 (X)
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Larry, Just a quick note to let you know that I got makpal. I did a quick run
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though and it appears to be a neat little program. However: A PLEA to you and
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all other mm/1 programmers. Please set up your programs so that they don't
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bugger with the user's original screen. It is real easy to create a new screen
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using /w and do all the displays and input on that screen...then when the
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program is done, you just reselect the user's original screen and all is well.
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I don't think it is just me...I really get upset when a program (any program!)
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changes the color and/or size of the screen I have set up. PS. Don't take this
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message as a flame! I like the program and your efforts!
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 17986 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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28-Apr-93 01:26:04
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Sb: #17982-#makpal
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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Bob,
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That was on of the things that I have been fighting with all along.
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I wanted very badly to have the program do its thing, then when done, rest the
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screen back to the original, but I could not come up with the way to do it.
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Everything I tried, just didn't work. I guess I was hoping that someone
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would give some example on how to do it. I also couldn't figure out why in C I
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couldn't do it like Basic09 on the CoCo. When you do a RUN gfx2("select")
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basic09 would switch (or dup) all 3 paths, but the Select call in C doesn't, if
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you do a Select(path2), the output is sent to path2 but it looks for input from
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the original path. There is only one point in the program where it needs to get
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input from the keyboard, but I couldn't figure out how to tell it to look at
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path2 for input.
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I even tried to get the window info and color info, to save it, and when the
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program is done, I would do a DWSet, and put the window back like it was.
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That didn't work either, the window would be put in a kind of half way mode,
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it looked like an interlaced screen, when it should have been a non- interlaced
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screen, but if you selected another screen, using the keyboard or mouse button,
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then went back to the screen that looked interlaced, it was now correct.
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I know I'm not describing this very well, maybe I should upload some of the
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test routines I have been trying.
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I would be grateful, if you had some examples that show how to do it right.
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larry
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 17996 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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01-May-93 01:17:08
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Sb: #17986-makpal
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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Larry,
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After you do the final DWSet and get the fuzzy screen, you need to pause 1/2 a
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sec or so, then Select(0); This will take care of the 'fuzzy' screen.
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TO get IO from wpath2 you can do a read(wpath2,buffer,length) or a
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readln(wpath2,buffer,length); Make sense?
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- Mike -
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#: 17985 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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28-Apr-93 01:00:53
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Sb: #login
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: all
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I'm getting real frustrated...it happens every time I get some new disks or
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download files from the unix world--I can't seem to print out the $*#*$% manual
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pages. I've tried the various *off programs I have (mroff, troff, roff, proff)
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and none of them seem to understand the various commands in the files. So,
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either I don't have the right formatter for these files, or is it possible that
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I need some kind of a header file to define common macros?
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As an example, the file I has just now starts out with the following command
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lines:
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.TH EXPECT 1 "30 March 1992"
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.SH NAME
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expect \- programmed dialogue with interactive programs
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B expect
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[
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Sure looks like mroff-like stuff to me.
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#: 17987 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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28-Apr-93 16:35:49
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Sb: #17985-login
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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You nailed both items:
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a) They're n/troff files..
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b) They use the -MAN macro package (under unix)
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Pete
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#: 17991 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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28-Apr-93 23:45:02
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Sb: #17985-login
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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Bob,
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The manual pages arein troff format. Nothing we have for OS9 will directly
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print them. You have to massage them by hand. You could always upload them to
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a UNIX site and print them to a disk file and then download them to your OSK
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machine.
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One good reason for working at a place that has UNIX machines (grin).
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/************* /\/\ark ************/
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#: 17997 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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01-May-93 01:17:25
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Sb: #17985-login
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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I think I have just the ticket for you. I just finished playing with Mroff so
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it'll except single char <.> dot commands and print most n/troff manual pages.
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Added .q for quoting a string, .tr for transliterating chars, and more. I have
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a macrofile also that will expand most the n/troff commands.
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Even added a few options like:
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-s<num> send Odd/Even pages only to stdout
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(0 = All pages, 1 = Odd, 2 = Even)
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-m<macrofile> macro file to include in document
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-m will check the env var MROMAC for the
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path to a macro file to be included.
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-t use termcap for underline and bold
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-t<TERM> where 'term' is the termcap entry to use
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-u use terminal page length (use with -t)
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(Use file for piping thru 'more')
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mroff -m -u -t file
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Would print the manual to the screen using Termcap codes for bold and underline
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and format the document in screen sized pages, piping it thru more will work
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also.
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mroff -m -tepson file >/p
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Will use the termcap entry 'epson' to print the document to the printer.
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Interested? Think there is enough interest in it to upload it for public
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consumption? Maybe the name should be changed to nroff or something too?
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- Mike -
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#: 17989 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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28-Apr-93 20:12:18
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Sb: #MAKPAL
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Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
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To: Larry Olson
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Larry,
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That palette maker program is neat. Makes good use of the windowing interface.
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Good job!
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Hugo
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 17992 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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28-Apr-93 23:59:38
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Sb: #17989-MAKPAL
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
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Hugo,
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Thanks, it still needs some work to make it more professional, like the
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problem that Bob pointed out. I'm also not sure if the way that I save the data
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out for C or Basic, is the best way. If someone knows a better form, I'm
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willing to change it.
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larry
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#: 17983 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Apr-93 00:17:14
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Sb: #New KiX\20
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Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
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To: Frank Hogg 70310,317 (X)
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I've tried to upload files about our new low cost 68020 computer, the KiX\20.
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The database files are full and I can't do it.
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The KiX\20 WITH OSK, C and BASIC is based on the 25 Mhz 68020 and sells for
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ONLY $699.95!
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Until the database will accept the files I can email the information to you.
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Please send me email requesting the information.
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Frank Hogg - FHL
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 17993 S15/Hot Topics
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29-Apr-93 04:27:10
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Sb: #17983-#New KiX\20
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Fm: Mike Ward 76703,2013
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To: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317 (X)
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Give 'er a shot now Frank.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 17995 S15/Hot Topics
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30-Apr-93 22:18:28
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Sb: #17993-New KiX\20
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Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
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To: Mike Ward 76703,2013 (X)
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I've just uploaded both the MGA and KiX\20 press release to dl15.
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Thanks
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#: 17984 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Apr-93 00:17:37
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Sb: New LOW cost KiX\20
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Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
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To: Lee Veal 74726,1752
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I've tried to upload files about our new low cost 68020 computer, the KiX\20.
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The database files are full and I can't do it.
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The KiX\20 WITH OSK, C and BASIC is based on the 25 Mhz 68020 and sells for
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ONLY $699.95!
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Until the database will accept the files I can email the information to you.
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Please send me email requesting the information.
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Frank Hogg - FHL
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