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90201 4-OCT 19:18 OSK Applications
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RE: Ghostscript (Re: Msg 90161)
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From: JOHNREED To: MRGOOD
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> Unfortunately, the MM1 is my only computer. I can't take my Stylus 300
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> to work....
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>
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> BTW, lines.ps messes up the same way that chess.ps does. I get about an
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> inch of good printout, then I get a mess :-). I guess I'll have to
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> try a shorter cable. How long is the one you use?
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>
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> Hugo
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I have two 6-foot cables (that's the shortest I have seen). The
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one that works came from a local discount store ("Office MAX") and
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cost about $6.95. (The one that won't work cost about $10 - go
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figure).
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This printer cable business drove me NUTS for a while -- at one time
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I had the DeskJet and the EPSON connected via two serial switching
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boxes to both computers, so I could switch either computer to either
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printer (Cables all over the desk) and everything seemed to work.
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Then I started having trouble with the Ghostscript --> Epson output.
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I hunted for bugs in the driver for some time, and then fed the
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output file from Ghostscript to the EPSON from the "386" - and
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it worked. Thats when I started swapping cables and found only
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one that would let me feed the file from the MM/1 directly to the
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EPSON. ((all this time, text files were ok -- just the binary
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printer files were screwed up)). I thought maybe I was getting a
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weak signal from the MM/1 -- maybe just not quite enough for the
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EPSON -- so I borrowed one of those "printer selector" boxes for
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a test -- I figured it's buffer would help -- nope. The short
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(cheap) cable is the only thing that works. It must be something
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involving timing -- something is just barely within the limit, and
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any stray inductance/capacitance in the cable pushes it past the
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edge of the "gate".
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Funny, the mouse that works best with my MM/1 came in a plain
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white box -- just said "MOUSE" - cost $9.95. This computer wants
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plain peripherials - no fancy stuff please.
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A stitch in time --------------------
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------ is worth two in the bush
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John R. Wainwright <<CIS -- 72517,676>> <<DELPHI -- JOHNREED>>
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90222 5-OCT 23:09 OSK Applications
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RE: Ghostscript (Re: Msg 90201)
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From: WA2EGP To: JOHNREED (NR)
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Strangly enough, I have two types of parallel printer cables here. Seems the
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older type are wired differently on a few lines. They don't work on PCs
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either. I have a 6 footer that works on my MM/1 but I haven't had the time
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(or the guts <g>) to send anything to the printer using ghostscript...yet.
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Will let you know how it works out. IF anything fails, it will fail on my
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system (grin).
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End of Thread.
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90202 4-OCT 19:18 OSK Applications
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RE: Ghostscript (Re: Msg 90145)
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From: JOHNREED To: JEJONES
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> > Is it only
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> > tabc and lf that I have to zero out?
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> That's all that I've had to do--after all, the other fields control the
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> processing of characters *input* from the SCF device, not of *output*.
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>
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Right, of course. My "zerop" script is overkill -- tab and linefeed
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were the troublemakers. I just keep zeroing everything out of habit.
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A stitch in time --------------------
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------ is worth two in the bush
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John R. Wainwright <<CIS -- 72517,676>> <<DELPHI -- JOHNREED>>
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90203 4-OCT 19:19 OSK Applications
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RE: Ghostscript (Re: Msg 90166)
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From: JOHNREED To: DIGIGRADE
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> I'm currently wrighting an ESCp2 thingy that will let you type
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> 'escp2 wide >/p' and it will send the code to the printer. I'm getting the
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> codes from the owner's manual. Are there any codes I'm missing? Like real
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> DTP functions or text handling? (I plan to later write a WYSIWYG DTP
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program
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> that uses ESCp2. I have an AP3250 (a damn fine dot matrix printer don't you
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If your manual is like the one that came with my printer, all the
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commands are there, just a little weak on explanations. The reference
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manual has lots of programming examples. My reference manual is
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a 1991 edition, and the AP3250 is not there -- newer.
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A stitch in time --------------------
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------ is worth two in the bush
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John R. Wainwright <<CIS -- 72517,676>> <<DELPHI -- JOHNREED>>
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90204 4-OCT 19:19 OSK Applications
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RE: Ghostscript (Re: Msg 90162)
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From: JOHNREED To: JRUPPEL
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> If I have any questions, I will be in touch! Enjoy the great frozen north!
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> The U.P. is one of my favorite places on the planet...especially the
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> Keeweenau Penninsula. Have a great trip! TTYL
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We did! Nice weather - clear and cool. Wanted to stay up there, but
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the Michigan Lottery failed me again, so I had to come back to
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Saginaw and go to work.
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A stitch in time --------------------
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------ is worth two in the bush
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John R. Wainwright <<CIS -- 72517,676>> <<DELPHI -- JOHNREED>>
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90206 4-OCT 20:04 OSK Applications
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RE: Ghostscript (Re: Msg 90204)
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From: JRUPPEL To: JOHNREED (NR)
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$5 Wednesdays and Saturdays for years uncounted....hitting the Lotto jackpot
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is about 1000 less likely than getting hit by lightning <G>
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John Ruppel
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CocoNuts in Lansing
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End of Thread.
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90205 4-OCT 19:19 OSK Applications
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RE: New Tex Upload (Re: Msg 90172)
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From: JOHNREED To: TIMKIENTZLE (NR)
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> ........... Anything
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> else you'd like to see in there?
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Whew! - Quite an upload that will be. I can't think of anything
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else to ask for.
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>
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> P.S. Glad to know the `big' versions work okay. I can't
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> run them on my 3meg machine, so I basically just crossed
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> my fingers on those. I've been compiling differently-sized
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> TeX versions for a long time now, so I was pretty confident
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> it would work, but nice to have that confirmed.
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I finally got the docs for the gcc lib ver 1.08 (600+ pages) to
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run. Haven't printed them except for test prints of a few
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selected pages -- maybe a booklet (GRIN)..
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Now I plan to play with the LaTeX output of GNUPLOT some more -- it
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would cause TeX to run out of memory on detailed plots before.
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********************************
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A stitch in time --------------------
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------ is worth two in the bush
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John R. Wainwright <<CIS -- 72517,676>> <<DELPHI -- JOHNREED>>
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90207 4-OCT 20:13 General Information
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RE: Shell+ 2.2a bug (Re: Msg 90182)
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From: JWILKERSON To: DENNYWRIGHT
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All I can say is that it sure was not.
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Seeya
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Seeya
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-- John
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90208 4-OCT 20:16 General Information
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Multivue apps.
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From: JWILKERSON To: ALL
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Is there a way to make Multivue work with apps that need input from the
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keyboard as part of the command to work...
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Say use the program AR..... it requires the files to use when running.... What
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would need to be done to run it?
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sort of a prompt for input and the options and such......
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Any help?
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Seeya
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-- John
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90214 4-OCT 23:35 General Information
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RE: Multivue apps. (Re: Msg 90208)
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From: WDTV5 To: JWILKERSON
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I've not fooled with it for quite a while, but as I recall, a ? on the
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second line of the xxx.AIF file will cause gshell to open a window and
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ask you for "parameters", eg the arguments you would normally enter on
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the command line. Hope this is right, and helps.
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Cheers John, Gene
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90219 5-OCT 09:22 General Information
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RE: Multivue apps. (Re: Msg 90214)
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From: JWILKERSON To: WDTV5
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Ok... thanks.... I will give that a try.
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Seeya
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-- John
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90221 5-OCT 20:47 General Information
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RE: Multivue apps. (Re: Msg 90208)
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From: COLORSYSTEMS To: JWILKERSON (NR)
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> Is there a way to make Multivue work with apps that need input from
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> the keyboard as part of the command to work...
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>
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> Say use the program AR..... it requires the files to use when running....
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> What would need to be done to run it?
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> sort of a prompt for input and the options and such......
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> Any help?
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GShell+.
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In case you may not know, GShell+ is the standard MultiVue graphics shell,
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gshell, which has been patched with the "GShell Plus" patch (patch available
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here in the Delphi libs).
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Once you are running GShell+, just put a ? in line 2 of the AIF. Then, when
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you click on the icon, before the app is launched, GShell+ opens up a little
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overlay window which prompts "Parameters?". Whatever you enter will be
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supplied to the app as standard "command line options".
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------------------------------------
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Zack C Sessions
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If you're not the "lead dog", the scenery never changes.
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End of Thread.
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90209 4-OCT 20:46 General Information
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OS-9 Late Night:recap
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From: CPERRAULT To: ALL
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Last night we had the 'Atlanta Fest Fallout!', and what a good
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LOOONG conference it was. As a matter of fact, for the first time, I
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was not the last person there. I don't know how late it went.
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Unfortunately, I suffered a couple crashes/freezups through the course
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of the night which really screwed me up a lot. We won't have the
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transcript, because somehow my capture buffer was lost in the
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commotion(I went to edit it just a minute ago, and I entered Ved to
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find, yes the file was there, but empty :-( ). It's too bad because a
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lot of interesting stuff was discussed.
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Thanks to Ken Scales and Colin McKay who took time out(AGAIN!) to
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show up online and answer fest related questions, since they had
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attended. We who didn't go, found that vendors did reasonably well,
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while attendance was down again just a bit. Perhaps we can help(maybe
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through the UG) to better promote the next one. I didn't get to do
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the conference on it till about a week beforehand, since I didn't have
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much time, considering I started not too long ago doing this. Also I
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think the fact that both the MOTD and OS-9 Underground suffered
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serious delays in getting issues out, contributed quite a bit to the
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attendance shortage. They didn't say attendance was bad, just less
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than previous shows, but hopefully that trend won't continue.
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Anyway, a lot of interesting stuff was talked about such as CD-
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I's future potential, and Boisy's presentation, which I hear was
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great. They also discussed the 68301(is that right?) board shown by
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Kevin Pease and I'm afraid I forget the name of the other person. It
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sounded very interesting, but I'll let someone more informed go into
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detail for those who are interested. Check out the upcoming issues of
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the OS-9 Underground and other magazines which will undoubtably cover
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it in some form.
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New software was also released which is one trend I'm really
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starting to like! :-)
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I hope everyone had a good time at the fest, and hope to
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personally make it to one in the next year. Sorry 'bout the lack of
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transcript this time. I wish there was something I could do about that
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:-(
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Stop in next Monday night at 10:00 pm est. Farna System's will be
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onhand to discuss 'The world of 68k Micros' and his growing line of
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Hardware and software, including the Ken-Ton SCSI system! Keep an eye
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out for this months(late! sorry) schedual.
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See Ya
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>Chris<
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90210 4-OCT 20:46 Applications (6809)
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Shellplus Path command
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From: CPERRAULT To: ALL
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I included the command 'path=/dd/cmds' in my startup file, and
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for some reason the system doesn't read this. When I later type Path=?
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to see what paths are specified, it is blank. Am I supposed to enter
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the command another way in startup?
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Ever since I found out that with shellplus, we have a Path
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command just like the dossers, I fell in love. This is very important
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for especially with the two paths(chx chd) to manage instead of one.
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If I enter it on the command line, it usually works out fine, but not
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from startup.
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>Chris<
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90215 4-OCT 23:51 Applications (6809)
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RE: Shellplus Path command (Re: Msg 90210)
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From: MITHELEN To: CPERRAULT
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The problem is, the startup file is ran from it's own shell, and then
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when it finishes, a new shell is started by cc3go, and this is the shell
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you en up as your "console" shell. There is a version of cc3go in the
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database that allows you to set up a /dd/SYS/shell.parameters file, which
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it will use when it starts up the console shell. This is what you need to
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do to get the "path" variable passed to the console shell...
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--
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Paul
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End of Thread.
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90211 4-OCT 20:46 Telecom (6809)
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Supercomm
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From: CPERRAULT To: RANDYKWILSON
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Randy, in Supercomm I have my default data directory set as
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/dd/com. The problem is when I go to download, let's say messages, I
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will want to capture them to the MESG directory in /dd/com. So at the
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download filename prompt, I give the path 'Mesg/os9for.txt' but then
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supercomm returns a 216 error. In order for it to work I have to re-
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enter the default directory path again, even tho it's the same thing.
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The first couple times I noticed this, I just saved the supercomm
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defaults with alt-u, but it still doesn't read correctly.
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It worked back when I had a different data directory, but since I
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changed it it hasn't worked, but I haven't done anything else
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different. Have you had this problem before?
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>Chris<
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90217 5-OCT 02:04 Telecom (6809)
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RE: Supercomm (Re: Msg 90211)
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From: RANDYKWILSON To: CPERRAULT
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Make sure that your default dir is "/dd/com". Having just "com" can cause
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the errors you are seeing. Other than that... dunno. Everything worked here
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in my quickie testing.
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Randy
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End of Thread.
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90212 4-OCT 23:25 Programmers Den
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rbfed33
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From: WDTV5 To: ALL
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Hi all, I've just uploaded 2 items to chestnut.cs.wisc.edu - a new rbf
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edition 33 for nitros9 users only, contains a patch for ed 28 that is
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art-
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icular would be interested. The bug that messes with deletes when you are
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useing clusters on your disks of more tna 1 sector IS WHUPPED. tna s/b than.
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The other item is cprep19.lzh which needs more wider distribution, I see
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the very buggy version 18 is the only one there. 19 fixed a lot of crash
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coding.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, WDTV5@delphi.com
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90213 4-OCT 23:32 Programmers Den
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RE: rbfed33 (Re: Msg 90212)
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From: WDTV5 To: WDTV5
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Humm, a line got smashed as usual, when are we gonna get a real editor?
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The misssing line refers to Mike Guzzi and his multiple sector clusters,
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he in particular would like this one. It fixes the delete function for
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him. FTP to chestnut.cs.wisc.edu, cd to "incoming" and grab rbf28to33.lzh.
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Cheers all, Gene
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End of Thread.
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90216 5-OCT 00:46 General Information
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RE: rs232 (Re: Msg 80203)
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From: MRUPGRADE To: DEMIGOD (NR)
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I have several,, but it says,, "youo cannot receive mail" ??
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Terry Simons UPGRADE Editor
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90218 5-OCT 03:01 General Information
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Gold Runner 2000 Update
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From: MREGC To: ALL
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Anyone who bought Gold Runner 2000 at the Fest and didn't receive the
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minor update I gave out during the show on Sunday should contact me to get
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that update.
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It's not that big of a deal, but I'm sure you would like to have the
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"perfect" version as much as I'd like you to have it. :)
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..Eric...
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..Digital Frontier Productions...
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90220 5-OCT 19:03 Programmers Den
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Fast coco III
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From: BILL32H To: ALL
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To Everyone ?
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This is Bill32h today I stuck a 36.00 mz crystal in my COCO III
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works great <g> except :*( the High res mouse port . It worked up
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until the time I did the upgrade.
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I think that the signal from the cassette port is too fast .The symptoms
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are
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At about 40 pixels from the top of the screen the mouse pointer lags a
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little then proceeds to jump to the very top .So I have no access to
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those apx. 40 pix without resorting to the keyboard-mouse :-((.
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Question how to slow the signal that drives the port.(If that's even why
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the thing is misbehaving)
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Any response, theories, guesses ect ... appreciated...
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BILL32H
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90225 6-OCT 01:31 Programmers Den
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RE: Fast coco III (Re: Msg 90220)
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From: COCOKIWI To: BILL32H (NR)
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You will need to change the value of the RAMP resistor by the IC pin 1....
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R7....this changes the ramp speed ...<was used by CoCo-max> to stop copies!
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they changed the value of the ORG...because they changed the speed<software>
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in this case changing the Value will fix it,I think<grin> what value is left
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to experiment on your part! put a 100k resistor and a 500k ajustable in place
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of it,and see what happens!<G>....interesting that it works at 36 meg!
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I,m working on a Video poor mans toaster!<grin> the chip uses 36 meg VCO
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to the Host ,but uses a 14.xxx Meg chip<old CoCo-1/2 use this xtal>
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allows one to interlace a Composite signal and the RGB sig together into one
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composite output!.......
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Dennis
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90226 6-OCT 04:05 Programmers Den
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RE: Fast coco III (Re: Msg 90220)
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From: DIGIGRADE To: BILL32H (NR)
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> This is Bill32h today I stuck a 36.00 mz crystal in my COCO III
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> works great <g> except :*( the High res mouse port . It worked up
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> until the time I did the upgrade.
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> I think that the signal from the cassette port is too fast.
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Sounds great. Hope you get that ironed out. Still sounds great. Are you
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running Nitros9 as well?
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Dave
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|Dave Pellerito - <digigrade@delphi.com> | Posted using InfoXpress |
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|Digigrade Productions - Digital Services | with an MM/1 running OSK |
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|"I can handle more than one thought, more than|____________________________|
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| one task at a time, so why should I use a computer that doesn't?" OS9/OSK |
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90223 6-OCT 00:33 Telecom (6809)
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usenet
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From: WDTV5 To: ALL
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Has anybody else attempted to enter a msg into the usenet, group 22 yet?
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I made 2 tries in the last couple of days and the msg bounced along with
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a nasty-assed msg from the listserver that I was to be ignored. Both
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attempts were straight text, typed in while online. When is this system
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gonna get a real editor, or issue enough instructs to make this one work?
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It bounced the first word of each line like I was attempting to issue
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a command to the editor instead of simply entering the text I typed.
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When it got to the 10th line (and error) is when I got back a msg that
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till someone else sends a re-instatement msg to the listserver I am to
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be ignored. Thats getting under my skin a bit, after all I do pay for
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the service and to my knowledge have NOT used my 20 hrs a month (10 on
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the net) at any time.
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No Cheers tonite, Gene Heskett, WDTV5@delphi.com
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90224 6-OCT 00:35 General Information
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RE: OS-9 Patches for the Coco III (Re: Msg 90167)
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From: MIKE_GUZZI To: DENNYWRIGHT (NR)
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ok it will be in new uploads section
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90227 6-OCT 04:05 General Information
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NTSC or Composite from RGB-A signal
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From: DIGIGRADE To: ALL
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From the Graphics Support SIG...
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>6427 Wed 5-Oct-94 01:45 General Information (0)
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> RE: NTSC or Composite from RGB-A signal (Re: Msg 6412)
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> From: DI414 To: DIGIGRADE (NR)
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>figurativly, if you power the coco3, cut the inputs to RGBVH patch the RGBVH
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>of the mm1. it may or may not work. I remember marty sujesting an invertor
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>for one of the monitors.. that is, if the signals are approx the same. since
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>the mm1 is the spinoff of the coco3.
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This was the answer that sounded best to me. What does everyone here think?
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Might this work? My whole goal that I defined in a lengthy post was to get
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NTSC out of the MM/1 (or composite video). I don't care if I trash a CoCo3 in
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the process.
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Dave
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|Dave Pellerito - <digigrade@delphi.com> | Posted using InfoXpress |
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|Digigrade Productions - Digital Services | with an MM/1 running OSK |
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| one task at a time, so why should I use a computer that doesn't?" OS9/OSK |
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