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