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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3433.0. "New Uploads to TAPE" by LEDS3::ACCIARDI () Mon Feb 05 1990 10:58

    
    A little midnight shopping trip produced the following new or recent
    software goodies...
    
    LHARC110.ZOO		Latest version of the LHARC compression
    				scheme.  Much faster than v 1.0
    
    FIND.ARC			UNIX like 'FIND' command can search an
    				entire volume for any specified file.
    
    HAMSHARP14.LZH		Converts 256 color GIF images to IFF format
    				faster and better than other programs.
    
    SOUND.LZH			Update to R.L. Stockton's IFF sound player.
    				Works from WB or CLI.
    
    POST02.LZH			Excellent interactive postscript
    				interpereter, sends output to screen or 
    				printer.
    
    APLOT20B.LZH		Fantastic 3D function plotter.  This is as
    				good as commercial software.  An upgrade to
    				AmigaPlot 1.0 by Joe Martin.
    
    All these files have been uploaded to TAPE""::USER2:[UPLOAD].  Sorry
    for the mixed file formats (Arc, Zoo, Lharc) but I upload them just as
    I find them.
    
    Ed.
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3433.1not accessibleKETJE::VLASIUMon Feb 12 1990 10:526
    Thank you for all these goodies Ed. The only problem is that on
    TAPE::USER2:[UPLOAD] these files are protected against "world" access
    (like almost all the other goodies on [UPLOAD]).
    
    Regards,
    Sorin
3433.2it seems okKETJE::VLASIUMon Feb 12 1990 11:237
    Ref. .1
    
    Sorry, I think I was wrong as it worked for me to access them.
    Thank you once again Ed and also all the others who have such nice
    initiatives and keep the Amigans interested in their machines.
    
    Sorin
3433.3Apdated PS viewerLEDS::ACCIARDILarger than life, and twice as uglyMon Mar 05 1990 01:5823
    
    An update to the POST PostScript interpereter has been made available. 
    This is version 1.0 and sports a nice Amiga interface and a scrollable
    display window.  This is a nice little package, but the documentation
    seems to assume that the user knows _a lot_ about PostScript.
    
    I STILL can't seem to get any fonts to print, even when trying the
    tricks described by Yves Goulnik in 3451.*
    
    If anyone knows exactly how to download the PS fonts, please describe a
    step by step process, in painful detail, since I doubt that the average
    user will be able to work through this.
    
    The updated file is in TAPE""::USER2:[UPLOAD]POST10.ZIP.  I also
    uploaded PKAZIP101.LZH, which is needed to unpack it, to the same
    location.  Sorry about all these insane different archive formats, but
    that's how they were uploaded to PLINK.  BTW, I really loathe this
    PKAZIP archiver.  The author created the most miserable Amiga interface
    I've ever seen.
    
    Ed.
    
    
3433.4need PS guru, not Amiga guru ;^}NAVIER::LONGMon Mar 05 1990 13:0513
	Ed,
	   re:.3  Is this POST02 from the base note or something else?
	I was hoping somebody else would work out this issue of the fonts
	after I spent a weekend on it.  I dragged fonts down from my VAX
	system ( figured it was probably deathly illegal so tried them and
	then nuked them from my Amiga  ), hand patched together a number of
	PS files with the prolog stuff from the VAX fonts directory and 
	managed to print a VAX generated .PS file with everything but the
	text ( great arrows, underlines and boxes ).
	   Just out of curiosity,  doesn't ADOBE own the rights to all this
	PS stuff?  Just wondered how legal a third party PS interpreter was.

		Dick
3433.5LEDS::ACCIARDILarger than life, and twice as uglyMon Mar 05 1990 13:4812
    
    Dick:  This is an update to the POST02 of .0.
    
    Don't know about the legality of all these PS emulators.  However,
    Atari have been selling their UltraScript language for a while, which I
    believe is a PS clone.
    
    Perhaps it's like the IBM PC BIOS emulators from Phoenix et al... if
    you can duplicate the functionality without copying the code, it's
    legal.
    
    Ed.
3433.6An uploaded related to POST10 and some moreLODGE::LENDavid M. LenTue Mar 13 1990 01:5312
    Here are a few files I uploaded to TAPE::USER2:[UPLOAD].
    
    PSFONTS.LZH			These are some postscript fonts that are
    				usable with POST viewer.
    
    TRAIN.LZH			A little model train simulator.  You create
    				the layout and control 2 trains.  Has
    				switches, cross-overs, and audio.
    
    GAZER2.ARC			Constellation viewer.  The date in this ARC
    				is pretty old, but it seems OK for anyone
    				that doesn't have "Distant Suns".