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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

3752.0. "Missing AMICUS files?" by DEMOAX::MCKENDRY (Nasty, Brutish, and Short) Fri May 04 1990 15:34

	 There seem to be some things missing from the AMICUS archive
	sets on TAPE::, and I wonder whether someone can explain their
	omission. Specifically,
	> AMICUS #1 is supposed to contain several text files, ROMWack
	and WackCmds, describing the use of ROMWack.
	> AMICUS #22 is supposed to contain a utility called PrtDrvGen
	V2.3 for generating printer drivers.
	 I've looked throught the whole AMICUS listing in 3728.0 and all
	I can find is a .info file for PrtDrvGenV2.3. How come? Are there
	some things we're just not meant to know?

	-John

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3752.1Some infoSTAR::ROBINSONFri May 04 1990 16:1326
I don't have the answer to the missing files on Amicus disks,
but I'll throw in my two cents:

Amicus #1 and #22 are _old_ in terms of Amiga software.  The printer 
driver is Vintage 87 and only works for WorkBench 1.2. (Correct me if someone
knows of a new version.)  Most people are using WB 1.3 and are anticipating
WB 1.4 later this year.

If you can't find a printer driver on a Fred Fish disk, or through the net 
somehow, then you may have to use the PrtDrvGenV2.3, but I suspect that 
anything offered on Amicus #1 has either a newer version available, or 
has been made obsolete by someone else's newer PD/shareware work. 

My advise:
Look more closely at what you want from the Amicus disks and see if you
can't find something more recent that offers the same features. You might
have good luck looking through old notes in this conference, or defining
yours wants here so we can offer our opinions. 

And one last thing. If you thought there was a lot available through Amicus,
you ain't seen nothing yet!!! ;-)  Check out the notes on accessing files on 
node TAPE (such as 3594.*) or the notes on the Fred Fish Catalogue (3306.*)

OK, maybe that was 4 cents. :^)

Dave
3752.2ELWOOD::PETERSFri May 04 1990 18:0118
    
    
    
    re .0
    
    	To answer your original question, some of the AMICUS and some of
    the older FISH disks are missing files. The problem is that the
    original collection came from an UNIX TAR tape. The VMS TAR program
    that I was using could not re-map some file names ( UNIX, VMS,and
    AMIGA use different rules for file names ).
    
    	I still have the original tape. I just need to find time and
    need to fix the problem.
    
    
    		Steve Peters
    		TAPE::PETERS
    
3752.3BOMBE::MOOREEat or be eatenFri May 04 1990 22:021
    PrtDrvGen V2.2b is on Fish disk #90.