@2 The Amos List ------------- @3 (Or how to get 4.7 Meg of text onto 1 Floppy) Steve Bye @4 The Amos List can be found on the Aminet and Aminet CD's. It is a huge archived (lha) text file(s) of all the messages posted to the list. Most of the dudes on this list are pretty bloody advanced Amos peeps, and there are the total beginners of course. It's all pretty helpful and friendly though. Some examples of messages are: @1 On Mon, 20 Jun 1994, Mark Baker wrote: Why don't we all sue Europress.. They sold all of us a broken product!! AmosPro Complier anyway... :-) Good idea! But like I said before, Francois is planning on fixing at least the major bugs in it, and releasing it public domain in about 2 months. Ryan What?? Please clarify! @3* what is he fixings the bugs in - Amos Pro or Compiler (or both) * what is to be released into PD ! Probably the MAJOR bugs Yes, PD Surely not Amos Pro PD? (hope, hope) 8-) Quite possibly AMOS Pro on coverdisk, then AMOS Pro compiler on coverdisk, and then, eventually, source code PD for all to upgrade. This is the current idea, anyway Ryan @7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- @1 Does anyone know how to interface a digital multimeter within amospro. I have a Metex M-3650CR but I am unable to make it work with AmosPro. The serial interface uses the signals: @1 - TxD - RxD - RTS (Ready to send) - DTR (Data terminal ready) The transmission uses 7 bits, 2 stop bits, no parity. For reading a value on the multimeter the computer has to send the character "D". Does anyone have an idea ? I never got an answer from the multimeter on Amos. Thank you for any advice. Dominique Schreckling @7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- @3On 22 Jun 1994 XRACTON@CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU wrote: In the Amos manual it says that all AMAL programs are compiled before run-time. I can see it being able to do this if you say something like AMAL 8,"M 300,200,100". But what if you just use AMAL 8,F$? How does Amos know what F$ is going to be at that point in the program? Does this mean that some AMAL programs will only be compiled at the time that the AMAL command is used? I don't think they are compiled before run time. Its not possible. They are interpretted as far as I can tell. @7------------------------------------------------------------------- @4 Hi! I am back, And such like and so forth! It's all very entertaining and sometimes informative, BUT and it is a bloody big but, between each message you get around 12-22 lines of crap. like the wibble below: @1 From nwpd@connected.com Sun Sep 4 17:52:43 1994 Received: from gibeah.connected.com by nfs1.digex.net with SMTP id AA18229 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Sun, 4 Sep 1994 17:52:40 -0400 Received: (from nwpd@localhost) by gibeah.connected.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA29292; Sun, 4 Sep 1994 14:52:43 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 14:52:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "John W. McNab III" Subject: Re: AMOS Books To: M D Cox Cc: AMOS Mailing List In-Reply-To: <199409041002.AA26260@access3.digex.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO @4Remeber this is between EVERY message. This gets really irratating to someone like me who isn't in the least bit interested in who sent what where and when etc. I JUST WANT TO READ THE BLOODY MESSAGES!!! So, I decided to knock up a little snippet of code to extract just the messages and dump them into a new text file, HEAVEN, it makes life a lot more enjoyable. The big bonus of course is that most files are cut to half or less of their original size, and if you then crunch the file you end up with a file around 20-25% of its original size! @4 I got all my AmosLists together, dearchived them and they came to 4.7 Megabytes in total. I ran them through my little proggy, which I have called ALister, and they came out at 2.1 Meg, a saving of 2.6 Meg. After crunching I could almost fit them on ONE FLOPPY DISK (200k out). I have sent this disk of files to Andy Gibbers in case he wants to use any of it for AZ. The source to ALister should be on this issue of AZ, it's only a couple of hundred bytes so Andy will put it on I am sure? @4 I admit ALister isn't perfect, it doesn't trap all garbage, but I don't feel like spending a lot of time on it. It was just a quick bit of code because I was frustrated with the lists. Feel free to improve it and send it in to AZ so I can see/use it. By the way, out of that 4.7 Meg of text, AMOSZINE got one mention. NorthWest PD (USA) mentioned "I have just seen Amoszine and it looks good" or something like that. Oh yeah, and a plug for AZ by Andy Smith, cheers Andy. Another pile of plonk from ... Steve (The Lamer) Bye [5