From fnf@cygnus.com Thu Oct 15 11:54:38 1992 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA03881; Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:54:21 PDT Received: from cygnus.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA10041; Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:42:49 -0400 Received: from fishpond.cygnus.com by cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13420; Wed, 14 Oct 92 23:41:32 PDT Received: by fishpond.cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28116; Wed, 14 Oct 92 21:45:14 MST From: fnf@cygnus.com (Fred Fish) Message-Id: <9210150445.AA28116@fishpond.cygnus.com> Subject: Disks 741-750 now available To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (comp.sys.announce moderator) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 21:45:13 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: R Disks 741-750 are now available. Shipping to all those who have preordered disks should be complete by Friday (16-Oct-92). Note that you can get a copy of the catalog (2 disks) of the complete library contents by sending $3 for disks, postage, and mailer to: Fred Fish Catalog Disk Requests 1835 East Belmont Drive Tempe, Arizona 85284 USA Thanks to all who submitted new and interesting material. If you submitted something in the past and it has not yet appeared in the library, please feel free to resubmit it, particularly if it was several months ago. I sometimes hesitate to include material submitted more than about six months ago because of some vague feeling that as soon as I include version 1.01 submitted many months ago, I'll see version 5.23 posted on usenet. For those wishing to submit material for possible inclusion in the library, here are a few simple guidelines that will make my job of organizing the material MUCH easier and GREATLY increase your chances of having the material accepted for inclusion: 1. Don't submit bootable disks or disks with any other sort of proprietary material included, since I then have to go examine each file to decide if it is distributable or not, and if not, what effect removing it might have. Unless the material is particularly interesting, I frequently just toss such disks into the recycling bin. 2. Organize the distribution in a manner similar to my disks. I.E, place all files related to a particular submission under a single directory on the disk. If there is more than one submission per disk, it's ok to to place each submission in it's own directory. 3. Try to write a simple entry for my "Contents" listing that summarizes your submission. It should be about 3-10 lines, and include the current version number, the version and disk number of the most recent version (if any) that was last included in the library, whether or not source is included, and an "Author" list. 4. Ensure that your submission will run correctly from it's subdirectory and if necessary, supply a script runnable from workbench (via :c/xicon) that makes all necessary assigns, copies fonts and libraries, etc. 5. Send your submission in a sturdy envelope with sufficient padding. Thanks!!! ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 741 -------------------- BioComp A program that computes the biorhythmic compatibility of two persons. Uses an intuition interface and allows the printing of the results. Version 1.13, binary only. Author: Gerard Cornu RKRM_Devices Part one of a four part distribution of complete source code and executables of all the examples in the third edition Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals, published by Addison-Wesley. Part two is on this disk and parts three and four can be found on disk 742. Author: Commodore CATS RKRM_Lib1 Part two of a four part distribution of complete source code and executables of all the examples in the third edition Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals, published by Addison-Wesley. Part one is on this disk and parts three and four can be found on disk 742. Author: Commodore CATS Shell2Front A simple, small and pure utility to be launched by a hotkey. It brings to the front, the first shell window it finds, including its screen. Version 0.12, binary only. Author: Gerard Cornu ShowI A CLI tool which displays all given icons in the original OS 2.0 look. It opens a little window displaying the Icon where you can select and deselect it. By pressing 'n' the next one is displayed. This is version 1.9. FreeWare, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther Sizer A small and pure shell utility giving the size in bytes, blocks, and the total size occupied by a directory, file or device. Accepts multiple arguments. Version 0.20, binary only. Author: Gerard Cornu CONTENTS OF DISK 742 -------------------- AList A CLI command that lists the length of every file and the REAL length of every subdirectory in Bytes, KBytes and MBytes. Version 1.0, includes source in C. Author: Andre Willms ColorSwitch A little program to switch between WB1.3, WB2.x and user pref- erence palettes. Requires Kickstart 2.0 or higher. Includes source in C. Author: Martin W. Scott CloseWD A tool which enables you to kill windows which are left on any screen from other programs, which have been terminated by gurus or other things. You can specify the window by pattern matching in the string gadget or by setting a timeout that gives you time to select the proper window. It has a gadtools interface and an "ask-before-closing" option. Version 1.2, OS 2.xx only. FreeWare, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther ICalc A powerful calculator with many features, including user de- fined variables and functions, C-style programming constructs, complex number calculations and more. Has comprehensive in- structions, and numerous examples. This is version 2.1, an update to version 2.0 on disk 695. Enhancements since prev- ious version include base-conversion facilities and scripts to perform numerical integration. Binary only, source avail- able from author. Author: Martin W. Scott KeyClick A small utility to provide a key-click. Has a nice Workbench interface to modify settings. Requires Kickstart 2.0 or high- er. Binary only. Author: Martin W. Scott Pal A small utility to help applications open their own PAL screen on an NTSC Amiga with ECS. It requires Workbench 2.0. In- cludes sources in C and assembly. Author: Eric Gontier PatchLace A commodity for Workbench 2.0 that makes all interlaced screens open in NTSC mode, thereby reducing flicker. Requires Kickstart 2.0 or higher. Binary only. Author: Martin W. Scott RKRM_Lib2 Part three of a four part distribution of complete source code and executables of all the examples in the third edition Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals, published by Addison-Wesley. Part four is on this disk and parts one and two can be found on disk 741. Author: Commodore CATS RKRM_Lib3 Part four of a four part distribution of complete source code and executables of all the examples in the third edition Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals, published by Addison-Wesley. Part three is on this disk and parts one and two can be found on disk 741. Author: Commodore CATS SetPrefs A CLI command which activates a system-configuration. Useful when different prefs are created (i.e. for the printer) and you don't want to continually change your existing system configuration. Version 1.0, includes source in assembly. Author: Michael Wilkes CONTENTS OF DISK 743 -------------------- ClickRun With the help of ClickRun you can start fifty programs by a simple mouse click. Has a build in editor, online help and iconification. Supports keyboard and mouse. English and German documentation. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Andre Voget. FoCo Format controller. A graphical user interface for disk for- matting. Pops up on disk insertion or via hotkey. Version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk number 566. Requires OS 2.0. Includes source. Author: Michael Balzer FRequest FRequest is a handy program which lets you select a file by using the ASL file requester and executes a CLI command with the given selection. FRequest can be easily used in batch files and has a lot of options. You can use it as an frontend for any program which does not support filerequester select- ions. It exchanges '[]' in the specified command line with the selection. It has a debug ability that allows testing of options before execution. This is version 1.5. OS 2.xx only. FreeWare version, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther LoadLibrary Another LoadLib program, but this version runs in it's own task, and uses the reqtools.library for multiselection and other user friendly file handling. All installed LoadLib libraries can also be removed from the system. Version 2.52 for OS 2.0 use. Freeware, binary only. Author: Nils Gors Look A very powerful program for disk magazines. Supports IFF pic- tures, IFF brushes, ANSI, fonts and many more features. Pro- grammed in assembly language to be short and fast. Available only in German language and PAL. Version 1.2, shareware, bi- nary only. Author: Andre Voget MegaEd A powerful text editor with lots of features, some not found elsewhere. Integrated Text oriented database, extensive for- matting/printing functions, macro language, Arexx-port, key- word indention, multiple blocks/marks, key/menu macro record- ing, configurability for lot's of languages/compilers, inumer- able handy functions for programmers, user friendly interface. Version 1.5, public domain, binary only. Author: Wouter van Oortmerssen TurboDEX A compiler for the DEX language. DEX is a language similar in structure to Modula2 and C, but different and simpler in concept. Features include compact and fast executables, clear program structure, integration of Exec/Dos/Gfx/Intuition library calls in the compiler, inline assembly, register variables, commented assembly source output, easy to manage development system, and more. Version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk 625. Public domain, binary only. Author: Wouter van Oortmerssen CONTENTS OF DISK 744 -------------------- AutoRunner Automatically executes a CLI command line when you insert a disk into a drive. All you do is put a special tag at the beginning of a comment in the disk's root directory. After the comment tag, you put a normal CLI comand line. AutoRunner then executes this command when the disk is inserted. Version 2.0, Pascal source included. Author: Jonathan Maxwell FO CLI based Fast Optimizer for AmigaDOS disks. It can optimize one disk in less than 2 min, 30 sec. Allows optimization for CLI or WorkBench usage, and allows you to use unformatted disks as the destination. At least 1 Mb memory required. This is version 1.3, an update to version 1.0 on disk 537. Binary only. Author: Fabien Campagne FO2 Intuition-based version of FO, will run on a single drive machine. Includes multiple destinations, automatic turn on upon disk insertion and more. Requires 1.5M or more of memory. This is version v2.5, includes source. Author: Fabien Campagne Hextract A complete header file reference. Definitions, structures, structure members and offsets, flag values, library contents, function definitions, registers, library offsets, etc. The data from a set of V1.3 Amiga and Lattice header files is packed into the included file "headers.z" for immediate reference by Hextract. Version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk 674. Freeware, includes partial source. Author: Chas A. Wyndham IList A simple list program which displays the data of all open screens and their connected windows. OS 2.xx only. Version 0.1, PD, includes source. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther NFD Newest File Date. Searches the specified directory for the newest file, then returns that filename and path as an ARP global variable. For people without ARP, it allows you to execute a command line, specified as a parameter, with the file name and path inserted at a specified point. Sample usage would to be have a word processor automatically load the last file worked on when it was invoked. Includes source in Pascal Author: Jonathan Maxwell P-Index A program for creating active index/selector pages to replace the normal window/icon display. Appearance of pages is only limited by the capabilities of your paint program and your imagination. Index lines can be shown as arrays of boxes (as with current "selector" programs), or as icon look-alikes, or anything else you fancy, with normally a large saving in disk space. Freeware, binary only. Author: Chas A.Wyndham P-Reader An all purpose reader that displays texts, pictures, animations and sounds, which may be uncompressed or compressed with P-Compress. Texts can include embedded static or animated illustrations and sounds. This is version 6.2, an update to version 5.2 on disk 595. Freeware, binary only. Author: Chas A. Wyndham Statistics Provides statistical data on ASCII text files regarding file length, number of letters, words and sentences, average word length, etc. Written in assembler for minimum size and maxi- mum speed. Version 1.26, binary only. Author: Nico Max CONTENTS OF DISK 745 -------------------- ARexxBox ARexxBox, inspired by the GadToolsBox by Jan van den Baard, is a tool which greatly simplifies the design and implementation of an ARexx interface for a program. Provides a graphical in- terface in which to enter the command arguments and results, then creates the C source; one module containing necessary basic functions and another containing the interface stub rou- tines to which you only have to add your code to. This is version 1.00, binary only. Author: Michael Balzer BBBBS Baud Bandit Bulletin Board System. Features include up to 99 file libraries with extended filenotes, up to 99 fully thread- ed message conferences, no inherent limits on number of users, files, or messages, controlled file library and message confer- ence access for users and sysops, interface to extra devices like CD-ROM and others (treated as read only), complete Email including binary mail and multiple forwarding, user statistics including messages written, access time, total files uploaded or downloaded, plus much more. Version 5.5, an update and bug fix to version 5.4 on disk 729. Binary only. Author: Richard Lee Stockton WizKey A commodity that speeds up working with windows and screens via allowing the user to manipulate them via keyboard instead of mouse. Anything you can do with system gadgets becomes accessible via keyboard. Popup windowlist allows activation of any window by keyboard or mouse. Configurable Hotkey def- initions and a complete ARexx port. Shareware, binary only. Author: Jorg von Frantzius CONTENTS OF DISK 746 -------------------- ATbl A program for table formating, somehow inspired by the "tbl" utility on UNIX system. Can produce a printer output (with IBM semi-graphic characters) or a regular IFF file which can be read by any decent word-processing or desktop-publishing program. Both French and English documentation. This is version 2.20, an update from version 1.00 on disk 583, with a lot of bugs fixed and a few enhancements. Binary only Author: Denis Gounelle KCommodity Multifunctional commodity for OS 2.0. Includes window- activator, time-display in several modes and formats, alarm function, KeyStroke-Clicker, time to environment, Window/ Screen cycling, LeftyMouse, ESC-Key can close Windows, Revision Control System, telefone bill calculator, Screen- /Mouse-Blanker, Mapping of german "Umlauts", PopUp Shell, AppIcon support, LeftyMouse, user definable HotKeys. Fully controllable via ARexx-Port. All settings can be customized and saved to disk. This is version 2.00, an update to version 1.75 on disk 673. Requires OS 2.0. Written in assembly for speed and efficiency. Shareware, includes source. Author: Kai Iske Skew Skeleton Writer is a tool for generating C code for various Intuition based applications. You click the mouse and the code gets written. Similar to PowerSource and GadToolsBox, but with slightly different functionality. Version 1.2, an update to version 0.85 on disk 658. Includes source. Author: Piotr Obminski CONTENTS OF DISK 747 -------------------- ADoc New version rewritten from scratch, of a help utility for the Amiga which allows you to have permanent help on any subject you want. Features include automatic search of any word on which you clicked, intelligent term requester, ability to use Commodore "AutoDocs" files and any nonproportional font, an AREXX port, and more. Both French and English versions. This is ADoc2 version 1.21, an update from ADoc 7.05 on disk 627. Binary only. Author: Denis Gounelle APrf A printing utility for the Amiga. Features include full In- tuition interface, preview function, page selection, margin setup, line numbering, an AREXX port, a multi-columns mode, 2.0 system release support and more. Both French and English versions. This is version 1.40, an update from version 1.30 on disk 706. Binary only. Author: Denis Gounelle AUSH A command line interpreter for the Amiga. Features include file name completion, pattern expansion, expression computa- tion, command history, for...done loops, full support of Ami- gaDOS 2.0, and much more. Almost fully compatible with ARP and Commodore shells. This is version 1.52, an update from version 1.42 on disk 706. Binary only. Author: Denis Gounelle CONTENTS OF DISK 748 -------------------- DeliTracker A powerful and system friendly music player. Features include configuration files, GUI, full ARexx control, flexible player interface and xpk support. DeliTracker will play all popular sound modules available on the Amiga. Currently it supports over 40 different module formats. The most important players (PT/ST/NT) are internal. Additional players (like MED, 8SVX, SMUS, ...) may be loaded from disk. Includes the source of nearly all external 'deliplayers'. Version 1.30, shareware, binary only. Authors: Peter Kunath and Frank Riffel CONTENTS OF DISK 749 -------------------- AmokEd A highly configurable editor based on Matt Dillon's well known DME. Features a rich command language, an ARexx interface and ARexx based application port, environment variable support, user definable pull down menus, fast scrolling and scroll gad- gets, multiple file editing, iconification, reentrant and can be made resident. Written in Oberon, version 1.30, binary only. Requires AmigaOS2.0 or higher. Author: Hartmut Goebel LogMan The Log Manager allows you to manipulate your log files to a greater degree than other log managers. LogMan operates on a personalized script file. You can insert a call to LogMan in your startup-sequence or in your "mail" script. LogMan will call the script and check certain parameters. Requires kickstart 1.3 or 2.0 to operate. Version 1.003, freeware, binary only. Author: Bob Rye PaperBack Allows the user to generate a double sided document from a single sided one. Two output documents are created: an ODDS set and an EVENS set. The odds set can be printed on single sheet or tractor feed paper, reversed and re-inserted in the printer, then the even set can be printed on the reverse side. Page sizes are all fully editable by the user, along with cer- tain other parameters. Handles predefined page breaks elo- quently. Saves paper, and storage space. Requires kickstart 1.3 or 2.0 to operate. Version 2.004, freeware, binary only. Author: Bob Rye PED A source text editor which supports all important standard editor commands. It accepts mouse and keyboard commands, and will run from CLI and from Workbench. PED doesn't use the op- erating system for outputs and scrolls very fast. This is version 2.30, binary only. Author: Frank Wille PhxAss A MC68000 Macro Assembler which supports includes, incbins, small data and small code model, optimization, 12 arithmetic operations, relocatable and absolute code, floating point equates and nearly all standard assembler directives. PhxAss can be used from CLI only. This is version 2.11, binary only. Author: Frank Wille PhxLnk An Amiga DOS Linker which is very small (7 KB) and processes the small-code/data model. It does not support overlay hunks in the current version. PhxLnk can be used from CLI only. This is version 1.27, binary only. Author: Frank Wille VoiceEditor A tool to edit, save, load, and convert instruments of Roland D-20 Synthesizers (and compatibles, like D-10) via MIDI. You can convert instruments into Music-X sequences, save and load voicedumps and edit the system area of your D-20. Req.library and midi.library are used and included. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: Andre Willms ZipWd ZipWd is a little example code of the new OS 2.xx feature of zipping windows. It does the same thing as clicking on the window's ZipGadget. It's also useful if you define a keyboard macro with ZipWd. Requires AmigaOS 2.xx. Version 0.5, public domain, includes source. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther CONTENTS OF DISK 750 -------------------- AddIcon A useful tool that copies icons to a given file or directory. It supports pattern matching and has various options. It first looks at the suffixes of the files and for chunks to identify their types, then it copies the right type of icon to the files. These icons should be located in the Icons: drawer. Contains all needed icons. OS 2.xx only. FreeWare version 1.7, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther CFX Crunched File eXaminer allows the user to examine and find files using several different search criteria. CFX knows a huge amount of the current Amiga filetypes, including a vast number of "cruncher" types. CFX can also give in-depth dis- assemblies of crunched files, including most address crunched files, relocator crunched files, and some major archive crun- ched types. This version requires kick 1.3 or 2.0. Version 5.242, freeware, binary only. Author: Bob Rye and Marcus Mroczkowski Create A replacement for the "makedir" command. It can create dir- ectories and files. Useful for some editors and other pro- grams that allow you to you define a file to load at start- time. In this case files can be created before calling these programs that usually give you nervous requesters on non- existing files. It accepts multiple files and directories, and is also useful for batchfiles. OS 2.xx only. This is version 1.1, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther DockBrushes Two PAL pictures containing brushes to be used with AmiDock (Shareware program by Gary Knight), or other such utilities. One is in hi-res (640 x 256 2 bit planes), the other in hi- res interlace (640 x 512 2 bit planes). Author: Gerard Cornu ExecMaster A tool that allows you to start scripts, programs and rexx scripts in different ways. You can optionally specify an out- put. This could be a file or even a window. It has the abil- ity to iconify and a full gadtools user interface with key command support. It fully supports PublicScreens. OS 2.xx only. Version 1.7, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther FontViewQ A commodity to display a table of characters of any Amiga font, which is chosen by a font requester. The characters are clickable to show you the ASCII value and the key combination to press. With AmigaOS 2.1 a localization takes place (cur- rently German and French). Version 1.2, includes source. Author: Dieter Temme SaveW SaveW is the counterpart of SizeW. It saves the current win- dow coords to a file (if given) or to STDOUT. Includes some useful shell aliases. OS 2.xx only. Version 1.3, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther SizeW SizeW is a tool that lets you change the size and the place of the currently active window. You can specify coords from commandline or optionally from a file. This is a companion to SaveW. Includes some examples in the docfile. OS 2.xx only. Version 1.5, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther SplitQ Opposite of the AmigaDos 'JOIN' command. A portion of the file specified by offset from the beginning and length is saved to a new file. The syntax is like the BASIC function MID$(). Parts can be rejoined with the 'JOIN' command. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Dieter Temme StripIt A programming utility that strips all kinds of comments from given source codes of all programming languages. It is con- trolled by a config file which includes the rules of the com- ment chars. Some configuration files included. OS 2.xx only. Version 1.3, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther ====================================================================== -Fred