From fnf@cygnus.com Tue Jan 12 08:42:21 1993 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA08888; Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:42:16 PST Received: from cygnus.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA15902; Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:41:19 -0500 Received: from fishpond.cygnus.com by cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04268; Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:41:17 PST Received: by fishpond.cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16534; Tue, 12 Jan 93 09:01:44 MST From: fnf@cygnus.com (Fred Fish) Message-Id: <9301121601.AA16534@fishpond.cygnus.com> Subject: Disks 791-800 now available To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (comp.sys.announce moderator) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 9:01:43 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: R Disks 791-800 are now available. Shipping to all those who have preordered is now complete as of 12-Jan-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, place each submission in its 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 its sub- directory and if necessary, supply a script runnable from workbench (via :c/xicon or c:iconx) 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 791 -------------------- HSV A small color palette utility that contains both RGB and HSV sliders for adjusting your screens colors. If the screen has 4 bitplanes or less, you can also save the palette to 'ENVARC: palette.prefs'. Requires AmigaOS2.xx, version 0.99, includes source. Author: Frank Ederveen RADBack A shareware utility that can make a backup of a RAD disk to a normal 880K Amiga disk, regardless of its length - bigger RADs are saved on more disks. Can be started from the Workbench as well as from CLI. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Sandi Tomsic Replex REPLace EXecutable. This handy patch substitutes program names that are about to be executed, e.g. if an icon default tool specifies ":c/MuchMore" and you prefer to use "c:TextRead", you can have it defined as such, so you never have to change the icon. Intuition interface allows up to 8 such definitions. Compatible with all known OS versions. This is version 1.0, binary only. Author: Ekke Verheul ScsiTape A Scsi-Direct tape handler that implements fully asynchronous double-buffered read and write operations. If you have disk / tape drives which support reselection then the handler will be able to operate on the tape concurrently with disk accesses meaning that an archiver such as Tar will not 'freeze' while tape operations are in progress. Includes source. Author: Matthew Dillon SKsh A Unix ksh like shell for the Amiga. Some of its features include command substitution, shell functions, aliases, local variables, emacs and vi style editing, I/O redirection, pipes, Unix wildcards, a large variety of commands, and coexistence with scripts from other shells. Well documented. Version 2.1, an update to version 2.0 on disk 672. New features in version 2.1 include true piping between internal and external commands, background functions, aliases, and other shell constructs, enforcer clean, several new commands, cross filesystem file and directory moves, and more. Binary only. Requires Amiga Dos 2.04. Author: Steve Koren CONTENTS OF DISK 792 -------------------- AmigaBase A hierachical, programmable, in-core database. Features include two display methods, filter datasets, search datasets, print datasets, and many more. Nearly everything can be real- ized by programming AmigaBase. Datatypes can be Integer, Real, Boolean, String, Memo (Text), Date and Time. Number of data- sets is only limited by available memory. Lacking documenta- tion, (available with shareware submission) but full Intuition interface make many operations quite obvious. Also includes some example projects. Runs under OS 1.3 and 2.0, shareware, binary only. Author: Steffen Gutmann DragIt Allows you to move or size a window without having to use the drag bar or sizing gadget. Press on the configurable quali- fier, while holding it, press your selected mouse button, and move the mouse. You'll see the window border appear, and you'll be able to drag or size it. Requires OS 2.0, supports localization with locale.library and the new style 2.1 (or 3.0) preference. Version 2.01, binary only. Author: Steve Lemieux ModHPLJD A Rexx program that creates a modified version of the HP_Laser Jet driver. The modification changes the 'initialize' string so that the font chosen from the printer menu (rather than 12pt Courier) can be used and the number of lines per inch can be specified. Version 1.01. Author: Michael Tanzer TClass An "Intelligent" file identifier. Has the ability to "learn" new types of files by simply scanning groups of known types of files, and checking the first 20 bytes for similiarities. It then reports on the matching accuracy and adds a "definition" for the filetype to a brain file. Version 2.9, binary only. Author: Sam Hulick WBPat Creates random 3D patterns for your 2.04 WorkBench windows. A pattern can be shifted or changed, tested, used and saved. Version 1.0, includes source in C. Author: Ekke Verheul CONTENTS OF DISK 793 -------------------- DateCheck A Rexx program that validates the system date by comparing it to the date stored when DateCheck was last executed. If the system date is earlier or too much later than the stored date, the user is notified by a requester. Version 1.01. Author: Michael Tanzer ReflexFinal A game which tests your addition, subtraction, division, mul- tiplication, percentage, and algebra skills. The goal is to answer several math questions in the shortest possible time. A continuation to "ReflexTest" on disk number 751. Binary only. Author: Jason Lowe Snap A tool for clipping text or graphics from the screen, using the clipboard device. Snap finds out character coordinates automatically, handles different fonts, keymaps, accented characters, and more. Version 1.63, contains a small bug fix to version 1.62 on disk number 524. Includes source. Author: Mikael Karlsson SOUNDEffect Sound sample editing program. Special features include: temporary buffers, frequency and amplitude modulation (tremolo and vibrato), echo, special reverb effect, chorus effect, mixer, free hand editing, low and high pass filter, compresser, expander, limiter, distortion and all usual functions (copy, paste, insert, cut, looping, zooming etc.). Version 1.30, shareware, binary only. Author: Sven B|hling CONTENTS OF DISK 794 -------------------- MCAnim A special animplayer. Plays LORES 4-plane ANIM5 anims in a HIRES-LACE screen. The result is a FULLspeed, small (1/4) animation with a high resolution. The anim can be placed anywhere on the screen. One of nine copperlists can be added in one register without loss of speed. Version 0.8, binary only. Author: Ekke Verheul ReqTools A standard Amiga shared runtime library which makes it a lot quicker and easier to build standard requesters into your pro- grams. Designed with CBM's style guidelines in mind, so that the resulting requesters have the look and feel of AmigaDOS 2.0. Version 2.1a, lots of enhancements since release 1.0d on disk 623. Includes a demo and glue/demo sources. Author: Nico Francois CONTENTS OF DISK 795 -------------------- PSTools Part 1 of a two part distribution of DVIPS ported from a Unix environment. DVIPS is a program that takes TeX .DVI files and converts them to PostScript files. If you don't have access to a PostScript printer, you can still take advantage of the vast amount of useful documentation in TeX .dvi or PostScript .ps format using the incredibly excellent POST program from FF669. This portion of the distribution contains the DVIPS binary, source and config files; DVIPS documentation; the Adobe Font Metric Files, TeX vf font files and LaTeX files. Part 2 of the distribution can be found on disk number 796. Includes DICE C-source. Author: Originally from DECUS, Amiga port by Jonathan Hudson UnDelete Restores deleted files and (empty) directories with a fast deleted-file-find routine. It is often as fast as "delete". Works on all OFS and FFS disk devices, but from Shell only. Version 1.02, binary only. Author: Ekke Verheul CONTENTS OF DISK 796 -------------------- PSTools Part 2 of a two part distribution of DVIPS ported from a Unix environment. DVIPS is a program that takes TeX .DVI files and converts them to PostScript files. If you don't have access to a PostScript printer, you can still take advantage of the vast amount of useful documentation in TeX .dvi or PostScript .ps format using the incredibly excellent POST program from FF669. This portion of the distribution contains the TeX pk font files and the TeX tfm font files. Part 1 of the distribution can be found on disk number 795. Author: Originally from DECUS, Amiga port by Jonathan Hudson CONTENTS OF DISK 797 -------------------- A2ps Another "oldie but goodie" I found poking around the net. This seemed like an appropriate place to put it. A2Ps formats an ascii file for printing on a postscript printer, adds borders, headers etc. Lots of command line options. Includes source. Author: Miguel Santana, amiga port by Daniel Barrett BBBF The Bootblock.library/brainfile is an attempt to make life a little bit easier for programmers of anti-virus utilities, diskcopy programs, directory utilities, disk packers and for whoever who wants to check the bootblock of some device The library has some easy-to-use functions to read the brain- file, and to check a bootblock with it. Version 0.95 beta, brainfile recognizes 158 different viruses. Includes sample source. Author: Johan Eliasson, SHI member. BIGMec A shareware utility that displays the current available amount of memory, the memory available when BIGMec was started and the difference between those. The amounts can be displayed in HEX/ DEC and BYTE/KILO/MEGA. BIGMec can be started from Workbench as well as from CLI. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Sandi Tomsic DVI2LJ A cli utility to convert TeX .DVI files into HP PCL files suitable for printing on the HP Laser Jet series printers. Author: Gustaf Neumann, amiga port by Daniel Barrett HP3ps An intuitionized utility for changing modes on a Pacific Page Postscript Emulation cartridge. Allows you to select HP-PCL or POSTSCRIPT mode by simply clicking on a gadget. Version 92.02.09, binary only. Author: Scott Dhomas Trenn PSUtils Some cli utilities for the manipulation of PostScript files. Includes: psbook - rearranges pages into signatures; psnup - uses pstops to merge multiple pages per sheet; psselect - selects pages and page ranges; pstops - performs general page rearrangement and selection; and epsffit - fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box. Includes source. Author: Angus Duggan, amiga port by Jonathan Hudson Spots A useless but pretty 24-bit-RGB and HAM spot-paint-program. Handles scripts to render animations. It needs arp.library or WorkBench 2.0. Check out the examples to see if you like the effect. Version 1.10, binary only. Author: Ekke Verheul CONTENTS OF DISK 798 -------------------- AddressitDEMO Demo version of a very powerful small business and personal mail manager that includes many extras. You can define up to 15 flags, export data to ProWrite and Wordperfect, and print rosters, mailing lists, labels, envelopes plus a whole lot more. Works with 1.2/1.3 and 2.0. Author: Legendary Design Technologies Inc. ASwarmII A "high security" Screenblanker commodity (will not burn-in the phosphor even when the CPU is really busy). Based loosely upon Jeff Buterworth's "xswarm" for X11 Windowing System, it shows from 1-10 "wasps" beeing chased by 1-500 "bees". Screen will blank entirely under periods of high CPU usage. Requires Amiga OS 2.04 or better, version 1.3, includes source. Author: Markus Illenseer If2.0 A CLI/Shell command, which decides whether your Amiga is run- ning OS v2.x or OS v1.x - and then executes a corresponding command line/argument. Especially useful for zKick-using Amigas. Version 1.2, includes C-Source. Author: Thomas Arnfeldt LockIt A simple commodity to protect files or drawers from any access. Uses a WorkBench AppIcon and allows selection of files via ASL- Requester. Requires OS2.0. Version 2.1, binary only. Author: Andreas Linnemann NewMode A tool for changing the screenmode of any screen by manipula- ting the OpenScreen pointer. Includes new "ModeNames" file for the screenmodes (like HAM...). Requires OS2.0. Version 1.1. Binary only. Author: Andreas Linnemann Prism An ANSI editor that allows animations and complete colour con- trol. It is used on many BBS's to create animated screens. Includes a configuration editor, font control, and variable playback speed. New features include automatic line and box drawing, and a special "Quick Pick" option for accessing extend characters codes. Version 1.5, an update to version 1.4 on disk number 581. Binary only. Authors: Syd Bolton, Chris Timmerberg, and Colin Vernon. Run68017 Provides run time emulation of about 30 of the 68020 instruc- tions with a 68000. Only the emulated instructions can use the new 68020 addressing modes. Uses a gagdet to enable/disable emulation. An upgrade from Run68013 on disk number 756. Includes source in assembly. Author: Kamran Karimi Split The opposite of the AmigaDos JOIN command. Use it to split textfiles that are too large to edit on your computer, files for email-delivery that have a file size maximum... etc. The created files have the same name as the original except with an extension of two digits. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Jonas Svensson StripANSI Removes all ANSI codes from a text file so that only the bare text remains. It is useful for editing terminal program cap- ture buffers. Two versions are provided: one for the command line (CLI) and one with a full Intuition interface. You can selectively strip certain codes, and generate a report. New features include more codes, better help, and tab expansion. Version 1.2, an update to version 1.0 on disk number 581, Includes source in 'C'. Author: Syd L. Bolton CONTENTS OF DISK 799 -------------------- AII "Archiving Intuition Interface" allows you to access many features of the LHa archiver via the WorkBench. Requires reqtools.library. Version 1.03, first release. Requires KickStart 2.0 or higher. ShareWare, binary only. Author: Paul Mclachlan. HackLite An evolved version of the public domain game Hack, written by Jay Fenlason, Andries Brouwer, Don Kneller and various others. Hack Lite is a dungeon adventure game in the style of Rogue, Hack, Moria, etc. It uses a customizable graphical dungeon display. The package includes a simple-to-use installation program, and a "Preferences"-style configuration editor. Many new objects, traps, monsters and ways to die have been added. Saved games are now much smaller, and a "Tournament mode" allows several players to compete for the highest score playing in identical dungeons. Utilities included with Hack Lite were written by Jim Cooper and Doug Walker. Author: Alan Beale CONTENTS OF DISK 800 -------------------- ColorSaver A "pop-up-anywhere" (almost!) color palette commodity with several features I could not find in other palette tools. Features include: Load/Save color palettes; Sliders select- able between RGB/HSV; Copy, Swap, Range Functions; Complement selected color; Left/right shifting of the entire palette; Ability to permanently alter (patch) the color tables of execu- tables with a statically allocated color table. Requires OS2.04 or greater. Version 0.84 (alpha release), includes source. Author: Dan Fish DocDump A print utility that puts 4 pages of text on one sheet of paper, including page-headers. Beside the normal Dump mode, a double-sided Booklet mode is also available. DocDump uses its own printer drivers, making one yourself is easy. Version 3.6, binary only, shareware. Author: Robert Grob Enforcer A tool to monitor illegal memory access for 68020/68851, 68030, and 68040 CPUs. This is a completely new Enforcer from the original idea by Bryce Nesbitt. It contains many new and wonderful features and options and no longer contains any exceptions for specific software. Enforcer can now also be used with CPU or SetCPU FASTROM or most any other MMU-Kick- start-Mapping tool. Major new output options such as local output, stdout, and parallel port. Highly optimized to be as fast as possible. This is version 37.28, an update to version 37.26 on disk number 773. Requires V37 of the OS or better and an MMU. Author: Michael Sinz IffBoot Inspired from BOOTLOGO by Markus Illenseer, allows you to show any IFF file during bootup that will exit when the WB appears. Version 1.0, requires OS 2.04 or greater, binary only, includes some sample pictures. Author: Colin Bell, some IFF pics by Justin Trevena Least A small, handsome, text displayer that only supports those functions most frequently used. String searching is performed with the very fast Boyer-Moore algorithm. Also checks itself for link viruses. Runs from both WorkBench and CLI. Separate version - LeastP - also deals with powerpacked files. Has been tested under both Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0. Version 0.04, binary only. Author: Thorsten Koschinski Moontool A port of John Walker's moontool program for UNIX. It gives a variety of statistics about the moon, including phase, dist- ance, angular, size and time to next full moon. A schematic of the current phase is also shown as a picture. This is illustrative only; the accurate phase is shown in the text. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: John Walker, Amiga port by Eric G. Suchanek MungWall Munges memory and watches for illegal FreeMem's. Especially useful in combination with Enforcer. Output can go to either the serial or parallel port. Includes a new MungList program that examines used memory areas for MungWall tag info, and outputs a list of who owns the various pieces of allocated memory, their sizes, etc. Can even identify the owner of the memory by task name. This is version 37.58, an update to version 37.54 on disk 707. Binary only. 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