From fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com Sun Feb 28 17:29:58 1993 Received: from fishpond.cygnus.com ([192.195.187.11]) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.1) id AA23953; Sun, 28 Feb 93 17:29:54 PST From: fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com Message-Id: <9302281834.AA04136@fishpond.cygnus.com> Subject: Disks 821-830 now available To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (comp.sys.announce moderator) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 93 18:34:18 MST >From: Fred Fish Cc: fishpond!fnf (Fred Fish) Content-Length: 15651 Content-Type: text X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO Disks 821-830 are now available. Shipping to all those who have preordered disks should be complete by 2-Mar-93. 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 821 -------------------- Diff Port of GNU Diff, containing "cmp", "diff", "diff3", and "sdiff". Provides all the features of BSD's diff plus options to diff non-ASCII files, to ignore changes that just insert or delete blank lines, to specify the amount of context for con- text diffs, plus more. Version 2.1, an update to version 1.10 on disk 281. Includes source. Author: Mike Haertel, et. al. Amiga port by Carsten Steger Indent A C source code formatter/indenter. Especially useful for cleaning up inconsistently indented code. Version 1.7, an update to version 1.4 on disk 702. Includes source. Author: Various, Amiga port by Carsten Steger CONTENTS OF DISK 822 -------------------- NetHack A screen oriented fantasy game where your goal is to grab as much treasure as you can, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, and escape the Mazes of Menace alive. On the screen is a map of where you have been and what you have seen on the current dun- geon level. As you explore more of the level, it appears on the screen in front of you. Nethack generates a new dungeon every time it is played, thus even veteran players will con- tinue to find it entertaining and exciting. This is part 1 of a 3 part distribution. Part 1 contains the binary portion of the distribution. Part 2 and part 3 contains the source portion of the distribution, and can be found on disk 823 and 824. This is version 3.1pl0, an update to version 3.0pl10 on disk 460. Includes source. Author: Various; see documentation CONTENTS OF DISK 823 -------------------- NetHack A screen oriented fantasy game where your goal is to grab as much treasure as you can, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, and escape the Mazes of Menace alive. On the screen is a map of where you have been and what you have seen on the current dun- geon level. As you explore more of the level, it appears on the screen in front of you. Nethack generates a new dungeon every time it is played, thus even veteran players will con- tinue to find it entertaining and exciting. This is part 2 of a 3 part distribution. Part 1 contains the binary portion of the distribution and can be found on disk 822. Part 2 con- tains part of the source and part 3 (on disk 824) contains the remainder of the source. This is version 3.1pl0, an update to version 3.0pl10 on disk 460. Includes source. Author: Various; see documentation CONTENTS OF DISK 824 -------------------- AlphMan A programmer tool which may help you to create an intuition or gadtools user interface. It opens a window with a gadget for each keyboard key. If you press a key the dependent gadget will be disabled. So you may check whether a key has been used or not. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. Version 1.00, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther GadgetTest A programming example of how to create and handle all of the types of the new AmigaDOS 2.04 gadgets. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. This is version 0.01, includes source. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther NetHack A screen oriented fantasy game where your goal is to grab as much treasure as you can, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, and escape the Mazes of Menace alive. On the screen is a map of where you have been and what you have seen on the current dun- geon level. As you explore more of the level, it appears on the screen in front of you. Nethack generates a new dungeon every time it is played, thus even veteran players will con- tinue to find it entertaining and exciting. This is part 3 of a 3 part distribution. Part 1 contains the binary portion of the distribution and can be found on disk 822. Part 2 con- tains part of the source and can be found on disk 823. Part 3 contains the remainder of the source. This is version 3.1pl0, an update to version 3.0pl10 on disk 460. Includes source. Author: Various; see documentation Pager A program to number lines and pages for various kinds of text. It uses printf style formattings and has a lot of cli options, including lines per page, multiple sources, quiet option etc. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. This is version 1.00, free- ware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther CONTENTS OF DISK 825 -------------------- AII The Archiving Intuition Interface makes things easier if you are archiving or dearchiving files. You can do it all with the click of a mouse button, instead of typing in a whole line in the CLI. Version 1.35, an update to version 1.03 on disk 799. Now supports KickStart 2.xx as well as 1.3. Supports several archiving formats including LHa, Zoo, Arc, UnArj, and UnZip. Requires reqtools.library. Shareware, binary only. Author: Paul Mclachlan ASokoban An implementation of the UNIX game Sokoban for the Amiga. Has the original 85 levels of the UNIX game, a nice Intuition GUI, undo and backup functions, and is fully multitasking. Requires Kickstart 2.0. Version 1.1, binary only. Author: Panagiotis Christias VirusChecker A virus checker that can check memory, disk bootblocks, and all disk files for signs of most known viruses. Can remember nonstandard bootblocks that you indicate are OK and not bother you about them again. Includes an ARexx port. Version 6.22, an update to version 6.06 on disk 680. Binary only. Author: John Veldthuis WComm A commodity which enables the user to manipulate windows with 43 user definable hotkey commands. You can move, size, re- size, set to prefs, zoom, exclude, include, close tile cascad- ing, and kill windows. You can cycle screens. WComm also has a title clock, a palette window (with up to 256 colours), a popup shell, and a notify system, which can inform you about any important event and date, such as the birthdays of your friends, etc. You may also automatically start any command, a backup for example, at specific intervals. WComm is control- led by some configuration files and can be handled by the use of the several asynchronous windows. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. This is version 1.80, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther CONTENTS OF DISK 826 -------------------- Asteriods A very nicely done asteriods game. All images and sounds are loaded from disk as IFF files, and can be replaced by the user if desired. This demo version has been partially disabled to keep the player from going past level 5. Version 0.85, share- ware, binary only. Author: Mike Seifert Date2Day A simple program that gives the day name for the date selected by three gadgets. Uses GadTools library, so requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. Version 0.1, binary only. Author: Gerard Cornu DMEFReq A tool to replace the arp filerequester calls of dme or other editors with the asl one. It saves the selections to some env variables which can be easily examined from rexx or batch scripts. Includes examples of how to use it in DMe. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. Version 1.00, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther MemSnap A small memory monitor useful for seeing how much memory other programs take up. Based on a program called Memeter, which broke under Kickstart 2.0. Requires Kickstart 2.0 or higher. Version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 696. Includes source. Author: Martin W. Scott SoftLock A program to help prevent unauthorized access of your bootable hard drive by requiring a password each time you reboot. Has been tested under both AmigaDOS 1.3 and 2.04. This is version 1.0.2, an update to version 1.0.1 on disk 633. Shareware, binary only. Author: Allan Baer CONTENTS OF DISK 827 -------------------- AMaster An address database program with sort, search and selections after each field. The number of entries depends only on the free memory. Has a lot of print options including a print to screen function. Has a full online help system. Includes both German and English versions. Is font independent and has been tested under 2.04 and 3.0. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. This is version 1.52, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther AskReq This is another batchfile requester. It displays a message and prompts the user for a string or optionally for a number. It may be also used to request a choice between the specified gadgets. Has a lot of CLI options. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. This is version 1.00, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther AskVersion This little program can be used to check whether you are run- ning under AmigaDOS 1.3 or AmigaDOS 2.04. You can put it into your startup-sequence to execute a 1.3 bootup script. This is version 0.01, public domain, includes source. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther AztecErr A Manx quickfix support program. If you use the quickfix op- tion of AztecC version 5.xx, you can set CCEDIT to this pro- gram. It opens a window which displays all errors one after another. It also has an ARexx port and a gadtools user inter- face. This is version 1.25 an update to version 1.0 on disk 761. Removed some enforcer hits and is now font independent. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. Freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther 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. This is version 2.11 an update to version 1.2 on disk 742. Removed some en- forcer hits and is now font independent. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. Freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther 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 directly support filerequester selections. It exchanges '[]' in the specified command line with the selection. It has a debug ability for testing of options before execution. This is version 1.55, an update to version 1.5 on disk 743. It now supports multiple file sel- ections and the save filerequester option. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. Freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther PickFile A random generated executor. It uses a file, or optionally a directory, to start the given commandline which the selection. Can be easily used for slideshows, wbpattern, font, wbpicture changes. Any []`s will be exchanged with the selection. In- cludes examples. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. This is version 1.00, freeware, binary only. Author: Hans-Peter Guenther CONTENTS OF DISK 828 -------------------- DiskTest A utility to test the integrity of floppy and hard disks, ala Norton Utilities. This is version 2.03, an update to version 1.18 on disk 663. New features include a completely revised GUI, implemented with a text scroller. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or later. Public domain, includes source. Author: Maurizio Loreti Post An excellent PostScript interpreter for the Amiga which imple- ments the full Adobe language. Supports type 1 and type 3 fonts, screen output, file output, and printer output. This is version 1.86enh, an update to version 1.7 on disk 669. In this enhanced version all AmigaDOS 1.3 compatibility has been removed to facilitate a better, more consistent user interface using GadTools menus and GadTools gadgets, full support for and use of ASL file requesters has been added, many bugs have been fixed, and the source has been upgraded to work with SAS C 6.x. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or later. Includes source. Author: Adrian Aylward, enhancements by Robert Poole PSFonts Postscript font files from the GNU Ghostscript 2.5.2 distribu- tion, for use with the "Post" postscript interpreter on disk 828. This is part one of a three part distribution. Parts two and three can be found on disks 829 and 830 respectively. Author: Various, see docs. CONTENTS OF DISK 829 -------------------- PSFonts Postscript font files from the GNU Ghostscript 2.5.2 distribu- tion, for use with the "Post" postscript interpreter on disk 828. This is part two of a three part distribution. Parts one and three can be found on disks 828 and 830 respectively. Author: Various, see docs. CONTENTS OF DISK 830 -------------------- PSFonts Postscript font files from the GNU Ghostscript 2.5.2 distribu- tion, for use with the "Post" postscript interpreter on disk 828. This is part three of a three part distribution. Parts one and two can be found on disks 828 and 829 respectively. Author: Various, see docs. ====================================================================== |\/ o\ Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA |/\__/ 1-602-491-0048 fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com