Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!liv-cs!rkl From: rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Message-ID: <1991Jun6.112309.89@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> Date: 6 Jun 91 11:23:09 GMT References: <1991Jun1.230959.4371@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University Lines: 49 > There was some rumours about new ARM-assembler-commands. Who started these rumours ? :-) I thought the ARM3 had the same instruction set as the ARM2. I guess it's all this stuff about the NV conditional flag (which I never (sic) use myself)... > The only way I see, to do this for the archimedes, is to put a software > emulator for this new commands ( which behaves like the FPU-emulator ) into > the public domain. A sensible suggestion, if the ARM4 (or whatever's the next generation ARM chip) has a superset of instructions w.r.t. the ARM2 and ARM3... > 1. Is there a tool like !lineedit, which can be used without starting the > desktop at all ? Run the LineEditor module inside !LineEdit. The module works both inside and outside the Desktop (in fact, it is DESIGNED for command-line work :-) ). > 2. Can someone explain me what filetype the file !arc100.arc100 has ? I get > funny results with fileinfo !arc100.arc100. It doesn't have a filetype. It's not positioned at &8000 exactly so can't be filetyped to Absolute (future releases may be positioned at &8000 with a memory shift header...hence I'll be able to use "Squeeze" on it). > 3. Someone posted, he is angry by extracting .tar.Z -files cause he have to > give lots of CLI-commands. Why don't we declare a standard (like > !submit/!extract for .tar.Z.uue -files) ? It's just that Spark [2] is easier to use than !Extract/!Submit, that's all :-) > 4. Same procedure as every time: > Does everyone knows implementations of PD/Shareware/FREEWARE Editors ? Try !StrongEd on Newcastle's info server. Guttorm Vik wrote it and it's quite nice if you want to call text editors from the Desktop (I don't - I use Twin, not brilliant but just about usable). Oh, I don't know if it's available on Newcastle yet, but VKiller 2.30 was released this week (now copes with a total of 7 viruses and should have all the annoying minor bugs in 2.20 removed :-) ). Richard K. Lloyd, **** This is a MicroVAX II running VAX/VMS V5.4 **** Computer Science Dept., JANET : rkl@uk.ac.liv.cs.and Liverpool University, Internet : rkl%and.cs.liv.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Merseyside, England, UUCP : ..!mcsun!ukc!liv-cs!rkl Great Britain. Q: "What's the world's fastest home micro ?" L69 3BX A: "The Archimedes A3000. 4 MIPS for under 800 pounds."