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From: spencer@oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Tough questions
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 16:58:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 16:58:14 1985
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I don't suppose that there is anyone out there who has ever gotten out
of the Mandril demo... or is it the reverse, am I the only one that has
never been able to exit it.  I have a window with a close gadget assigned
to the display and I can move it front and back but I have found no way
to exit and now way to pull the demo down and I find myself rebooting
every time I run it.  Anyone had this problem?

Also, I just came from the dealer who just got in the 5 1/4" drives and
I am curious if there is anyone out there in netland that is working
on a meathod of accessing the larger drive from AmigaDos, for I would
love to have the ability to port stuff from the Amiga side of the computer
to the IBM side of the computer.  It is not like I can hook up a serial
cable and run Kermit between the two.  I have many friends that have PCs
and to be able to send them stuff just by editing it on my Amiga word-
processor would be wonderful.  I could send them programs that they could
run on their computers too.

On that last point, I am curious...
I have been reading for several weeks about people that want the only
post sources to the net for this will allow the programmers of the lot
to modify them and develop really spectacular unilities, while the other
half wants to be able to run the program and not have to get every possible
compiler on the market to be able to compile *all* the possible sources
that come in.  Will, it would seem to me that you could (or I could) write
a really short utility that creates a basic program from the compiled code.
This could be sent easily over the net and the source could be sent also
or in a seperate file.  Basic could be commented and would still run, or
the basic program could do all the writing and saving of the file(s).
The point is that every one has basic, right? (On the Amiga anyway) and
this would save the problem of reading through all the binaries and having
to worry about what version of binhex you are running, and the original
encoding program could be easily distributed.  This all comes from the
malabrot demo recently posted where the machine code was placed in basic
extensively commented and very easy to run.  I hope that this gives some-
one a better idea of how we should do it...

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