Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!husc6!spdcc!m2c!ulowell!masscomp!rad From: rad@masscomp.UUCP (Bob Doolittle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Buncha Questions from a new Amiga owner Message-ID: <2490@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 18:46:33 EST Article-I.D.: masscomp.2490 Posted: Mon Nov 2 18:46:33 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 22:01:33 EST Reply-To: rad@masscomp.UUCP (Bob Doolittle) Organization: MASSCOMP - Westford, Ma Lines: 48 Keywords: developer shell bridge soundscape Summary: A bunch of unrelated questions for the experts [Everyone else has a line here - I might as well too] I have a new A2000, and a few questions. I'd appreciate any help for the "experts" out there. "Developer" question - I love my new machine, but find the lack of technical docs disappointing. So I heard about this "Amiga Developer's Program" offered by Commodore. This program has been significantly reworked recently, and a Developer seems to be quite a different beast from what it used to be. Evidently for $50 I can be a "Certified Developer". I presumed this entitled me to technical docs, but find now that I'm "accepted" to apply for the program that I just get "discounts" on unspecified software, docs and hardware (and the BIX). I guess I am expected to send in my $50 and get a surprise :-{, but before doing so I wanted to know if anyone out there has done this and what they got for it. Is any of it worth it? Is the BIX worthwhile? Shell question - I compiled the new shell from Matt, using latest Manx compiler, and it works great except when run from my original CLI. I.E., if I use popcli to get a CLI and run it out of there, it is fine. If I use newcli in my startup-sequence and run it out of there, fine again. If I just remove the endcli from my startup-sequence and replace it with "shell login.sh" it hangs. Yes, I have upped my stack size to 8192 (I like round numbers). Any ideas? I don't like to have to invoke the shell and then source the login.sh. I'd rather have it done for me at startup. PC bridge/printer question - I have a piece of PC software I want to run on the bridge card which is written in BASIC and wants to use the line printer (with LPRINT). I don't have one. I have heard of a program for AmigaDOS (called, imaginatively enough, "cmd"), which diverts output to the printer into a file on disk. This would be ideal here, however, the docs on the bridge card imply that if the bridge owns the LP, amigaDOS can't get to it. I know nothing about MS-DOS, but can learn if I must (yech). Is there a standard way to do something like this on PCs? Will it work on the Amiga? Can I replace the Amiga program which points MS-DOS to the printer with one which points it into a file? Or will "cmd" just work? Or will an MSBASIC program just work with AmigaBasic? Maybe somebody at C-A can answer this... I can hack C code to fix it if I know what tack to take. For soundscape gurus - I can save songs to my hard disk, but it can't seem to load them again. It just noops when I select the file to load. My fault or soundscape's? Works fine from floppies. -------- Please send replies to UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax,seismo}!masscomp!rad