Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!tub!blnosz!ballier
From: ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Uniterm metafiles
Message-ID: <287@blnosz.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 02:47:19 GMT
References: <9002040802.AA11879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <286@blnosz.UUCP> <3095@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Reply-To: ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier)
Organization: OSZ Chemie, Physik und Biologie, Berlin
Lines: 91

In article <3095@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu8053@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt) writes:
>In article <286@blnosz.UUCP> ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier) writes:
>>In article <9002040802.AA11879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WACKER@CERNVM.BITNET (Klaus Wacker) writes:
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>When I try to print directly from Uniterm by selecting 'Printer' rather
>>>than 'Metafile' after hitting Alt-F3, I get an alert box telling me
>>>'Unable to open VDI device'.
>>>[...]
>>I have the same problem like you ('Unable...'). I have written to Simon Poole,
>>but I have not got an answer. 
>>
>>Ralph
>
>I have used UniTerm to print and save Tek MetaFiles with no problem. It seems to
>work depending upon which GDOS you're using.  Of course, the printer and 
>meta.sys file must be in your assign.sys file.  But, I have found that with
>EXACTLY the same assign.sys file, UniTerm would print with my G+Plus but would
>NOT work with the ACM GDOS included with the Gemini desktop.  Don't ask me why,
>it's a mystery to me.  By the way, I finally discovered a program to convert
>the .GEM files produced by UniTerm into the standard .GEM format.  If there are
>enough requests I will post it to comp.binaries.atari.st.  It can be found on
>GEnie as well. 
>
>Craig Pratt
>BitNet: Craig.Pratt@msu3.oscs.montana.edu
>GEnie: C.PRATT4
>"The ships hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't."
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Look please, this is my assign.sys for G+Plus; is there any mistake ?


Pfad=C:\GEMSYS.SYS
;
01p SCREEN.SYS
;
02p SCREEN.SYS
ATSS10.FNT
ATSS12.FNT
ATSS18.FNT
ATSS24.FNT
ATTR10.FNT
ATTR12.FNT
ATTR18.FNT
ATTR24.FNT
ATTP10.FNT
;
03p SCREEN.SYS
ATSS10CG.FNT
ATSS12CG.FNT
ATSS18CG.FNT
ATSS24CG.FNT
ATTR10CG.FNT
ATTR12CG.FNT
ATTR18CG.FNT
ATTR24CG.FNT
ATTP10CG.FNT
;
04p SCREEN.SYS
ATSS10.FNT
ATSS12.FNT
ATSS18.FNT
ATSS24.FNT
ATTR10.FNT
ATTR12.FNT
ATTR18.FNT
ATTR24.FNT
ATTP10.FNT
;
21r SLM804.SYS
ATSS10LS.FNT
ATSS12LS.FNT
ATSS18LS.FNT
ATSS24LS.FNT
ATTR10LS.FNT
ATTR12LS.FNT
ATTR18LS.FNT
ATTR24LS.FNT
ATTP10LS.FNT
;
31r META.SYS
ATSS10MF.FNT
ATSS12MF.FNT
ATSS18MF.FNT
ATSS24MF.FNT
ATTR10MF.FNT
ATTR12MF.FNT
ATTR18MF.FNT
ATTR24MF.FNT
ATTP10MF.FNT