fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/31/89)
Well, I made it to disk 300 in this decade with a day to spare! Disks 295-300 are now available. Shipping to those who have preordered disks begins tomorrow (12/31) and should be complete by Monday sometime. Note that you can get a copy of the catalog (2 disks) of the complete library contents by sending either two new blank disks with no labels (you'll get back different disks because yours will just go into the "bulk blank disk pool") and $1 for postage and a mailer or $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: 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. 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, it's ok to to place each submission in it's 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 it's subdirectory and if necessary, supply a script runnable from workbench (via c:IconX) that makes all necessary assigns, copies fonts and libraries, etc. Thanks!!! ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 295 -------------------- GnuGrep The grep program from the GNU project. Replaces grep fgrep, egrep, and bmgrep. Currently does not expand Amiga style wildcards, so if you wish to scan multiple files you will need to use it with a shell that does this for you. This is version 1.5, an update to version 1.3 on disk 204. Includes source. Author: Many (see README file) Lhwarp A program which will read tracks directly from your floppy disk, compress them using adaptive huffman encoding, and output them to a file. The resulting file can be used by lhwarp to reconstruct an image of the original disk. This is version 1.03 and includes source. Author: Jonathan Forbes MandelMountains A program that renders three-dimensional images of blowups of the Mandelbrot set. Includes several example images. Version 1.1, shareware, binary only. Author: Mathias Ortmann CONTENTS OF DISK 296 -------------------- Comal Demo of AmigaCOMAL (missing only SAVE), an incremental p-code compiler from Denmark. COMAL is a language with the design goal of combining the modern structured approach of Pascal with the ease of use and interactivity of BASIC. There are versions of COMAL for IBM, VAX, CP/M, C-64, Amiga and various European operating systems. Includes a complete turtle graphics package. Is perfect for education yet powerful enough for applications programming. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: Svend Daugaard Pedersen Freddy Dan Dalgas Kristiansen Patch A port of the very useful UNIX utility which applies context diffs to text files to automatically update them. This is a port of version 2.0.1.6 (patch level 12), which Eric has dubbed Amiga version 1.0. It is an update to an earlier version on disk 129. Includes source. Author: Larry Wall, Amiga port by Eric Green CONTENTS OF DISK 297 -------------------- Clean A small program written in assembly code, to be used in conjunction with a cleaning disk, to clean your floppy drive heads. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Dan Burris DevKit A collection of C and ARexx language programs to facilitate the software development process. With DevKit, you can launch your compiler from within your editor, have the cursor positioned on your errors, look up the autodoc page for any Amiga function at a single keystroke, find a system structure within the include files, or find any function in the code you are writing. Version 1.2, includes source. Author: Peter Cherna Elements Very nice interactive display of the the Periodic Table of Elements. Can display a large amount of pertinent data about a selected element along with a good deal of general and miscellaneous info. This is version 1.3, an update to version 1.2a on disk 253. It adds a non- interlace mode and extend selection of two elements. Binary only, shareware. Author: Paul Thomas Miller Hypno A "bouncing polygons" type program like Mackie, LineArt, and Bezier. Includes source in C. Author: Markus Schmidt Jed A nicely done, intuition-based editor that is quite user-friendly. Features word-wrap, auto-indent, newcli, alt buffer, split-window, keyboard macro, help, printing, and more. This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 180. Shareware, binary only. Author: Dan Burris SuperMenu An information display system you can use to quickly and easily display text files (and sections of text files) with the press of a button. Version 1.62, shareware, binary only. Author: Paul Thomas Miller WriteIcon Sample code that creates an icon using a compiled-in image, the source of which can be created with Icon2C on disk 56. Version 1.0, includes source in C. Author: Dan Burris CONTENTS OF DISK 298 -------------------- BBChampion This is BootBlockChampionIII, a very nicely done program that allows you to load, save, and analyze any bootblock. This is version 3.21, an update to version 3.1 on disk 244. New features include checks for five different LAMER viruses and some other enhancements. Binary only. Author: Roger Fischlin DClock A "Dumb Clock" utility that displays the date and time in the Workbench screen title bar. Uses only about 2 percent of the CPU time and about 10Kb of memory. Also has an alarm clock feature and audible beep for programs that call DisplayBeep. Version 1.5, includes source. Author: Olaf Barthel Fenster A program which can operate on windows owned by another program, to close them, change their size, refresh gadgets, move the window to the background, etc. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 245. Includes source. Author: Roger Fischlin FileMaster A file editor like NewZap or FedUp, which allows you to manipulate bytes of a file. You may also change the file size or execute a patch. Version 1.11, includes source. Author: Roger Fischlin CONTENTS OF DISK 299 -------------------- Hangman A simple hangman program similar to one seen on some UNIX machines. Currently runs only from CLI. Includes source in C. Author: Gary Brant Rxil An ARexx interface library that makes it easy for programs to implement a complete, robust ARexx interface with minimal effort. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Don Meyer SceneGenDemo Demo of a program called Scene Generator, that generates very realistic looking landscapes. This program is an enhanced, low cost commercial version, of the Scenery program included on disk 155. This is version 2.03, binary only. Author: Brett Casebolt Yacc This is a port of Berkeley Yacc for the Amiga. This Yacc has been made as compatible as possible with the AT&T Yacc, and is completely public domain. Note that it is NOT the so-called Decus Yacc, which is/was simply a repackaging of the proprietary AT&T Yacc. Amiga version 1.0a, includes source. Author: Bob Corbett, Amiga port by Eric Green CONTENTS OF DISK 300 -------------------- SuperEcho A neat program to be used with Perfect Sound-like audio digitizers that generates LIVE audio effects, including Echos, Deep Voice, Squeaky Voice, Many People, M-M-Max Headroom and much more. Binary only. Author: Kevin Kelm TACL An adventure player for games written with The Adventure Construction Language, a commercial computer language. Includes two sample games; one is text-only and the other is text-graphic. Binary only, plus the TACL source code that was used to write the graphic adventure. Author: Kevin Kelm and Rhett Rodewald TitleGen A simple script language program for generating vertically crawling title sequences in any font and up to 500 lines long. Good for video production. Version 1.6, binary only. Author: Kevin Kelm XenoZap A program that recursively descends into directories, disabling the Xeno virus in all executable files that it finds. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-2. Author: Kevin Kelm ====================================================================== -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf
jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) (01/16/90)
I would like to know how much the fish disks cost. I know the catalog disks are $3 but how about the others? Maybe I'm dense but it ain't obvious to me. -- Jim Sanchez {sun,hplabs}!sytek!syteke!jim OR Hughes LAN Systems, Brussels uunet!prlb2!sunbim!syteke!jim
fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (01/19/90)
In article <692@syteke.be> jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) writes: >I would like to know how much the fish disks cost. I know the catalog >disks are $3 but how about the others? Maybe I'm dense but it ain't obvious >to me. Every disk has a price list in the GeneralInfo file. The current rates are: 1-9 disks $6 ea 10-49 disks $5 ea 50-99 disks $4 ea 100+ disks $3 ea "entire set" $2 ea (applies only to released disks 1-300) The price is determined by the quantity ordered, any mix of released or future disks, not by the number shipped each time new disks are released. -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf