Date: 2 Dec 87 18:20:17 GMTReferences: <1950@charon.unm.edu>Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)Organization: PISA Project, Glesga YoonieLines: 23Summary:Expires:Sender:Followup-To:[ignore the above address and use my signature]By far the best thing I have read by MJH is a long short story called"Running Down", about a man with unwanted psychic powers that cause thingsto malfunction, decay and fall apart around him. It is set in a Britainin the near future of when the story was written (i.e. about now) in whichthe whole society reflects a similar dingy, pointless chaos - remarkablylike Britain after 8 years of Thatcher, in fact.He's very good at describing that sort of situation - his novel "The CentauriDevice" does it at length, though his suggested political solution is bloodystupid. His understanding of anarchism is about on a level with Robert AntonWilson's.- jack-- ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.ukJANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs       USENET: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jackMail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow,      17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland (041 339 8855 x 6045)#! rnews 1188Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!jackFrom: jack@cs.hw.ac.uk (Jack Campin)Newsgroups: rec.music.classicalSubject: Re: TippettMessage-ID: <1561@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>Date: 2 Dec 87 18:38:20 GMTReferences: <1950@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)Organization: PISA Project, Glesga YoonieLines: 15Summary:Expires:Sender:Followup-To:[ignore the above email address and use my signature]Tippett moved on a LONG way musically after "A Child Of Our Time".I believe his masterpiece is the Triple Concerto for violin, viola and cello.There is a wonderful recording of it by Pauk, Imai and Kirschbaum with the LSOunder Davis.A problem I find with a lot of his music is the silly words. The man reallyshouldn't have tried writing his own libretti that often.I believe he's got another opera in the pipeline, due for its premiere in thenext few months.-- ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.ukJANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs       USENET: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jackMail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow,      17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland (041 339 8855 x 6045)#! rnews 894Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!jgFrom: jg@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant)Newsgroups: comp.sys.macSubject: The Spinning watch cursorMessage-ID: <4023@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>Date: 3 Dec 87 14:59:09 GMTReply-To: jg@ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant)Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.Lines: 11OK - I've changed my spinning watch back into the lovely sand-timer(remember the good old days?);  I've changed the CURS resource in theFinder and also in the System so that I have various quantitiesof sand in the top & bottom, but there is still a watch lurking!More precisely, where does the watch that says 9 o'clock live, asnow I get the magic watch followed by the sand1->7, then the watchagain as the cycle repeats.  This only happens in the Finder, so Isuspect that there must be a watch lurking elsewhere, but where?Ps. system 4.2b(5?) & Finder 6.0 (Mac 512Ke)#! rnews 3539Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!csnjrFrom: csnjr@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makersSubject: Casio MG500, Roland MT-32, MIDI bug? [LONG]Summary: Where's the MIDI bug in this lot?:Keywords: MG500 MT-32 MIDIMessage-ID: <805@its63b.ed.ac.uk>Date: 3 Dec 87 13:10:56 GMTReply-To: nick%ed.lfcs@uk.ac.ucl.cs.nss (Nick Rothwell)Organization: LFCS, University of EdinburghLines: 46Xref: alberta rec.music.synth:1879 rec.music.makers:1070Last weekend a friend and I strolled into a music shop and ended up playingwith the new Casio MG500 MIDI guitar linked into a Roland MT-32. I don'tplay guitar, and was just along for the curiosity, but I've got a few commentsto make and a question about what I consider to be a MIDI bug in one of theinstruments.   Firstly - the performance of the MG500. I wasn't actually playing it (I wasjust pushing buttons on the MT-32 instead), but I was impressed with itsspeed and tracking ability - it was fast and followed pitch accurately,responding to pitch bend and so on; it generally sounded pretty tight.There were a couple of things I didn't like - but maybe it's a genericweakness of all guitar-to-MIDI systems. Firstly, the guitar transmitsvelocity information (hit the string harder -> louder/brighter note), butgives no control (other than pitch-bend) once a note's sounding - there'snothing equivalent to aftertouch/modulation so once a note sounds you'reat the mercy of the synth until you stop the string.Point two - You've got six strings, so you can only sound six synth voices.This is probably obvious, but playing a guitar patch through MIDI doesn'tsound like a real guitar, because each touch of a string retriggers the voiceon that string, sometimes in a rather distracting way. On a real (classical)guitar you have the resonance of the soundbox to hang on to notes so youaren't aware of this (I presume - comments?)Now for what is (in my opinion) a MIDI Bug! Play two different notes ontwo strings and you get two voices - ok so far. Play the same note on twodifferent strings and you get one voice. Humm. Play two different notes ontwo strings and slide one note up to the other, and one of the voices ischopped off. I think this is a bug - something somewhere doesn't want tothe same note more than once. Needless to say, this completely screws upa number of guitar chords.   We mentioned this to the guy in the shop. He seemed convinced that it'sa problem with the MIDI spec. itself - if you play a keyboard synth, youhave to release the middle C key to play it again, don't you? I think thisis a load of dingos kidneys - if I send my D-50 two separate middle Cnote on messages, then I'll get two voices cycling through the envelopes atmiddle C pitch. This is what happens with the sustain pedal on, as well.   What's the verdict, net people? I think the guy was wrong (quite adamant,but wrong...) and there's a bug in one of the boxes. I suspect the MG500.If the MT-32 is anything like the D-50, then it doesn't care about playingthe same note twice. (A quick note in passing that synths with less voices(Juno106 for instance) often won't double a voice, in an attempt to playchords properly without running out.)-- Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.		nick%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk		<Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~"Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten."   - Herne#! rnews 1505Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!bath63!pesFrom: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.stSubject: Re: Resource file questionKeywords: resource mwc rcs .rsc dri cMessage-ID: <1963@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>Date: 3 Dec 87 10:33:26 GMTReferences: <1592@wiley.UUCP>Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)Organization: AUCC c/o University of BathLines: 19You might try looking to see if K-Resource is still available (by Kuma Software,who else?).  It's been out a long while.  It's now available bundled with someof the MetaComCo stuff (in particular the new Lattice C) but I believe thatKuma still do it separately as well.  Don't have a clue what it costs, butmust be cheaper than a new compiler.It produces (by switch option) appropriate 'include' type files for C,FORTRAN, and 2 other languages which I've conveniently forgotten -- inaddition to the expected .RSC file.  Will also produce a 'non-specificstructured description' file (they say, I've never tried this) which isalleged to be pretty easy to massage into an appropriate 'include' forany unsupported language you might like.The documentation is written in a bit of a 'too-folksy' style for my liking,but the program is pretty intuitive to use which makes up for some of that.It does, however, assume that you have some sort of a clue as to what thevarious resource items/flags mean and do -- it doesn't teach you how to useRSC files or what they mean, but rather gives a handle for making them.#! rnews 1258Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!neilFrom: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.stSubject: Bug in bets test GulamKeywords: noneMessage-ID: <1562@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>Date: 3 Dec 87 09:46:32 GMTOrganization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., ScotlandLines: 28I think I have found a bug in the latest version of Gulam.         alias test 'echo $<'produces a couple of spurious charcters on the input line.         $<%&The characters are usually above $80. The alpha version didn't do this.I just delete them by backspacing anyway.         echo $<by itself works fine.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of beingtold that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick andtired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!"- Monty Python Neil Forsyth                           JANET:  neil@uk.ac.hw.cs Dept. of Computer Science              ARPA:   neil@cs.hw.ac.uk Heriot-Watt University                 UUCP:   ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil Edinburgh Scotland-------------------------------------------------------------------------------#! rnews 1009Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!jackFrom: jack@cs.hw.ac.uk (Jack Campin)Newsgroups: comp.sys.macSubject: Re: how strong of a magnet?Message-ID: <1564@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>Date: 3 Dec 87 18:59:42 GMTReferences: <9554@shemp.UCLA.EDU>Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)Organization: PISA Project, Glesga YoonieLines: 12Summary:Expires:Sender:Followup-To:[ignore the above email address and use my signature]This may be an FOAF story (urban folklore) but I have heard that the mag-levtrain at Birmingham Airport lets enough field into the passenger compartmentto wipe floppies.Then again, I have also heard that story about ordinary underground railwaysand it certainly isn't true of them.-- ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.ukJANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs       USENET: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jackMail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow,      17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland (041 339 8855 x 6045)#! rnews 988Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!csanFrom: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie)Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.stSubject: Re: Resource file questionKeywords: KumaMessage-ID: <808@its63b.ed.ac.uk>Date: 3 Dec 87 23:08:12 GMTReferences: <1592@wiley.UUCP> <1298@saturn.ucsc.edu>Reply-To: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie)Organization: Computer Science Department, Edinburgh UniversityLines: 14In article <1298@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes:>>Kuma Software makes the best resource editor I've seen.  It's called>"K-Resource" and is a really friendly, well-thought-out piece of software.>I am in total agreement here. I use it in preference to any others I have.Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science ,Edinburgh University.ARPA:  csan%ed.itspna@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk   UUCP:  ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!itspna!csan                   	JANET: csan@uk.ac.ed.itspna% These are my own views and any resemblance to any coherent reasoning is% probably a typo.#! rnews 852Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!howellgFrom: howellg@idec.stc.co.uk (Gareth Howell)Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio.packet,comp.protocols.tcp-ipSubject: NEEDED: KISS for TNC220Message-ID: <869@idec.stc.co.uk>Date: 1 Dec 87 09:05:59 GMTOrganization: ICL Network Systems, Stevenage, Herts. UKLines: 12Xref: alberta rec.ham-radio.packet:767 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:1918I have a Pacomm TNC220 on which I want to run KISS and thence the KA9Qtcp/ip package.  Unfortunately I don't have a KISS for the TNC.Can anybody help.  I would prefer the co-resident bootstrap with adownloaded KISS module if possible.ta Gareth====-- Gareth Howell  <howellg@idec.stc.co.uk>  G6KVK @ IO91VXICL NS PNBC, England, SG1 1YB    Tel:+44 (0)438 738294howellg%idec%ukc@mcvax.uucp, mcvax!ukc!idec!howellg@uunet.uu.netG6KVK @ G4SPV (uk packet 144.650MHz)#! rnews 710Path: alberta!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!hildaFrom: hilda@tcom.stc.co.uk ( Jeff Tracey )