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- CONTENTS OF VOLUME # 24
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- 1. It is always a pleasure to get new software, which this disk has, but
- it is even better to get old software that has been improved. Which is
- what John A McCulloch has sent us. He gave the program CheckBk
- (alias NOW) from Disk #15 to a friend. He added on-line changes in
- code assignments and the ability to edit and reconform the data stored
- in the file. So look this up-grade over and add to it.
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- CHECKS.PAS EXAMPL.DOC
- EXAMPL.CHK EXAMPL.NAM
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- John also sent these:
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- BIOMO.PAS John's first pascal program-a monthly bio-graf(tm)
- program. It has some commands specfic for the
- Epson MX-80 printer.Slow but interesting.
- EPSON.PAS/COM Speaking of the Epson, John has up-dated some info
- on the Epson.
- ROTATE.BAS/COM NO,that isn't a mistake. It's BAS. John just threw
- it in to give you something to do. Its a game that he
- tried to convert to Pascal but didn't finish. It
- has sixteen factorial variations.
- QUIZ.TXT How about something even simpler. Just read it
- QUIZANS.TXT and see if you can answer the questions. For you
- smart ones, there are two answers in the Quizans
- file missing.
- WRITNUM.PAS/COM John improved a program from Disk #16 and it now
- handles up to $9,999.99. By adding a fixed point
- package or convert the data to strings this will
- work in a computational package.
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- 2. Bob Longoria writes in several languages so when he sent me this bunch
- it included three different examples of his programing.
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- LS.C/DOC/COM This is a rather nice program to list your directory
- in that it gives you options as to how you want to
- do it. Uses c points.
- DEL.COM Bob is commercial involved with this program at this
- time so he does not want to give out the source.
- Maybe later. However, you can use this as is o.k.
- It will allow you to delete files easily and safely.
- Try *.* to get you going. Nice way to clean a disk.
- ZDUMP.PAS/COM Even tho this is yet another Dump program, it is
- in source and has lots of options to make it versitile.
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- 3. Clif Kinne's contributions will enhance any program. Read the DOC to
- get the details.
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- READCMD.P/DOC/REL This will handle arguments in a command tail.
- TESTCMD.P/COM A demo for ReadCmd.
- GETNUMS.P/REL An accessory to ReadCmd. It changes arguments
- that start with a number to an integer returns
- it as an array.
- CTOI.REL A subsidary Function for ReadCmd.
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- 4. RAY PENLEY will make teachers happy with this one. It is an up-graded
- students program that has been cleaned up by an expert and the program
- does many things. It also is a good tutorial. The doc file is in the
- remarks heading of the PAS source. Look at it for sure.
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- STUDENT.PAS/COM
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- 5. David Thorn sent this in as a informational item, it requires special
- equipment and some program modification to use, but it does illustrate
- just how a PROM BURNER handles itself. It is heavily commented so it
- is interesting to look at anyway.
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- PROM.FIL
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- 6. When I reviewed what I had I saw that I needed at least one more
- program to fill it up. I had more programs but they were all to
- big so I started to scratch around in my old files. I ran across
- an old BIOS that I had done many years ago, when I first started,
- so I thought why not! I paid a programer to do it for me so its
- mine. So if you need a SD Sales BIOS with Centronics parallel
- driver using a VersFloppy I controller (formated for the 1771 and
- 1791)you got it. I view it as a curiosity now and keep it because
- it is commented and that makes it a tutorial in my book.
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- DBIOS.Z80
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- NOTE: Item 6 has been deleted from the SIG/M release and replace with
- TRACER, a monitor program from an earlier PASCAL Z volume. The
- documentation indicates a .COM file is also included and did not
- release it with rest of the volume it was on because we never
- received the .COM file and could not get it to assemble. Charlie
- Foster advises that PASCAL Z did not have a .COM file for it and
- sent us a new copy to include in the library.
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