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- Chapter 9 - Example programs
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- The programs included in this chapter are intended to
- be illustrations to you in how to write a complete program.
- The programs are meant to be useful to you either as an
- example of how to do some operation or as utility programs
- for your general use.
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- TIMEDATE - Get Time and Date
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- This program calls one of the DOS functions to get the
- current time and date. They are input as variables and can
- be printed or displayed in any format you desire. Your
- particular compiler may use a different format because there
- is no standard in Modula-2. This is one of those areas that
- will probably deviate from compiler to compiler. If you
- study your documentation that came with your compiler, you
- will find many other calls of this type described. This
- program is meant to be an illustration of how to use this
- particular call.
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- AREAS - Calculate Areas
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- This program is intended to be an illustration for you
- of how to build up a larger program than any other that we
- have examined up to this point. Notice that the main
- program is simply one CASE statement that calls all of the
- other procedures. It would be very simple to include the
- code from each procedure right in the CASE statement and
- have no procedure calls, but it would make the program very
- difficult to understand. The way this example is coded, the
- code is very easy to understand. After you understand the
- main program, it is a very simple matter to visit each
- procedure to see exactly what they do.
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- Notice how the menu works in this program. It reads
- one keystroke and responds immediately making it a very
- simple program to use.
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- PC - Printer Control
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- This is a very useful program that you can use to
- control your printer. It is specifically set up for an
- Epson RX-80, but you can modify the control characters to
- set up your printer to whatever mode you desire. To use the
- program, you call the program and supply a single letter
- according to the displayed menu, and the program will send
- the character or characters to the printer to select the
- enhanced, compressed, or whatever mode you desire. If your
- printer is located physically remote from you, you can use
- this program to send a formfeed to the printer by selecting
- the F option. If you have some longer control sequences to
- send, you may want to store the values in a string and use a
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- loop to output the data until you come to an 0C character.
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- LIST - List Program File
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- If you ran the batch file named LISTALL as suggested at
- the beginning of this tutorial to print out all of the
- source files, you have already used this program. It is the
- program that will list any ASCII file, adding line numbers,
- page numbers, and the date and time, on the printer. It is
- specifically designed to be a program listing utility. The
- operation is very simple, and you should have no trouble in
- understanding this program or what it does.
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- Additional programs will be given at the end of Part
- III for your information. You will no doubt find additional
- example programs in various books and periodicals and it
- would be to your advantage to to spend some time studying
- them as illustrations of both good and bad practices.
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