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- READ.ME for JED Version 1 for Turbo Pascal 5.0
-
- JED is a simple editor/shell for experimenting with assembly language
- using either TASM or MASM. I describe it in detail in my book,
- ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE STEP BY STEP, Chapter 4. There is a doc file on
- this disk as well, which is basically the book chapter cut loose and
- exported as pure ASCII. Use JREAD to read JEDDOC.ASC.
-
- (c) 1988, 1992 by Jeff Duntemann
- Portions of JED and JREAD (c) 1988 Borland International
-
- All rights reserved; rights granted as specified below. THIS IS
- NOT A PUBLIC DOMAIN PRODUCT. It's what I call Swapware. Send me
- $15-$20 worth of something that isn't money. See below for
- suggestions.
-
- Mail contributions to:
-
- Jeff Duntemann
- 8105 E. Paraiso Drive
- Scottsdale AZ 85255
-
- Nonetheless, I grant blanket permission to distribute this disk freely.
- This includes BBSes, user group libraries, shareware anthologies, etc.
-
-
- ////WHAT'S ON THIS DISK\\\\
-
- READ.ME This file
- JED.EXE JED executable
- JED.PAS JED source code for Turbo Pascal V5.0
- JEDSCRN.ASM External for JED
- VIDBLAST.ASM External for JED
- TEXTINFO.PAS Utility unit for JED
- JEDDOC.ASC JED ASCII documentation
-
- JREAD.EXE The 25-line JREAD utility (see below)
-
-
- //////HOW TO READ THE FILES\\\\\
-
- This disk contains several versions of my JREAD utility. JREAD.EXE
- is a "readme" program. It's a read-only text editor, derived
- from the FIRSTED editor in Borland's wonderful (but now extinct)
- Turbo Pascal Editor Toolbox. You can load a text file into JREAD,
- scroll around the file using the standard WordStar control codes, and
- mark blocks and write a mark block out to disk. The only thing
- you *can't* do is alter the file or enter new characters.
-
- You invoke JREAD like this:
-
- C:\>JREAD JEDDOC.ASC
-
- This will run JREAD and load the JED ASCII documentation data
- file for examination. To exit JREAD, press Ctrl-KQ.
-
- Within JREAD you can use any of the WordStar cursor control
- sequences, plus the cursor keypad keys. PgUp and PgDn are the
- easiest ways to get around. You can search for keywords using
- Ctrl-QF. You can drop markers with F7 (Ctrl-KB) and F8 (Ctrl-KK)
- and then write the block out to disk with Ctrl-KW.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTICE! I have included the source code for JED on this
- disk, but you can't necessarily recompile it. You *must* have the
- Turbo Pascal Editor Toolbox V5.0, which Borland no longer sells, but
- which I cannot distribute regardless. If you can scrounge a copy of the
- Toolbox, you're in fine shape, keeping in mind that the Turbo Pascal
- .TPU format changes with every major release, and you will probably
- need Turbo Pascal V5.0 *specifically* to recompile JED. This is an
- ugly trap but I don't know of any legal way around it.
-
- The same problem befalls JREAD. I "wrote" it by pulling things out of
- FIRSTED, one of the example programs in the Editor Toolbox. So there
- again, the source code really belongs to Borland. I just fooled with
- it some.
-
- BUG-ETTE REPORT: To make sure everything works, put DEBUG and your
- assembler in the *same* directory with JED!
-
-
- ////////SWAPWARE\\\\\\\\
-
- This is an experiment. Let's call it "Swapware." The concept is
- essentially the shareware concept, with the twist that I don't
- want you to send money except, perhaps, as a last resort.
-
- Instead, let's consider it a barter transaction. I consider the
- disk worth $15-$20 or so. Decide what the disk is worth to you,
- and send me the equivalent value of something I can use. I love
- getting surprises in the mail, and lord knows, I could use a
- little excitement in my life.
-
- It's not like I'm difficult to please, being a tinkerer, packrat,
- curio collector, and genteel eccentric. Here's a list of things
- I favor:
-
- Stamps. I collect fancy cancels & interesting postmarks of any
- vintage. Also, ANY postal history from Orchard Place, Illinois
- (1870's to 1937) where my great-grandfather F. W. Duntemann was
- postmaster for nearly 40 years. I'll even pay extra for this one.
- In 25 years of looking I've only seen one specimen, and the owner
- wouldn't sell!
-
- Traditional hardware: Nuts, bolts, washers, spade connectors,
- spade bolts, hole plugs, angle brackets, solder, spacers, standoffs,
- whatever.
-
- Electronic hardware and parts: Resistors, capacitors (especially
- variables), diodes, transistors, FETs, LEDs, sockets, insulators
- (especially antenna dogbone), tinned hook-up wire, speakers,
- plugs, jacks, coil forms, antique radio parts (I restore old
- sets) including tubes, tube sockets, calibrated knobs, plug-in
- shortwave coil forms, IF transformers and other coils; and oddiments
- like ground straps, coax connectors, solder, spools of magnet
- wire (any guage), heating elements, PC board, whatever.
-
- Some linear ICs: LM386, NE602 and its relatives, and (especially)
- the Motorola FM chips: MC3362 and MC2833. Any chips pertaining to
- radio (as opposed to digital stuff) are most enthusiastically
- welcome. It's not all for me; I make "baggie" parts kits for local
- kids who want to try building crystal sets and other simple radios.
-
- Stepper motors. Solar cells.
-
- Tools: Taps, drills, end mills, allen wrenches, whatever.
-
- Metal stock: (I have my own lathe and mill.) Aluminum bar, rod,
- tube, hex, sheet stock; ditto in copper & brass; stainless steel;
- magnesium; lead; also mercury.
-
- Ham radio and/or electronics magazines from WW-II to the present.
- Don't fret duplicates; I give the dupes to local kids to get them
- interested. Also old ARRL handbooks and Allied Radio catalogs
- from the Sixties.
-
- Other odd tech: Lenses, eyepieces, prisms, mirrors, gears,
- pulleys, clutches, shaft fittings, racks, pinions, worm wheels,
- telescope parts, lamps, bearings, motors, hydraulic and air
- fittings, valves, filters, whatever.
-
- Also: Technology books, audio CD's, collectible comix, esp. Sixties
- Crumb et. al., Fifties-type series or parallel Christmas tree
- lamp strings and/or bulbs in good condition, Fifties novelty
- Christmas tree lights (bubblers, birds, etc.), diecast toys, pre-
- 1970 Playboy, silver coins, pre-'55 S-pennies, 40's/50's
- deco/kitsch, pole insulators, Chevelle parts for Shakespeare
- and Beatrice. (Our His'n'Hers classic Chevelles.)
-
- Or, hey, be creative. I won't frown at dish detergent, canned
- tuna, dog food for Mr. Byte, T-shirts (medium), or nearly
- anything else that will survive a trip through the mail. Let's
- have fun; if we can make this a tradition in the fringe software
- industry we can all have a good time and avoid some of the bad
- karma generated by the passing around of Real Money.
-
-
- Thanks. Let's try it!
-
- --73--
-
- --Jeff Duntemann KG7JF, ex-KI6RA, ex-KB2JN, ex-WB9MQY, ex-WN9MQY,
-
- Author of COMPLETE TURBO PASCAL editions 1,2, & 3
- TURBO PASCAL SOLUTIONS
- ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE FROM SQUARE ONE
- ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE STEP BY STEP
- Borland's original OOP GUIDE (TP5.5)
-
- Ex-founder/ex-editor of Borland's TURBO TECHNIX (sigh)
-
- Founder/editor/owner of PC TECHNIQUES, a magazine for programmers.
- Fat, glossy, full of code and neat PC things you probably never knew.
- (The magazine, not me--although the top of my head has gotten a touch
- glossy in recent years...) Never heard of it? I think you'll like it.
- Call me for a free sample copy! (602) 483-0192.