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- %CO:A,12,72%15, Pentland Crescent, Tel: 031 445 1953
- Edinburgh, EH10 6NS.
- 20th February,1990
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- Dear Gerald,
-
- %JR%On my old BBC micro I have used for many years a package called Mini
- %JR%Office II. It not only has a wordprocessor, a database and a
- %JR%spreadsheet but also has a graphics package, a label printer and a
- %JR%communications facility. At about £16 on disc or £59 in an ingenious
- %JR%128K piggy-back ROM, it is a remarkable bargain and deserves the
- half-million sales I understand it has now achieved.
-
- %JR%With sales as high as this there is a fair chance that many Archimedes
- %JR%users who have graduated from the old BBC micro will have used it. I
- %JR%have recently converted a name and address database from Mini Office to
- %JR%Pipedream 3 and readers of Archive may find it useful as an example if
- they wish to make a similar conversion.
-
- %JR%The example annotated BASIC program is on this disc as "MiniToPipe" and
- %JR%another BASIC program "ReadMini" gives a few more comments. I hope you
- will think them worthwhile.
-
- %JR%Changing the subject, I read recently that ASCII 31 gives a hard space.
- %JR%I have not had occasion to use it myself but I had a feeling that
- I had read a comment from you requesting information on hard spaces.
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- Kind regards,
-
- Yours sincerely,
-
- John Greening
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