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- From: Garth 40228
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- I have a C-128, a 1541 disk drive,
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- and a MPS-802 printer. I have had no
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- success at all loading 'Paperless
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- Pages.' Each time I loaded the
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- programs, I would receive (CLR/HOME)
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- with the READY prompt, and if I tried
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- to run the program again, I'd receive
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- the same thing.
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- I finally decided to load the
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- "Presenter" from Issue 7, which starts
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- with line 5, rather than line 1,
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- modified line 7 to read
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- LOAD"ROUTINES V4",8,1
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- inserted Issue 17, and the program
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- worked well.
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- Why were lines 1-4 added and line 6
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- modified, and what could be the
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- reason the newer versions don't work
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- while the older ones do? Also, have
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- other subscribers had this problem?
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- I find it an inconvenience to insert
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- another issue, modify lines,
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- re-insert the issue I want, and then
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- continue. Please help me out, and in
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- case you're wondering, yes I'm using
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- the 64-mode of my C-128. The same
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- thing happened when I had the C-64.
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- Any help you have or suggestions
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- will be greatly appreciated.
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- > We're flabbergasted by this turn
- > of events because we actually
- > build Loadstar on a C-128 in C-64
- > mode and do our preliminary testing
- > in that mode.
- >
- > We're anxious to get to the bottom
- > of this. If you have a problem with
- > this issue, please get back to us.
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- From: Geffen 75251
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- This is my first Loadstar disk and
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- I am having a great deal of difficulty
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- in extracting, to a duplicate disk,
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- working copies of the Mr.Mailman
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- program and the ABC.Sort program.
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- I can get copies of Mailman to a
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- duplicate disk and seem to be able to
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- create the data file. However, when
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- instructing the program to do
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- anything with the data file such as
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- sort, print, etc. the disk drive
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- (MSD-2) will run continuously without
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- producing any results. Further, I am
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- only able to put one name in the data
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- file.
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- In the ABC.SORT program, my copy
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- doesn't work at all.
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- I would appreciate any help you
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- could give me in curing these
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- problems.
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- > We assume the versions worked
- > properly while on the Loadstar
- > disk, right? The problems are with
- > the copies.
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- > First, understand that you'll
- > never get Mr.Mailman to run unless
- > you COPY (i.e. using a copy
- > program) four files. The files
- > are Case Converter, Mr.Mailman.Boot,
- > Mr.Mailman.Bas, and Instring. You
- > cannot LOAD, then SAVE Instring or
- > Case Converter; you must use a copy
- > program to move them to your new
- > disk. (We recommend EasyCopy from
- > Loadstar #16, or the built-in copy
- > functions of your MSD SD-2).
- >
- > The only insight we may have into
- > your problem with ABC.SORT is that
- > you cannot RUN the program before
- > you SAVE it (assuming that you
- > didn't use a copy program). We
- > successfully LOADed ABC.Sort, then
- > SAVEd it to a backup disk, and it
- > ran fine from the backup. Make
- > sure you load 'ABC.SORT' and not
- > 'ABC.SORT.NAKED'.
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- On the last several issues of
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- LOADSTAR I have not been able to hear
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- any music in the paperless pages
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- section. Why is this?
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- >There are several possibilities.
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- >1. The music is stored in a file
- >called ROMUSIC, which is loaded when
- >you LOAD"STAR",8 and RUN. If you
- >start with HELLO, the music never
- >gets loaded into the system.
- >
- >2. Try pressing the Q and M keys
- >while using the Paperless Pages.
- >They turn the music on and off.
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- >3. Go direct from the main menu to
- >the Paperless Pages. Something you
- >are running before the Paperless
- >Pages may be erasing the music in
- >memory.
- >
- >4. Maybe your SID (sound) chip is
- >blown up. If you can still play the
- >music on the old issues, this is not
- >the case.
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- I purchased the Steiman Spreadsheet
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- and am having some difficulty with the
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- report generator. When I print out a
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- report, I get a "?H" before each line.
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- Why is that?
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- >Looks like your printer or interface
- >may be intercepting and printing the
- >code that is supposed to compress the
- >characters.
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- Hello!!!
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- My name is Bill James, and I
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- enjoy your publication very much.
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- I was wondering if you had to write
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- under separate cover for guidelines
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- for your software writers?
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- >Yes, Bill. It would be best to
- >send a paper note to the programming
- >department or editor. We're always
- >eager to see new people submitting
- >new programs and we'll send our
- >guidelines to anyone who wants them.
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- On disk #15 there was program called
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- "LITTLE BLACK DISK". There were two
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- files that where supposed to go with
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- it called "ADDRESS RECS" and "ADDRESS
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- BOOK". These two files where not on
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- that disk. I didn't see them
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- mentioned in BUGS & STUFF on the next
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- LOADSTAR disks. Are these files
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- created by the program; or did you
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- forget to include them?
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- >You guessed right. When you run
- >Little Black Disk, it creates those
- >two files. I guess you just didn't
- >run it to find out.
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- It seems I can only use a feedback
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- disk about four times before the disk
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- is utterly destroyed. Why??
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- Thank You
- Emma Larson
- 98371
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- > The fact that it worked once for
- >you means that there's nothing wrong
- >with the feedback disk. I suggest
- >your disk drive may have problems
- >writing. Most commercial disks never
- >get written to, just read from, and
- >so they never get "blown up". Our
- >feedback disk writes to itself every
- >time you use it. If your 1541 drive
- >has severe heat problems, we
- >guarantee it will eventually blast
- >the feedback disk. Our suggestion:
- >legs or a fan for your disk drive.
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- I started my subscription with the
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- number 17 edition of Loadstar. I
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- perfectly understand the usefulness
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- of the Steinman Spreadsheet, but the
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- program given in this edition is
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- strictly to calculate loans or
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- mortgages. I am a travel agent and I
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- would like to use the spreadsheet in
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- a way that I can keep on disk the
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- names of my clients, billing number,
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- date of departure/return, commission
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- on each billing and the cumulative of
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- all commissions for one month. As you
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- can see, I need 6 or 7 columns to work
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- such a system. Is it possible to adapt
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- the spreadsheet to do so and how do I
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- go about it?
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- Thanks for your help,
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- Claude R.Talbot
- P.O.Box 33
- St-Lambert,Que.
- Canada
- J4P 3N4
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- >The template we supplied with the
- >abridged Steinman we put on Loadstar
- >is, indeed, limited in just the
- >manner you described. But the
- >complete Steinman Spreadsheet,
- >published on its own disk is not so
- >limited. You can use plenty of
- >columns for most small applications.
- >
- >However, the application you describe
- >sounds more suited to data basing. I
- >think you need a sophisticated filing
- >program, not a spreadsheet.
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- Two questions; first, can anything
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- be done to the Commodore 1526 printer
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- to make it compatible with "PRINT
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- SHOP"?
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- If the answer to my first question
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- is what I think it is, I'd like to
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- know if your "SIGN PAINTER" program
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- is compatible with the Commodore
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- 1526 printer?
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- > The answer to the second question
- >is no. Sign Painter has never been
- >tried on a 1526.
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- I lied. Three questions. If neither
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- of these programs work with the 1526
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- and it can't be modified, then does
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- anybody have any information on a
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- similar program that IS compatible
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- with the 1526??
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