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- Question and Answer part 2
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- From: Erthein 06423
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- I have tried to use the READ feature
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- of Com64 Grapher and it fails. The
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- WRITE file option does work. Your
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- version is quite different than the
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- magazine's. If my problem is unique
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- let me know so that I can return the
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- disk for exchange. Otherwise I am
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- sure you will advise all of us of the
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- changes to be made of the listed
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- program in your next issue. Thank you
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- for your help in this matter as I
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- really like the program and it could
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- be quite useful if it only would work
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- completely.
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- > Sorry, that one got past us.
- > To correct the trouble, please
- > change line 600 to:
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- > 600 NEXT : DF=1
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- From: Kimbrough 15146
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- I'm a novice computer user, and know
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- very little about a computer. I enjoy
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- your "Loadstar" monthly disk. Do you
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- have some information on how to get
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- instructions on how to play the games
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- on Loadstar?
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- > Each game on your Loadstar disk
- > has a brief set of instructions
- > that, if followed with a little
- > patience, will provide you with
- > enough imformation to play the
- > game.
- >
- > On our recent issues, access to
- > these instructions should be
- > obvious. Before running a program
- > you have the option to
- > "Read about it", "Run it", or
- > "Forget about it."
- >
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- After playing a game, is it
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- neccessary to turn off the computer
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- to exit the game?
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- >
- > Not usually. Follow the program's
- > prompts. There is usually an
- > option that will let you exit.
- > That option will normally place you
- > back in the Loadstar environment.
- > However, some programs are very
- > complex or do funny things to
- > memory. Whenever programs are of
- > this type, we tell you that they do
- > not return to Loadstar.
- >
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- Could you send me some information
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- on what a relative file is and how to
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- create one.
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- > In simple terms, a relative file
- > is one that allows you to access
- > any of its records without reading
- > sequentially from the begining.
- >
- > As to how to create and use a
- > relative file, refer to a
- > COMMODORE 64 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE
- > GUIDE (published by Commodore
- > Business Machines, Inc. and Howard
- > W. Sams & Co., Inc.). Also,
- > our disk THE COMPLEAT DOS AND
- > DON'TS covers relative files. For
- > a good example of using relative
- > files in a program, check out the
- > code of Mr. Mailman on Loadstar's
- > issue #17.
- >
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- From: Keegan 92105
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- Your word processor's double column
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- printout works great on my Star 10X.
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- B U T it won't work on my 'AT LETTER
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- QUALITY' Juki 2200 (electronic
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- typewriter/computer printer). The
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- first 40 or 38 characters print out
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- just fine (column one) followed
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- quickly by the 38 characters of the
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- line that is the first line of the
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- double column. But then ALL STOP!!
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- with ALARM buzzer yet! Any ideas??
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- It sure would be nice to have my
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- double column in ALQ.... The printer
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- can be commanded to change pitch-10,
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- 12 & 15, line feeds-1, 1 1/2 & 2 and
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- even indexes both forward and
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- reverse, but it won't print out your
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- stuff.... Interface is Batteries
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- Included B.I. ???
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- >
- > Our word processors were designed
- > to work on Commodore 1525's and its
- > compatibles. We're not too sure
- > about your ALQ. We do not use any
- > special control codes to print our
- > text.
- >
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- From: Dunbar 08093
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- Just about eight months ago I made
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- the statement that becoming a
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- LOADSTAR subscriber was one of the
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- best moves that I had ever made, now
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- I am beginning to wonder if I was
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- right. I have written a number of
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- times trying to get some answers, but
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- still have the same question. I read
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- all of the articles each month and
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- have not even seen the question that
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- I have asked by anyone else. I don't
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- care how I get the answer or if there
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- is a solution. I would just like to
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- know something. My question concerns
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- Issue #10 and I am still trying to
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- find out how the program,"TAPE TO
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- DISK" works.
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- > Sorry we overlooked you, but it
- > isn't always easy to include all
- > of the questions that we recieve
- > even if for no other reason than
- > volume.
- >
- > TAPE TO DISK is one half of a disk
- > archiving system. You use the
- > DISK TO TAPE program to transfer
- > entire disks onto cassette tape.
- > Later, when you want to recover that
- > information, you run TAPE TO DISK.
- > This program was published in the
- > April 1985 issue of COMMODORE
- > MICROCOMPUTERS magazine. We suggest
- > that you read the article in that
- > issue entitled "Automatic Disk
- > Back-Up and Retrieve". Then if you
- > are still a little confused, call
- > the Commodore support line --
- > (215)-436-4200.
- >
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- End of Question and Answer part 2
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