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- *** Questions and Answers Part 2 ***
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- From: Brewer
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- Dear Loadstar,
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- A few issues ago you gave a listing
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- for a sequential file reader. Is
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- there a small program for a relative
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- file reader? Some of the data bases
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- and word processors I use store
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- information in relative files. I
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- would like to easily scan the files
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- without having to load in the entire
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- program.
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- Thank you for your help! It is
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- always greatly appreciated. By the
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- way, someone was requesting a disk ID
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- changer last issue. I believe such a
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- program was included on Issue 23 as
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- part of 'Disk Utility'.
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- > Reading relative files is a much
- > more complex and less frequently
- > used method than that of sequential
- > files. But you can try this:
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- > 10 OPEN2,8,2,"DATA FILE"
- > 20 GET#2,A$:IFST=0ORST=64THEN?A$;:
- > GOTO 20
- > 30 CLOSE2
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-
- From: Larson
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- How do I go about sending you a
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- program that I've written? Do I
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- send it back on your feed back disk
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- or do I send it back on a different
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- disk? I have sent two programs in
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- and never heard any more about them.
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- I had sent them in on the feed back
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- disk.
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- > You should submit all programs on
- > either a Feedback disk or any other
- > as long as the disk contains your
- > name and address on it. It is also
- > very essential that you enclose a
- > written description of your program
- > and, any other helpful information
- > that will enable us to quickly
- > evaluate it.
- >
- > You didn't mention the names of the
- > programs you sent... let us know and
- > we'll look in our data base to see
- > if we ever received it.
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-
- From: Dorough
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- Loadstar:
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- I need help from someone who
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- uses Speedscript (Version 3.2) with a
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- Star Micronics printer. (SG-10C)
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- I placed the up-grade kit in my
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- printer, which allows for added
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- features like:
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- 1- Underlining
- 2- italic character set
- 3- Standard character set
- 4- Double Strike
- 5- Superscript
- 6- Subscript
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- and other formats.
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- I don't seem to be able to get
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- the underline feature to work with
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- the Speedscript's print command.
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- (Control-3 or \ and then business u)
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- A reversed u before and after the
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- section to be underlined just wont
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- work. I have tried every combination
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- I can think of and nothing works.
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- I would appreciate very much if
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- someone could help me convert the
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- code below to Speedscript code
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- The book says,
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- Select Underlining
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- CODE <ESC> "-" 1
- (decimal ASCII) 27 45 1
- (hex ASCII) 1B 2D 01
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- Cancel Underlining
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- CODE <ESC> "-" 0
- (decimal ASCII) 27 45 0
- (hex ASCII) 1B 2D 00
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- HELP !!!!
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- Thanks
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- > Anyone out there able to help this
- > poor soul?
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-
- From: Ruddy
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- Dear Loadstar,
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- I have a question for you. How could
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- you make a backup disk from one of
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- your Loadstar disks. I used the
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- program Commodore gave me but it
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- didn't work. When I tried to
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- load a program from Loadstar 19, it
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- would give me a message 'The disk
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- currently in your drive is not a
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- Loadstar issue'. The program was
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- on side 2 of the Loadstar disk. Do
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- you know any other way that I could
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- solve this problem? Please give me
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- any suggestions.
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- > The Commodore Backup program
- > changes the disk's name to '1541
- > BACKUP', which clearly does not
- > spell 'LOADSTAR', hence the error.
- > LOADSTAR must be able to recognize
- > itself in order to function right.
- >
- > A number of other backup programs
- > are available which do NOT change
- > the disk name, not the least of
- > which is 'EASYCOPY' found on issue
- > number 16 of LOADSTAR. It works...
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- From: Morris 68134
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- Things are not going well with
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- Communique and me. In both issues
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- when an attempt was made to run
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- "Communique", the program halted with
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- a "bad subscript" in line 13 for
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- Loadstar #22 and the same error in
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- line 2140 for Loadstar #23.
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- I look forward to more presentations
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- using graphics of that type and maybe
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- incorporating that style into some of
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- my work.
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- > We couldn't seem to duplicate your
- > problem on issue #22. Double check
- > yourself there. Regarding issue
- > number 23, you must first run the
- > program named "GALLERY" before the
- > Communique file can come into play.
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