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Things change fast in this field of high The KUG Library continues to grow, and as technology. With Kaypro making the you requested, we are offering ultimate move p~ckag~ to MS-DOS and introducing deals on special program categories. The·· the 2000 with a 3 1/4 micro diskette, Statistics Six-Pack seemed to prove you ·'.· it's time for KUG, as wel I, to move ri~ht right again. (See LIBRARY SPECIALS.) .. .. along.
Because of the shift to 16 bit machine NOW HOLD ~ ON! KUG wil I not abandon our al I by the Kaypro Corporation and the fact time favorite, CP/M, nor wil I it forget that we support ALL Kaypro users, we are the many Perfect Software users. In fact, now i n the process of building an MS-DOS our recent survey shows that KUGG~Rs use I ibrary of Pub I ic Domain software. One of Perfect Writer almost 2 to 1 over the problems confronting us is the new WordStar. (See SURVEY inside.) micro disk used on the Kaypro 2000. But we're working on it. (In . fact, this is Starting with this issue, we wil I have a being written on the new 2000 table lap of contents and each article listed portable.) Any suggestions along these wil I be coded so that you wil I be able to lines wi I I be most welcome. tel I if it pertains to WordStar or Perfect or anything else. Your suggestion and request that we try to get our local Kaypro dealers to offer Inside you wil I also find two new discounts to all KUG members is finally columns. 11 STARWARES, an ongoing coming to fruition. (See MEMBER DISCOUNTS discussion and tutorial on the use of the article.) In response to a survey sent to MicroPro software that is being bundled dealers, almost 100% of the more than 100 with almost all the Kaypro computers; and who have answered as of this writing wil I 2) MS-DOS STUFF, written by the same one be offering discounts to our KUG members who brings you CP/M STUFF every issue. An upon presentation of their KUG ID Cards. easy entrance into the world of MS-DOS. When things are looking up, things are You have also asked us to separate and/or looking up. When we visited with Thorn partition KUGRAM so that Perfect and EMI at Comdex, Atlanta, we were greeted WordStar appear in different sections. by Mr. Clem Scharwath, who advised us Well, we're getting close, but it is immediately that the Perfect Software difficult to distinguish some of the protection wil I be REMOVED! In unity subtle differences. However, we wil I try there is strength. to do it with the articles pertaining to the new (MS-DOS) and the older (CP/M) We are also working with Tom Foote, of systems. REMEMBER WordStar and other Profiles, in attempting to get computer programs are used in both. Which reminds information and public domain software us, please let us know what machine you out to the third world countries. (More are using and the version of the program inside.) discussed when sending us material for the KUGRAM. Time to empty the "SUGGESTION BOX" again. A> DIR KUGRAM Box 100 BOX 1 0 0 [ G ) . . . . • ...... • . 2 if ~ SPECIAL FREE OF.FER [ G). • . . . . . • . • . . . • . 4 Dear KUG, KUGRAM ON DISK(G) ..•••..•.•...... •.. 6 NEW SOUNDS[G) ..•.....•..•...... 6 Some members have written me because they MEMBER DISCOUNTS[G) ...... •••...••.. 6 were unable to use the instructions for LIBRARY SPECIALS ( G) ••...... ~ ...... 6 speeding up Wordstar in the May/June SURVEY RESULTS ( G) . . . . . • • ...... • . . . . 7 issue. Let me try to clear up some of the CONTEST WINNERS(G) ...... •..•....•..• 7 confusion. Al I of the instructions THIRD WOR LO HELP ( G) ...... • • . • . 7 expressly printed were for DDT only, and NOTICE(G)...... 7 not with WINSTALL. I find DDT to be KAYPRO NEWS[G) ...... •...... 10 faster and more versatile. I realize LOCAL CHAPTERS (TC) . . . . . • • . • . . . • . • . • • 10 there is a similarity in the command PEOPLETALK QUARTERLYCRJ ..•..•.....•. 10 entry for the two programs~ but I was 10 COMPUSERVE(TC) ..•...... ••..•...•.... hoping that WINSTALL users would convert ~ 11 TRANTOR HARD DISK(R) •..••. .••...... the instructions into acceptable format SUP ERF I LE [ R ) • • . . . . . • . • • • • • • . . • . • . • . • 1 4 for that program. ELECTRA-FIND ( R) . . . • ...... • . • ...... 18 18 CP/M STUFF .•...•.••••...... •.•... DDT (as mentioned in the March/April 19 IN RESPONSE .••...... •••.••••..••.••. issue) must be loaded with some variation 20 KAYPRO UPGRADING •.•...... •..... of DDT WS.COM, and exited with a Ctrl-C 22 VENDORS. . • . • ...... • • • • . . • and then the command SAVE 69 WS.COM. The 22* MSDOS STUFF ••.•...... ••...... •..• "S" preceding the address given in the 24 WORDSTAR BY CHIANG ...•••..•••.....•• article is the Set command for DDT, which 25 STARWARES ( G) . . . • . . • ...... means change the value at that address. . 26 LIBRARY. • . . • ...... • . . . . . • . . • • •• • • . • WINSTALL asks for the address alone, or • 26 NEW LI BRA RY DISKS . . • • • ...... the label. Concerning the actual 27 NATIONAL KUG DISKS •.•••••.•.•.••..•. addresses, WordStar recently released 28 SYSOP'S CORNER(TC) ...... •.....•..... with the Kaypro has one or more of the 28 TEE-SHIRTS[G) •...•.•••.•..•••....••• delay values already reset. BEST OF KUGBB(G) ...•..•.•.•.•.....•• 29 31 CHAPTER NEWS ( G). . • ...... • • ...... • . As for the commands F3CF1, 3CFC, di, and F3DmF, 3D36, di, these are also strictly interest Legend: G = general for DDT. The "F" is the Fill command, TC= telecommunications which means to fil I memory from the first R = review address to the second address with the * = MSDOS given value (zero here]. The addresses are inacessible with WINSTALL, whose patching area ends at 83A. DDT or a similar program can reach this area in NOTICE memory . .
If anyone has questions or solutions, It's time for some KUGGERS to renew their please write in. membership. If your KUGRAM® label has RENEW printed on it, your . membership will ex pi re after the next issue. T.F. Chiang 27 Cove Lane The renewal rate is $15.00 U.S.A. . . . $20.00 Port Jefferson, NY 11777 CANADA ·(U.S. Funds) and should be mailed to KUG RENEWAL, Box 100, Malverne, NY 11565. [Ed. note: There is a typogra~hical error ***·*IMPORTANT**** in WordStar by Chiang, Vol. 3, no. 3, p. 20 that may have confused readers. At Please write your ID# on the face of the check. the top of column 2, the second line The number on tbe KUGRAM® is your ID should read m:imber. -F3DdlF,3D26,dl <2> Dear KUG, Now use DDT to patch a disk rest (BOOS 13 cal I) at the address you have copied The creators of Perfect Writer forgot two down. Here's how to do it. Put a spare important features which belong in the copy of PW.COM on a disk in drive 8 (it's editor (PW.COM): access to the directory safer not to experiment with either your and space remaining, and a disk reset distribution copy or working copy). Put command. You can fix the second and your CP/M disk in drive A. Log onto the 8 crudely approximate the first. (All my drive. At the B> prompt, enter "A:DDT comments apply to Perfect Writer version PW.COM''
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Turbo Pascal is a great language and at If you write academic papers and have the bargain price is wel I worth getting. long endnotes, here is an improved At times, however, the documentation is alternative to the methods described by confusing and some of the sample programs Debbie Wood in Vol. 2, no. 5, page 15 and in the manual have errors. an earlier article by Donn Devine in Vol. 1, no. 3, page 10. The basic method My first frustration was being unable to sti 11 involves inputting the text of the read a text file created by another notes into a separate file using the program from disk using Turbo Pascal. I split-screen facililty of PW. However, discovered that the declaration "Fi le of according to the style sheet that I am Char" found in older books on Pascal does obliged to follow [the MLA), the not work. You must declare the file numbering of the actual endnotes is to be variable name in the VAR section [not in done with indented, superscripted TYPE) as fol lows: numbers. Instead, therefore, of using the ENUMERATE environment to number the notes InFile: Text automatically [which does not al low for superscripting) and instead of using Then you must assign the disk file name @+[note number) in the TEXT environment to the file variable. [which requires manual numbering and renumbering of notes), use @note[) in the Assign(InFile,'B:FILENAME.DOC') TEXT environment at the beginning of every note. Leave a spare line between The text must be read from the text file notes to space them from one another like into a previously declared variable such paragraphs, insert the correct style as a string, an array of characters, etc. parameter commands at the beginning of Reading from a text file directly into the note file to take care of another variable of type Text results in indentation, and put an @newpage command error messages. at the end of the file. The resulting note file wil I be consecutively numbered After finally getting the text into the and correctly formatted. There wil I program and displayed on the screen, I merely be an extra page of blank notes at tried to do some manipulations on a line the end to be discarded. of the original text and wrote a loop that was to terminate on the
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For some time, KUG has been trying to As an experiment, and to help one of our establish a way for members to receive KUG members, we are placing this issue of special discounts ·from their local KUGRAM on disk. dealers. Our latest effort, a questionnaire mailed to dealers, has We have discovered that there are Kaypro brought us some positive results. users who are using Braille printers to aid them in computing. The only way for The questions asked were: them to "see" or "read" hard copy is through this system. *Are you willing to offer KUG members a discount upon presentation of a KUG ID There are other ways that KUGGERs may card? benefit from this form of publication, but we are not sure how this wil I be * If yes, what discount? 5%, 7%, 10%, handled. However, we are sure that . it more? wil I benefit some members. We may even offer this form of newsletter to our *Any discount difference between Third World neighbors (see Third World hardware and software? Help article.) Of course the answers were varied, but If you feel that this is something that the most important response to the should be continued, please let us hear discount was that more than 99% of the from you as soon as possible so that we dealers who answered said ... YES! can pran our future issues. Since this dealer discount information wil I require more room than is available New Kaypro Sounds in the KUGRAM, we wil I print a separate listing of al I participating dealers and their discount information. It wil I be available to al I KUG members for a A couple of fellow Kaypro users have told self-addressed stamped envelope sent to me they wish that their Kaypro had the DEALERS, c/o KUG, Box 100, Malverne, NY capability to produce a variety of 11565. Please put your KUG ID # on the sounds, rather than only the keyboard envelope. beep. Be sure to take your KUG ID card with you In fact, a simple sound-output device can when you visit your local dealer. The be constructed for approximately $10 and special discount is available only upon added via the serial port. The computer presentation of this KUG identification. itself is not modified. The resultant sounds are not of a musical quality or This effort was brought about because of variety, but can be used nicely to your requests and suggestions. Let's hear provide attention-getting signals, game some other great ideas. Keep those enhancements, and so forth. letters coming. I have a write-up which includes a parts list, construction details, and examples Library Specials of programming the selectable tones from The response to our Statistics Six-Pack both MBasic and Turbo Pascal. I wil I be offer in the last issue of the KUGRAM was happy to ·provide this to others if they so favorable that we are expanding it. wil I send me their name, address, and one Now you can save 20% by ordering ANY six dollar to cover my copying costs , return KUG Library disks for the price of five. postage, etc. Send us the names and numbers of the 6 disks you want along with a check for Al Ian Glaser $50.00 to KUG Library, Box P, Malverne, Rt. 4, Box 147 NY 11565. Make sure your KUG ID number is Troutville, VA 24175 on your check. <6> Survey Results Third World Help Though there is no such person as a The June issue of Profiles contains "t yp i ca I" KUGGER, resu I ts from our most information about micros in the Third recent survey have shown us what you want World. Editor Tom Foote mentions us and the KUGRAM to do for you. The fol lowing the KUGRAM as having volunteered to work is based on the first 1,000 with him and others in developing a world questionnaires returned by members with wide network for helping others less their renewals. fortunate than we are. We can hardly wait to get started. YOU can help! First, we will continue to run letters and articles on Perfect Software, since Plans for implementing the third world the majority of respondents use the computer network are being drawn up and series: 72% use PW, 68% use PC, and 65% refined. The central clearing house wil I use PF. probably be the KUG SIG on CompuServe. As descriptions of the larger goals and the Another large segment of KUGGERs (44%) specific tasks to be accomplished become own modems, so we plan to keep offering available, we wi 11 inform all of you information on accessing various bulletin through KUGRAM. boards as wel I as reviews of tele communications hardware and software It is a safe bet that any of our efforts products. to share our resources wil I result in a vast increase in our knowledge of people Of the 1,000 survey replies we received, and cultures about whom most of us have 41% indicated using WordStar. We expect only read. We at KUG are excited about that this figure will grow, so WS this project. material wil I continue to be an important part of the KUGRAM. Though 6% of our We are asking al I of you out there to members use Newword and 4% use Select, share your ideas with us, so that we can they wil I not be slighted either. help make this program a landmark one. What do you think we should establish as Other results that might be of interest priorities: hardware, software, special are: use of dBASE II, 20%; MBasic, 17%; applications? What are the best means of Turbo Pascal, 12%; Plu*Perfect, . 7%; sharing this knowledge? How can we ensure ProfitPlan, 4%; DataStar, 3%; and that the help we give is the help that is Multiformat, 2%. needed by the recipients, and not the help that we think they need? There are You can be sure that as long as any dozens of other questions, and your input interest or need exists, we wil I publish wil I help µs define them and come up with information on it. good answers. Send any comments to Third World, KUG, Inc., Box 100, Malverne, NY 11565. Contest Winners Thanks to all of you who submitted names Notice for our new MicroPro column . It's good to know that you care enough to share your In the last issue (June, 19S5) of very best. Profiles, the telephone number of the KUG bulletin board was listed -- incorrectly. The entries were numerous, the suggestions ranged from the sublime to Please note that the correct number is: the elegant to the funny to the corny, and the decision was tough. There were 516-747-8308 three people who submitted the winning name, STARWARES. Each of them •vi 11 and not the number listed in Profiles. receive a prize in the mail . Tel I anyone you know who may cal I the KUGBB about this error. And the winners are ••• Kenneth Poli, Richard L. George and Catherine P. Someone out there is receiving a lot of Ho l l eyman. cal Is that they aren't enjoying! <.7) , ~ or- (}rt/JI~.._,..,.!/i-1 ~~ Introducing Trantor Hard Disk£ . WestWind. You '. .th'C·hard disk. W.~n J!lY.foi the software. 690 65'th Cl'- · 9 ~~il'l'\/ll.;t.lt '
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Att: Local KUG Chapter.s CompuServe Offer Extended Do you have newsletter articles that you would like to see on CompuServe? Based on the recent KUG survey, more than 40% of our members use modems There are many and are important points of communicating Aith other computers. information in local KUG newsletters that we feel should be shared with other THEREFORE ••• we are extending our offer KUGGERS. Since we do not to have the room in supply members with CompuServe Starter KUGRAM to include the best of these kits, 5 hours newsletters, FREE connect time and al I we would like to have them the modem software available you need for just to other KUG groups and KUG $35.00. Retail value members through of ths package is OU r SIG on CompuServe $50.00. A saving of $15.00! (PCS 25. l ! ! Why not join the other Please send them KUG modem users (ON DISK) to Frank and find out about getting Fal Ion, Sysop, c/o al I that good KUG, Inc., Box 100, stuff from our SIG on CompuServe? Malverne, NY 11565. We are looking for technical articles, how to's, and Do it now, while our offer sti 11 lasts. reviews. Be sure to mention the newsletter name and the local KUG Write to KUG, Starter Kit, Box address. We wil I send a free KUG Library 100, Malverne, NY 11565 and be sure to use disk for every disk you submit. your ID#. <10> Trantor Hard Disk The 11Mb hard disk can by Katherine Loukides be· partitioned as the user wishes. Instructions for this are Like most clear. To test the flexibility and other owners of the early speed Kaypro II,-I of the system, I copied programs have reached the point where [Perfect I must make Writer, Newword, Select, dBASE a decision: upgrade by II, MBasic, purchasing a Kaypro etc.) and utilities onto 10 or 16; or invest Drive A and in a hard drive. my working files onto Drive There are too man~ B. When the hard convenient and disk is activated, the useful utility programs floppies become that I like to Drives C and D. The use--PIP, D, WASH, and removable cartridge MapleSoft's wonderful is Drive E. There is COMMAND CENTRAL a program to change PLUS--and like to the lettering if this have easily available. would lead to confusion. But they take up too much room on my 191k disks. I was able to modify the Main Menu so that Because PW, NW and Select could be accessed of the low resale value of the directly. Kaypro I eliminated some of the II, it made more sense to go the "default" hard entries. In addition, I changed disk drive route. I would keep the SuperCalc flexibility [SC) to SC2. When I figured out of the built-in drives and which stfl l .COM fi I e was the "boot" fi I e, I enjoy the huge capacity of the hard renamed drive. it "HARD," which is easier to type than PBB11R5. The head positioning p rag ram, · PBP11 R5, was RENamed "OFF." Before talking about the specific advantages of the Tranter 11Mb drive with Be careful when you copy a removable 5Mb cartridge, files onto the a few hard disk. If files have the complaints: The package containing same name, the the second one wil I overwrite the first. hardware did not include documentation. A phone call to Westwind Computers produced One can the manual cal I up the programs on Drive A the very next day. Further, from any the documentation other drive without typing A:. applied to various After working computers, and on Drive B files, I PIPed one must figure out the them onto the floppy codes for one's in Drive C or D. The own machine before hard drive is a definite deciphering the directions. asset. Its speed Westwind is in accessing programs, and its working on a new manual, to ease of be ready in use, made a convert out of me. June or July. Let's hope it is computer-specific and more helpful than The Arkive program creates a file cal led the current one. Many instructions [such ARKIVE.LBF. as creating Files could be appended to a menu] are unclear, and this main file others [such as and restored from it. the commands listed under Other files on the HELP) are missing same disk or cartridge completely. Westwind's are not affected by ARKIVE.LBF. Technical Services informed me that the commands listed [but not explained) under A second program HELP are offered by WestWind with ZCPR3 files. I had to call the Tranter hard WestWind a drive is Disk Manager, number of times and found them which can perform extremely helpful. a number of tasks: restore a deleted file; establish multiple user The Tranter link to a file; map out bad 11Mb drive ($1295, with a disk sectors; display removable 5Mb cartridge the status of a for an additional disk; and other file functions. $1295) is one available choice which should serve the needs of most KUGGERs. Also included The removable in the package is 5Mb disk [$125) can be used SuperCalc2, a spreadsheet for backing up files with a great for storage or many powerful features and an safekeeping. When it was excel lent working, it was User's Guide and Reference Manual. easy to access, and with the Arkive program, easy to copy to. However, The Tranter 11Mb Hard Disk from WestWind occasionally I could not log onto it, and Computer, 1690 65 Street, Emeryville, CA finally the drive refused to format the 94608, [415) 652-3222, is currently being cartridge. The manual says it may be a offered at a special summer price of loose cable. $1195. <11 > FREE SOFTWARE HANDBOOK ONLY $17.9 5 (Handbook plus software d isks $62.95. Disks only $54.95.) Features the top programs in public domain • What they are • When they' re useful • How to acquire them • How they work *If ordering disks please specify machine and disk format. 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THE PEOPLETALK QUARTERLY 60 pages and going strong! A newsletter written in plain English. Columns covering- • Star software • Perfect software • Dbase•11 • Book section SALVO THE ULTIMATE DATABASE® • Product reviews • Modems & Introductory Price JUST $94.95 • In-depth articles Communications • Fully Relational Database • Public Domain Software • Uses up to 16 files at one time • Tricks for getting the most from your printer • Natural Language Interpreter Normally $20 (4 issues) Special Price $17.95 Talk to SALVO in English! Back issues $2.50 each • Powerful 4th Generation Language Write whole programs in 2 or 3 lines KAYPRO 10 USERS MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE! KBACK -The ultra high speed (Price expires July 31, 1985) back-up program. Dumps 10 megabytes in 15 minutes!, From Ptu•Perfect Systems, Inc. JUST $69.95 FASTBACK~ The highly CP /M 2.2e plus Ptu•Perfect Writer~$31.95 praised back-up utility. See the review in "A wonderful program that enhances the features February Profiles of Perfect Writer." Peter Mc Williams Normally $99.95 Our Price $74.95 Ptu•Perfect Backgrounder® $37.95 PASSWORD®-The ultimate security system. "The only thing more amazing than the Gives you total control over who has access to performance is the price!" Peter McWilliams your computer. From start-up to shut-down NEW! Ptu•Perfect -Datestamper's ~31.95 PASSWORD follows your instructions about Automatically time and date stamps your files. who may have access and what areas they may use. JUST $69.95 REMBRANDT~ GRAPHICS FOR YOUR NEW! Perfect Software Version 2.0 KAYPRO Writer, Filer and Cale Thousands of copies sold at $79.95 NO COPY PROTECTION! Our price only $57.95 Demo Disk $6 Normally $89 Our Price: $85 A.I 3 $225 Price Expires July 31, 1985 Superfile SUPERFILE works wel I with Wo rdStar (with or without MailMerge), Perfect Wri ter , by Mark J. Silvermetz and other text editors, _and wil I also let you make entries of any ASCI I text, including such t hings as PerfectCa lc ' s SUPERFILE is a powerful, superbl y spreadsheet outputs or ASCII inf orma ti on documented text . information-r~tri~v al downloaded .from on- line sou rces . And it system that lets yo u · elect roni cally comes with Sort 'n Merge, a utility that store, cross-f i le, and rap id ly retrieve not only sorts alphanumericalty, but also free-form blocks of text of varying size, lets ·you APPEND pieces of one file to new shape, and form. Ideal for academics, or existing files with~ut overwriting the writers, lawyers, researchers, or anyone original files! needing to organize text, SUPERFILE doesn't force entries into specific SUPERFILE. i sn '.t . meant to be a "fie Ids" or "temp I ates"; it I ets EACH ful I-fledged database program: It won't database consist of up to 255 disks! do computations, it isn't numerically relational, and it can't easily link Using the program is a snap: You write specific sub-pieces of given entries into each free-form entry--anything from one complex relational reports. And though character to a 512k chunk of text--on adding NEW entries to a database is quick your word processor or text editor, and menu-driven, •if you modi fy a surrounding each new or existing block of previously indexed entry, you must select text with SUPERFILE's simple markers AND the automatic .re-indexing option to up to 250 of your own key words and re-index the ENTIRE database before you phrases. "*C" marks the beginning of each can accurately use it. This limits entry; "*K" marks the beginning of its SUPERFILE's ease-of-use with text entries key words/phrases; and "*E" marks an that must be frequently altered. But for entry's end. An optional "*" placed man aging textual data or unstructured anywhere between the "*C" and the "*K" ideas that don't easily fit into rigid gives you more control· over the output.· forms, SUPERFILE excels. Just thinking Next, you save the file(s) and run about SUPERFILE's capacity makes my mouth SUPERFILE, which wil I memorize up to 3000 water: Each ENTRY can be anything from unique key words per database, along with one character to 512K of text (though 25k which disk(s) and exactly where on the is my usual maximum) and each entry can disk(s) each associated entry lie~. · be associated with up to 250 key words or 'ii phrases. Each KEY WORD or KEY PHRASE can Now you're ready to use SUPERFILE's be up to 64 characters long, or can be powerful, menu-driven retrieval system. any integer from 0 to 31999. Each To access entries, you type in any key DATABASE can contain up to 65,000 entries words/phrases, Ii nk i ng up to 64 sprea~ over as many as 255 floppies or combinations with "AND," "OR," and "NOT" over one hard disk and can use up to 3000 in a single search! SUPERFILE wilt unique key words (excluding integers, quickly find al I entries matching your which don't count against that total). selection criteria, giving you everything And SUPERFILE's new manual is among the you have about "THIS" and "THAT" or best organized I've seen: After 15 "THESE" but not "THOSE." If you forget minutes, even a computer i II iterate wi II the key words/phrases you used to tag understand the program. entries, you can view al I or part of the key-word dictionary before beginning the The bottom line: I recommend SUPERFILE search; and anytime you enter a key not with Sort 'n Merge for anyone needing to in the dictionary, SUPERFILE wil I prompt manage text-based information. Such users you with the alphabetically closest key wil I find it indispensable for magnifying words/phrases. any Kaypro's ability to store, retrieve, re-organize, and manipulate free-form At your command SUPERFILE wil I send any chunks of data into useful idea blocks. or al I entries matching your request to the screen, to the printer, or to a new SUPERFILE • . • $195.00 from Software disk file for further manipulation--with Marketing Associates, 4615 W. Bee Caves or without the special markers. Road, Austin, TX 78746, (512) 327-2882.
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Spikes, LC: Includes 6 foot long heavy duty line cord. holds 70 S: Includes illuminated on/off switch . Kaypro-size Surges, and Noise NF : Includes EMl / RFI noise filter . diskettes. Flip-up lid keeps out dust, RB : Includes reset button. debris , and moisture, and locks The Kaypro has enemies. But now you OL: Includes outlet. securely to guard your can PJ: Includes important work. protect it from 2 phone jack receptacles. Comes with the mish mash of electrical UA : Includes under voltage alarm/brown 7 dividers that make for out protection. easy currents that race through your home or All units include the added security of a 4 amp fuse . filing and keep floppies upright to business. Powerful up-surges of current can Unique Panamax EMl/RFI noise filters provide prevent bending, warping, and protection in common and scratching. actually blow out your machine. Less transverse mode. 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by Ar I ene Smith
A glaring weakness in CP/M has limited us CP/M Stuff to a maximum of 11 characters (including the extension] for naming a file. How descriptive can you be in that length? If you create a bunch of little files al I referring to different aspBcts of a 'In previous issues we discussed the project, be it a novel or a program, how different ways to use CP/M as a method to many variations on a theme can you have? type directly to the printer. [Remember Sooner or later, you realize that LST:=CRT: or PIP LST:=
You can go poking, one at a time, through Place your CP/M disk in A and your blank this myriad of files and hope you find formatted disk in B. Warm boot [Ctrl-C) what you need while you stil I remember and at the A> prompt type: what you needed it for, or you can use Electra-Find. Give Electra-Find a word or PIP B:TEST.DOC =CRT: phrase, tel I it what files you want [or don't want] searched, tel I it where to The cursor wil I go to the next line and put the results of the search, and then wait for your input. Start typing your let-er-rip. name and address, and when you come to the end of the line press the LINE FEED You can search ASCII files, dBASE II key and then the RETURN key. Don't worry files, computer programs, Perfect Writer if you make an error. You can use the files. You can search for words or backspace and make the correction. phrases, sentences or paragraphs, exact However, corrections can be made only on matches or phonetic matches, exact and the current line. You cannot go back to a inexact numbers. previous line.
You can display the results on the screen When you have finished typing your name or save them to a file. You can add and address, use the LINE FEED and RETURN search results to an existing search file again. Then at the blank line press or create a new one. The files can be Ctrl-Z. edited with your word processor, if you desire. You can search a single file, al I At the A> type DIR B:. There should be a the files on one disk or al I the disks file named TEST.DOC, but just to be sure you own with one set of instructions. You type TYPE TEST.DOC. Now you can send this can even stop a search already under way file to the printer or you can work on it if you change your mind or discover an later with your word processor. error in your construction of the search parameters. You can type as many lines as the disk will hold, but remember you can make Combine all that speed and power with corrections only on the current line. ease of use (helped greatly by a decent Does this give you any ideas? Why not use manual and on-screen help al I the way this method to set up a memo pad that can through the program] and a low cost be used at any time as long as you're non-copy protected program, and you have using CP/M and you have PIP.COM on your a package that wil I make you wonder, "How disk? did I get along without Electra-Find?" In the next issue we wil I show you how to use this method to set up a menu-driven ELECTRA-FIND, $50 from O'Neill Software, program using only PIP.COM and SUBMIT.COM P.O. Box 26111, San Francisco, CA 94126. from your CP/M disk. <18> •.• To upgrade a Kaypro II, think about adding an external hard drive. It· gives you extensive storage, and, because of the way it is partitioned internally, you In Response ... get the equivalent of up to 5 drives. It also allows you to retain the enormous flexibility of the two floppy drives you already have • ••. ASCII files created under CP/M can be ••. Although we try to answer read by MS-DOS (and mail vice versa). These promptly, we frequently have include, among more mail others, data files and than we have time. dBASE II procedures. Thanks for your patience and your wonderful sense of humor despite your frustration in ..• You can use single sided disks in your handling the problems you write to us double sided drives. When you format the about. disks and you get no messages about bad tracks/sectors, the disk can be used with ••• If you're contemplating surprising no problem. a college-bound prodigy with a Kaypro, don't wait until the week before he/she •.. An easier way to prepare a data file leaves for school. Any problems with the for use with MailMerge is to set up the machine should be fixed, and the machine data using InfoStar. Then you don't have learned, before the first paper is due. to keep track of the commas to separate fields -- InfoStar wi I I do it for you. • •. Ashton-Tate requests users of dBASE II 2.43 to discontinue use of that version •.• The command Ctrl-R, which is not and revert to an older version. There is di sp I a yed on the Wo rdSta r opening menu., an error that can lead to incorrect wil I reopen the last file you used in the reporting and loss of data. Return your current session. master disk to your dealer.
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<19> KAYPRO Upgrading That's a bit like looking for an '85 car with the performance of a Ferrari, the luxury of a Cadillac, the mpg of a diesel By: Gregg Platt - PeopleTalk Associates Rabbit, the space.and comfort of a fully equipped AirStream, and the price tag of A few issues ago we talked briefly about a '67 Chevy. the difficulty of selecting a database program. This can be an especially tough Our experience told us that these problem for the non-technical Kaypro user requirements presented a pretty tal I partly because there are many different order for any database package especially databases of widely varying capacities one that would run on a micro. In fact, available for our machines and partly due we'd seen few mainframe packages which to the fact that many database programs could meet our requirements. tend to serve a narrow spectrum of needs quite wel I, but prove entirely inadequate Imagine our surprise when we realized for users whose requirements are beyond that the package best suited to our needs their design objectives. was the DataStar package that came with our '84 Kaypros. DataStar combined with Though "common sense" can be applied to SuperSort and ReportStar is one of the selecting the right tool for the job when most complete application development the problems involved are in the realm of tools we've seen on a CP/M system. our experience (after al I, how many of us would try using a Volkswagorr Beetle to Though MicroPro's documentation does a pul I a 40 foot travel trailer?), the old woefully inadequate job of describing the common sense yard stick begins to fail us talents of this package, the capabilities when we try to apply it to something as of DataStar -- and the hidden power of unfamiliar as computer software. ReportStar (more on this in a future issue) -- are actually quite impressive. To clarify this, consider the old Perfect Using these programs we managed (in about Filer as a case in point. For many Kaypro three weeks time) to develop a complete users Filer seemed at first to be an system for the PeopleTalk offices which adequate mailing list manager. And includes an order entry system that looks indeed, so long as our needs did not up address information from our customer include combining and comparing data from master file, finds prices for seven other databases, importing data from different type of customers from a 10,000 existing data files, or built-in math record price fi I e, va Ii dates such items capabilities, Filer served us wel I. as shipment method and payment terms, and completely prices each order ready to But there came a point when many of us print a final invoice in less than 3 outgrew Filer -- some of us left because seconds! At the end of each day, we feed we needed better reporting and math the same invoice information to capabilities, while others jumped ship ReportStar (through a CP/M SUBMIT string) seeking stronger data manipulation and which processes the data through a series query tools or searching for a program of specia Ii zed "report runs" and head for that could store and manipulate large home while our 10 spends the next 4 - 5 blocks of text. At PeopleTalk we needed a hours printing everything from shipping database which we could use to build a labels to inventory, accounting and sales transaction processing system. Our goal reports. was to reduce entry, editing, pricing, and invoicing of orders to a single-step If you haven't yet discovered the power process with shipping reports, accounting built into InfoStar, we think you'I I be reports, and inventory updates being a pleasantly surpised at what this program flow thru by-product of order entry. can do. See your Kaypro documentation, your user group or PeopleTalk's new Al I To make matters more interesting, we Star Guide for details. wanted our completed office system to run in 48k of memory on a 64k CP/M Kaypro Oh, by the way, our 10 hasn't yet figured which would in turn be tied to a local out that it's really doing a mainframe's area network of several other CP/M work on a micro budget; and we're not machines. tel ling it so either! <20> We Explain Software Packages, Then We Teach You How To Use Them. User's Guide is the Magazine of Tutorials.
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Search and replace also allows simple form letters, This issue we go •back to more . basic if you don't have to do a giant mass things. Brand new users out there might mailing, and you don't want to go through be interested in knowing something about the trouble of Mailmerge. You can write a WordStar'b search and replace functions. master I etter using a character Ii ke "*" throughout for the name of an individual; The command Ctrl-Q F is the Find then you read it into new files and function. You are prompted for a string, customize it with the actual name every up to 30 characters long, and then asked time you need another copy. if you want any options (more about those later). Press Return for no options, and The options offered are mainly for use the cursor wil I jump to the first with search and replace. They are options occurrence of your string. Simple enough. "g" for "g lobal," and "n" for "no Ctrl-L means to repeat the last Find or approve I • " Entering "g" wi I I make the Search/Replace command; entering it wil I cursor go to each occurrence of your move the cursor to the next occurrence of string in the file, without your having your string. to enter Ctr l-L to search for the next one. Option "n" eliminates the prompt Ctrl-Q A is Search and Replace. It asking you if you want the string prompts you for a string and then asks replaced; it is done automatically. These you for a replacement string. After two options are often used together, entering that, you can press Return to making WordStar zip through your file, skip the options. The cursor wil I then making mass replacements like lightning. jump to the first occurrence of the WARNING: these two together are very requested string and ask you "REPLACE dangerous unless you know what you're CY/NJ?" with the cursor jumping between doing. To start out, try them only on a the string and the corner of the screen. copy of a file, as an experiment. Type "Y" and the new string is inserted in the old one's place; if it's the wrong One application for the search and context for a replacement, type "N." replace is to avoid repetitive typing. If Ctrl-L repeats this operation as wel I, you know you'll have to use a lengthy searching for the next occurrence of the phrase repeatedly through a document, you given string in your file. can enter it with a simple Ctrl-L. When WordStar asks for the search string, just Now, why might one want to find a certain enter a
WORDSTAR is the supernova of the galaxy. for you. If you've never tried it, you might want ® You bought your KAYPRO to help in your to now, since many of its commands have business - and it's given you a real head been "borrowed" by other programs. Its start. But lately, maybe you've started power and flexibility are fegendary. noticing a few little problems. Like lost time MAI 1.J.1ERGE searching for the floppy with the right data. can take information from Or slow information retrieval or calculation. various locations and insert it into WORDSTAR Or even lost data because a vulnerable documents for special printing floppy was damaged. tasks. The answer isn't more floppies - you need INFOSTAR includes DATASTAR, a file the next logical step. An HDS 10MB hard management program, and REPORTSTAR, a disk subsystem to help keep your business report generator for DATASTAR and other on the grow, at a price even your accountant ASCII files (files that contain readable will love. characters). DATASTAR files can be The HDS 10MB has all the features you prepared for use by MAil.J.1ERGE. expect from a truly state-of-the-art unit. Like half-height size; complete plug compatibility; CALCSTAR is a spreadsheet that enables five-minute installation; a dedicated power horizontal and vertical calculations. supply and a full, one-year warranty. Best of all, it comes at a price that's easy to take, SUPERSORT is a high~power program that starting at just $1,249 for the 10 megabyte wil I rapidly sort DATASTAR and other version. And when you're ready for more files in any field order you choose. storage capacity, HDS is still ready for you with 15, 20 and 30 megabyte disk units; all STARBURST is a menu generator. You can with the same no-nonsense features. build procedures that perform a task the same way every time. (At present, it is Contact us today for full details or the name distributed only with the Kaypro 16 bit of the dealer nearest you. (Dealer and OEM machines. A CP/M version is available inquiries welcome.) separately.)
We'I I scan al I of these stars and inhabit all of their planets with landing parties. We'I I start next time with an exploration of DATASTAR. We'I I start to build a protected compound with FORMGEN that wil I be populated with a new file. IHilS Huntington Data Systems 307 6th Street, Huntington Beach, Calif. 92648 Send your related comments, etc., to: (714) 960-7498 STARWARES, c/o KUG, Box 100, Malverne, NY Solutions that work. For you. 11565. <25> Library New Library Disks
#101 PAC-MAN & CHESS (Games) #102 ELIZA & GOLF & MISC. GAMES Fol lowing are descrip~ions of files found #103 MODEM795 for tel. comm. (Modem) on the disks that have recently been #104 HELP CP/M, MBASIC + Others (Helps) added to the KUG Library. Most disks #105 UTILITIES 1 contain more programs than are listed #106 ADVENTURE (Games) here. #107 STATISTICS #108 MBASIC MYSTERY (Games) #150~-Money Management: Calculate yield #109 UTILITIES 2 to maturity of bonds or the price to pay #110 POSTER ~RINTOUTS (Pictures) given the yield and number of years. Loan #111 KAYPRO 10 GRAPHICS analyzer. Typewriter, calculator and #112 HELP PERFECT, SBASIC, Etc. (Helps 2) checkbook register program. Readability #113 SBASIC & MBASIC PROGRAMS (Business) index program. Determine present market #114 LITTLE BLACK BOOK (Directory) value per share of mutual funds. #115 STAR TREK + 15 MBASIC GAMES #116 MULTI-FORMAT DISK FORK II, IV & 10 #151--0utline: Menu-prompted program for (Multi-format disk runs on CP/M only.) creating outlines to organize notes. #119 CONCENTRATION + 15 MBASIC GAMES Includes detailed documentation (in #120 HP CALCULATOR +MISC. outline form, of course). #121 STANDARD FORTH (Language) #122 SOURCE FOR FORTH (Language) #152--Super Labels Program: A variety of #123 WP & PC UTILITIES programs, most for use with the Epson #124 UTILITIES 3 FX-80. Users can define their own #125 HANDY (Time Management) character fonts, including science and #126 ASTRONOMY (Science) math symbols and foreign language #127 PC & PW UTILITIES characters. Program to configure #128 KAREL THE ROBOT (Language) Mannesman-Tal ly to PW ver. 1 .20. #129 MONOPOLY + MBASIC GAMES #130 MASTER CATALOG [Catalog) #153--Flight Fantasy: Flight simulator #131 LOGO GENERATOR/EPSON (Business) for Kaypro II. Ecomodel, an ecological #132 SUPER UTILITIES 4 war game featuring sharks and fish. #133 STATISTICS 2 #134 STATISTICS 3 #154--Utilities in Pascal: Numbers #135 STATISTICS 4 programs, label programs, pictures of #136 STATISTICS 5 heart and Christmas tree. Files to set #137 STATISTICS 6 NEC8023P and Okidata 82 printers for #138 FRANKENSTEIN (Game) label program. #139 LITTLE BLACK BOOK (MBasic update) #140 FILE CARD DATABASE #155--Tele/Device/Deaf: Modem program to #141 K10 HARD DISK UTILITIES use Kaypro II as a telecommunications #142 ACCOUNTING PACKAGE (Business) device for the deaf using an arioustic #143 DISK MANAGER+ (Utilities) coupler designed for Deaf TTY's. #144 WORD PROCESSING+ (WP Utilities) Documentation includes detailed drawings. #145 TYPE & MATH--MBASIC (Educational) #156--MexII: The Modem EXecutive, with #146 UT! LITIES 5 complete User's Guide. #147 PF & WP UTILITIES #148 SCREENWHIGHT (Format) *** #149 VEGAS (Games) * #150 MONEY MANAGEMENT (Business) LIBRARY DISK ORDERS * #151 OUTLINE (Business) * #152 SUPER LABELS PROGRAM (Uti Ii ties) Send $10.00 [for each disk) to KUG * #153 FLIGHT FANTASY [Games) Library, Box 100, Malverne, NY 11565. DO * #154 UTILITIES IN PASCAL . NOT SEND US ANY DISKS. Be sure to mention * #155 TELE/DEVICE/DEAF {Modem) the disk name, number, your mailing * #156 MEX II (Modem) address and I.D. number. * New contributions *** <26> National KUG Disks Will print a directory listing. DISK 138: FRANKENSTEIN Eliminates duplicates and unnecessary files, al lows copying of entire fi letypes This is a giant MBasic game, a long or specific files, and asks for a simulation of the creation of three-digit ID number to identify each Frankenstein's monster, with you as the disk. scientist. From the menu program "FRINTRO~BAS" you can receive instructions and enter the game. You then BIGBURST.COM; BIGBURST.DOC: Backs up and do ev~rything, from uncovering the secret restores files larger than the storage notebooks, to al I the steps of creating capacity of a single floppy. Prompts for the monster, to battling the angry each disk, and numbers the disks so they villagers (with the aid of Igor). You are restored in the correct order. gather and lose points, while avoiding Creates .BAK file on hard disk during death. The game is largely question restore. FLASH.BAS: MBasic program driven, with some real thinking, a little providing a simple arithmetic dril I. trivia, and some random guessing Utilizes video capabilities of a Kaypro involved. There are mainly humorous text 10 (or 84 machine]. screens, but also a few graphics screens and simple video game sequences. FLOPCOPY.COM; FLOPCOPY.DOC: Backs up a DISK 139: LITTLE BLACK BOOK UPDATE floppy disk. Uses the hard disk as a buffer for the files. Can create multiple A revised version of the SBasic program copies. LSQ.COM: A Least· Square on Disk #114, a computerized Rolodex by curve-fitting program. Wil I take a number Thomas Mierau. This one, version 2.2, is of data points and compute a line to fit writt~n in MBasic. As before, it is an them, giving slope, intercept, and error. easy to use program for keeping an Can print table of data. address book or list of phone numbers. It is menu driven, and a movable pointer leads you through a directory listing. MAKE.COM; MOVE.COM: Programs to move You have a record (expanded from the files from one user number to another first version] for information on ~ach (not by ·recopying, but by changing bytes entry. The program is able to make labels in the disk directory entry]. MAKE al lows or print a sorted listing. you to specify the user area where the files are, while MOVE assumes the current DISK 140: FILE CARD DATABASE user number. A database program written in Turbo Pascal (no source code included] by MOIR.COM: Shows the entire disk Thomas Mierau. The menu al lows you to directory, alphabetized, for al I user create a new database, add records, areas. MULTCOPY.COM; MULTCOPY.DOC: A access records, or search by a keyword. convenient replacement for PIP when Each record fits on a file card for transferring multiple files from the hard printing. Four keywords and ten lines of disk to several floppy disks. It prompts textual information are al lowed. A simple for changing the disk. text editor is used to enter data. The program is menu- and question-driven and easy to use. SWEEP.COM; SWEEP38.DOC: Disk fi I e maintenance utility, giving you an DISK 141: K10 HARD DISK UTILITES alphabetical circular directory, and allowing viewing, renaming, deleting, These utilities can be used with external copying, and other file operations. hard disks as wel I. BACKUP.COM; LI.COM: Logs you into a different user BACKUP.DOC: Backs up your hard disk onto area and drive. UNSQ.COM: Converts a file a series of floppy disks, sorting them in compressed form back into readable alphabetically for each filetype. form. Accepts ambiguous file names. (continued] *** <27> Once into downloading on any scale you Sysop's Corner quickly become disenchanted with 300 and find that more and more systems are employing clocks and ti-me limits which By Frank Fa 11 on make it impossible for 300 baud users to download large files. If you are reading One of the questions I see on many this before you have purchased a modem, systems is: Where can I find a list of please do yourself a very large favor and RCP/Ms to download from? Wei I, that's an hold out for a 1200 baud modem. The extra easy one. Al I you need do is find one $100 or so you wi I I spend wil I quickly be local RCP/M and check in and download the made up in savings on long distance file titled PDSE-m63.LQT. The file is rates, to say nothing of time saved. The also available on the Kaypro SIG on way to go is 1200 baud or faster. There CompuServe (GO PCS 25) in the DL m are already almost 100 systems which database already broken into regional al low access at 2400 bps and that number sections for easier/less expensive wil I grow quickly. downloading. By the time you read this it may have been updated to a number past 63. This is quite a long file, 40K, in Here is short list of some RCP/Ms that squeezed form and is the work of three have free access and Kaypro specific sysops - Steve Sanders, Jud Newel I and programs. Sorry if we missed your Kim Levitt. They produce a revised list favorite. each month which wil I print out to some 23 pages and list al I known systems which MBBS RCP/M (Kim Levitt) •••• (213) 653-6398 support downloading of public domain Mount Thunder RCP/M RBBS ..• (203) 445-5663 software. The list now includes FOG RBBS-RCP/M #29 ••.••.•.• (617) 288-4667 PC/MS-DOS, Unix and other non-CP/M LIKUG MBBS/RCP/M •.••..•.•. (516) 825-8465 systems. You wil I note that more and more CURA #1 ...•.•.•.••..••.•.. (718) 625-5931 of the systems are pay or subscription CURA #3 NYKUG ••.•..••..•.•• (718) 624-9148 systems. This is the coming trend in KUGNJ1 ABBS passw=KUGNJ1 •.• (201) 291-8319 RCP/Ms as there is more and more demand PENsula KUG RBBS ...... ••..• (804) 838 1645 and sysops find the financial burden FOG RBBS-RCP/M #14 •.••.•.. (217) 344-4032 simply too great to go it alone. Smokin' Silicon RCP/M .•••• (312) 941-0049 West Side D:KUG RCP/M-MBBS.(313) 553-9274 Once you have downloaded PDSE-m6#.LQT Grand Traverse RCP/M ••...• (616) 947-1264 using XMODEM (we covered that procedure KAY-PER NET •.•...••.••.••• (816) 734-2717 in past columns, you wil I have to FOG RBBS-RCP/M #20 •••.•... (813) 788-6515 "unsqueeze" the file. To do this you wil I Kaypro TPBBS ••••.•..•••..• (404) 923-2580 need USQ12B.COM or a similar program. PIP "KAY*FOG RBBS-RCP/M #11 ..•. (415) 285-2687 USQ and POSE onto a disk and place it in MicroBBS MSDOS & RCP/M •..• (213) 598-8495 . your A drive. Then place a blank NBS RCP/M ..•.•.•...••.•.•• (818) 764 6166 formatted disk in the B drive. Log into Lost Dutchman #2 RCP/M RBBS(602) 863-1435 the B drive and enter A:usa12m PDSE-m6#.LQT
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