k1-1gram® NOY-DEC, 19.84 YOL.2 N0.6 Official Newsletter of the KA YPRO USERS' GROUP
KUGBB MOVES TO NEW YORK
If you tried to access the KUG Bulletin KUG has received many requests to inform Board in Chicago recently, you probably its members about the use of modems and received a recorded announcement that the the modem software. It was also suggested number has been changed to 516-747-8308. that KUGRAM have a column on telecommunications. In fact, telecommunications within the KUG community have been expanding at a Starting with this issue, Frank wil I be very fast rate. ,The Bui letin Board is now writing about modems and modem software being "sysoped" by Frank Fal Ion, a and KUGBB and CompuServe SIG and many knowledgeable Kaypro user and a ham radio other areas of electronic communication. operator. Now with KUGBB closer to our The column is titled "The Sysop's headquarters on Long Island, the Kaypro Corner." Users' Group wil I be able ·to serve you more efficiently. In it Frank wil I be discussing which modems seem to work best with the Kaypro, The Best of KUGBB wil I continue to be a the different software packages feature of the KUGRAM and as more members available, [commercial as wel I as public access the board, more information and domain). Yau wil I learn how the various tips wi I I be available. versions of Modem 7 or XModem are used; how to use the KUG Bui letin Board to send The CompuServe KUG SIG [Kaypro Forum) at and receive messages; the methods used to PCS 25 is also being "sysoped" by Frank down-load programs from CompuServe; and Fallon. Frank has added many new features how to save time so that the phone bil Is to the SIG. In fact, many public domain don't get too high. programs have already been up-loaded including the complete set of 70 listed Special sections on the Kaypro SIG are in PeopleTalk's book, The FREE SOFTWARE being set aside for special interest HANDBOOK. groups within the KUG community. A section for local KUGS to announce their The KUGBB is accessed about 1,000 times meetings and special occasions might be per month and acts only as a Bulletin one area. If you have any ideas on how Board. Kaypro SIG is accessed about 3,000 these should be used or by whom, let times per month and allows up-loading and Frank know about it. He··can be reached at down-loading of programs. KUG headquarters.
The KUGBB in Chicago was initiated by Ira To help get you started, KUG has been Gerson in March of 1983. It was his idea discounting the CompuServe starter kit that KUG have its own CBBS. It was also with five hours free time for $35.00. Ira's thought that KUGGERS should be able Now, KUG will be shipping a FREE disk of to down-load and exchange programs modem software with each CompuServe kit. through CompuServe. His thoughts and We would like to see a closer KUG ideas bore fruit only because of his community and we think that initiative and ha~d work in getting both telecommunicating is the "way to go." "off the ground." Li st en, if you're free for dinner, give THANKS and WELL DONE, Ira. me a ca 11 on the KAYPRO ••••••••••••••••• Dear KUG, ~ · Box 100 ~ As a lawyer, I am using WordStar to prepare letters, pleadings and other Dear KUG, I ega I documents. "The Backgrounder" from Plu-Perfect Systems has al lowed me to I have thoroughly enjoyed (and greatly program a number of function keys so that benefited from) the KUGRAMs I WordStar functions much like a dedicated word processing system. An excel lent My question stems from my situation here program ca I I ed "Eureka I" from Mendocino in the Third World. Our electrical power Software of Willits, CA, resides on my goes out two or three times a day, which WordStar disk and keeps a master catalog obviously plays havoc with my computing. of my word proce~sing files, including up I know that uninterruptable power sources to SO-character comments on the contents are available in the marketplace, but of each file, the date the file was they're absurdly expensive here. So, the created, and up to two more smal I question· is, could I make my own version comments. of such a device by bypassing the transformer in my Kaypro II and hooking Perfect Cale has proved very useful in it up directly to, say, an automobile doing the income and payrol I accounting battery? If so, I could presumably for our smal I firm. maintain a charge in the latter with an ordinary battery charger. Without I recently purchased an outline technical training, I don't know what the processing program cal led "KAMAS" which problems would be with such a hook-up. is proving invaluable in preparing Can anybody up there help me? Thanks for outlines for my trials. I had earlier whatever light you can shed on this! used a database program cal led "Citation" for this purpose, and while it is an Stan Slade excel lent program and proved much better Institute Teologico Bautista than my old manual methods, it is Apartado 248 somewhat cumbersome for my application as Santa Ana, El Salvador compared with KAMAS.
* * * As soon as finances wil I permit, I plan Dear KUG, to buy a modem and hook up to a legal database cal led West law. While it is normally good to see one's· name in print as in Vol. 2 no. 5, the My printer is an Okidata 84 Step 2 with a excerpt from my message #02265 is cut sheet feeder. The correspondence misleading. Message #02265, stating that quality mode is quite acceptable for my the built-in modem wasn't type certified, letters and pleadings, and I wanted the was entered on the KUG BB on 3/16/84. At high-speed data mode available for the time it was written, it was true. It printing drafts and files downloaded from no longer is true. The notice that I Westlaw. The printer and sheet feeder received informing me that the modem was have been operating flawlessly, and I type certified was postmarked on the 17th highly recommend the setup. Among other of May. An editorial note saying things, the sheet feeder al lows the use something to the effect that later of our regular office stationery and information made it incorrect would have permits feeding both I ega I I ength and been helpful. I hope that the worst that letter length paper as the need arises. happens as a result of it al I is that some will take me for an ignorant fool Comments from other attorneys using and dismiss it. Kaypros would be greatly appreciated. If there is enough interest, we might even Grant Blowers try forming a LawKUG. 203 Litt I e John El Paso, TX 79924 Stephen C. Scott 11 N. 7th St. (Ed. note ••• Definitely not YOU, Grant) Columbia, MO 65201 <2> Dear KUG, Dear KUG,
StylePerfect Associates, an independent Perfect Filer can be used to generate review and documentation organization, simple graphs. I use the program to offers a new rating service for the manage the subscription list for a ~eekly Kaypro user community. newspaper with about 250 subscribers. In addition to printing mailing label~, There wil I be three types of ratings: printing renewal notices, and generating Initial, General and Special. Al I three the various reports needed for the post wil I be based on a scale of one to ten, office, Perfect Filer also yields graphs with a rating of ten representing the of renewals each month, and of best programs. Few nine or ten marks wil I subscribers in various areas. be awarded before 1986. The following graph shows subscriptions Initial Ratings wil I be based on first due for renewal each month. Note that the impressions of reviewers who are new to a only logical field referred to is in the given program. These ratings indicate how sort key: "expdate.month," a f .ield easy-to-run a program may be for persons derived from the database member element with limited needs or 1·1ttle time to "expdate," a date template. study manuals. Initial Ratings may change as reviewers have an opportunity to test 5 10 15 20 25 30 software in-depth and issue General I I I I I I Ratings. 01 ooooooooooooooooooooooooodoo 02 000000000000000000000000000' General Rati!!!l.§. wil I be based on the 03 0000000000000000000 usefulness of a program for the general 04 0000000000000000000000000000 Kaypro business, academic and 05 0000000000000000000 professional user. Packages which have 06 00000000000000000000000000 limited appeal may receive low ratings in 07 00000000000000000 this category and · high ratings in the 08 00000000000000000000 Special category. The main considerations will be documentation, ease-of-use, Here is how the list was defined: error-handling, and features. As regards features, the main concern wil I not be I. LIST HEADING the sheer number available, but rather, Field Number 1:
I am a State Representative in Maine and A defect of WordStar is that, unlike I often find myself assisting other Perfect Writer, it has no command for candidates in their election campaigns. printing multiple copies of a file. If you want more than one copy, you have to In my official duties I am involved with tel I it to print the first; then, when it constituent casework, preparing news has finished, tel 1 it to print the letters and questionnaires among others. second, and so on. Fortunately there is a remedy, with the aid of EX.COM, a public Here are my two queries: domain utility that effectively supersedes CP/M's SUBMIT and ZSUB. EX can 1) Does anyone know of any campaign be used either to execute a previously oriented software programs compatible created .SUB file or interactively. In with the Kaypro II? this case the interactive mode is more convenient. 2) Do any KUGGERs know of software which would be helpful in my official There are two methods available. Method 1 Legislative duties? is more suitable if a large number of copies is to be printed. Assume that you James R. Handy want multiple copies printed of a file State Representative named TEXT, which is in drive B. At the 31 Homefield St. A>type: EX
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"BUSY" ADD?? - You betcha! - At MapleSoft, What you see •• what you get FEATURES:
Ml BOOTS: As CC is resides entirely in memory and always makes a drive R/W before writing to it,YO'iiCan freely insert and remove new diskettes from any and all drives - NO REBOOTING! Even EASY TO USL CC displays a full 64-file directory at once - so you see ~t 's there, ~t 's the CCP commands ERA, DIR, TYPE, REN, and USER are replaced so you don't have to exit CC. And been tagged, etc. The current file is indicated by a pointer { ==> ) and its name is displayed no need for CC {or any other utilitv) to take up precious storage space on program and data in the CURFILE window. All commands are mnemonically-sensible single keystrokes diskettes ( P for PRillT, C for Cel'Y, etc) and, as applicable, operate on the current file - never type its filename'
EXTENSIVE W.!MlOWOO: Prompts, reports, status, and input always appear at the same plact on SPEED: CC is fast! Written in efficient Z80 assembler, this 16K program loads and executes the screen - so you always know where to look. Windowing greatly speeds up operation and rapidly. Use of windows and optimized disk l/O greatly speeds up operation eliminates distraction as only the portion of the screen that needs updating is affected. There are 198 windows on the xmiand screen: CURORIVE, CURUSER, fILE (x64), PO!llTER (x64), TAG (x64), PRCM'T/I'*'UT, CURFILE, REPORT, and STATUS USER AREAS: User 11lMTll>ers are great if you need them, a pa i n if you don't. They are fully supported but transparent - if you never mention them, CC will assooie good old User 0
FLEXIBLE QMS<»IOO: CC 's current file pointer ( ==> ) responds to WordStar and Perfect Writer cursor commands as well as to the KayPro arrow keys - or just hold down the spacebar or ERROR TRAPPOO: CC has extensive error-trapping built-in so you see prompts such as 'Sorry, backspace key and watch it zip back and forth! .. . . not exist' instead of the fatal 'BOOS ERROR ON ~ , SELECT'
READY TO RlJll, CC comes ready to run for all KayPros - abso lutely no installation needed LWIM ClltWtlS: CC has five very special commands to make diskette management a breeze,
SAFETY, A11 'serious " commands are queried in the PRCM>T window before they are executed - no o STROO SEARCH. Searches file or group of files for any nll!lber of strings reporting more boo-boos! (e.g ., 'Erase Ctw'TER3 .MSS (Y/N)?') filename, line number, and context for each match
o BAO BLOCK LOCK-our . Locks out blocks on diskettes so diskette remains usable. Witti CC FILE 388&+ CAPACITY: CC can handle hard disk directories of over 3000 files.
Main command Menu: The cursor Command Menu:
F" «< COl11'1AND CENTRAL »> ~ <« COl11'1AND CENTRAL One Fi le 11any Files >» Print file to LST: device l1ove11ent Up Cursor Uparrow, A ~ { < . > Display arrow keys, Perfect Writ,;,r and WordStar cursor co1111ands *** Press Any Key To Display Di rectory "** ... Typical command Display: «< COMAND CENTRAL >» ~ Maple Soft Di r,;,ctory for Drive: B User Area: K Box 1335&, Kanata PO -UTILITY. 002 ASl1 .COl1 BAUD .COM BMP .COi'! CC .COl1 CONFIG .COl1 COPY .COl1 COPYNEW • COii Ottawa, Ont, Canada K2K 1)(5 D .CGll DOT .COl1 DIRLABEL. COl1 DU2 .COl1 DUl1P .COl1 ERMI .COi'! Fl . COii FBNSUB .COM Plt:A ~ l StND : COPIE S Of co""AND CENTRAL FIND .COl1 FINDBAD .COl1 FIXKEY .C011 INITDISK. COi'! @ $30. 00 (U. s .) EA COMPLETE. COPIES Of SST @ S29. 00 (U. S.) EA LIST .COl1 LL .COl1 LOAD .COl1 LOOK • COi'! COMPLETE PIP .COl1 PIPIO .COM RPIP .COl1 SAP • COi'! LNCLO SlD I S A [ ) CHHK [ ) M ONEY ORDER SETDISK • COl1 SETIO .COl1 SHOW .COii Sf( .COl'I FOR s_.___ TO COYER KAYPRO SS OIJ Dl SK tllE , MANUAL, HANIJL!NG AND AIRMAIL. SK .DEF Sl'IART .SUB Sl'IARTPRN. COl1 Sl1Sf'EC .COM Sl1SPEC .PRN Sl1SPEC .REL == > Sl1Sf'EC • Z80 SORT .COl1 I UNDERSTAN D I AM CAN RllURN THIS MERCHANDI SP .DOC SPN .DEF SPOOL .COi'! STAT • COl1 SE FOR A FULL REFUND IF NOl COMPLlTELY SAl I SFIED . SUBMT .COl1 SWAP .COM SYSGEN .COl1 TERl1 . COM UNERA .COM UNLOAD • COi'! WRITE .COl1 XDIR .COl1 XSUB .COl1 ZAP • COl1 NAM;;: ______ Co••and SST STILL AVAILABLE FOR KAYPRO II AND 4 WITH EPSON-CO,.PATIBLE PRINTERS SH RlYHW IN KUGRAM 2-5 (OCT 84) PAGE. 6 AND ADD > IN KUGRA" 2-2, PAGE 19 AND "ICROCORNUCOPIA 116, PAGE 14 CLUBS : BULK ORDER PRICE - 5 OR MORE - HALF PRICE Dear KUG, Dear KUG, KUGRAM Vol. 2 no. 5 arrived here this PERFECT CALC: "Preserved Answers" afternoon and, as usual, I dropped everything else. Every issue I have This is my solution to a problem that is received has carried at least one common to most multiple-file exciting trick that I could use. spreadsheets-that of the "disappearing answers." When there is an exchange of And I am intrigued about Judge Lewis information between the several buffers Kapner's accidental find of a new use for of a spreadsheet, it often becomes the Esc ••• AIi ce Theron John C. Polasek 41 Fourie Street 59 Interlaken Rd. BOSHOF, South Africa 8340 Orlando, FL 32804 <6> Dear KUG, Dear KUG, My admiration for your product, the Like everyone else who writes you, I too KUGRAM, is truly boundless! I've been begin by praising the KUGRAM newsletter, reading it since your first issue was and those who are responsible for sent to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in publishing it. It always has useful San Rafael. tidbits or bigbits, and in itself creates and maintains an implicit community of I 'd I i k e to comp I i men t Mr. Mi I I er who , in people around the country, and Vol. 2 no. 5, described an imaginative increasingly around the world, which method to change translation tables in provides a certain sense of mid-text by making a little-used connectedness, of which we can use al I we ch a r act e r over i n to an "ESCAPE" ·s i g n a I • can get. Maybe Kaypro wil I start selling In this manner, he can cal I for the in the Soviet Union, and Kaypro User "ESCAPE" sequence: "ESCAPE AMPERSAND" to Groups can become a force for peace and turn on the Greek translation table and ~ooperation between East and West. "ESCAPE DOLLARSIGN" to turn on the U.S. (English) translation table. He then I have one offering, and unfortunately it states that the disadvantage to this is not worked out because I use Perfect procedure is that Perfect Writer thinks Writer rather than Wordstar. But I am it is typing two characters and leaves an aware of Wordstar users' lament about not appropriate amount of space for them. having the yankback feature of Perfect This results in imperfect blocks of Writer. Having recently obtained a justified text. keyboard definition package, it has occurred to me that one could use it to I would suggest to Mr. Miller that, by define keys for use in Wordstar that using the PFCONFIG program, he can change would write a marked section of text to a the width of the character which he uses temporary file (for example, cal led for the new "ESCAPE" key. This could be buffer!) on disk and then bring it back reduced· to ZERO which would cut his in a manner similar to yankback, though problem in half. As far as the ampersand inevitably slower. Indeed, I can imagine and dollar sign are concerned, he might creating a number of "buffers" in this try a similar trick with them if he has way, analogous to Perfect's 7 buffer enough "little-used" keys. Merely assign capability. By naming such files and these keys to the ampersand and tailoring keystroke definitions to dol larsign meaning and reduce their width address them in a consistent way for a to ZERO also. Then his problem would particular document (e.g., bufsctnl, disappear. bufsctn2, etc.), one could create a . shorthand directory command incorporating a wildcard (again, using the keyboard Looking at page 31 of Vol. 2 no. 5, I definition package) to replicate notice that you have not yet changed the Perfect's buffer directory. Not having KUG BB information to reflect the tried this technique in fact, I can't deletion of the Chicago BB and the actually attest to its adequacy, but it institution of the New York BB. The new seems like a reasonable idea unless the phone number is 516-747-8308. response time is too slow. I think there is a problem in Bruce By the way, the reason I refer to a Frank's letter on page 10 of the same "keyboard definition package" is that I issue (Vol. 2 no. 5) On page 1~, Bruce didn't buy Smart-Key II but rather one refers to "n and n+1 for 54 and 55 in the named Xtrakey. Xtrakey is substantially second Ii ne." Looking back on page 10 at cheaper and has numerous advantages over the "second Ii ne" I see "54MOX54LXBLR Smart-Key II. More information can be ••.•• "; in other words, 54 and 54, not 54 obtained from Xpert Software, 8865 and 55. Pol land Ave., San Diego, CA 92123. John L. Wash David A. Weck l·er P.O. Box 318 633 8th Ave. Navarro, CA 95463 San Francisco, CA 94118 <7> Dear KUG, Dear KUG, One of the things which constantly bugs What do you do when you've typed a me is the form of the Kaypro document on Perfect Writer and try to documentation, i.e. the books. You can save it on file, only to get a "Read not lay them open. So, what I would like Only" error message because you changed to do is · cut off the backs of all the disks in drive B and forgot - to do a books, punch them and insert them in CTRL-X CTRL-C? The last time that loose leaf binders. It seems impossible happened to me, I decided to check in ~ o to find the right size binders. I have the PW.SWP file to see how much of my talked to binder manufacturers here in document was there. I was disappointed Houston and the problem is that they have that TYPE PW.SWP did no good. So I wrote to make a special die for each size of the following SBASIC program, which did binder and the cost of the die is such the trick: that they need an order for 500 or more to make it even remotely economical. I VAR X=CHAR would stil I like to be able to purchase a ECHO OFF set. Hence, if enough of our members witl ON ERROR GOTO 1.PRINT write to me with commitments for 1. AGAIN INPUT #9;X quantities of 1", 1-1/2", and 2" binders 1. PRINT IF X<32 OR X>126 THEN PRINT I think we could get the price down to ELSE PRINT X; $6 .00 or so. IF INP(5) =16 THEN BEGIN IF X<32 OR X>126 THEN PRINT #1; ELSE Bi 11 Brown PRINT #1;X; P.O. Box 462 GOTO 1 .AGAIN Port Gibson, MS 39150 I cal led this program SWPSAVE, and loaded it in Drive A, my PW disk in Drive B, and Dear KUG, typed: SWPSAVE B:PW.SWP. The computer displayed for me the ASCII contents of Before al I, just a little word to tel I PW.SWP, and most of my document. (Exit you I'm really happy when I receive my the program -by typing CTRL-C.) After KUGRAM in the mailbox. It's really a viewing it a couple of times, I had an precious tool. idea of where my document started and stopped in the SWP file. Then I ran the I resolved the problem of ventilation program one more time with my printer on. quite simply. I purchased an air cleaner When it got to where my document began, I and managed to direct the draft so that hit CTRL-P, "print it." Hitting any other it strikes the holes of my Kaypro II. key stopped the printing. I stil I had to There are more efficient solutions, I retype my document into a new file, but know. But this one has its advantages: 1) at lea~t not al I my creative muse had air that is pushed into and that passes been l,st on a dumb warm boot. through the computer is clean; 2) it refreshes me a bit, and 3) it's cheap. Ron Friedrich 1101 Woodcrest Dr. Jean Paul Le Bourhis Garland, TX 75040 8286 Drolet Montreal, Quebec Canada H2P 2HC A Nic·e Thought We recently received a check for renewal Wanted to the KUGRAM. Enclosed with the check was this printed notice: We are getting requests for printer configurations using Wordstar version 3.3 "The road to success is a I ways under and we do not have these on file. 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INPUT #9;LETTER CASE LETTER OF CHECKING DISK SPACE 9: PRINT #1;SPC(TABCOUNT); 26: REM DO NOTHING (EOF) A sometimes frustrating aspect of Perfect LETTER: PRINT #1;LETTER; Writer is the need to exit to CP/M to END .check the amount of space used on the IF LETTER<32 THEN TABCOUNT=1 disk. An easier way is to use a SUB file. NEXT TABCOUNT END UNTIL LETTER=26 Put the SUBMIT.COM and STAT.COM files PRINT #1 from the CP/M disk on the disk in either A: or B: drives. (Kaypro II users wil I I run the program by typing: PRINT find there's not enough room to put it on B:FILENAME.EXT. The program wil I send the packed-ful I Perfect Writer disk in text fi I e ca I Ied "FILENAME. EXT" to the the A: drive.) Create a file cal led printer. STAT.SUB on the same disk. Here's the one I use: How can you get a truly random number in an SBASIC program? B:STAT MENU VAR X=CHAR VAR R=REAL When you want to check the disk space $LINES rem line generation off remaining, go to the menu and select PRINT "[Instructions/Delay tactic]" option C (Send a command line to CP/M). PRINT "Hit a key to continue." Then type: rem Clear keyboard buffer: INPUTS #5;X B:SUBMIT B:STAT INPUTS #5 ;X rem Here's the routine: (Obviously, if the files are on the A: REPEAT BEGIN drive you omit the B:.) R=RND(1) INPUTS #5;X The resu It wi I I be to exit to CP/M, f I ash END UNTI L X> I 0 the status of both disks and return you rem Continue with program .•• to the menu. The REPEAT routine wil I keep running Stan Strick through the SBASIC list of random numbers 4514 75th St. SW until a key is hit. The result of the Mukilteo, WA 98275 routine wil I be an unpredictable random number (R) and usable keyboard data (X). Ron Friedrich 1101 Woodcrest Drive Ti me to RENEW!?? Garland, TX 75040 <10> Book: Review Kaypro News by Katherine Loukides Kaypro Corp. has introduced a new low-end version of the Kaypro 2. It is cal·l-ed The Per:_fec_!l~ious ••• An In-Depth Look at New 2. The New 2 comes with one double ~erfe.Q_t_Wri _ ter by Kristin A. Farry sided, double density 390K drive. This approaches that word processor as a computer is priced to sel I at $995a00 and programmin~ language. The author speaks is bundled with Wordstar, MBasic to the experienced and the user, the user who CP/M operating system. Additional understands basic commands and wants to software is being offered in an upgrade take advantage of the ful I power of PW. kit with a second disk drive for $495.00. Her efforts are successfu I. She -helps the The Junior Business Pack wil I reader include the develop an understanding of the New 2, the Kaypro printer, grammar bundled of the word processor, "the software and the Type-It typewriter general rules governing the behavior of emulation software. The Pack wil I sell file formatting." Thus, Ms. Farry makes for $1,495.00. sense of the examples given in the Perfect manuals. Kaypro is now bundling Mite communications software from Microft Labs The author draws a distinction between with the Kaypro 4 and the Kaypro 10. Perfect This Writer the word processing will probably take the place of Superterm editor, and Perfect Writer the ful I at no additional increase in price. program, If which includes the editor, the you already own a Kaypro 4 or a Kaypro formatter 10 and the printer. you should be able to purchase Mite from Microft for $20.00 instead of the retail In the eight chapters which comprise price of $150.00. Parts I and II, Ms. Farry discusses user-defined variables; the difference After evaluating local-area-networking between @REF and @VALUE; nesting for more than a year, Kaypro has decided variables; @INCLUDE for formatting and to use KayNet, licensed from Orange printing long documents; sectioning Compuco of Costa Mesa, CA. commands; pagefooting and numbering pages; and handling figures, tables, and KayNet can network up to 20 Kaypro endnotes. computers (2, 2X, 4, or 10) in any combination, with each machine capable Part of III covers PW's font-changing operating a printer. It is also commands. Seven-bit and eight-bit unnecessary to dedicate terminals, so if character translation and width tables one unit in the network fails the others are accompanied by detailed pfconfig will continue to operate. explanations and examples. Also included is an ASCII conversion table. KayNet is available from Kaypro dealers for $300.00. Especially valuable are the sections containing lists of commands that can be copied verbatim (no pun intended, PW fans) or easily adapted for formatting yo ~r own lengthy manuscripts. Perfsc!_l~ Serious offers clear and More Fan Info concise, yet thorough, explanations which are fol lowed by examples that cover a In the last issue we did not include the variety of formatting possibilities. entire address for the manufacturer of the Fay-Soft fan. Their address and phone Before starting you~ next book, take a number is: look at this one. It is available at computer stores or by mai I ($19.95 plus Fay-Soft $2.00 for shipping and handling) from 31220 La Baya Drive, Suite 110 Win-Com Publications, 5400 Lytle Road, Westlake Village, CA 91362 Wcfynesvi II e, OH 45068. Phone: 805-496-3960 <11 > Free Software Handbook only $17.95! (Handbook plus software disks $57.95. Disks only $49.95.) Features the top 70 programs in public domain - • What they are • When they're useful • How to acquire them • How they work Also from PeopleTalk: Wordstar and Friends for the Kaypro 2 &.. 4, $21.95 Perfect Manual for the Kaypro 2, $17.95 Perfect Manual for the Kaypro 4, $17.95 Supercharge your Kaypro with Smartkey! Only $ 7 4.95 to customize your computer. Pro gram your own keyboard to turn your most-used commands into ONE KEYSTROKE. See your dealer or order direct: PeopleTalk Associates Inc. Subscribe to the PeopleTalk Quarterly. P. 0. Box 863652 Plano, TX Tips, tricks, short-cuts, brainstorms. Plus a Help 75086 214/423-4634 line Column with answers. $20.00 per year. Please include product price in U.S. Dollars + $2 shipping and (4 issues) handling ($5 surface mail outside U.S.) EASYFLOW Review Speed-up Review By Richard Silverman [Norwalk, By Frank Fa II on Connecticut) for StylePerfect Associates. If you have an older Kaypro II running at A TOOL FOR SYSTEMS AND WORKFLOW DESlGN 2.5 MHz and you · want to speed it up to 4 or 5 MHz, Highland Microkit, P.O. Box Flow-charting is an extremely useful tool 21A, Highland, MD 20777, has a high speed for programmers, administrative managers upgrade kit at $50 that wil I fil I the and engineers. It is particularly useful bil I. The solderless kit includes . in dealing with highly-structured everything you wil I need to make t~e languages. modification: a new ZBO, monitor EPROM, replacements for USS, UBS, UB7, an IC EASYFLOW [HavenTree Software Ltd., extractor tool, a wired switch and R.R.#1, Seeley's Bay, Ontario, Canada, fantastically clear directions which KOH 2NO, $49.95pp) creates attractive include drawings and photographs. flowcharts--with almost any degree of a matter of sophistication--very quickly and easily. Installation is simply and One can use any word-processing program removing the Kaypro cover, removing and placing or editor to create the text file, and then reinserting five chips, of the vents on the .software package i tse If to create the a prewired switch on one When finished, the user chart. Then the chart can be printed the back panel. run the Kaypro at either 2.5 immediately or stored to a disk for later is able to printing. or 5 MHz with the flip of a switch. a lot for your money. The ZBO is Eighteen "step" shapes [process, You get ZILOG and not the less dependable SGS input/output, document, etc.) are a But be advised that while al I standard, but any desired shape can be chip. !Is can easily be made to run at 4 created. Commands within the text file Kaypro some Kaypro II~ are not going to specify the shape for each step, the MHz, perform at 5 MHz unless you replace at contents of the shape, the pathway from one of the fol lowing: an SIO, a PIO step to step [the default is simply to least or perhaps the EPROM [U47] with faster the next step), shape or column positions Highland wil I send you an SIO for to be skipped, conditionals [IF parts. $10, and a PIO for $5, and the EPROM as a ELSE), how the .flowline enters and leaves trade. The kit comes set for 5 MHz the shape [top, bottom, right, I eft) , and flat and al I that is necessary to other factors. Other text file commands operation slow it to 4 MHz is to move a red wire use the printer's capabilities as desired UBS and plug it into the socket on [including compressed type , closer line from If you find you have problems, you spacing, graphics, or any other options UB7. cal I Dan Carl at [301) B54-0115 for available). And EASYFLOW al lows you to can help. use and create special printer configuration files for automatic who run Cale programs or commands. For those programs that involve memory use without many disk accesses, there wil I be a Documentation is superb, with 111 pages tremendous speed up. But everything runs of wel I-organized 1.istings , descriptions faster with the Highland kit. of commands, tutorials, disk-based examples, and a 9-page index. A quick The entire operation wil I take less than reference card and planning grid are an hour. Removing chips, especially the included. ZBO, is the most time consuming part of the project and must be done ca refu I I y. minutes of opening the package, I Within When completed, the Kaypro wil I run at flow chart. After that, created my first either 5 or 2.5 MHz with the flick of a the many features experiments with switch on the back of the machine. And demonstrated that the program available all that must be remembered is that you while offering yields quality results must cold boot if you change the speed and simplicity. EASYFLOW both versatility selection. You wil I also have to run the is an excel lent value for those who need CP/M copy utility at 2.5. to depict systems and flows. <13> Best of KUGBB Put this on your PW disk, along with SUBMIT.COM--which I rename DO.COM [save those keystrokes). From the CP/M prompt, The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine RCP/M in to print a document exactly as it appears Phoenix has a file on-line cal led on your screen [i.e. the PW verbatim MOVCPMNU.LBR. It contains an automated mode, adding page numbers at the bottom), patch routine that, when applied to ANY enter DO V • $18.95 for one Learn Software Commands Kleertex® • $35. 00 for two • $49. 95 for three Super, Now Available: ____ • Why pay more? 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Thank you. ~ • • • • • • © 1984 C entral Computer Products Now exit to CP/M and type 'SUBMIT E Program PW with SUBMIT FILENAME First load your old menu and take some Use PW to create a file named 'A:D.SUB' notes. When you hit 'F' a command li ne and fil I it with 'PF -DEV FILE -0 B:FILE appears at the bottom and asks for the B:$1 .MSS Now 'PIP' SUBMI T.COM onto your working Use 'SUBMIT E MYMENU' to design your own A:disk . To use SUBMIT.COM, you first must description of al I your '.SUB' files. If create a '.SUB' file that it wil I look you use the auto-load feature of CP/M, for to execute when you cal I it. following Sysgen, you can add 'TYPE MYMENU' and it wil I come on the screen Let's make this easy, so--using Perfect after each cold boot [not after a warm Writer--create a new file named 'A:E.SUB' boot). You can recal I it by using the with only one short line, which wil I reset button on your Kaypro, but it never read: 'PW 8:$1.MSS PRINTING WITH WORDSTAR Do you want the output to go onto your disk? Probably not, so a When you want to print a file in Perfect START AT PAGE NUMBER (RETURN for Writer, you go to the MENU program, where beginning)? all your options are listed. First of al I, you choose option F, to format your If you would like to start the printing file. If you need any special features of at a page other than the first, you can, your printer, you get your file so long as you give the page number. (If formatted, creating a .FIN file on disk. your last printing was interrupted, this Then, at the menu, you pick P, to print a may be handy.) A To print with Wordstar, you choose option PAUS E FOR PAPER CHNGE BETWEEN PAGES (Y/N) P at the opening menu. It asks you the name of the file you wish to print. As This wil I cause the printer to stop at with Perfect Writer, you cannnot print the bottom of each page, and you must from RAM; it has to be a file saved on press P to continue output. disk. Then Wordstar begins a series of questi ans about how· you want the fi I e to Fina 11 y, Words tar te I ·Is you that as soon print. Some are rather odd, but here as you are ready to print, press <19> KAREL the Robot KAREL the Robot can be studied without A number of people are interested in using a computer; however, it is then finding a way to begin to learn to difficult to know if the programs written program. Some people advocate learning are executing correctly. The authors have BASIC because it is easy to learn and is made it possible for Kaypro owners who interpreted. Others advocate learning a have the S-BASIC compiler to create and language with more structure, thereby run KAREL the Robot programs on their al lowing for better programs. We would computers. Ms. Rising has written KEO, a I i ke to make you fami Ii a r with st i I I syntax-directed editor for KAREL's another approach. That is to first learn language, along with a program which can the ·1anguage of KAREL the Robot and then create worlds in which KAREL can live. move up to structured languages like Dr. Rehmer has written a program which Pascal (or to S-BASIC). translates the output of KEO into an equivalent S-BASIC program. When this KAREL the Robot inhabits a program is compiled and run, the results two-dimensional grid of horizontal of the KAREL program can be seen. The streets and vertical avenues displayed on programs to do this have been provided to a screen. Along with KAREL, his "world" the KAYPRO USERS' GROUP. (See LIBRARY) contains wal Is which prevent his forward motion and beepers which are found on A syntax-directed editor al lows a various corners of the world or in a programmer to "write" a program using beeper bag which he carries around his brief commands to add, insert or delete waist. KAREL . and his language were language constructs. The editor enters created by Richard Pattis, whose KAREL templates representing these constructs the Robot, A Gentle Introduction to the and then the user completes the Art of Programming (New York: John Wiley templates, sometimes with other & Sons, 1981) introduce beginning templates. The editor guides this process programmers to the language constructs by restricting entry to valid constructs, found in Pascal. It avoids treating the thus preventing the user from entering complicated data structures and other anything that is not syntactically troublesome concepts that sometimes get correct. The program is represented in the way of learning programming internally as a syntax tree with each techniques. It w:as first used by node corresponding to a template or a instructors at Stanford University and portion of a template. To al low the the University of California at Berkeley programmer to see the text of the during the beginning weeks of program, the editor uses an unparser to introductory programming classes as a present a pretty-printed version of the preview to Pascal but · it has now been· program. adopted at many other universities, high schools and industrial training The output of KEO is a list of integers facilities throughout the United States which is a representation of the syntax and abroad. (The authors have found that tree as well as a listing of the program. bright children can also benefit from The program CREATE translates the list of using this language.) integers into an S-BASIC program. (Looking at the S-BASIC listing can KAREL's language contains five primitve provide some idea of how this structured instructions: move, turnleft, pickbeeper, language is much like the Robot putbeeper and turnoff. It also allows the language.) user to define new instructions. In addition, an iterate instruction and a Finally, the world is built and the while instruction allow for definite and compiled S-BASIC program is run on that indefinite looping. The primitive world. Compiling the S-BASIC program can instructions, the ability to define new be quite time consuming (typically 5 instructions and to do looping al low the minutes). user to write fairly complex programs using the top-down method which most Linda Rising and Karl Rehmer domputer scientists recommend. Thus, the Department of Computer Technology language is an excel lent way to begin to Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Ft. Wayne learn about programming. Ft. Wayne, IN 46805) <20> Now you can dramatically expand the software cababilities of And, as an added feature, CO-POWER-88's RAM can be used as a high-speed simulated disk drive when proces5ing under CP/M. your CP/M computer with co.. POWER1 88 from SWP Microcomputer Products. How IBM-PC tompatible is' the CO-POWER.SS? MS-00$., mM~PC sofrlware wiU rut:t under the CO-POWER.... 88. T 0 in Introducing CG-POWER-88, the powerful 16-hit, 8088 cO·,Ptocessor that Mose quire about a specific program, call or write us. upgrades your Z-80, CP/M computer to run both MS-DOS and CPJM-86., What's more, MS-POS on the CO-POWER-88 is fotmat and data compatible with the Contact your local SWP dealer, or order direct by mail IBM-PC. lf you own a Kaypro, Mortow, Zorba, Actrix, Osborne, Bigboard, Xerox 820, <>t Available in 2 RAM sizes, l 28k and 256k, the CO-l'OWER;88 runs at a quick SWP ATR8000, then CO-POWER-88 is for you! Contact your local SWP dealer, 5.33 MHz. 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I When your package arrives at your door, the world of 16-bit processing is just l Configurations: ,(check one} S 114" • 0 MllS1;er #101 [Games) PAC-MAN & CHESS CP/M #102 (Games] ELIZA & GOLF & Misc. Stuff 1;#103 [Modem) MODEM 795 for Tel. Comm. #104 [Helps) HELP CP/M, MBASIC + Others How many times did you want to PIP files #105 [Utilities 1) from one disk to another but found #106 [Games) that ADVENTURE you aid not have PIP.COM on the #107 [Statistical] disk? STATISTICS Maybe you didn ' t have enough room on the #108 [Games) MBASIC MYSTERY original. Well, just when you thought #109 [Utilities 2) CP/M's bag of t ricks was empty, there is #110 [Pictures) POSTER PRINTOUTS stil I more! #111 [Graphics] KAYPRO 10 GRAPHICS #112 [Helps 2) HELP PERFECT, SBASIC, Etc. Place your CP/M disk in drive A and warm #113 [Business) SBASIC & MBASIC GAMES boot. At the A> type SAVE m GET.COM. Cal I #114 (Di rectory) "LITTLE BLACK BOOK" for a DIR and you'I I see that you now #115 [Games] STAR TREK +15 MBASIC GAMES have a file named GET.COM. At the A> type #116 MULTI-FORMAT DISK FOR KAYPRO II STAT GET.COM. Look at how much space it #117 MULTI-FORMAT DISK FOR KAYPRO IV takes on the disk ... NONE, ZERO, You #118 MULTI-FORMAT DISK FOR KAYPRO m. 10 can put this mk program on al I your disks [Multi-Format disks run on CP/M only.) using the SAVE command described above. #119 [Games) CONCENTRATION + 18 MBASIC #120 HP CALCULATOR +MISC. Meanwhile, back to PIP. #121 [Language) At the A> type STANDARD FORTH PIP. Wait for the star #122 [Language) (*] to appear. SOURCE FOR FORTH When it does, do another #123 [Utilities) WARM boot [by WP & PC entering Ctrl-C or hitting #124 [Utilities CR). Again at 3) the A> type GET. Look at #125 [Time Management) what came back: HANDY the PIP star C*l. Now you can #126 [Science) ASTRONOMY remove the CP/M disk and place the disks you want #127 [Utilities) PC & PW PIPed into the drives ... WARM BOOT #128 [Language) KAREL the ... ROBOT and start PIPing. You MUST warm boot #129 (Games) MONOPOLY + MBASIC GAMES after each change of disks. Don't worry, #130 [Catalog) MASTER CATALOG warm booting does not bother the GET program. In fact, none of * New contributions the resident commands [DIR, REN, ERA, TYPE, etc . ) affect GET.COM. But if you use another transient file, it wil I take the place of KUG Disks are in Kaypro II format, but the previous one. You can else use the they can be read on and PIPed from any drive name ie. DIR B:, TYPE FILENAME, or other Kaypro Computer. Directions are TYPE B:FILENAME. included with each disk. We cal I this GET.COM If you because it is would like to receive any of the GETTING the last information above, that was put send $10.00 [for each) to KUG into the Kaypro's memory. LIBRARY at Box 100, Malverne, N.Y. 11565. DO NOT SEND US ANY DISKS. Another use for GET.COM is to be able to STAT al I your disks without having to Be sure to mention the disk name, number, have the STAT.COM program on them. With your mailing address and I.D. number. your CP/M disk in A: type STAT. Place one of your data disks in drive B:. WARM If you would li ke a list of descriptions BOOT. Now type GET B:. Try GET B:*.* ... of the KUG Library disks, send a self addressed stamped envelope to KUG DISKS There are many other uses at the same address as above. for the GET program. When you find one, let us know how you used i t--perhaps REMEMBER , we to save an wil I send you a disk from important file our library that did not write to for any contribution ON DISK disk, or just to our a faster way to use some of LIBRARY or to the KUGRAM. the CP/M STUFF. <22> ALL Kaypro models can read Kaypro II disks II This is how you make them work: On the Kaypro II you can use COPY or PIP. In Response ... On the Kaypro 4 and the 2X, place PIP.COM •.. Since Kaypro started introducing the on a Kaypro 4 [2X) disk that has been Kaypro 4, the Kaypro 10, the Kaypro 2X sysgened. Put that disk in A: and your and others, we have received complaints Kaypro II disk in B:. Warm boot. At the that some disks work on some Kaypros and A> type PIP A:=B:*.*. All your II files some don't. We wil I try to offer some wil I be transferred to the 4 (2X). If you explanation here. want to go the other way, you must have a formatted II with PIP.COM on it. Place When the original Kaycomp II became the your 4 (2X) to be transferred in drive A: Kaypro II there was a minor change to the and the II with PIP on it in drive B:. Bies. This affected only the updated Type B:. At the B> type PIP B:=A:*.*· Select word processor. The Bias remained Make sure you have enough room on the pretty much unnoticed until the NEW disk. Kaypro 4 and the NEW Kaypro 10 were introduced. The NEW Kaypro 2X is the same On the Kaypro 10, reset with the floppy as the 4. The instructions from Kaypro drive empty. At the A> place your Kaypro were to sysgen the disk and it would run ~ II disk in the drive. Type PIP A:=C:*.*· It didn't. The II files wil I be on the hard drive. If you want them only on DSDD Kaypro 10 Since most of the original programs and disk then place the DSDD disk in the public domain software were on Kaypro II drive and type PIP C:=A:FILENAME. If you format (including the KUG Library), these use a separate user area (A1>1 you can are the ones you wanted to either run or use the wild card*.*, but you will be in transfer over to the new Kaypro model. user 1 on the floppy disk. HOW A $19.95 INVESTMENT CAN SAVE YOU $2156.251 DateMate allows you to print at home, for FREE, a 27-page Never pay for another monthly reminder/calendar monthly reminder/calendar that could cost up to $18.75* in an again ... for as long as you live! office supplies store - this year, next year, every year - from 1901 through 2099 (bequeath DateMate to your children!). 2099 - You can't afford NOT to buy DateMate. 1984 X $18.75 = $2156.25! Enter birthdays, appointments, ex penditures, comments, and all is stored permanently on diskette in ASCII files. Printouts show each day's information in its proper "date cell," exactly as you entered it. Compare these features with programs costing four and five times as much ...... 1. So user-friendly you can run it successfully.BEFORE reading the instructions. Included free if you order now -- MINDREAD. 2. Written ON a Kaypro, FOR a Kaypro, in "C", Skeptical? Try it. the language of the future. Your Kaypro can READ YOUR MIND. 3. Menu driven with screen prompts every step of the way. 4. Full editing capability. rYES, I w~rrt ~ ;r;a~ttn; ~ylifu ~ith v;;ieM~te . E~l~s;d- 1 5. Always your choice of screen or hardcopy. I is my check or money order for $19.95. I 6. Enter birthdays only once - DateMate "remembers" I (Tenn. residents please include TY.% sale s tax.) I designated information from year to year. I Kaypro model: 0 2 0 ·4 0 10 [] Robie I 7. Major 1985 holidays already entered for you. I Computer Serial No.: I 8. Keeps track of important names, addresses, I Do and phone you have graphics? 0 Yes O No I numbers. Alphabetical sort if desired. I Word processing software package that came with your I 9 I Kaypro: D Perfect Writer D Wordstar I · Hospitable User's Guide with helpful hints. f : Name I D t M t T.M. :~~~~:=te,Zip ' a e a e ___,~ 1 Mail to: F R E S H W A R E 522 Glenpark Dr., DEPT. KG I Nashville, Tennessee 37217 •Hazel Monthly Planner Trademarks: Kaypro, Kaypro Corp.; Wordstar, Micropro. lnt'I.; L ------Thank You Very Much ------(R501/ 71) by Hazel. Inc. Perfect Writer. Perfect Software Corp.: DateMate. Freshware. <23> Sysop's Corner Here is a quick HOW - TO. Find the local number in your area which is listed in the starter kit, or you can KUG cal I the 800 is getting many requests for number for the latest numbers. information Put a disk about the KAYPRO USERS' GROUP containing your modem program on CompuServe in the A from interested members. drive and a blank disk in Perhaps the B drive. you are unfamiliar with Log into the B drive and CompuServe cal I up your and SIGs (Special Interest modem program: B>A:KMDM795. Groups]. If On the you have a modem and a command line type T CSFIRST.TRY • Run your o~der Kaypro at 4 or 5 MHz -up to 25% faster than new models the SIG is its database (X], The heart of • Easy Plug-in Installation and you can [A)ccess a database with the command XA followed by a number. For • Complete Illustrated Instructions example, if you wished to find a utility • Finest Quality Components or modem program you would type XA1 or XA6, which is where the Kaypro Users' Not a "piggyback" board - won't interfere Group SIG keeps its telecommunications with other upgrades using the zao socket. and utility programs. When in this area you wil I see the XA1: prompt. You can Kaypro II Kit 2A $49.95 search using ~eywords with the command Kaypro IV Kit 4A $39. 95 /Key: fol lowed by the keyword. Let's say you wished to find a copy of MODEM740. Money Back Guarantee of S_atisfaction You might type /KEY:modem740. You wil I notice that the extension on the program HIGHLAND M ·ICROKIT .BIN~ the rough listed is This is P.O. Box 21A equivalent of a .COM file. CIS stores information a bit differently than your Highland, MD 20777 Kaypro. .I · '3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx 1 2 0 2 0 2 g 2 0 6 3 6 0 4 j j a a u s s 0 u u u e e c 1 1 p 8 t 8 e e 8 ~ 8 2 2 2 2 2 KAY*FOG RBBS/RCP/M (KB) (415) 285-2687 Kaypro Upgrading Vacaville RBBS/RCPM [KI) (707) 448-1435 South Bay RBBS/RCPM (KB) ( 213) 370-2754 By Gregg Platt - PeopleTalk Associates JAC RBBS/RCPM (KB) (213) 618-0151 Downey RCP/M Exch Ctr (KB) (213) 806-2226 THE MODEM CONNECTION PART 2 Los Angeles Comm Sys CKBl ( 213) 935-7570 ASCII ATTIC (KB) (714) 381-2083 In our last article we talked about the K-WEST RBBS/RCPM (KB) (714) 432-9272 growth of the KAYPRO Network of Remote IUC RBBS/RCPM (KB) (714) 539-9418 CP/M systems and the unusual similarity MVKUG RBBS/RCPM (KB) (714) 581-1556 of these systems which now span the U.S. Moonstar ABBS (KB) (714) 861-8165 from Anchorage and Honolulu to Tampa and NBS RCP/M (KB) ( 818) 764-6166 New York. Though these systems vary in Glendale Litearia (KB) ( 818) 956-6164 cost from FREE to a high of $30 per year, Lost Dutchman RCP/M (KB) (602) 848-6708 they are unique in that they al I operate Computr Parlors RCP/M (KB) (303) 420-8052 in a similar manner. We're happy to Profes Softw RCP/M (KB) (303) 591-8756 report that the K-Net web continues to RCP/M Northwest (KB) (503) 777-6377 grow and now includes stations in Alaska SMUG RCPM/RBBS (KI) (509) 255-6324 and Michigan (see list below). NEW ON K-NET •.• Of course, if you're watching your check book you may prefer to try telecomputing Grand Travrerse (KB-FREE) (616) 947~1246 with an RCP/M which is closer to home PRO-COM RCPM #3 CKB-25/YR) (912) 929-8728 than Anchorage or Honolulu. If so, you'I I AKPRO-NET RCPM (KB-30/YR) (907) 248-2604 be pleased to know that there are lot's Write to: 2514 Captain Cook Dr. of good RCP/M systems which offer An~horage, AK 99503 or cal I 907-248-1735 software of special interest to the KAYPRO user. The list below includes al I those which mentioned KAYPRO in their listings. Those which actually use KAYPRO machines are marked with (KB) and those INTUITIVE DATABASE ..• which use other equipment but have KAYPRO areas are marked with (KI). Some months ago we mentioned a database program called SALVO which was being Although we haven't had an opportunity to released for the KAYPRO. This remarkable check out al I of these boards, so far as software combines a ful I relational data we know most of them don't have a member base product with a unique fourth genera inquiry ~hip fee (exceptions on fees are noted). tion programming language, and an variety However, some do ~equire that you leave feature which understands a wide your name and voice phone number and wait of plain English requests like: "List my for a cal I back from the system operator salemen and their customers and orders." before you can gain ful I access. The latest edition of SALVO looks even Happy Modeming ..• better than the ori~inal. It runs on any graphics-supporting KAYPR0-4, 2X or 10 CNY Tech RCP/M (KI ) [ 315) 437-4890 and also includes a flexible report Mid-Suffolk RCP/M [KI) (516) 751-5639 writer. SALVO also comes with sample CURA #1 RCP/M (KB) (718) 625-5931 programs and and useable manual. Not only CURA #3 NYKUG RCP/M [KB) (718) 624-9148 is Salvo truly relational but it makes KUGNJ1 ABBS (KB) ( 201 l 291-8319 complete use of the remarkable (Password="KUGNJ1") flexibility that a relational database Lyra Info Exch (KI) (201) 625-5728 provides; it is easier and more intuitive Greensburg RBBS-RCP/M (KI ) ( 412) 836-8407 than any other program I have seen. BCIS RCP/M & ABBS (KI) (703) 281-7907 Springfield RCP/M (KB) [703) 644-2299 At $495 SALVO is one of the best database PENsula KUG ABBS CKBl CS04l 838-1645 buys around. You can buy a limited file SBC's Channel 85 (KB) (313) 360-2050 size demo for $29.95 (with manual) from: Miami Bulletin & Exch (KB) (305) 854-7274 Cookeville ABBS (KB) (615) 528-5039 PeopleTalk, Box 863652, Plano, TX 75086 Physician's Resp Sys (KB) (615) 967-6889 Ph: (214)-423-4634 • . <27> Software Review Your search for information is based on "key words" and you can even define up to by Kenneth S. Blair 15 key words for your search. This means that unlike the "search" Two recent feature in most programs which run on the word processors, you can have Kaypro [and Free Filer other computers) for find those paragraphs or entries retrieving information which in a "free-form" contain word "a" and "b" and "c," format are Free Filer etc. by Telion Software This is a very useful feature for and SeekEasy from Correlation some Systems. applications where your search would otherwise produce They ~ large number of are similar in that they both offer "finds." Another extremely usefu I feature is its fast sorting routines for ability to find finding words regardless of information ·which has been stored whether the first as text letter is upper or without using "templates" or lower case •• "records." Each comes with a 32-page instruction manual which is clear, Each program configured easily, and complete, and "cute" in I was the way it so intrigued by the ability of SeekEasy explains the program's operation. Both to define special keys that I was tempted programs are very easy to configure even to run the configuration program again for ·a novice, have excel lent error just to watch it work. It is delightful I trapping, and appear to be "bug" free. However, However, after using both programs I this is where the similarity began asking ends. myself why I needed such programs in the first place. They were like wonderful SeekEasy answers looking for the offers you the ability to find proper question. info rmat i OI) even if your request is vague, incomplete, or misspeJ led. Your The Free Filer documentation suggested spelling only needs to come "close" when one application you request for doing a long research information from records paper with WordStar. stored in a file. Put al I your You need not concern research quotations together yourself with fields, in one file tags, records, and when a quote is needed, just delimiters, formats, or use the key words. In "R" command to run Free Fi I er short, you do not even and I et it have to remember find the proper quote to insert how your information was filed. right at the point where you are in your text. This is great in WordStar, but if you use Before you skip the rest of this review Perfect Writer, you would find Free Filer and order SeekEasy, you should also know only its slightly more convenient than the limitations. The biggest drawback is two windows that each and multiple · buffers. The file "entry" is limited to only manual suggests two lines another possible use by or about 156 characters. constructing a Further, you "Recipe Database" and then cannot use it on any of your sorting it according existing text or to the ingredients database generated you have on hand for files. You must preparing a meal. If make your two line you have the need entries while using for an equivalent the SeekEasy program. application in your Th is means you . will work, Free Filer may nesJ to do a lot of be excel lent for you. typing "in" before it wi 11 be worth your while to start retrieving "out." Actually, Free Filer comes in two versions. Free Filer Version 2.0 sells for $69.95 has the ability to retrieve and does and sort everything described above plus i~for~ation which you have alphabetical sorts, while produced wit~ - your word processor version 3.0 or sells for $149.95 and has database program. It can easily the additional find advantage of being able to display information within paragraphs of your long directory and look through all text files if you use the customary files or convention selected ones based on the standard CP/M of having two carriage returns "wi Id between paragraphs. card" usage. This improvement in This means that you version do not need 3.0 can make Free Filer much more to create special files usefu I • before you can start using Free Filer to find selected information. continued - <28> For example, I have used it to search through al I the files on a disk Vendors containing several years of an organization's minutes. It can quickly INVESTMENT SOFTWARE find a motion or action and write it to a from disk file or the printer. I have also $ware Tools for Investors used it to search through full disks of P.O. Box 645 information which I captured using my San Luis Rey, CA 92068 modem with bulletin board systems. It can be very efficient in finding that "new TRIVIA GAME bulletin board number" you forgot to from write down or a hint that "must be on one Media Productions & Marketing of those disks _ somewhere." 344 N. 27th Street Lincoln, NE 68503 SeekEasy offers different ideas for using its software. Some applications are MICROPRO TRAINING listing GUIDE articles in magazines, organizing from co 11 ect i ens such as recorded music, , and Jane Davis Publications keeping appointment logs or personal P.O. Box 717 information files. When information like Richboro, PA 18954 bibliographies or other listings take more than two lines, it is possible to MEDICAL OFFICE SYSTEM break them up under an author or subject heading. from Superior Software Corporation 202 13th Street, In September, Suite 206 Correlation Systems reduced Augusta, GA 30901 the price from $235.00 to $87.00, which may make it worth buying if you have a SHAKLEE DISTRIBUTOR'S regular SOFTWARE need for the type of searches it from does. They even offer a $15.00 "demo" Tom Cooper disk which has all the features of the 20 Chestnut Street "fu I 1-capab i Ii t y" disk except that the Mahwah, NJ 07430 size of the search file is very limited. Te lion Software wil I also sel I you a Free SECURITY PASSWORD Filer SYSTEM "demo" disk (for a nominal amount) from which wil I search files up to 2K. Mic re/Lock P.O. Box B My best use of SeekEasy is on my word Ki hei , HI 96753 processor disk. It uses 46K, plus your data file wil I expand as you fil I it, so BATTERY POWERED PORTABLE make sure PRINTER you have enough empty space on from your word processor disk if you want to Axonix Corporation use the program this way. If you are like 417 Wakara Way me, you have multiple interruptions while Salt Lake City, UT 84108 writing, such as phone cal Is, ideas you want to record, or reminders of something COMPUTERIZED GREETING you need CARDS to do later. Instead of having from your desk cluttered with little slips of Compugreet paper, it is nice to cal I up SeekEasy P.O. Box 3357 long enough to jot down your distraction Reston, VA 22090 and go right back to what you were working on. You can order the software directly from * * the publisher: SeekEasy from Correlation Systems, 81 Rockinghorse Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90274, (213) 833-3462; The VENDOR column is not advertising . We and Free Filer from Telion Software, P.O. wi 11 Ii st as many vendors as space Box 1464, La Mirada, CA 90637, (714) allows. These listings in no way 994-5135. ' represent our endorsement. <29> Kaypro users, Suliscribe now. If you own a Kaypro, six issues of PROFILES won't cost you a penny. If you've purchased a Kaypro computer, the cost of a six-issue PROFILES subscription was included in the purchase price. If you sent in your warranty card, you should be on the mailing list. If you haven't received an issue in the mail, please fill out the form below and send it in. We must have accurate serial numbers and zip codes for subscriptions to go through, so be thorough. Please allow 10-12 weeks for delivery. Note: the free subscription begins with the first issue you receive in the mail and has no relationship to the complimentary issue packed in your machine. If you don't have the luck to own a Kaypro, you can still subscribe (use the lower form). Or you can pick up a copy at any authorized Kaypro dealer. Call 800-44 7-4 700 for the dealer nearest you. Yes, I own a Kaypro. I ltl really like to receive six issues of PROFILES, free of charge. Nallle: ______~ (LAST) (HRST) (M.1.) Address: ______~ City: State: Zip: ______Kaypro Illodel: Date purchased: ___ Serial nulllber: ______(NO FREE SUBSCR IPT IONS WITHOUT SERIAL NUMBER) "OWNERS OUTSIDE O F U.S.A. SHOULD CONSULT THEIR KAY PRO DEALERS, OR WRITE TO KAYPRO INTERN AT IONAL, P.O. BOX N, DEL MAR, CA 92014 . 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ORANGE ~MICROWARE 4418-E Chapman, #311 , Orange, CA 92669 Ph # (714) 639-8106 :: ~ : : =. :: :=. : = : :=~~ · - ~= ~ =~=~=~ i: M:i5:~ : 1~i§i~i!rii:irjife~;rrl(=<;i:~1:iie~ti;:iot.::: : :: =. ::: : : :: KUGRAM is a KUG membership newsletter published 6 times KUG is provided as a service to its members for the purpose yearly. The fol lowing rates apply: of fostering the exchange of ideas to enhance their usage of Kaypro Computers. As such, little or no evaluation of the U.S. & DOMESTIC ... . $15.DO programs or products advertised is performed by Kaypro CANADA & MEXICO ..•• $20.00 (U.S. FUNDS) Corporation, in general, and KUG in particular. The INTERNATIONAL .. • .•. $25.00 (U.S. FUNDS) prospective user is hereby put on notice that the programs may contain faults the consequence of which Kaypro Corp. in Back issues, when ava ilable, are $3.00 each (sent prepaid). general and KUG in particular cannot be held responsible. The Send payments to: Kaypro Users' Group, Back I ssue, Box 100, prospective user· is, by virtue of obtaining and using these Malverne, NY 11565 .•.• Circulation number - (516) 746-0056. programs, assuming ful I risk for al I consequences. Al Gerson, Editor and Publisher KUG is i n no way affiliated with Kaypro Corp. other than its need to receive the latest up-to-date information from the Although it is a policy to check material placed in the company regarding the Kaypro Computer. KUGRAM for accuracy, KUG offers no warranty either expressed or implied, and is not responsible for any losses due to the KUG's Bui letin Board on Long Island is available to al I who use of any materia l in this newsletter. Articles submitted by wish to use it. However, all "downloading" may require the use rs and published in KUGRAM, which describe hardware use of the member's ID Number. Again, this is provided as a modifications, are not supported by Kaypro Corporation or service and KUG cannot be held responsible for any faults in Non-Linear Systems. the programs available. KUG's BB phone number is (516) 747-8308. CompuServe's Kaypro Forum (KUG SIG) is GD PCS 25. <31) Enhance Your KAYPRO® CP/M 2.2E The BackgroUnder Enhancements for the CP/ M operating system - with definable keys - • FASTCOPY. Much faster copy and format operation Suspend any program to: for single and double-sided disks. • Print the screen • Write a background file • PUBLIC FILES. Access one copy of your program and • Use a Help key • Use any built-in CP/M command related files from any user number. Fully definable keys: • Improved TYPE command - includes a print option . • Every key is redefinable - up to 255 characters • Automatic drive search, and other useful features. • All regular keys are still available • Create and save definitions while running a Plu*Perfect Writer program Enhancements for Perfect Writer versions 1.03 and 1.20 • Automatically load customized definitions for each program • One touch commands, using any keypad key. • Change the size of your swap file. Background printing: While editing, with new PW commands: • Print files while running programs. • Obtain a built-in directory listing • Change disks • Change user number (1.20) The Backgrounder - It's like having a second computer! • Set page size and move around pages (1 .20) (requires CP/M 2.2E) Available * for Kaypro II (2), 4 and 10·. .Enquire about installation * Previous customers: send original disk plus $5 to upgrade procedure on Kaypros with Drivetec.orives. to latest versions. ------~------See Your Dealer or Purchase Direct K-1 Plu*Perfect Writer & CP/M 2.2E $39 K-2 The Backgrounder $45 K-3 CP/M 2.2E $32 [Plu*Perfect Systems] Deduct $5 if ordering 2 or more disks Subtotal BOX 1494 • IDYLLWILD, CA 92349 • 714-659-4432 == California sales tax (6%) (Orders outside N. America, $5 shipping per disk. Shipping & handling 3.00 Any checks should be drawn on U.S. bank.) TOTAL Trademarks: The Backgrounder (Plu *Perfect Systems). Kaypro (Kaypro• Corporation). CP / M (Digital Research). Perfect Writer (Perfect Software). BULK AATE KAYPRO USERS GROUP U.S. POSTAGE POST OFFICE BOX 100 PAID MALVERN£. N.Y. U!ie5 Farmen~• . N.Y. Permit No. 51 NOTICE It's time for some KUGGERS to renew thei r membership. If your KUGRAM label has RENEW printed on it, your membership will expire after the next 1084 J 753090 RENEl.J issu~. J W DAVISON The renewal rate is S15.00 U.S.A ••• 117 LAMBUTH COURT -•20.00 CANADA CU.S.FundsJ and should .JACl<:.::;ON MS :3·:-n(Z>6 _ be mailed to KUG RENEWAL, Box 100, Malverne, NY 11585. ••••• I M P 0 R T A N T ••••• Please write your ID# on the face of the check. The number on the KUGRAM label is your ID number. ADDREll CORRECTION REQUEITED Sort and pack di rectory or Display this •enu llYment: f imagine the versatility, compatabiliry and power that CO-POWER-88 gives f 0 Personal Cheel< endosed (must clear bank before shipping} I you, allowing for both CP/M and MS-DOS, IBM-PC compatibility processing. t 0 Ccrd(kd Check ot Mimcy Order !'l'i<:i~. 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