T.DISKOVERY 2
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FILENAME(S): T.DISKOVERY 2
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..^U:DISKOVERY. DISKOVERY: THE RE
AL ONE.. BY FENDER TUCKER..
MY BROTHER, WHO IS AN IBM-TYPE.GUY, JUS
T UPGRADED TO OS/2 SO HE SENT.ME HIS OLD
IBM AT MODEL. LAST NIGHT.WAS THE FIRST
CHANCE I HAD TO TRY IT.OUT AND THE FIRS
T PROGRAM I TRIED WAS.WORD PERFECT, ARGU
ABLY THE.QUINTESSENTIAL WORD PROCESSOR..
. SINCE I DIDN'T BOTHER TO READ THE.M
ANUAL (WHO DOES?) I STARTED PRESSING.FUN
CTION KEYS HOPING FOR A HELP.SCREEN. WO
ULD YOU BELIEVE 26 HELP.SCREENS?... I
DIDN'T SEE THEM ALL BUT I.ASSUME THERE
ARE 26 SINCE YOU TYPE A.LETTER AND ALL O
F THE FUNCTIONS THAT.BEGIN WITH THAT LET
TER POP UP. THERE.WERE ABOUT TWENTY FUN
CTIONS THAT.BEGAN WITH A, TWENTY WITH B,
MAYBE.FORTY WITH C. MY MIND BOGGLED...
I GUESS HAVING THAT POWER CAN BE.INS
PIRATIONAL TO A CERTAIN TYPE OF.PERSON B
UT I COULDN'T HELP THINKING.THAT THE BES
T PROSE EVER WRITTEN IN.ENGLISH (IN MY H
UMBLE OPINION) WAS.THE NOVEL, "PALE FIRE
" BY VLADIMIR.NABOKOV, AND HE WROTE IT O
N 3 X 5.CARDS WITH A PENCIL. I UNDERSTA
ND.THAT IN HIS LATER YEARS HE SWITCHED.T
O A FELT-TIP PEN. TECHNOLOGY.MARCHES ON
.. I'M SURE THAT ONCE I GET USED TO.W
ORD PERFECT I'LL APPRECIATE SOME OF.ITS
FUNCTIONS BUT I'M AFRAID THAT TOO.OFTEN
WE ARE IMPRESSED BY THE FORM OF.SOMETHIN
G AND LOSE SIGHT OF THE.CONTENT... TH
ESE ARE STRANGE WORDS TO BE.READING IN L
OADSTAR SINCE WE SPEND SO.MUCH OF OUR TI
ME WORKING ON THE FORM.OF A PROGRAM AND
SOMETIMES LOSE TRACK.OF WHETHER THE PROG
RAM ACTUALLY DOES.ANYTHING. THERE ARE T
HREE OF US IN.THE LOADSTAR DEPARTMENT OF
SOFTDISK,.INC., JEFF JONES, SCOTT RESH
AND.MYSELF. I'M HOPING THAT OUR THREE,.
OFTEN DIVERGING, OPINIONS ON WHICH.PROGR
AMS TO PUBLISH WILL RESULT IN.THE BEST C
ONTENT POSSIBLE... [BY THE WAY, MIKE
MAYNARD AND JIM.ROW, TWO MAINSTAY PROGRA
MMERS OF.LOADSTAR FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS
HAVE.MOVED OVER INTO OTHER AREAS, THE.A
MIGA AND THE TANDY. THEY'RE NOT.TOTALLY
LOST TO LOADSTAR SINCE.THEY'RE RIGHT DO
WN THE HALL AND I'LL.UNDOUBTEDLY BE BOTH
ERING THEM SEVERAL.TIMES A DAY FOR NUTS
AND BOLTS.INFORMATION ABOUT PAST LOADSTA
RS.].. JEFF JONES, FROM GARY, INDIANA
,.HAS BEEN WITH LOADSTAR FOR A FEW.MONTH
S NOW AND I'M SURE YOU'VE.NOTICED A LOT
OF HIS STYLE AND INPUT.ON THE ISSUES SIN
CE #55. I WAS DOING.ALL OF THE WRITING
BEFORE HE CAME AND.WAS RUNNING OUT OF JO
KES... SCOTT RESH, FROM LANCASTER,.PE
NNSYLVANIA, HAS JUST JOINED US..HIS KNOW
LEDGE OF MACHINE LANGUAGE.TECHNIQUES, GE
OS AND THE STRUCTURE OF.THE COMMODORE CO
MPUTERS WILL COME IN.REAL HANDY, ESPECIA
LLY FOR ME. I.FIND THAT THE MORE DETAIL
S I LET.CREEP INTO MY HEAD, THE BLURRIER
THE.BIG PICTURE BECOMES. SCOTT IS A WI
Z.WITH DETAILS AND WILL KEEP THEM IN.HIS
HEAD WHILE I LEAN BACK AND.CONTEMPLATE
BIG PICTURES......... HERE ARE A FEW
TIDBITS THAT I.REMEMBERED TO WRITE DOWN
TO TALK.ABOUT IN DISKOVERY... BACK ON
LOADSTAR #56 I PROCLAIMED.THAT OUR MENU
NOW ALLOWED YOU TO.PRESS CMDR-L WITH AN
OTHER ISSUE OF.LOADSTAR IN THE DRIVE AND
IT WOULD.AUTOMATICALLY SWITCH TO THE NE
W.ISSUE'S MENU. WELL, THAT FEATURE.DIDN
'T GET IMPLEMENTED UNTIL THIS.ISSUE. TH
E FILES THAT ARE DIFFERENT.ON THIS ISSUE
ARE "PRESENTER" AND."HELLO CONNECT". I
F YOU WANT TO MAKE.ANY OLD LOADSTAR (SIN
CE #46) HAVE.THIS FEATURE, YOU WILL NEED
TO.REPLACE THOSE TWO FILES WITH THE ONE
S.ON THIS DISK... WE ADDED A FEATURE
TO THE COPY IT.FUNCTION THIS MONTH THAT
I HOPE YOU.LIKE. FROM THIS ISSUE ON, TH
E COPY.IT COMMAND WILL SUPPORT DRIVES 8
AND.9, IF YOU HAVE BOTH OF THEM CONNECTE
D.AND ON. THIS WILL MAKE COPYING MORE.C
ONVENIENT FOR READERS WHO HAVE TWO.DRIVE
S. SINGLE-DRIVE OWNERS WILL.FIND THE CO
PY IT FUNCTION UNCHANGED... ALSO STAR
TING WITH THIS ISSUE, WE.HAVE CHANGED TH
E 128 AUTO-BOOT SECTOR.SO THAT SIDES 0NE
, THREE AND FOUR.AUTOMATICALLY SEND YOU
TO THE REGULAR.C-64 LOADSTAR MENU WHEN Y
OU BOOT UP.IN 128 MODE. IS THIS A GOOD
MOVE?.YOU TELL US... THIS MIGHT BE A
GOOD TIME FOR ME.TO REITERATE LOADSTAR'S
POLICY ON 128.PROGRAMS. THE ONLY 128 P
ROGRAMS WE.PUBLISH ON LOADSTAR MONTHLY A
RE THE.ONES WE GET FROM COMMODORE MAGAZI
NE.AND THEY ARE ALWAYS ON SIDE TWO. WE.
SAVE ALL OF OUR 128 PROGRAMS FOR.LOADSTA
R 128 QUARTERLY, WHICH IS A.SEPARATE PUB
LICATION... THERE'S A ROUTINE CALLED
INPUT.ANY.O THAT I'M BECOMING A FANATIC.
ABOUT (SORT OF LIKE FONTS). IT'S AN.EAS
Y-TO-USE ML ROUTINE THAT GETS A.SPECIFIE
D NUMBER OF CHARACTERS FROM.AN OPEN FILE
AND PUTS THEM INTO A.STRING. IT'S FAST
, AND MORE.IMPORTANTLY, IT ENDS INPUT ON
A <CR>.RATHER THAN ON A COMMA OR A COLO
N... I RECOMMEND USING IT WHENEVER YO
U.WANT TO READ A TEXT FILE TO THE.SCREEN
OR INTO AN ARRAY. DO THE.FOLLOWING TO
PRINT AN ASCII FILE TO.THE SCREEN. THE
FILE CAN BE PRG OR.SEQ... (1) PUT THIS A
T THE VERY BEGINNING. OF YOUR PROGRA
M. DON'T CLR... 10 A$="".. (2) LOAD I
NPUT ANY.O INTO MEMORY. I. RECOMMEN
D THIS... 20 POKE147,0:SYS57812"INPUT
ANY.O". ,8,1:SYS62631.. (3) WHEN YO
U WANT TO READ THE FILE. FROM DISK,
DO SOMETHING LIKE:.. 560 OPEN3,8,3,"FI
LENAME". 570 SYS828,3,40. 580 PRINTA
$:IFST<>0THEN570. 590 CLOSE3.. THE
FIRST PARAMETER AFTER THE.SYS828 IS THE
FILE NUMBER (MUST AGREE.WITH THE FILE OP
ENED). THE SECOND.PARAMETER IS THE MAXI
MUM NUMBER OF.CHARACTERS INPUT. FOR LOA
DSTAR-TYPE.TEXT FILES (CREATED WITH EDST
AR OR.DISKWRITER) 40 IS A GOOD VALUE FOR
.THE LAST PARAMETER. THE STRING.RETURNE
D IS FOUND IN THE STRING YOU.DEFINED AT
THE BEGINNING OF YOUR.PROGRAM, IN THIS C
ASE, A$... YOU'LL FIND THIS ROUTINE A
LL OVER.LOADSTAR, AT LEAST THREE TIMES A
N.ISSUE. IT'S ON SIDES TWO, THREE AND.F
OUR OF THIS ISSUE... THE REASON THAT
I'M MENTIONING IT.IN DISKOVERY IS THAT I
N THE BITS.COLUMN ON LOADSTAR #55, MIKE
MAYNARD.EXPLAINED THE ML WORKINGS OF IT.
HE.MODIFIED IT SOMEWHAT AND ADDED A.QU
IRK. IF YOU USE THE VERSION FROM.BITS O
N #55, YOU'LL HAVE TO CHANGE.THE SYS828
TO SYS49152. ALSO, HE.SWITCHED THE ORDE
R OF THE PARAMETERS.EXPECTED. THE MAXIM
UM LENGTH OF THE.STRING IS SECOND AND TH
E FILE NUMBER.IS THIRD... HERE ARE TH
E SYNTAXES... SYS828,FILE NUMBER,MAXIMU
M LENGTH.. SYS49152,MAX LENGTH,FILE NUM
BER.. THE ONLY PLACE YOU'LL FIND THE.
SECOND VERSION ON LOADSTAR IS ON.ISSUE #
55 IN THE BITS COLUMN... THAT'S ALL F
OR NOW. THERE'S A.NEW PROGRAMMER'S NEWS
LETTER OUT THAT.HAS IMPORTANT INFORMATIO
N FOR.ASPIRANTS TO LOADSTAR PUBLISHING.F
AME. CALL 1-318-221-5134 OR WRITE.TO RH
ONDA REIMERS, P.O. BOX 30008,.SHREVEPORT
, LA 71130 AND ASK FOR IT... ****
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