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1. BBS EDITORIAL TI Another DOS fros ATARI You ve w t b kidding Fron 1 0 to 2 9 ER to 25 fa regression that van necessary 5 and now ATARI has announced ADDS to accoapany their new 5 i74 inch AF Si single enhanced and double density drive Announced at IER in Chicago LU ge I C release date vas given Gar is that a safe way to goo about ited f 1 M S dollar ach Wat Ge introduction welds Ca Crest La Dei nm you read y Wa me Wo oyes last ne oe weit expected something on on ICD Multi Im board this oo month Surprise eit is on its vay back ta Rockfordr LEES Zeng that not only does the spooler have the expected o o gt O _ probleas dut to a buggy ROW hipe but also has problems 000 that were not expected T vill review the problar upon return of the unit Blast or praise That s up to eae HI 199 KR K E Am that i Lief forthcoming ie Joseph gengt Taativay a nav wir of MS ot volunteered 40 convert the question and answer period coo the beginning of gach weeting into a egilar aonthly Aeusietter columny he needs a volunteer to record those questions and ansvers ina roughed out fashion and then provide thes to Ma Any volunteers Only talking of 15 Minutes a aenth Please contact ae if interested this is the sixth consecutive issue of the Nevsletter that has been duplicated as opp2. command line argument t tti if fp fopen Z argy r lt 9 f ik t If we couldn open it tell the user back up the tt file count and jump to the next file Also is a H D 14 is there than ye aren t in a shell so just set x 4 flag but show no arror Zi if Wargv 0 I nert arqvidltl SR if Ctmnext H ii next h s NO alse e printf 007 007Error t Ding print Invalid option Ir An 1next else E printf 007 007Error Ding amp printf Unable to open Ae fp Aid inf targy fp js gt continues 20 it IS Scan the file till s hit EDF D while d getc fp EOF E 1 33 Count the charactars 3 if d e An fr o Her ttn ttek Hat It tt Count the lines t else if d An Hl Hn lt nt 1 tt Check for the end of a word and count it if we think t ve found one fend of a word is a newlines a tab or D any white space 1 if daa t NU else if f ND f YES tu uts TE es Int 1 d it D Show the totals for this file anything D then close the file and prepare f we found paty for the next victia t if 1 0 printf 4 125 argy l nrint 7101d L 11010 Ws gUUIE printf 1101d C Ootd Cont nf c n i Lscsnsvs Ge iciose fp tt if more than one file was counted than show the grand t totals
3. EURGPEAN FNT STAT FANCY FNT WATERL PIE HEBREW FHT BREEK FNT INUIT FHT FONTROT BAS J08S SIDEATAR FNT KATAKANA FNT What is on the first disk DaS SYS NENU CHANGE SHOW DRAW PIE BUMPER START ORAPH TATLSRS Now that we know what is on the two disks we can load the deen program on the second disk called DENOL DAT We bring up the graph sodule fros disk one and then load the deso Iron disk two Up coses a Tutorial Denn Graph that we can use ta do a nusher of exneriaents The dean graph plats sir observations fros Mar thru Aug as points Hit the OPTION key to get to the SRAPH senu Create a new graph Update current file OIspiay a data file load Redisplay current graph Save graph data to disk Isage current graph to disk Alter graph labels Exit to program selection senu By updating the current file we can now choose to present the same data in several different ways The senu to do this jsi SELECT DESIRED GRAPH Line Point Bar Segeented bars Market Tic Connected Ze can display the data as a bar chart or a segaented bar chart tf we choose a line graph then there is a fill option so that we can fill with color the spaces between one or sore of our horizontal lines You also have the capability of plotting stock arket prices if you enter the data for the high low and closing prices shen you are ready to create your own graph you are presented with a aenu that asks you to Label facto
4. egister and another set up in the of the store for the bookkeeping station This program is set up at a remote location for invoicing with the remote disk taken to the main station for updating These invoices will be consolidated to a statement which Can show which individual invoices were paid and when This will then adjust the inventory to show what items were soid There is also a provision for items which are either delivered or scheduled ior delivery Then periodically when an actual inventory is taken the program will print out a listing showing what it thinks is in inventory against the computer fisting and then adjust the listing so that the computer listing is correct When requested the computer will show any discrepancies in the actual inventory and the computer s projected and wiil print out the differences Then if you want a cost of goods sold statement it will print one out However you have to set up the account listing by calling the necessary accounts using the spreadsheet program think this is one of the best small business system designed for the Atari computer The backbone of the program is the dated records handling Through this feature the program can do all the other things that have told you about If any of you have a small business and use the Atari for any of your business needs then you might give this piece of software a chance was sorry to hear that they were raising the price to 14
5. our newsletter so if there are any bugs rn sorry Since I don t have these printers I am not able to test ay typing Credit is given to those who contributed Special thanks to Werner Heck who was actually first up vith the SB 16 15 fix ALL PRINTERS by Bruce D Kolber JACE The following changes can be used on all printers if desired They are not printer specific i Add line 581 to display SORTING message for a longer period when loading a disk vith only a few graphics on it igi FOR DELAY iTO150 NEXT DELAYS Change lines 380 390 400 and 419 to make little easier to pick the correct function it a 390 P09 5 8 2 1 Print List of Graphics 390 POS 6 10 27 2 Rename Graphic 400 P0S 6 12 2 3 Print Graphics and Titles 410 P0S 5 14 2 4 Display Graphic and Title Change tines 1890 and 1900 to enable DMA Direct Memory Access The change in sequence of commands will correct the condition of the POKE to address 559 being S prematurely reset by the GRAPHICS 8 call This change vill eliainate the slight flash on the sereen when loading screen graphics 1399 GOSS 590 8R 3 POKE 559 02 POKE 1900 SCR PEEK 89 256 PEEK 89 2414 POIKE 710 19sPOKE 708 9 6R 16 5 34272 0 POKE 709 90 CTI PRINTER The following change vill eliainate the gap in the printed graphics while using Tom Pazel s print shop utility vith CTI printers Change line 1080 and add line 1081 as a reminder of previous setting for
6. M s s 201 958 8148 or the Pe ie a s _ wf emm u ee em vm Remember receiving the Jace Newale tter S oe GE Jest one oF the many benefits of EMO A x SEET of a am Robert P in B Crescent Road gt Pinebrook A vum Deg us tine apts Fp Akte Kee Mesta SE E 25 00 First clases mailing of newsletter add 6 00 Foreign member ships MEW MEMBER a m GE MEMBERSHIP APPI ICAT ION RENENAL __ FORMER MEMBER Se Denger 8 ti Lty etate coumen 2 Ul TE Seef G one Phorte Number WK SE A yt nt P a hb WK A NEW TO THE ATARI NEED A LITTLE HELP em SE MAYBE A JACG emm m amam AAT rymy 1 D I ap 1 BIC puas he h S a S i EI A CALL Se aa at Rees sett SEN EEN it Gorski O 313 SReridan Ave SE nS ts Rowell oy NJ 07203 rr 2011 241 4904 2 E tae H ries se CLASS MALL Jed CLASS MALL ic ee ua m Membership Renewal een Take a moment anid ech at your mailing label on A pecent issue of the JACG newsletter Check the bottom right hand corner following Last Issue This is the month year when your membership expires Try to renew t least one month early This helps s Keep our book Keeping in order and avoids your missing S ay issues of the newsletter 8 ei Thera are two easy ways to renew r f Fill out a membe
7. ST and my personal choice for ease of use and speed Dave Groves Sysop Coapuserva s ATARI Forums gt 17 15 VONSULTANTS Box 873 897 U S RT 130 Hightstown N J 08520 609 448 8888 9 AEN caL US FOR LOWEST PRICE We Are A Certified Atari Epson Service Center Dealer Low Overhead Low Prices 520 ST color or mono 1040 ST color or mono ALL EPSON Printers ST Software Peripherals Cables etc d d i x Lafen EE ES z TE e e r 2 gt Zz ae oe ce a z aa visa m c Sam 5pm mail orders r rr PR Tamram BOB SS SSE w Isi sas sqa 7 imas ZS _ Ze Gs Ze has 16 INTERLINK ST has been ay terminal program of choice for several months now and I don t even have the final version yet ST LOB April 1987 It has features such ass 3 MIAT BBS collects messages and unloads dounloads files Run programas from inside INTERLINK ST Loadatle transfer and eaulation protocols GEN Based t Full disk commands t Advanced auto dialer Super Recorder Playback lets you handle those repetitive chores like getting those same stock quotes every day t Clio Board Custom translation tables 1 48 line display option on monochrome Full continuous status display t Type ahead buffer lets you enter and edit a line before sending itigreat for chats t Online help gives you a quick reminder when you need i
8. Then hang around till the user hits a key before IZ returning to desktop or shell if H was selected 3 if ODL printf X6ld Filesi yi printf Z10ld L 2fOld W lt wt s print X101d 216d C nl An ict at if s ND printf AnPress any key to continue igot Ceonin printi An t Tha and of the KOUNT prograa SI And here aa sampile of the output produced Dr An program using the open application command line with the following inputs h kount X C alvertuc lookse c gt fil KOUNT 1 04 03 15 87 by Dan Rhea Public Domain KOUNT C e DL 773 W 5073 5259 Ctnl Error Unable to open X C fp 0 ELVERT C 910 L 4105 W 29716 C 30825 C n1 LOOKSE C 66 L 303 W 2068 2134 Ctal 3 Files 1162 L SIB K 36857 C 38019 C nl Press any key to continue You might notice the gt fil in the command line above That is an example of 1 0 redirection in a TTP program 1 used it to send the output of KOUNT TPP that normally gets sent to the screen to a disk file called FIL that I was then able to include with this article One final tiaitation of the TIP interface that you wight want to keep in mind is that it provides a very limited amount of space on the command line The one I entered above is just about as long as is practical If you need longer command lines then you need to obtain one of the command shells nentioned above hope this took care of a little b
9. also You get to the Message Area by typing W from the Nain Menu prompt From here you can read messages linearly with the R command or just read the new messages that is the messages you haven t read already with the N command Typing B from fhe Main Menu is the same as typing N from the Message Areas it s a Q urck way to read the new messages as soon as you Jo onto the BBS To actually use the tree to find or post about a topic of interest you aust type numbers As an example let s suppose you want to tali people about the super ney vord processor Deluxe WriteItAll that you just bought for your Atari S it First you type H from the Main Nenu You are brought to the Message Area and the Top of the Tree is shown See the list of branches each with a number in front of it Naturally you want to go to the Bit Branch so type the appropriate number 3 I believe and hit Return Yes this is the one place vhere you D have to use Return Now you are shown the 8 Bit Branch There is probably a list of more branches here too These are the various conversations about 8 bit Ataris You re going to start another one Type SES The BBS asks Enter a nessage under B Bit Branch Answer yes and type your nessage Hit gt esc or three RETURNS to finish and then type r to Save or to Quit without saving your message on the Tree 3y the uay the title of your aessage c
10. going into scientific notation was 2 to the 33 rd pover I think what alaost did me in was to find that 2 to the dard power calculated on my computer was 9589934641 enile ay oocket calculator returned the sore accuate answer of 3589934592 Even if I could accept scientific notations my pocket calculator would only go to 2 to ha 332 nd power SEH than I could obtain on ag computer What I wanted vas to see all the digits of 2 to the 32nd power all 100 of thea I wanted to be able to calculate numbers larger than my calculator or computer was capable of and to do it with 100 accuracy All this happened a few years ago refused any fora of therapy and have since learned to squeeze many large numbers from my machine The program contained in this article was written by ae and used to calculate powers of 2 large enough that the results can not be verified by a calculator I instructed the computer to calculate and when if reached 2 to the 1000th power to turn on the printer and print the results It ook almost two and one half hours of calculation on my Atari 860 The result vas a number with 332 digits It begins with the digits 107 and ends with the digits 376 A sort of self Poe is built into a run of powers of two All the units digits repeat in a cycle of 2 4 8 6 If I had an error any place in the calculation the pattern would be broken This vas a preliminary run to check out the progras and that is why I stopped it at
11. pover but pover they do require therefore I wired ROMEX into an existing electrical fixture in order to provide the necessary kilovatts Ready to start computing Ho vay What about the telephone Well I had some spare six conductor vire around only needed tvo conductors anyway should he a ffaple task Well at least it appeared sinple I have tvo lines four leads coming into the house Do you realize the coabinations and perautations that one can get into Eventually our sixth telephone instrument is installed a genuine SELL and I was able to hook up the 30698 All set to go Hell not quite It s a strange phanomenon Sut when things are soved fros one place to another you know the story Just ag an axample if took ae three hours this seraing to find Jen Forbes article for his isgue of the Nevsletter Well vith the hua of the de hunidifier the hirr of the clothes dryer and the clunk and slosh of the vashing machine all in the background this is Dave Joyes signing off until next month at which tise I aay have ay Multi 1 0 Doard back from ICD so that I can give it a proper review AVATEX 1200 MODIFICATION 1 s Color Net BBS PURPOSE Add Hi spead carrier detect to hacaae 100 Nayes coapatible NOTICE SEESEHEEEDISCLAIMERSE ERIS SEE COLOR NET TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITYFOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY THISMODIFICATION IF DONE CORRECTLYTHIS MOD WILL WORK Be ES 25059 25655395S 552555525995 E PART
12. prompt will give a list of commands for you to choose from All commands are one EEN and you do NOT have to hit Return Typing a Y Yell for Gary at any menu prompt will page Gary Gorski The BBS is in Gary s houses Tos Shoossith and Mark Knutsen are Reaote Sysfps If Gary is in he way break in to chat with you online If not the system will give you a chance to leave him a Hote Actually all of the SysQos read the Notes Typing a 5 Boodbye at any aenu prompt will end your session on the 335 You will be given the opportunity to leave a Note for Gary and then wili be asked if you really want to leave If you say yes the BBS will hang up on you Please use this command to leave the BBS do NOT hang up on the board yourself The amp character ampersand is the Fast Logout command Typing if at any menu proapt will end your session on the BBS immediately no questions asked Use sith care If you ever receive a Cmore gt prompt hit Return to print UNE more line or SPACE BAR to print another screen gt Most more proapts can be turned off by selecting View Options fron the Main Menu and following instructions If you are asked a yes no question hitting just Return will select the capitalized default letter For instance if you were asked Do you understand now Y n hitting Return would select yes some other questions that the BBS asks you give you a choice of letters to typ
13. tfopen Im File open routine 1 char next 3 next arguaent character t long int L i lines found C f c z characters found 1 Ns Dn characters found w nl Wr It d vords found 3 ly t i file s counted 1 lt D it total lines found t ct IO total characters found 3 nt t nt total characters found s nl H qt yt Total words Tound T it 2 files iron command line couat 3 j igot it console ingut zi i int f ff f transition flag 3 DH Sy t s shell fiag 1 d it a currant character t fz 4 Initialize the variables z f NO s YES l c zn uslt ch n vt st i D it t Check for arquaents if none explain how ve vork and quit t if arge f 1 I Dm Error if no quments 1 printf 007 007 3 Ding printf usages KXDUNT I H filel file2 a filed No printf H indicates hold for a keynress at J n printf Press any key to continue Ir igot Cconin 0 printf Vn exit 0 it 4 Take care of introductions and let en know thia is t printf KOUNT Bain nin 1 1 04 03 15 87 by Dan Rhea Public Now start grabbing filenames fros the command line d 3 decresent the command line arguaent counter as we go vhile argc gt 9 I rgusent 3 t Bump the file counter and open the file assure e have t a file not a command option also point to the ext 3 if present grab
14. the 1000th power My next assault will be to calculate 2 to the 132 049th power and then subtract 1 The result should be a 39 75 digit prine number It is estimated that it will take somewhere betveen five and seven days of calculation The largest number I have printed out to date is the 2662 digit deciaal equivalent of the fraction 1 14641 This calculation took only a matter of minutes The program vas a computer version of long division Computers have given natheaaticians the irrepressible urge to expolore very large numbers The value af Pi is aiready known to over sixteen aillion platas Such calculations are quite coason and raraly Sake gore than a day or so Sometises the calculation of Pi is used to Da Out NeW super cOaputars Harvey Nelson of Lawrence Livermore National Labs has calculated one million factorial 1 000 000 x 999 999 x 99 998 x seed a number consisting of 5 565 709 digits Even at 5 9 million digits this is considered a small number in the reals of mathematics In 1940 Kasner and Nevaan introduced the tera qoogol in their book This tera vas seant to describe the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros or ten to the one hundred power In American nosenclature the googol can best be described as ten duotrigintillion The concept of the googol was further expanded to the googolplex a 1 followed by a googol of zeros This number is so large it literally can not be written out It was best des
15. the aiddle of a job you can do so t you pick the second subeenu a SRAPH FUNCTION aenu coaes J Create a new graph Update current file Display a data file load gt Redisplay current graph 10 3 Gave graph data to disk 4 Isage current graph to disk 7 Alter graph labels B Exit to program selection menu H you pick the first subsenu Create a new graph then you get the aessage Graphs say display from i to 3 factors each with from 2 to i00 data points They aay be labelled as 1 iio 2 Years 3 Units Select I 2 or 3 This sessage is followed with Enter top title Enter secondary titie Enter side title Enter graph Dn the new graph you have the option of placing a border around it or just a right hand vertical border Next on the aens is the option Update current file Instead of trying te create a new graph we can experisent with a sample graph that is included with the package Fros the sain senu invoke option OF called Mini D0S functions You will be asked to load the second The new senu becoses 1 Forsat disk 2 Disk directory 3 Delete file Rename file Lock file amp Unlock file 7 Return to gain wenu LD el If we invoke the disk directory we get a listing of the files on the second disk AJAX IE HERU ARN NAPHARS i JERS Pit BAPSARS 2 CARS STS HAPWARS j CHI REGRESS COMPUTER FAT PLARET CORR POP PIE DERO OAT PICLGAD BAS B1ND0S RUSSIAN FNT
16. 5 DISK DRIVE Ha d SM LD E Gi H e f SYSTEM CONSISTS OF 41040ST CPU WITH BUILT IN DS DD DISK DRIVE amp MOUSE lt SM124 MONO MONITOROR 801224 COLOR MONTE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF o SG 520ST CPU WITH MOUSE SF354 SS DD DISK DRIVE amp SM124 MONO MONITOR OR C1224 COLOR MONITOR HD204 20 MEG HARD DRIVE re SF354 SS DD DISK DRIVE SF314 DS DD DISK DRIVE SM124 MONO MONITOR 159 SC1224 COLOR MONITOR 319 SMM804 DM PRINTER w cable 8X212 300 1200 MODEM i SUBSTITUTE SF314 FOR Se I IN 520 ST PACKAGE ADD Ki 95 CEDAR K KNOLLS NJ O 07927 YOUR ATARI CONNECTION x NEW SDFTWARE E Tonlinson JACS if you have visited a computer store racently you ar have noticed that there is not too much new software coming out for the Atari computers You probably looked at the software available for sone of the other computers and vished there was an Atari version Recently I have had the opportunity to try many of these prograas and I discovered that I really don t want Atari versions While some of the programs were very good a great number of them vere very bad Maybe some examples will help illustrate ay point For the C64 you would probably feel as if you wasted your soney if you bought Tag Team Wrestling or Breakthru by Data East They also did horrible versions of Karate Champ and Karate Master
17. 9 95 but when you compare the suggested price of SynCalc SynFile and AtariWriter it is close to 150 00 or more Their word processor has a spelling checker included like AtariWriter This will also include what they call a cookbook approach to setting the program up and think this would be a good improvement Presently a weak point is the difficulty in setting up the program Finally the best version of the program is SpartaDos because it has the largest records handiing capacity for any of the following areas payments records addresses invoices and inventory However you must have acopy of SpartaDos to have the other files necessary like AINIT XCOPY and the other files included in the Construction Set Aiso you have the documentation on now the DCS works which MicroMiser does not cover in depth The program has been updated to work with a hard drive or the new M10 box that IDC has introcuced This program is good but at the mew higher price am leery of how well it wil sel Sut it was not my Marketing decision io raise the price it will stil sell ior the IBM i hope that they are successful at marketing this software because this could give the Atari a good application program forthe small business The only problem is that the manufacturer is not marketing this through Atari dealers because they are concerned with pirating think this may be a mistake because the dealers can sell the program aetter by de
18. F 7203 I ee AE ee A o S 5 S e Damme e Mark Knutsen E d Gary J Sorski KEE Thomas Shoosai th The DEEN atari Computer vam unge is ap independent intornal organization of ATARI computer users It is not affiliated ith stari or any ather commercial enterprise Opinions expresstd in this peblication refiect only the views of the individual authar and d not necessarily represent the views of Jats Material in this Newsletter nay bP reprinted bg ather Atari iser Groups provided the author if applicable and JAC amp are given credit ORLY cet alee work nay be reprinted Questions concerning reprinting should be addressed to the Editor S
19. JERSEY ATARI COMPUTER SROUP E PINE BROOK NJ EE n56 PINE BROOK NEW JERS EY 37958 Skee ER SE baad aawuaqaaqanaqaaq eidele gugkanagg IT Sc D EE TEESE WERE aga ARSE HERTEN jd DER apang TURES T Jace NEWSLETTER VOLUME A NUMBER 5 uy 1987 p e CG G EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT EF VICE PRESIDENT WH VICE PRESIDENT E oe p es J BIT dt a ee ame Thomas Pazel ae S y S Doug dan Hook Ka Thowas Shoossith _ 70 Mitchell Rd T 7 e ASA 40 Meadov Lane ZEN 93 Patricia Ave s kchitieegt O70 iaa 07012 Ss _ ColoniayNd 07067 ee N E eme Wee SES ten SECRETARY amp ai Vandenberg rt a ss David B Noyes E x MEMBERSHIP arfield Aves e y 3 Ann Rd Robert P Mulhearn SS Plainfield NJ 07060 S a Long Valley NJ 07853 e l 8 Crescent Road g 201 753 2416 EE S Cesta 201 852 3165 Pinebrook NI 07058 201 373 6789 r O s 201 575 0067 BCE ee S tj INTERNATIONAL CHATRMAN si Stanton ee eee Barry Weissman gt EES SC Y ZS SE 125 Runyon Ave s Bra Callegari Pia Kaes Piscataway NJ 08854 208 Division St Floor 2 Tovaco iNJ 07082 a 201 385 5161 7 i Boonton N 07005 S 201 334 4443 y SS e SE O E Kee PRES EMERITUS x C ADVERTISING k S e E ES w WW Joseph 8 3 Kennedy ee ee Coo Dave Green Poe 7 E 426 Jupiter Ste Gary d Gorski Doug Van Hook eg 2 os ClarkiNJ 07066 os 203 Sheridan Ave EES Miller st d i i 201 381 5559 e g Roselle N
20. S NEEDED i MC1488 chip Radio Shack 276 2526 R5 232 driver 2 feet af 20 gauge hook up wire GETTING STARTED After opening up the modem locate ICE USO located by the RS 232 connector Take the new IC and fold up all pins EXCEPT 1 7 and f4 Now piggy back the new IC onto IC 30 Using a light wattage soldering gun solder pins 1 7 and 14 of the new IC to pins 81 7 and 14 of IL 090 Now take a wire from pin 2 of the new IC to pin i2 of IC 023 located just behind LED s Now take a vire from pin 3 of the mew I to pin i2 of the RS 232 connector Now take your wire to pins 4 5 9 10 and 12 and solder all these pins together ve re making a heat sink to keep the new chip from over heating After you have soldered all these pins together solder a wire froa board ground of the modem to these pins Thats it To test what you have just completed take a piece of vire and ground the cathode end banded side of the HS LED if all was done correctly the HS LED should light and with a VOM connected to pin 12 on the RS 232 connector you should read about 8 volts or so If you re not sure how to do this you can sail ae your aoden along vith a aoney order for 25 00 to SYSOP COLOR NET P U BOX 2192 PETERSBURG VA 23804 Be sure to send it by U S MAIL UPS vill NOT deliver to a Pid BOX Ye vill aake the aods test it and send it back by return aail e Tes ee CH T fy K GRAPHS by Do
21. W 1990 IMAGE SCANNER COMING If you have s tO SE then you m ild through apri R es Several Tenth ago ea came out that a guy in Texas was making an image scanner that would fit on top ofa printhead ala the Thunderscan for Macintosh computers At that time the price was 59 95 nding Oti sb ut th EE the designer and ended up redoing the software According to Deron Kazmeier the author of PP the original software is 3 kludge The new software was finished in tate May and the package returned to Texas It should be released by the time ycu read this for 99 95 These who don t want to wait for the local stores to obtain the seanner can send a card to the following address Seymor Radix P O Box 16058 Irving Texas 75061 The word is not to send money the package will be sent COD to those on the waiting list Needless to say yours truly is on that list ty The first picture is from some clip art basad on a Japanese animated film printed at 42 original size The second image is fram CLIPARTLINY in the library and printed at 100 GEnie Where It s At By this point in the column you may he won dering where I ve been getting all this lin Gerd ng information The answer is GEni General Electric Network for Information Ex 2hanzge if you are using Publishing Partner very much ai ali and haves modem you should seriously consider getting upon this Less azpensivye than T tunately it has fewer pho
22. abers then set PRONPTING on and enter as the prompt character 3 All o a sudden the cursor is moving on the screen but 1 can t see any text being displayed What s nappened and what can I do to fix it Ansvert Line noise has resulted in FLASH being sent an escape sequence that has changed the text color to the vhite The same error can cause text and background If you are using color monitor then you aay see strange combinations of text and background color e g red text on a black background The solution is to use the MODE command to reset the terminal emulation mode Press on ALT M and hit enter This will reset the colors to their default values while leaving the terminal emulation type unchanged 4 While uploading or downloading a file using Ynodem I see error messages on the bottom line of the screen Does this mean the file transfer vas bad Ansver Xmodem is very good at recovering from errors due to line noise and it s quite normal to see occasional error messages such as Checksum error or Sector number error If a fatal error occurs FLASH will always put a message on the bottom of the screen which includes the phrase modem Aborted In addition the other computer will usually realize that a fatal error occurred and also display an error message FLASH will typically try at least ten tiges to send recieve each block of the file before giving up 5 How do I edit the FLASH 00 files Answer Simple Just l
23. an de up ko about 100 characters long so sometiaes your entire message can conveniently fit in the title The Other BBS Menu Sa a TEEN Get here by typing from the Main Menu then type U to view our growing list of other Bulletin Board Systems Also check out the list of PC Pursuit accessible BBSs type P If your favorite Bulletin Board System is not on the list why not add it yourself Use the comaand and give as auch helpful information as you can Be sure to add PCP to the BBS name if you know it s PC Pursuit accessible The Polling Area en em em d opt F G ep Em G ve rn mr get Ger V ote in a Poll or just Look at the results There are many public polls here on a variety of subjects P fros the Main Menu gets you here and O of course gets you back THE Ent Ze SSs BLOCK Mem DIAGRAM at main HBa Z erage TER From amy af These returns Tu Main Manu PDG Doug Van Hook JACE his article was written by FINAID author David Dvorin WI was placed into our Library quickly in response to ibers pointing out that we could use wore business grass The only thing missing from David s article is it a translator disk is needed to run this program rid has agreed to aresent the disk of the sonth and so to explain the basic concepts of FINANCIAL PLANNING is a real thrill to introduce disk 123 because it vas itten by a meaber of JACS I a sure that many others in r group have wr
24. ard drive has been added to the system and the nuaber of messages callers and download files increases daily Thanks are due to the JACG Executive Board for p having the faith to invest club funds in this new ST based venture and especially to Sary Gorski and Tom Shoosaith for the many long hours that they spend attending to the systea Without people like them a coaputer Bulletin Beard cannot Survive Of course the JACE BBS is a ZMAG board and Le also surprise accessible via Telenet s PC Pursuit service Why not give us a call Your suggestions for comments on and questions about BB ST are especially encouraged Dur nusber again is 201 298 0161 and when you call don t forget to tell us I read about it in Zmag a w w w hab Zb ee ee s sm j lIPart IUI As 8 Bit Vice President of the Jersey Atari Computer Group 1 try to provide good representation for our membership especially our B Bit membership My name is Doug Van Hook and I m just one of the members on the JACG production line The production line produces Quality Meetings a state of the art Bulletin Board an Award Winning Newsletter and a Disk Library bulging with the latest 8 Bit and 16 Bit Public Domain Software A large part of my job is to convince aeabers friends and software producers to demonstrate software or speak at our meetings We like to jive our eabers the chance to see or hear about software products befo
25. at feed This is the same kind of printer that Frank Pazel used for over 30 of our prior newsletters A local video store used one of these for receints for two years and never had a problem Supported by most software and interfaces Like new 175 90 Please contact Bill Martin at the meeting or NOISE from NOYES D Noyes IS With great fanfara and vith as i uraed aut avan greater effort The D Noyes Cosputer Centar has aovad from the bedroom to the dark humid buggy and I don t aean the horse or horse less type or the software type Tecesses of the Noyes hasenent Tucked avay in a corner ay aquipsent is guarded by a group of some of the vickedest locking spiders and other cravling creatures that I have ever set eyes upon at least I won t be lonely In true Noyes fashion the move vas neither easy nor without incident To begin with ve are talking Tu flights of stairs thus FOUR stairways per trip loaded down with the accumulation of over three years of computing the number of trips vas sonevhere between countless and infinite Of course prior to even moving down there vas the necessity to clear the required area a 10 000 pound bomb and a back hoe vere sufficient Eventually I vas able to reconstruct the neg that vat in the bedrooa into a nev aess in the basement but that vas only the beginning Computers do not verk very well without over granted they don t require auch
26. cribed by Isaac Asiaov in his book Asiaoy on Nuabers The googolplex is so large that you could not write the nuaber on the entire surface of the earth if you made each zero no larger than an atom It is equal fo a trillions trillion repeating the word trillion one trillion tines recent article in Parade Magazine for May 31 1987 gives the following information on counting large numbers at a rate of one per second Although it takes only about seventeen ainutes to count to a thousand it would take twelve days to count to a million A billion would take 32 years while a trillion clocks in at 32 000 years With computers getting larger and faster each year I look forward to many years of calculating larger and larger nuabers 10 GRAPHICS 5 PRINT 2 TO THE POWER OF N 16 PRINT 20 DIR Al1060 30 H 0 C 0 40 Ueu 30 FOR 1 T 1000 A 1 0 NEXT I 80 A 1 1 70 Les Cp 13 POKE 559 0 77 IF PEEK 53279 7 THEN POKE 539 34 80 M M 1 90 Ihi 100 BeACI ACT C ti IF B lt 10 THEN C 0 6DTD 149 120 B B 10 30 Cl 140 A 1 8 130 IF I lt THEN O 160 IF C 1 THEN 96 63 IF M z1000 THEN POKE 828 166 POKE 339 238 170 PRINT M POWER OF Zeng 180 D I 190 FOR Nei TO 1 STEP 1 200 PRINT ACN 210 NEXT N 220 PRINT PRINT 230 BUTO 70 Look at the program listing Between lines 20 and 50 I set aside one thousand places and then set each equal to zero actually I only used three hundred two places whe
27. ctor rollover Perfora algebraic operations Not anplicable data estisates Change order of factors Decrease nuaber of factors Insert factor from another graph Visicalc D I F conversion ASCII file conversion Browse data in Geer Return to gain menu B GRAPH gives you all these capabilities to display your data There is also an impressive set of tools for data analysis The first one is the Statistics Function enu Load a data file T test F test Chi square test oraal distribution prchabiiiiy Poisson distribution probability Binosial distribution probability Standard statistics Review data in aesory browse Exit to program selection senu If soap of these functions are unfaailiar the decuaentaticn gives a clear if brief description of all of thea There is another package to do regression analysis by fitting a aathematical curve to a set of data points Hers is the Regression Function Hemi o a regression on data file hange regression curve lot a function alue interpolation edisplay current graph ave data to disk f aage current graph to disk xit to program selection menu he last progras in the B GRAPH statistical package lets you Set the correlation between tso factors Here is the vorrelation Function Menu lt lt vad 3 data file Rank correlation Gogar san Staple correlation Exit to pragras selection senu To test these statistics program 8 GRAPH also provides you with a nusher o
28. dow Again by using the SELECTJ and COPTION function keys you can either go back to the SELECTION window and start a new subprogram or you can go back to the INPUT DATA window and re vork the same subprogram There are Sone limitations of the V device I did not know how to overcome First as explained by Mr Brannon in the VIDEO B article no fancy cursor controls here backspace is the only editing key The cursor appears only during INPUT The problem being I do not like relinquishing control over to BASIC for keyboard input which is what happens with the INPUT statement A SET input routine could be developed but the V device vould still not support the editting keys Even backspace vould se gone vith a GET routine Second the RESULT window aust be redrawn when printing to it because the box outline is removed with the corners defined as they are Playing vith the size of the vindow showed that the best solution was to siaply redraw the RESULT window as opposed to leave part of it blanked out You will see what I aean when you use this program There you have it An application for progran I hope you find FINAID useful the VIDEO 80 e w w G v w mm ep emm M PROWRITER 95198 PRINTER The dor kherse Includes original full documentation and the service manual plus the additional memory chip and special character documentation by Leading Edge Supports double column and includes both tractor and single she
29. e like A b c The default is again capitalized The Bulletin Menu OD deh s s You arrive here first after you log on and give the system your password You can alse get here by typing B from the Main Menu Type a number to read a bulletin ar D to get to the Main Nenu The Main Menu h din am Qm Q m w x s Jm s om This is the center of the BBS From here you can get anywhere else on the board and typing Hr for Quit to Main Menu anywhere gets you back here If you re at the Hain Menu already typing 9 does a Quick Message Scan see belov Some of the commands available from the Nain Menu are C Lets you see the names of the most recent callers of the BBS E Lets you send private Electronic Mail to anyone on Se BBS Lets you send a Note to Gary and the other Systps Lets you read your Email Also lets you read the Email you ve sent to others which you may delete T Shows the currant time and date U Prints a list of all the users of the BBS Use this list to find the correct spelling of a person s nane S that you can send him her Email Y Presents a list of statistics about yourself and then lets you change some options like auaber of lines on your screen number of columns whether or not you want more prompts etc The File Area See een ee 4 s s w Here s where we keep all of the goodies Hundreds of files are waiting in the File Area for you to choose from To get
30. e logically stored the information Makes sense Now that I m logical I ve discovered that I m also lazy t s an effort to stand up and get the binder dawn from the top shelf just to run one little program that I downioaded from Compuserve Usually that documentation is just a page or tvo so I set up an Atarivriter file called DISKDOC DISKDOC is a pre formatted file to which I append the documentation use the following settings and print out a strip of condensed font that folds up and fits right in the disk envelope Whenever I run the file the documentation is at hand Here are the default settings that I use on ay Provriter Sets condensed font sets left margin at 20 sets right margin at 69 Control 52 Control 20 Control Ru Control DI sets paragraph spacing at 1 Control Ji sets right justification Control 1 sets spacing at 1 I then type in one line that says Disk docusentation dumay file and save it Whenever I vant to print out a set of docuaentation I load OISKDQC and then use the OPTION L sequence to append ay existing file onto the DISKDOC file and send it to the printer No fuss no muss and the inforaation is always at hand 14 MODIFICATIDNS T THE JACS PRINT SHOP UTILITY M Martin JACG INC Rovised September 1236 Since Tom Pazel finished the Print Shop Utility program last May some of our meabers have made song Changes that say be of value to you I retyped them from
31. f data files PLANET gives you the distances and orbital velocities of the planets fros Mars to Pluto ARM gives you world spending for aras and foreign aid fros 1980 to 979 WATERL PIE is a pie chart of French and Allied casualties at Waterloo MAPWARS 1 2 amp 3 give casualties for battles in the Napoleonic wars where acre than 1 000 000 soldiers were killed JOBS is the twenty year trend in the number of military personnel teachers and doctors in the world sore than 57 million if you are not ispressed you should be m m w s t emm m s mem R Kovacs JACS Connon Questions and Answers about FLASH terminal or opt ag i I have a touch tone line dial using touchtone Answer Go to the menu bar and select DIAL DIRECTORY from the EDIT section Click on the button that says ALTER SETTINGS and change the Prefixto ATOT Then hif return to exit the dialog and select SAVE from the FILE section When the File Selection dialog box appears click on Configuration and save the configuration as the default name FLASH DN This makes sure that the dialer prefix will stay ag ATDT the next time FLASHis run 2 I m trying to upload a sessage to CompuServe using Ascii upload but the text appears scrambled and there are missing characters Roy do I tell FLASH to 12 colors to become reversed Answer Change the ASCII upload setting to set METERING on If you are using the SIB editor that gives you line nu
32. for the Apple and Commando for the IBM Be happy that Accolade has not released Psi 3 Trading Company or Desert Fox for the Atari I would add Super Cycle Sub Battle and World s Greatest Football by Epyx Ultimate Wizard by Electronic Arts Quake Minus One Lords Of Midnight and all of the horrible text adventures by Mindscape to any list of bad programs Star Trek by Simon and Shuster GFL Football Web Dimension and Titantic by Activision and many of the Avalon Hill Cosmi and Artvorx software are bad Be happy you are using the Atari version of Paperclip or that you don t have to choose among fast load cartridges for your Atari Of course this doesn t wean that all of the software for other computers is bad I would love to see Atari versions of Gunship or Pirates by Microprose Defender Of The Crown by Mindscape or many of the excellent programs by Electronic Arts So tha next tiae you visit a computer stora and see an endless number of new software programs for the other cosputers console yourself by thinking about How sany aust be bad MicroMod 3 0 by MicroNiod Software by Clint F Fagg lli I Reprinted from the Jan 1987 issueot HACE newsletter This is avery good piece of software for a small business that owns an Atari computer ior such things as word processing This would by a good program for an attorney who wants to do such things as time billing or a small store that has one Atari set up as a cash
33. he simple addition of one option The option keeps the program from returning directly back to the desktop once it has completed It will also illustrate the use of the C constructs argc and argy in processing presented to us via the command line In the case of TIP that is the line in the Open Application dialog box This sroqraa basically counts all the lines characters and words in a file or a set of files and ii wore than one file is processed it produces total statistics This can ba handy for orograaaers or yriters who would like to keep track of their productivity or lack of same The program is highly modified but is based on the program WE by Brian Kerninghsn and P J Plauger in their book Software Tools Addison Wesley 1976 The birthplace of such tools as CAT DIFF SREP LPR MORE and so on KOUNT count lines words and chars with without nevlines in files supplied via command line and produce an individual file and total of all files report The program is a modification of the WC program by Kerninghan and Ritchie It is by Jan Rhea and if is in the deg ii Domain 19 arguments lisage KOUNT H fiyllfilrtiln EE include tosdefs h Winclude osbind h include stdio h aain argcs argy IW 3 Parameter definitions comsand line 17 char atqv 1 3 ag arquaent vector pointer int argc ft arge argument counter f i D Variable declarations I FILE ip File Streaa 17
34. ide to order these fonts from Soft Logik instead of waiting on the distributor pipeline take note Soft Lagik s sddrees changad in April but hasn t yet changed in their ads The correct address is Sort Logik Corp 11137 5 Town Square Suite G St Louis MO 63123 CLIPART Another drawback in the tnitial release of Publishing Partner is the lack of clip art or at least good monochrome ariwork for those with Out inclination or time to do their own Three clip art disks are now available from Fonit Pactory again through Soft Logik for 19 95 each I have also down loaded a group of six clipart Files and sent those to Charlie Miller for the disk library Those at the June meeting had a chance to see the printouts several examples are Scattered throughout this article Also for those with Print Master disk 39 includes a program that converts three PM icons to 4 Degas PIS file See the header of this column for a sample The program is rather primitive as yet but the suthor plans to keep refining it and eventually make it n accessory Of course those who have the money can buy Computereyes or Realitizer and a video camera and obtain images thai way Those of us who don t have that kind of money to spend are cut of luck orare w a The icons are from CLIPART3 and 4 the chimp is from CLIPART6 The image is printed at 83 about 90 dots per inch The printer is an Epson LQ 1000
35. ing to take on yet another job for the club and so one of my problems was solved At about the same time a decision vas made fo use one of the club s 6 bit aachines to run the BBS in the hope of providing a faster more powerful system to the users This neant a search for software as the STs have not been around as long as the 8 bitters and the range of BBS software to choose from is limited An ad in the December 86 issue of Analog magazine intrigued me and I gave Buantug Microsystees Inc a call regarding their new B8 ST software It turned out that I was one of the first to inquire and the JACS BBS became the very first end user beta test site for BB ST Only one problem now remained How was attending Rutgers University New Jersey to regularly call the new BBS in Roselle without draining my bank account to pay long distance charges The amazing PC Pursuit service came to the rescue here The system was put on line in aid January of this year running BB ST version 1 00 on a 52057 with one single sided drive and a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 Gary and I were soon joined by JACS 6 bit Vice President Tom Shoosaith who brought his ST expertise and coaputer programming know how to the team of SysOps Together we weathered the first few rough aonths of system crashes and bug fixes to the still developing softvare Today BB ST is in version 1 03 and is becoming very well behaved An SH204 20 megabyte h
36. it of the confusion surrounding the TTP type orograas f there is sufficient interest next aonth I will try to demystify that other bit of ST arcaneay The ARE file and its companion ARC TTP c Copyright 1987 by Dan Rhea meee ee emm rb y u FOR SALE Atari B n Computer with 48K RAM GTIA Rev B OS Atari 810 Disk Drive Newer Type Panasonic 13 inch Amber monitor Also included are Atari BASIC Atarivriter wordprocessor Atari Spelling Checker Movie Maker by Electronic Arts and all cables All components are in NINT condition Asking 350 or best offer for everything Call Paul Machiaverna at 201 687 3878 21 The JACG Zmag Articles Fart II i laag is a veekly publication of Syndicate Services Yocated in Middlesex NJ Ron Kovacs the Sysop of bhe Syndicate Bulletin Board System edits the newsletter yhich is distributed nationwide to computer Bulletin Boards such as our ovn JACE BBS and to information services such as CompuServe and Genie The Jersey Atari Computer Group was selected as the imag User Group of the Month for May 1987 Articles by INS menbers appeared in the May issues of Zeag This sonth we reprint the third and fourth JACG Zaag articles vhich originally appeared in Zaag 52 and 454 repertively 201 298 0161 You have reached the NEW JACG BBS the official Bulletin Board System of the Jersey Atari Computer Group located in beautiful downtown Roselle first vi
37. itten quality business softvara member UNCLE SAN CORY NEEDS YRU In the April 1983 issue of COMPUTE there appeared a ogram VIDED 86 that showed one of the aost interesting icets of the Atari s flexibility and power 80 coluan splay through software After spending the fev hours quired to type it iny was amazed to see ay Atari 800 10v off BO columns with the option of independently rolling windows Letting my imagination carry me inther I thought it was only a matter of time before an integrated software package designed to take advantage f Mr Charles Brannon s 80 column softcard vould appear n the pages of COMPUTE To my knowledge nothing yet as been printed using this Atari 86 column display so llow me to proudly present ay applications FINATO The program consists of 8 subprograas that aid in inancial decisions The B subprograms find the 1 future value of an investment 2 future value of regular deposits 3 amount of regular deposits 4 amount of regular withdrawals 5 amount of initial investment 6 amount of siniaue investaent 7 nominal interest rate 8 affective interest rate Before using FINAID you aust have the VISES 80 program saded into aemory This can done by the BOS option TL Ir by having VIDEO Sp in an AUTORUN SYS file Jt would irove convenient to save FINAID on the same disk as VIDEU iO The prograa is crunched as auch as possible to educed the memory requirement to a miniaua Whe
38. line spacing make this change to the gt can be changed Epson version 1080 PUTH 27 PUTR SA PUTH 2UsREM 21 216 14 144 inch spacing for cti printer 1091 REM set to 24 216 16 144 for Epson printer S G 10 15 PRINTER be Werner Heck JACE To get the Print Shop Utilities to work with the SG 10 15 printer ten 10 lines of code have to be changed Six 6 lines in the main program and four 4 in the nenu program Either the Epson or the Prowriter codes I choose the Epson aain prograa SR EPS 600 PUT L 27 PUT 1 66sPUT 1 2 REM Elite 690 PUT 1 27 PUTEL 662 PUT LIREN Pica 1080 PUTEL 27 DUT 6S PUTH BREM 24 216 16 144 inch line spacing 1500 PUT L 13 1570 PUTS 13 1590 FOR I f TO 2 PUT L L3 NEXT I After these changes are made to the aain program you can save the program under a different filename such as PSGL STR You must then make the following changes to the senu program file MENU 100 POS 1 16 286 S6 10 15 230 IF EPSON THEN RUN D PSGL STR 270 EPSON 1 P0S 1 14278639 EPSON lt C lt sPOS 4 16 2 SB 10 15 290 EPSON 0 POS1 16 286s 9S8 10 15 1P05 L 14 296 EPSON GOOD NEWS m s A COMPUSERVE USERS R lt ovacs JARS h r fi eg emm mmm em mmm ei s mm mm s s v mt v m INTERLINK ST is now shipping INTERLINK is the most advanced yet easy to use terainal package for your ATARI ST INTERLINK ST is an outstanding telecommunications program for the Atari
39. llage lighted by electricity New Jersey Hi my name is Mark Knutsen and I a one of the three SysOps who service the JACG BBS and aid its callers A club as large as the Jersey Atari Computer Group needs a good BBS to link the club seabers together and to advertise the club to the world The JACE BBS has had several incarnations over the years as various Sysps have come and gone As late as aid 1986 SysQp Scott Brause was running the board out of nis home using the BBCS softyvare that he authored and Sold through Antic s Catalog When Scott left the state to attend school the BBS needed a nev home Scott and Eric Jacoves served a brief stint as SysOos running a Carina system Then one day in October or was i November of last year I received a call from the then President of our club Joe Kennedy Would you like to be our new Sys0p Sure I said why not Should ve known You see P a a college student and running a Bulletin Board Systea for a Large organization out of a doraitory room simply doesn t work especially when one has tvo roommates only one gt phone line and a phone nusber that vill change every May If this setup vas to work the actual BBS hardware vould have to be elsevhere I spent over a month searching for a location bafore I discovered that Sary Gorski our club s Advertising Sales Manager had aoved to Roselle just a few blocks from my home He was ready and will
40. monstrating its features to the potential users f had not taken advantage of the demo disk for 5 00 might not have pursued the program any further Also am pleased to say how MicroMiser has continued to upgrade the program for the original price of 39 95 They have supported their customers very well ST Publishing Partner Hit This is the first of what hopefully will bea regular column in the newsletter With the in terest Shown in Publishing Partner at several of the meetings this year and a letter lamenting the paucity of ST articles I thought why not This column will be devoted to desktop publishing on the ST with particular emphasis on using Publishing Partner ff will include such things as news release of fonts clip art other desktop relaited hardware and software tips and eventually a question and answer section Now on the latter I m no expert Don t have the time worse luck So any questions I can t answer ll print and hopefully someone else will volunteer the information for the next newsletter Articles for the column would be nice too If you want to drop mea note I m Linda Peckham 917A Preakness Avenue Wayne NJ 07470 790 3061 evenings Now on to the good stuff Fonts Fonts Fonts What has been the biggest drawback to Pub lishing Partner in its first half year of ex istence Why the lack of fonts of course Only one font could be printed o
41. n I ran the program I started with the number 1 in line 60 and started to double the nuaber repeatedly Line 100 is p gt vhere the number is doubled one digit at a tine and the carry from sums greater than ten are added in The whole doubling procedure then becomes only a simple process of addition Line 75 pokes the screen off to speed up the calculation process If you hold any special function key dovn long enough line 77 will turn the sereen on veaporarily so you can see how far you got in the calculation Lastly I used a poke in line 63 to turn on the printer when I reached the 1600 th power of 2 this poke only works on the 800 the XL XE series use another location You can drop this line if ay don t want a print out of the results ih The Mysterious TTP Program E 1987 by Dan Rhea via R Kovacs JACE ne of the more troublesome and misunderstood features on the ST computer for the novice and expert alike is the TTP program Currentiy there is something of a revolution going on in the Micro computer industry concerning the user interface the operation system of a given machine uses They tend to fall into tvo types The Sraphichs fcon interface and the Command line interface The graphics Icon interface you should be very avare of fine good example of one is GEM Another is the one the Macintosh uses and even the Amiga As nice as these systems are and as easy as they are to learn they do have several disad
42. n and kerning the ability to group objects together and move them as a Single entity and retain text attributes boldface ital ics ete when importing text files from word processors STWriter istWord and auto text flow around objects GEM GDOS compatihi lity importation of non ST picture formats Macintosh amp Amiga and drawing files from programs like EasyDraw have also been mentioned Hints and Observations eDid you know that there is an easy way to flip between any two views Click the cursor on the little square in the lower right hand corner of the window and the view changes to the lasi Size you selected Click again and you re back to the original viewing size eThe problem with sizing pictures is thai when printing them one can get unexpected patterns in Shaded regions What I would i iket see in Version Z is the ability to Size a picture b dots ineh eres than by This would alia those with printers having the same nu mibe re af 7 y dols across and down to size the picture so there would be an even number of picture acts printer dots IE size all pictures at 90 or 1379 dpi Poy ar pin printers perai is Spparenily T3 dpi 100 eHas anyone tried to find a printing service that gives access to Postscript printers Ts anyone inthe clubusing a laser printer IS anvone planning on buying the Alari laser rinter Manufacturing on those is supposed to foie Started the first of June and
43. n you RUN he program windows appear on the screen Each window Ss numbered in the top left corner and serves a specific ur pose Window 1 is the SELECTION PROGRAM window inows the 8 subprograms available Subprogram selection 5 from this vindow Selection is perforsed with the DPTIONI and SELECTI function keys The first choices FV of an Investment is in inverse video Pressing the OPTION function key changes the inverse video into oraal video and changes the next choice FV of Reguiar leposits into inverse video Pressing the SELECT gt This window function key teils the computer that the choice in inverse video is the choice you vish to perform Holding the OPTION function key will change the selection choice continuously and jump to the first choice after the dotton has heen reached After SELECTling the subprogram you wish to perforas yindow 21 the INFORMATION window ecores the active window displaying input and output information about the subprogram you chose Because no input is required by the user no further expanation is needed about this window Window 3 becomes active as soon as the INFORMATION vindow finishes displaying its inforsation This window is the INPUT DATA window Each input is trapped to avoid program crashes Window 4 is the RESULT window This is where the results are displayed This window becomes active as soon as the input is finished Window 5 is the WHERE TO NON win
44. nald Forbes JACS haps you fought your Atari 300 as a gaas machine Sut you also use it for graphics charting and statistical alysis All you need is a package with the proper atistical and analytic tools to evaluate data and the ea to EH the inforaation in the fora of a graph or art g software you need is B GRAPH from Batteries Included I ught ay copy froa Bill Martin for 35 at the flea market the June 985 seeting long before he became president d ex president of JACE u will remeaber last Septesber 3 at the Mountain Lakes gh School that Oscar Srannison demoed B GRAPH in his talk Graphics on the Hhute pe program consists of 10 integrated program acdules and pees with 144 pages of documentation in the fora of a set nine tutorials When you are done with your graphs yau n dump thea all to your Epson printer Reset printer type Graphing Pie charts Graph isaging Labeling File sanipulatian Statistical analysis Regression analysis Correlation analysis Chi square set up D fina 805 functions l Enhanceaent disk pa is menu driven Here is the main senu if you invoke the first subeenu you have the choice of siz yrinters t Centronics 2 Epson Sesini gt CL Itoh 8EC i Seikosha AT 100 5 Okidata 9 5 Epson FX Once you have made your initial choice it is unlikely that you will ever want to return to this subaenu However if you sade the wrong choice or you want to change printers in
45. ne numbers and isfin my opinion easier to get around Best of all the Publishing Partner topic in the Atarj ST bulletin toard is the mosi active on ithe ST Over 540 messages as of this writing and averaging 2 3 per day The author gets on and answers ques i ry Service 1 s tf TT 4 s 1 gt a ER DB DAS ser You 4 dt VE Ui e tions routinely and ll cf the pd files lve made available to the JACG ST library have eee downloaded From there The ST Bulletin Board is divided into Categories and Topics once y Ou have gotten onto GEnie you can read the message D by Moving to page 75 1 SETting the category W and then REAding thet message mumbers in FROM THE DESKTOP cont e produ GE Soft Logik he desired topic 2 for Publishing Partner 22 for Version wishlists WARNING don t ask for ALL on HEW resacing the mesteess regularly unless i want to Sjit there at your zcomputerfeorsa l time GEnie doesn i appear io have any grace efit way to abort reading a topic unless the SCRO1 is Set to stop every page I always Set it tc STR O Since I use the Flash capture buffer The oer messages have been aro eq into the Librarie i VOU ve Re 2k Sr Move to page 6 8 and download files numbers 2317 2818 and 2819 Version 2 A version two of the program is definitely in the planning stages Additions that are almost certain to be in the new version include im proved hyphenatio
46. oad thea into the FLASH capture buffer and edit them in places then save thea back to disk To eabed control codes in a DT le siaply hold down the control key and press the appropriate key e g control C shows up as an arrow facing right To load a fila into the FLASH capture buffer select LOAD from the FILE heading of the menu bar and select CAPTURE from the dialog box that appears To save tha entire capture buffer salect SAVE froa the FILE heading of the Seng bar and click on the CAPTURE box You can save just a pari of tha captura Suffer by marking out a block and Saving it fhe giock commands are aii undar ine Ge heading of the aen bar If you vant to load in a DO file for adifing vithout clearing out all the other text in the capture buffer select HERSE from the FILE heading of the nenu bar and then select the filename to serge into the buffer You can then edit that file and after marking it as a block save it back to disk using the SAVE BLOCK option under the BLOCK heading of the wenu bar ATARI SOFTWARE BLOWOUT 100S OF MILES ONLY 1 0 52097 BASIC SYSTEM WIT SSDD DRIVE ONLY 449 00 SOFTWARE SPECTRUM AUTHORIZED ATARI DEALER mp SOMERSET ST NO PLATNFIELD OFF WE PHONE 201 561 8777 WE RENT AND SELL SOFTWARE THE STAR MICRONICS NX i106 N Van Dost Jr JACS Although ay Centronics 739 is still chugging along st vent out and bought an AX 6 The reason Super aphics and great print M
47. osed to printed as vith l Ak I would be interasted in your comasnts as to the f continuation of duplication it is approximately 200 00 iess expensive for a 24 page issue With the heavier iront and rear coversy and the care in reproduction that the vendor has been utilizing the gap in quality between S SE tvo atthods is E vide Comments please Elan an NEWSLETTER MOL 7 No 5 2 Z Single Copy L Price 2 09 SE E en mme mme EE 298 0161 Pon S EA Toe E E l MNicrogod 3 6 C Fagg mue e Froa the Desktop L Peckhatiss sees mag TTT oo eer ene mee For Sale TTT E x Moise from Noyes D NOY S sessassan aooaa ivatex 1200 Nod Colornet P 9 ATARI Graphs D arbn ue ener Wi FLASH Ss EE a Star WA He van ech Ire E it A Honent Saved A at uh Ss won PS mi tods e di Missa seis pi Neus tour Users R Kovacs ae es got the Povar K reen the Mysterious D KE D Rhea DO D Ka mp Pt 11 A koutsen D Van Hook Lon ae MARK YOUR CALENDAR Zap Meeting Schedule AUGUST 8 1987 e 68000 PROCESSOR 8MHZ CLOCK MIDI DI INTERFACE 7 POWER WITHOUT THE PRICE SERIAL amp PARALLEL PORTS TOS OPERATING SYSTEM LE SE Ee GEM 640X400 MONO RES 512 COLORS ON DOA DEFECTS ep _ NINETY DAY Ae WARRANTY el Vo ST 512K RAM cpus WITH Za wm I MOUSE CONTROLLER amp BUIL T IN DS DD 3
48. ould normally go to your screen could be sent to a file for further processing Not to bad ah Wen we could do it too don t you Cam adait it Hall you can And you need not look any farther than the TIP feature provided by 705 TTP in siapier teras a connand Line interface Sea if was Shere all the time Just Like the Amiga with its CLI ve have our actually stands fort Tos Takes Parameters own Compromise in TIP One thing you need to understand though is that TTP is not a complete command line interface but if is enough that it gives us compatibility with literally thousands of prograns that use a Command line interface All these programs need in tost cases is to be re compiled and re linked on the ST and they run just like they did on the machine they were vritten on In brief TTP will allow you to pass parameters filenames and options into a program and re direct 1 0 from a progras It does not unfortunately handle expansions of wildcards For that you need one of the several available tools for the ST like David Beckemeyers Micro Shell or MT C Shell or one of the several fine Public Domain command shells that are available for the ST Now for a live well sort of live desonstration of what I m talking about The following program is one wrote that I currently have running on 3 different computers on nearly as many different operating systems I vas able to get this program to run on the ST with t
49. re they buy them This is especially true with Public Domain Software gt Imag ST Report Tf you want to read the latest Atari mews and reviews download YOUR copy of Zmag from the Syndicate BBS in Middlesex New Jersey phone JACG BBS in Roselle New Jersey phone 201 298 0161 Also available now are the current issues of the aonthly If you ve read our newsletter you nay have seen ny column PIG Public Domain Goods Head Disk Librarian Sam Corey and I try to select the best public donain software available as our featured disk for the month Ye have exchanged completa disk libraries with other clubs to provide enough EXCEPTIONAL 8 Bit and 16 bit disks also demonstrate the featured 8 Bit disk at our monthly meeting The result has been a surge in disk sales and acre importantly confidence and pride in our disk library I don t deny that there are still some really bad disks in our library which we don t censor BUT ve don t feature thea Oh the disk of the month is available during the month featured for 3 00 instead of the usual 5 00 This applies to all featured disks vhether they have programs on one or hoth sides To order our disk of the aonth just write to our MAIL ORDER LIBRARIAN Brat Calligari 306 Division St Floor 2 Boonton NJ 07605 For other Atari Sroups interested in exchanging libraries please contact Sam Cory 6 0 Box 7 Towaco NI 97082 emm s em
50. rs as 1 donths 2 fears 3 Units Enter top title cater secondary titie Enter side title Enter graph f You can enter your choices and then aodify thea as you wish if you should change your sind The next dee is a pie chart Load the pie chart routine and then bring up the deao program POP PIE Here is pie chart labelled 1979 World Census Too gan people You learn that Asta has 612 of the total Europe 12 Africa 11 W Aaprica 7 S Aserica amp and Oceania less than Li You can acdify this chart or create another one like it You have the option of saving your graph to disk as a 18098 in the fora of a high resolution picture file rather than a data file Once you have saved these iaages you can labei thee with a nuater of fancy fonts and custos character sets You Rave a choice of COMPUTER a high tech typetace FANCY an elegant type style EUROPEAN their special characters GREEK for science math amp statistics HEBREW the Hebrew alphabet RUSSIAN the Cyrillic alphabet UNUIT Eskiao script for Canadians KATAKANA Japanese script SIDEATAR The Atari font sideways The next acdule allows you to do file sanipulation alter your data add factors fros another file or alter the order of the factors in a file Here is the File Manipulation Function Renu Load a file for manipulation Save graph data to disk Exponential ssoothing Moving average of a factor Seasetric moving average Fa
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52. t Buffer window vith capabilities vorks like a word processor Connect Chines with true carrier tiser gently remind you of your connect duration every fifteen minutes 20 Macro keys 1 Built in password protection and encryption for your logon data and macro keys t Supports baud rates 396 600 1200 2400 4806 9600 and 19200 Word vrap RS 232 spooling And much nore Come and join the revolution step up to INTERLINK ST Retail price 39 95 If You act now until July 30th 1387 you can get 15 dollars off INTERLINK ST when you send in your old commercial brand terminal programa Toll Free 806 826 0130 in Florida 913 923 877 INTERSECT Software Corp 3951 Sawyer Road Suite 108 Sarasota Fl 33583 See ee THE POWER Kenneth J Pietrucha JACS i Ve GOT If you have followed any of ay previous rarblingsy powerful entry and edit then you already know of ny obsession with calculating large numbers If gives ne great pleasure to read that Pi has heen extended to uapty uept decinal places or that a new priae number has been discovered Keeping this in aind you can imagine how disappointed I was when I tried to calculate large numbers an my computer First of all it cama as quite a shock to find that 2 to the tenth power came out as 1023 99997 and not 1024 Hathematics and the laagination The second disappointment was to discover that gt the highest power of 2 that I could print without
53. they shoule hit the US in July according to Neil Harris cr Atari Ud like ta get some feedback cn th questions the first one in particular ferns we should forma group i fo research the printers In north Hew Jersey and try ta sell some of them onthe ides that they Should support Publishing Partner What do you think fra _ m y DS Ph gei T ama Nam a A Hest Months Pont Pactory FONS SDd CITA Pp H E L P The JACG BBS Help File Longlier Version 6 30 87 r w ps a aa eee ee eee s v e i This is the newly updated version of the JACG BBS Help File Capture this file to a and print it out for future reference f The structure of the JACG Bulletin Board System is subject to change without notice In the future look for separate Help files for each Menu on the BBS General Inforaation The JACG BBS is run on an Atari 520ST computer using BB ST software by OMI Inc BB ST is very flexible which means that the system can be tailored to look exactly the vay we want it to Therefore if you have any suggestions for enhancements or iaprovements please voice thea Hitting your space bar or typing ctrl S at any time causes the system to pause whatever it s printing so you can read it at your leisure Hitting any key will restart printing lt esc gt or ctri STOPS cuts off printing imaediately and returns you to the nearest menu prompt Typing a question mark at any menu
54. to the File Area type F from the Main Menu The files are grouped into several sub areas by file type and computer type The B bit areas are for Atari 6 wee 466 800 XL and XE owners and the 6 bit areas are for Atari ST owners Use the C command to Change the sub area you re in The L command will let you List the files in the current sub area in either a short concise fornat or an expanded foraat with descriptions of each file _ Use the D command to download the file you vant You may refer to files by either name or number You also have a choice of file transfer protocols straight ASCII Nmodem Xmodem with CRCS and Ymodem To ensure ervror frae transaission use kaodem or Yaodes whichever your terminal program supports i Sa l You aay also upload public domain files to the 2885 U command Doing so will gain you more time on the system after the files are cleared for availability by the SysOps Note however that bugs in the current version of BB ST disallow uploads of greater than 256 biocks This means that you cannot upload a file of length greater than 64K using Xaodem or 256K using Yaodes There will be a Bulletin vhen this bug is fixed The Message Area Electronic Mail Email is for private messages but the Message Tree is for public discussions questions advertisements and much wore The Nessage Tree is probably the aost confusing part of the BBS for first tine users
55. ut with the original package and a second pft Normel was incfuded with the version 1 01 printer drivers That situation is however beginning to change For the brave of heart there 13 the font editor on ST disk 99 Several fonts have or will make their way into public domain others will be available for purchase If you have access toa Postscript PS laser printer take note of the fact that there may b a difference in availability for PS fonts versug dot mairix printer fonts For the DM fonts the following fonts are will be available from Soft Logikx I Public Domain Fonts rr Sa Colum bia Available now should be in the ST Disk Library Saturn Hudson availability For Sale Devoll Thames Spokane availability Of the six PS vergians of these fonts however only Saturn will be public domain This is be cause Soft Logik is licensing the PS fonts from Century Software so obviously they can t af ford to give them away Another source of fonts is fram Font Factory in Arizona Soft Logik is selling these disks for 29 95 shipping 1 AvantGarde Courier Calligraphy 2 Helvetica Narrow Times 16 Bit 3 Chancery Bookman Chicago M THE sy Linda Peckham OR F _ ESKTOP _ w 4 Palatino Schoolbook Computer 5 Symbols Dingbats 8 Bit The first iwo are available now I ve ordered them hopefully the next column wiil have sam ples of the six fonts If you dec
56. vailable while turning on the rower are Self test 2 different Hex dump mode Panel mode Italic aode and Italic panel node fhe printer has a easy to install ribbon cartridge vitizh sells in the 8 00 range Both pin and tractor feed are Standard if you are one of those persons like ae who use mostly single sheets in their printer you ll fall in love with the Automatic Paper Loader Just set the sheet on the tray and move the release lever to the front aost position and BINGO you sheet is loaded Under the ribbon on the left are two sets of DIP switches so you can match your printer to your computer Some functions are Enable dovnload different international character sets standard and IBM node page length paper length and auto linefeed with carriage return gt characters 9 The User s Manual is well written with many exaaples to help you get the nost out of your printer There s not auch aore that I can say in praise of the NX 10 except I compared a NLD letter I printed against the print from one af the IBM Selectric s at work and it was hard to tell ghich one was the STAR A MOMENT SAVED IS A u Martine JACS Inc If you are anything like ae you have about 2900 programs with documentation stored in 20 or so binders Ever since 1 bought a computer in i983 I have become rather ordered and logical in ay thinking Within moments I can put ay hands on the necessary documentation because I hav
57. vantages One of these is it s hard to provide information options and data to these programs without rather sophisticated user interfaces such as file selectors dialog boxes windows and so on These interfaces have the additional disadvantage except in rare cases of being very non transportable from machine to machine The other disadvantage in this type of interface is the difficuitly in automating repetitive operations The other interface is of course the command line oriented interface This is used by systems such as HS D0S CP M UNIX and aany other operating systems The disadvantages here are that the command syntax can be extremely verbose If I vant fo copy a fila from one directory to another rather than picking it up with a souse and dropping in it s new home i a forced to typing something like this A gt COPY As WORK USER SOURCE TEST C B DEVSYS CC CSOURTE TEST C The advantage to this system is that had I wanted to copy all the files that ended in I could have entered 4 0 in place of SQURCE C and any number of files could have been copied One of the other nice features of this type of interface is that you can group coamands that you tend to use repetitively inte a command or script file gt that can ba invoked siaply by typing its name The last nice thing about this sort of interface is that most of them allow you to use what is called 1 0 re direction This is vhere the output that w
58. y shopping was done at the adovlands Computer Show Prices were competitive and nged from 229 to 189 Towards the middle of the show ist dealers tried to match the 189 price The Centronics i Atari 850 cable was obtained from an other dealer for 0 E Naturally couldn t wait to get the box open and cart printing The box contained a sheet on unpacking yur printer I highly advise reading this first as it lis of the three shipping spacers which have to be saoved before you power up Also enclosed were a manual 39 pages and a plastic user s guide for the control panel eration The front panel controls consist of ONLINE PAPER EED MODE BOLD and power indicator The power indicator lows orange when the power is on or blinks when the rinter is out of paper or some other error occurs The old key and indicator selects boldface printing The raft indicators 80 96 136 glows green to indicate the umber of characters per line when the printer is in the raft mode se by the Mode key NOL indicator glows Teen when the printer is printing in Near Letter Quality rode set by the Mode key Paper feed key advances the laper one line at a tine On line indicator off and consecutive lines when held down Online key and indicator ends a Signal to the computer when it can or cannot accept data Features available during Off Line after power up are Micro feedingy forward and reverse Forn feeding and Nargin setting Features a
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