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^C~1|F BIG BLUE DISK -- Number 22 ^N


^C~4|F FIRST THINGS FIRST ^N

|9DISKOVERY
|Cby Daniel Tobias
  Notes from the disk of the editor.

|9ABOUT BIG BLUE DISK
  An introduction to the feature categories.

|9TABLE OF CONTENTS
  [You are here.]  A brief look at this month's features.


^C~4|F BRAINWARE ^N

|9EIGHT QUEENS
|Cby John Sigle
  See your PC solve the classic problem of placing eight queens on a chessboard 
  with no two attacking each other.  Includes algorithm in Turbo Pascal code.


^C~4|F HELPWARE ^N

|9SIMPLE BUDGET
|Cby Richard E. Hamel
  Plan your personal finances with this handy program.

|9MASTER INDEXER
|Cby David Leithauser
  Generate an index of your favorite magazine articles arranged by subject of
  interest.  Handy for creating bibliographies or for your personal reference.

|9CALENDAR
|Cby Dan Harrison
  This program can show on-screen calendars for any month of this century or
  next, with major holidays shown.


^C~4|F THE HAPPY HACKER ^N

|9DATES
|Cby Dan Harrison
  These .OBJ files can be linked into your QuickBASIC programs to do many handy 
  operations involving dates, including calculating what weekday a date is,
  the number of days between two dates, and even the date of Easter.  These
  functions were used in the Calendar program this issue.

|9LONGEST LINE
|Cby Jeffrey Rush
  Find the length of the longest line of a text file; use this to see in advance
  if the printout will get cut off on an 80-column printer, or check that a
  file is within the line length limit of a text editor program.


^C~4|F FUN 'N GAMES ^N

|9FRIGATE
|Cby Matthew Kaufman
  You're the captain of a frigate in this single-player naval battle.  Not an
  arcade "shoot-em-up," this game requires careful planning and thought in
  order to survive and defeat the enemy.


^C~4|F - SPECIAL PROGRAM - ^N

|9PC-WINDOW
|Cfrom Advanced System Design
  This handy shareware utility stays resident in memory and lets you pop up
  windows to perform some useful functions, like a notepad and a stopwatch.


|9ON THE EDITOR'S DESK
|Cby Daniel Tobias
  A survey of interesting products for PC users, and news in the computer
  industry.


^C~4|F DISKUSSION ^N

|9BLUE NOTES
  This is the section where you talk to each other and to us.


^C~4|F LAST THINGS LAST ^N

|9BLUELINE EDITOR
  Use this free word processor to send us your comments and questions.  Sound
  off!  Tell us what you think.

|9IN THE MAIL
  Read this section to find out how to subscribe to BIG BLUE DISK.

|9CREDITS
  Nice words about the nice people who create BIG BLUE DISK.