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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIMA NEWSLETTER MARCH 1993
THE SPIDER'S GUIDE TO FUNNELWEB CONFIGURATION
book review by Charles Good
Lima Ohio User Group
Do you have trouble configuring Funnelweb using Funnelweb's CONFIG
utility? Do CONFIG's mention terms such as "TI -Writer side" vs "Edit/ASSM
side", or "Immediate" confuse you?. You are not alone. Because the
Funnelweb environment is designed to be adaptable to all TI hardware from a
one drive SSSD system to systems with lots of drives, hard drives, and an
80 column cards or Geneve, Funnelweb configuration can be complicated.
About 3 years ago I made a video tape tutorial on Funnelweb
configuration. This video was warmly received at the time by the TI
community. However there is a basic flaw with such a 2 hour video tape
tutorial. It is hard to find the answer to a specific question without
viewing the whole tape from the begining. My video was based on Funnelweb
v4.21 and is now out of date. A more up to date Funnelweb configuration
tutorial in hard copy booklet format is now available from Larry Tippett.
Larry's book walks the user step by step through the whole
configuration process. At each step the book shows Funnelweb CONFIG
screens just as they would appear on the user's monitor. These accurate
and numerous illustrations of CONFIG screens make this book more useful
than the Funnelweb CONFIG flow charts and text tutorials I have seen in
newsletters. The ability to quickly page through the book to the exact
part of the CONFIG process where help is needed makes Larry's book better
than any CONFIG tutorial on video tape.
As a long time Funnelweb user I can attest to the accuracy and "user
friendliness" of Larry's book and recommend it to anyone needing this kind
of help. A sample page is reproduced below.
THE SPIDER'S GUIDE TO FUNNELWEB CONFIGURATION will be available at the
various TI faires and is also available for $3.50 plus $0.50 postage
directly from the author:
Larry Tippett
5826 Buffalo St.
Sanborn NY 14132