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- ╚ELLO THERE. ╒PON DOWNLOADING ╥┴═─╧╙ 128 ╓4.3, FILE #5124 IN THE ╞LAGSHIP
- ╞ILE ╠IBRARY, ╔ SET TO MAKE MYSELF A SMALL LOADER PROGRAM WHICH WOULD LOAD
- THE ╥AMDOS.BAS AND CHANGE SOME OF MY FUNCTION KEY DEFINITIONS. ┴S THINGS CAN
- GO, ONCE ╔ DID THAT ╔ QUICKLY SET OUT TO HAVE IT DO A LITTLE MORE LIKE TAKING
- ME INTO THE ╞ILE COPY PROGRAM AND SINCE ╔'M A BIG FAN OF ─ISK ╫HIZ ╔ EXPANDED
- IT TO LOAD IT ALSO IF DESIRED AT THE TIME. ╘HE MORE ╔ DID THE BETTER IT
- LOOKED AND THEN UPLOADING IT FLASHED THROUGH MY MIND, SO THEN ╔ REALLY SET
- OUT TO POLISH IT UP.
-
- ***
-
- ┴T THE END OF THIS DOC IS A QUICK REFERENCE WHICH GIVES THE LINE NUMBERS
- WHICH IS WHERE YOU CAN CHANGE THE DEFAULTS INCASE YOU PREFER DIFFERENT
- ONES.
-
- ╘HE FOUR FILES WHICH MAKE UP THE ╙╨┴╥╦╠┼ ╙┘╙╘┼═ ARE: +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙
- +┘.╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙, +╞╔╠┼├╧╨┘.┬┴╙, AND OF COURSE +╙╨┴╥╦╠┼.
-
- ┴LSO INCLUDED ARE: +╙╨┴╥╦┼┘ WHICH ARE THE FUNCTION KEY DEFINITIONS
- EXTRACTED FROM +╙╨┴╥╦╠┼, AND THE 2 BINARY FILES FROM ╥┴═─╧╙ 128 ╓4.3 WHICH ╔
- HAVE ONLY RENAMED TO PUT A "+" IN FRONT FOR EASY WILDCARD COPYING WHEN
- DESIRED.
- ***
-
- ─┼╙├╥╔╨╘╔╧╬:
-
- ╞IRST THE +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ FILE.
-
- ╘HE ONLY MODIFICATIONS ON THIS FILE FROM THE ╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ WHICH CAME WITH
- THE RAMDISK IS THAT:
-
- 1) ╔ ADDED COLOR
- 2) ╔ REMOVED THE NORMAL ENDING OF THE PROGRAM
- 3) ╔ INSERTED HALF OF +╙PARKLE IN ORDER TO THEN
- OFFER TO ACTIVATE THE FILE COPIER OR ─╔╙╦
- ╫╚╔┌
-
- ╘HIS IS THE FIRST FILE THAT +╙PARKLE OFFERS TO ACTIVATE. ┴LL OF IT'S
- NORMAL PRESENTATION IS UNTOUCHED AND YOU WILL BE PROMPTED AS USUAL.
-
- ***
-
- ╙ECOND THE +┘.╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ FILE.
-
- ╘HIS FILE IS AT THE CORE OF WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT, HAVING SOME DEFAULTS
- BUILT IN. ╔ WANTED TO USE THE ╥AMDISK AS UNIT # 7 (WHICH IS THE WAY THE
- +┘.╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ FILE COMES,). ╔ ALSO WANTED TO PROCEED AS IF ╔ HAD ANSWERED
- THAT PROMPT, AND AS IF ╔ HAD ANSWERED THE PAGE 14 PROMPT. ╔T THEN FINALY
- STOPS AT THE Y/N PROMPT WHICH ╔ CHANGED TO SHOW "╬" FOR SAFTY SO IF IN A
- HURRY ╔ COULDN'T ERASE THINGS WHICH ╔ MIGHT HAVE IN THE RAMDISK AT THE TIME.
- ╙O WHEN FIRST SETTING UP YOU ═╒╙╘ ╨╥┼╙╙ "┘" IN ORDER TO GET THE RAMDISK IN
- PLACE, THEN UPON RETURNING LATER SAY FROM DOING SOMETHING ELSE, (AS LONG AS
- THE COMPUTER WAS STILL ON), JUST PRESS RETURN AT THIS PROMPT AND YOUR FILES
- WILL STILL BE IN PLACE, (AS LONG AS WHAT YOU WERE RUNNING IN THE MEAN TIME
- WASN'T UTILIZING THE RAMDISK).
-
- << ONWARD >>>
-
- ┘OU MAY WONDER WHY +┘.╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ IS NOT OFFERED FIRST. ╞OR GOOD REASON.
- ╔F WHILE IN A HURRY YOU MISTAKENLY PRESS "┘" AT +╙PARKLE'S FIRST OFFERING OF
- THE +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ WHEN YOU REALLY WANTED THE "DEFAULT" +┘.╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙, IT'S
- EASIER TO JUST PROCEED WITH MANUALY ANSWERING THE PROMPTS AND PROCEEDING THAN
- TO WANT THE +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ WHEN YOU GOT THE SECOND FILE AND FIND YOURSELF AT THE
- (Y/N) PROMPT WITH THE UNIT # ALREADY INCORRECTLY SPECIFIED. ─ON'T WORRY IF
- THAT'S A LITTLE CONFUSING. ╩UST WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE IN A HURRY AND DO END UP IN
- THE +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙, IT MAY BE A SMALL FRUSTRATION BUT AT LEAST YOU ARE STILL IN
- FULL CONTROL. ┼VEN IF YOU HAVE ALREADY PRESSED RETURN WHEN YOU ARE IN THE
- +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ AND THUS WRONGLY SELECTED UNIT 9 WHEN YOU WANTED UNIT 7,(WITH
- VALUABLES IN THE RAMDISK ALREADY), NO SWEAT, JUST PRESS "╬" WHERE THE
- +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ HAS A "┘" AT THE "╔╬╔╘╔┴╠╔┌┼ ╥┴═ ─╔╙╦?" PROMPT AND THE DOS WILL
- BE SET UP BUT IT'S STILL INTACT. ╬OW IT'S STILL THERE BUT THE COMPUTER THINKS
- ITS UNIT 9. ╬OW IF ITS REALLY IMPORTANT TO GET IT BACK TO UNIT 7 SAY, BECAUSE
- YOU HAVE ANOTHER DRIVE SET UP AS UNIT 9 = FIRST ╔═╨╧╥╘┴╬╘!: ╙┼╬─ ╬╧ ├╧══┴╬─╙
- ╘╧ ╒╬╔╘ # 9 BECAUSE BOTH IT AND THE RAMDISK WOULD RESPOND AND ╔ DON'T KNOW
- BUT YOU MAY LOOSE WHAT'S INSIDE THE RAMDISK. ╘O CORRECT IT SIMPLY ACCESS THE
- ╥AMDOS FROM UNIT 8 AND REINSTALL IT AS UNIT 7 (IF 7 WAS WHAT YOU WANTED), BUT
- DON'T INITIALIZE IT.
-
- ╒PON COMPLETING ITS TASK OF ACTIVATING THE RAMDISK THE +┘.╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ WILL
- OFFER YOU THE OPTION OF ACTIVATING THE FILE COPIER OR ─ISK ╫HIZ
- ┴LSO TO MENTION UPON COMPLETION EACH FILE +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ OR +┘.╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙
- WILL ERASE THEMSELVES FROM MEMORY.
-
- NOW ╞╔╠┼├╧╨┘.┬┴╙
-
- ╔ ADDED LOTS OF DIFFERENT COLORS IN THIS ONE AND CHANGED THE PROMPT TO
- "╞╥╧═ 8 ; ╘╧ 7". ╘HE LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN IF YOU PREFER OTHER DEFAULTS. ┘OU
- ARE STILL PROMPTED SO THESE ARE NOT DECIDED FOR YOU ONLY PRINTED THE SAME AS
- THE ORIGINAL FILECOPY BAS. ╒PON COMPLETION YOU WILL BE PROMPTED WITH AN
- OFFERING TO ACTIVATE ─╔╙╦ ╫╚╔┌.
-
- ***
-
- ╩UST TO MENTION. ╔ INCLUDED THE OPTION OF LOADING ─╔╙╦ ╫╚╔┌ (─╔╙╦ ╫╚╔┌
- ╓1.1) BECAUSE ITS BEEN ONE OF THE FINEST PIECES OF SOFTWARE ╔'VE GOT. ╔F YOU
- HAVEN'T USED IT YET ╔ SUGGEST YOU CHECK IT OUT. ╔T DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK IN
- CCESSING THE ╥AMDISK BUT ╔ STILL USE IT DAILY.
- ╔F YOU DON'T WANT THIS TO BE ACTIVATED OR YOU DON'T HAVE IT, JUST PRESS
- "N" WHEN ASKED IF YOU WANT IT ACTIVATED.
- ╔F YOU DON'T HAVE IT AND WANT IT, IT IS IN THE ╞LAGSHIP LIBRARYS. ╞ILE
- #4656.
-
-
- ********************
-
- ╙┼╘ ╒╨ !!!!
-
- 1) ╔F USING ─╔╙╦ ╫╚╔┌ IT MUST BE ON UNIT 8, AND TITLED "─╔╙╦ ╫╚╔┌ ╓1.1"
- EXACTLY
- 2) ╥┴═─╧╙ ╓4.3 FILES MAY BE PRESENT ON THE SAME DISK AS +╙PARKLE AND IT'S
- FILES ARE BLIND TO THEM.
- 3) +╙PARKLE AND IT'S FILES CAN BE COPIED TO THE RAMDISK AND RUN FROM
- THERE, AS LONG AS THE BINARY FILES ARE PRESENT IN UNIT 8 AS THAT IS
- WHERE THEY SEND THEIR RUN/FILE COMMAND.
- 4) ╘O START IT ALL UP LOAD AND RUN +╙PARKLE. ╘HIS DOES MAKE NICE BOOT
- FILE.
-
-
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-
-
- ╞╒╬├╘╔╧╬ ╦┼┘╙
-
- *** ╩UST TO NOTE FIRST FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY DOWNLOADED AN EARLIER
- VERSION, ╔ HAVE SWAPPED PLACES WITH ╞4 AND ╞5, PLEASE BE CAREFUL UNTIL YOU
- GET USED TO THESE. ╙ORRY TO ADD ANY CONFUSION BUT THE NEW WAY SEEMS TO BETTER
- FOLLOW WITH THE NORMAL FUNCTION BECAUSE OF DSAVE NORMALLY RESIDING ON ╞5.
-
- ***
-
- ╔T WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THESE KEYS TO DO EVERY THING ╔ WANTED WITH ONLY
- 241 BYTES TO WORK WITH SO THERE IS A LITTLE COMPROMISE. ╚OWEVER ╔ FIND THEM
- TO MAKE MY COMPUTING LIFE EASIER AND ╔ THINK YOU WILL LIKE THEM TOO.
-
- ***
-
- ═Y FUNCTION KEYS ╔ THINK OF AS BEING IN 2 CATAGORIES. ─╔╥┼├╘╧╥┘ ╦┼┘╙ AND
- ├╧══┴╬─ ╦┼┘╙. ╘HE ─IRECTORY KEYS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH EITHER PROVIDING A
- DIRECTORY OR UTILIZING A DIRECTORY. ╙UCH AS ╞1, ╞3, ╞4, ╞5, ╞6, AND ╞8. ╘HE
- ├╧══┴╬─ KEYS PRINT OUT COMMAND WORDS ONTO THE SCREEN AND MAY SEND A CARRAGE
- RETURN SUCH AS LIST. ╘HESE ARE ╞2 AND ╞7. (╞6 WORKS BOTH WAYS)
-
- ╔ WILL BE DESCRIBING THESE OUT OF ORDER FOR REASONS OF
- DESCRIPTION, SO IF ╔ MISS ONE YOU LET ME KNOW: "╚┼┘ ┘╧╒ ═╔╙╙┼─ ╧╬┼!!!"
-
- ╔T WAS A PRIME GOAL TO HAVE THE KEYS FOLLOW SOME RESEMBELANCE OF THEIR
- NORMAL FUNCTION SO USING THEM WOULDN'T BE TOO CONFUSING. ╘HEY HAVE BECOME MY
- PRIMARY SET AND AT TIMES WHEN ╔ FIND THEM IN THEIR NORMAL STATE THINGS WORK
- PRETTY MUCH THE SAME, MINE JUST DO MORE.
-
- ┘OU MAY WISH TO EDIT THIS DOC AND CHOP IT OFF HERE AND PRINT IT BELOW THE
- NEXT LINE OF STARS TO HAVE IN HARD COPY WHILE YOU GET USED TO THEM. ╔F YOU
- DON'T HAVE A PRINTER YOU WILL FIND SOME HELP IN USING THE "KEY" COMMAND IN
- THE NATIVE MODE. ╫HILE THE CURSOR IS AT THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN JUST TYPE KEY
- AND PRESS RETURN AND THE CURRENT DEFINITIONS WILL BE DESPLAYED. ┘OU MAY ALSO
- EDIT THEM BY DOING THIS AND MOVING THE CURSOR UP ONTO THAT LISTING AND
- CHANGING WHAT YOU WANT AND PRESSING RETURN. ╔F WHAT YOU CHANGE IS ACCEPTABLE
- BY THE SYNTAX YOU WILL BE PROMPTED WITH READY, AND THE DEFINITION CHANGE IS
- IMMEDIATLY IN EFFECT. ╔F THE SYNTAX ISN'T CORRECT IT WILL THROW AN ERROR
- MESSAGE AT YOU.
-
-
-
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-
- +╙PARKLE ╞UNCTION KEY ─ESCRIPTION
-
- ╞3 AS NORMAL IS THE KEY WHICH GETS YOU A DISK DIRECTORY. ╬OW IT WILL GET
- THE DIRECTORY OF ANY UNIT, AT LEAST OF DRIVE 0. ╘O USE IT JUST PRESS ╞3, THEN
- PRESS THE NUMBER OF THE UNIT YOU ARE ACCESSING AND PRESS RETURN. ╘HIS WORKS
- WITH THE ╥AMDISK AS WELL. ┴S DO ALL OF THESE FUNCTION KEYS.
-
- ╞1 IS NOW LOAD FROM UNIT <?>. ╒SE ╞3 TO GET THE DIRECTORY YOU WANT, USE
- THE CURSOR KEYS TO MOVE UP THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN UNTIL YOU ARE ALONG
- SIDE THE FILE YOU WISH TO LOAD, PRESS ╞1, PRESS THE UNIT NUMBER AND RETURN.
-
- ╞5 IS NOW SAVE TO UNIT <?>. ╞OLLOW THE SAME STEPS AS FOR ╞1. ╘HIS IS
- USEFUL AS A SINGLE FILE COPIER. ┘OU CAN USE ╞1 TO LOAD IT AND THEN MOVE RIGHT
- BACK TO THE SAME PLACE ON THE SAME DIRECTORY LISTING, PRESS ╞5 AND GIVE THE
- "TO" UNIT NUMBER AND PRESS RETURN.
-
- ╞4 IS REALLY SPECIAL TO ME. ╔T NOW IS A HANDY ╥ENAME UTILITY FOR FILES.
- ╬O MORE TYPING IT ALL OUT LONG HAND! ╒SE ╞3 TO GET THE DIRECTORY WITH THE
- FILE IN IT, MOVE THE CURSOR ALONGSIDE AND PRESS ╞4. ╔NCLUDING WHERE THE
- CURSOR IS SITTING THERE ARE 17 SPACES BEFORE THE COMMA. 16 FOR THE FILE NAME
- AND 1 FOR THE CLOSING QUOTATION MARKS. ┘OU DO NOT HAVE TO USE ALL THE SPACES,
- JUST TYPE IN THE NEW NAME, CLOSE THE QUOTES, MOVE THE CURSOR OVER TO THE
- FLASHING "?" AND GIVE THE UNIT NUMBER AND PRESS RETURN. ╘HE HANDYNESS OF THE
- 16 SPACES IS NO MORE HAVING TO COUNT THE CHARACTERS OF A NEW FILE NAME. 2
- THINGS TO MAKE SURE OF WHEN USING THIS. 1) THE CURSOR IS LOCKED UNTIL YOU
- CLOSE THE QUOTES, THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU TRY TO USE THE CURSOR TO MOVE OVER
- TO THE FLASHING "?" BEFORE CLOSING THE QUOTES, YOU WILL GET A ROW OF REVERSE
- BRACKETS (THE SYMBOL FOR RIGHT ARROW). ╙O REMEMBER TO CLOSE THE QUOTES! 2)
- REMEMBER TO SPECIFY THE UNIT NUMBER WHICH HAS THE FILE YOU ARE RENAMING. ╔F
- YOU GOOF UP BEFORE YOU GET USED TO USING IT JUST STAND ON THE DELETE KEY (GET
- YOUR FOOT OFF YOUR COMPUTER - ╔ MEANT WITH YOUR FINGER :GRIN:) UNTIL YOU HAVE
- DELETED THE LINE PRESS RETURN AND START OVER.
-
-
- ╞6 IS NOW ╥UN +. ╘HIS KEY WORKS BOTH WITH A DIRECTORY AND ALONE. ┘OU CAN
- USE ╞3 TO GET A DIRECTORY, MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE FILE YOU WANT AND PRESS ╞6,
- GIVE THE UNIT NUMBER AND PRESS RETURN. ╘HIS WILL LOAD AND RUN ┬ASIC PROGRAMS.
- ╘HE SECOND WAY YOU CAN USE THIS KEY IS SIMILAR TO BEFORE. ╨RESS ╞6 WHILE ON
- AN EMPTY LINE, TAP DELETE TWICE AND HIT RETURN. ╘HIS WILL RUN A ┬ASIC PROGRAM
- CURRENTLY IN MEMORY.
-
- ╞8 IS NOW ╙├╥┴╘├╚. ┴S ALWAYS WHEN SCRATCHING USE CAUTION. ╘O USE, GET THE
- DIRECTORY WITH ╞3, MOVE UP TO THE FILE, PRESS ╞8, GIVE THE UNIT NUMBER AND
- PRESS RETURN. ┘OU WILL BE PROMPTED WITH "┴RE YOU SURE ?", ANSWER THE PROMPT
- WITH "┘" IF YES OR "╬" IF NO AND PRESS RETURN.
-
- ╬╧╘┼: ╞-1,3,4,5,8 ALL DISPLAY A "?". ╫HEN YOU ARE ENTERING THE UNIT
- NUMBER DO SO -ON- THE "?" (OR FIRST DIDGET IN THE CASE OF 2 DIGIT UNIT
- NUMBERS).
-
- ╬╧╘┼: ╞6 ╫HEN RUNNING FROM DIRECTORY AFTER PRESSING ╞6 ENTER THE UNIT
- NUMBER RIGHT WHERE THE CURSOR -IS-.
-
-
- ╞2 AS BEFORE WILL GIVE THE ─LOAD" PROMPT. ╔T WILL NOW ALSO DISPLAY THE
- ─SAVE" PROMPT ABOVE IT. ╙O TO ─SAVE JUST PRESS ╞2 AND THE THE CURSOR UP KEY
- AND YOU GOT IT. ╩UST A MENTION: THE CURSOR IS FREE HERE SINCE IT IS NOT
- NECCESSARY TO CLOSE THE QUOTES ON A DLOAD OR DSAVE.
-
- ╞7 IS UNAFFECTED BY +╙PARKLE. ╔T REMAINS UNTOUCHED, SO IT IS STILL LIST.
-
- ****************************************************************************
-
-
- ╤UICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO +╙PARKLE SYSTEM
-
- ╔N +╙PARKLE THE FUNCT. KEYS ARE REDEFINED IN LINES 10,20,30,40,50,60, AND 80
- ╔N +╙PARKLE THE LOAD LINES ARE 1900,2900,3900,4900
-
- ╔N +╥┴═─╧╙.┬┴╙ AND +Y.RAMDOS.BAS THE DEFAULT LINES ARE:
-
- ╞OR DEFAULT DRIVE = LINE 110
- ╞OR DEFAULT (Y/N) = LINE 150
- ╘HE LOAD LINES ARE = LINES 3900,4900
-
- ╔N +╞ILECOPY.BAS THE DEFAULT LINES ARE:
-
- ╞OR DEFAULT SOURCE AND DESTINATION DRIVES = LINES 40 AND 50
- ╘HE LOAD LINE IS 350
-
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-
- ** ┴╬ ╔╬╓╔╘┴╘╔╧╬ **
-
- ╔F YOU GET ANY IDEAS OF YOUR OWN ALONG THESE LINES OR YOU HAVE ANY
- QUESTIONS, PLEASE SHARE THEM WITH US INSIDE THE ╞LAGSHIP ┬┬╙. ╔ WILL OPEN THE
- TOPIC JUST BEFORE UPLOADING THIS FILE SO YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THE ├AT. AND
- ╘OPIC #S BY THE TIME YOU ARE READING THIS. ╔F YOU MISSED IT, NEXT TIME YOUR
- ONLINE JUST TYPE "M 626;3" AT ANY MENU PROMPT AND THEN TYPE "+SPARKLE.SDA"
- WHEN YOU ARE ASKED FOR A SEARCH STRING. ┘OU WILL FIND THE ├AT. AND ╘OPIC #S
- FOR THE ╙PARKLE SECTION IN THE ╞LAGSHIP ┬┬╙. ╨LEASE JOIN US, ╔'M LOOKING
- FORWARD TO YOUR IDEAS AND COMMENTS.
-
-
- ╥ICH ╙CHREINER
-
- ┴╠╧╚┴
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