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************ Topic 8 Tue Jun 16, 1992 W.WILEY2 (Forwarded) Sub: prg file #9657: IBM HD DRV w/ c64-128? A program in library gives me the impression that IBM compatible HARD DRIV ES can be accessed with C64/128's. Could it BE? It seems to want a DRV # and then tries to access one. Any docs or info out there anyone???? 1 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 3, Topic 8 Message 1 Tue Jun 16, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) That program is in Creative Micro Designs "public" library and is a tool meant to be used with CMD's own Hard Drives. It will seek out other SCSI HDs hooked up to the CMD Hard Drives and provide their ID numbers. It is only useful if you own a CMD HD and you have connected other external SCSI Ds up to the CMD HD. ------------ ************ Topic 9 Sun Jun 14, 1992 M.MCCORMIC10 [Mike Mc-] (Forwarded) Sub: Big Blue Reader What Big Blue Reader will and will not do. 12 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 1 Sun Jun 14, 1992 M.MCCORMIC10 [Mike Mc-] (Forwarded) I am interested in knowing what BBR will do that other text editors or terminal programs can do? Mike Mc- ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 2 Sun Jun 14, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) BBR 128 will use the REU for fast copying (most other programs don't). BBR 128 will copy whole disks at once. BBR 128 has no file length limit, most terms are 64k or the CP/M stuff has a 44k limit when copying from one type of disk to another. BBR 128 will easily copy between CBM, MS-DOS, or CP/M formatted 5.25 (140K-360k) and 3.25 (720K) disks without any hassles in one swoop. Plus perform automatic conversions and filename prompts. BBR 128 runs in native mode vs. Format Executive's CP/M mode. BBR 128 is very expensive! You really have a need for it. Like I did, I had ten MS-DOS disks stuffed with GIFs and to use anything other than BBR128 to transfer some files 300K or bigger would have been a real hassle. ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 3 Mon Jun 15, 1992 HOWIE-CBM (Forwarded) Mike, Adding to JBEE's already long list, include: Reading CMD's HD and RAMLink's Real Time Clock at boot, and automatically display the correct time and date in its menu screen. More important, it will time/date stamp files as it writes them over to a ms/dos formatted disk. And... It will properly format that ms/dos disk in case an already formatted one isn't handy. Trust me on this! I just recently did this for a club member with a 386 LapTop and the CP/M program and its related data files ran superbly. Huh? A 128 formatting and writing to an ms/dos disk so a 386 can run CP/M? Yup! The 386 was running 22NICE, using the ms/dos disk formatted on my 128, along with the CP/M program and data BBR wrote to that disk. Seems 22NICE on the 386 choked when it came to running SuperCalc2. Since the version of SC2 that I use on the 128 is as close to generic as can be, we figured to give it a try. And, it ran exactly as it does on my 128, accessing the spreadsheets BBR also wrote to the disk. Nothing mysterious about this... The 386 will only read ms/dos formatted disks. However, the program 22NICE will let the 386 take CP/M programs from the ms/dos disk and then run them. BBR made the entire process possible, and simple. :) Howie ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 4 Mon Jun 15, 1992 M.MCCORMIC10 [Mike Mc-] (Forwarded) I realize that I made a BIG mistake.I own a C64.I find that most replies in the *Flagship* are for the 128. I need a program that will read discs that I download on various IBM compatables.These will be mostly genealogical sequential files. Is this the best program for this? For the C64? Mike Mc- ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 5 Tue Jun 16, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) Almost all these replies about BBR128 apply to BBR64 too! As long as you own a C-1571 or C-1581 you will be all set! Sorry about the C-128 slant. C-64 owners greatly outnumber C-128 owners. It is just that most of the active BB users happen to own C-128s. Feel free ANY time to post C64 questions or topics. One of the main reasons for owning a C-128 is because it is 100% C-64 compatible. ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 6 Tue Jun 16, 1992 M.MCCORMIC10 [Mike Mc-] (Forwarded) J.BEE- I do not own either a 1571 or 1581.I have a 1541 and RL w/5mg.Will BBR work with this?? Mike Mc- ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 7 Tue Jun 16, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) You have to have a 1571 or 1581 disk drive to read or write to the original IBM formatted disks. If you already have the IBM disks and just need someone to transfer the data leave me email and we can work out something. If you are going to be doing it on a regular basis your best bet is to buy a 1581 from Software Hut and BBR64 and you will have an excellent system for transfering IBM disks to your C-64. ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 8 Tue Jun 16, 1992 P.CATCHPOLE [Mike] (Forwarded) GEt big blue reader for the 64. Note: a 1571 is required. ( for 1581, i think also works.... not sure) ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 9 Wed Jun 17, 1992 R.KNOP1 [Rob Knop] (Forwarded) The 1581 works marvelously with BBR. I use it myself frequently, and have transferred some rather large (ca. 100K) files with it. -Rob ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 10 Wed Jun 17, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) The C-1581s sell for less than the C-1571 now. Since he already owns a Ramlink and will probably be transfering large files the C-1581 makes good sense. Note:if you have anyway to hook up your C-64 to the IBM this is the best and cheapest way to go. You can also make your own cable (see library #1 for more details). Also, if both machines have fast modems (2400 baud or faster) and the calls are local you could transfer files this way. ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 11 Thu Jun 18, 1992 P.CATCHPOLE [Mike] (Forwarded) I transfer files like this: 1. Boot up a BBS or Host on the IBM. 2. On the commodore, load desterm. Enter "ATDT xxx xxxx" ( xxx = my phone number). 3. When the busy signal appears, hold for 3 seconds and hit enter to hang up the line. 4. When the modem says RING, the bbs will answer. On DESTERM, enter the command ATXD in terminal mode. This will connect the systems together. I can then logon to the IBM bbs... ------------ Category 3, Topic 9 Message 12 Thu Jun 18, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) neat! ------------ ************ Topic 10 Sat Aug 15, 1992 S.FREEDLINE at 23:07 EDT Sub: Geoviewer PGM Help wanted 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 3, Topic 10 Message 1 Sat Aug 15, 1992 S.FREEDLINE at 23:07 EDT I can't get this pgm to work. I keep getting a disk error. Can anyone help? ------------ Category 3, Topic 10 Message 2 Sun Aug 16, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] at 00:32 EDT Are you getting a disk error when 1st opening the file or when getting a directory? What disk drive are you using? ------------ Category 3, Topic 10 Message 3 Tue Aug 18, 1992 S.FREEDLINE at 19:00 EDT I'm getting a disk error when I first run this pgm. I have a 1541 DiskDrive ------------ ************ Topic 12 Sun Nov 08, 1992 R.MONAHAN2 (Forwarded) Sub: Roots v2 d/l # 1354 Loking for documentation on the above. Does anyone know how to use this software? 13 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 1 Sun Nov 08, 1992 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] (Forwarded) This is probably a stupid question, but isn't the documentation included in the archive? ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 2 Sun Nov 08, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) Actually, this program doesn't have any documentation as it is a simplier program than most of them. The trick is to "add" people to the index and then when you want to edit a record you use the record number. What problem were you having? ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 3 Mon Nov 09, 1992 R.MONAHAN2 (Forwarded) I am not able to edit any text ie whenn text is added it can't be savved ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 4 Tue Nov 10, 1992 C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded) I am pretty sure it only saves text when you pick "quit" (option #12?). I will check it out . ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 5 Wed Nov 11, 1992 R.MONAHAN2 (Forwarded) I would appreciate anything you can tell me about typing field into the data base. or how data is saved and printed. It is not like a normal data base ie. Time works Data Manager. ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 6 Wed Nov 18, 1992 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] (Forwarded) I'm going to download and try this prog out now, RM. Hope I can help. Sorry for the delay... had lots of other stuff to do... Let's see what we can find out now tho... ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 7 Thu Nov 19, 1992 CBM-MARK (Forwarded) Good luck Ed :) I crashed it twice giving it a tryout. Hint: if you're going to do any printouts be SURE you have the program disk in the drive and not the data disk or ... crash :( Gonna try putting the programs on the data disk or viceversa and see if it works.... ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 8 Thu Nov 19, 1992 C128.JBEE (Forwarded) When you exit the program with option #12 it saes the data to disk. If you do not exit properly your data will not be saved. Is this the trouble you are having? ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 9 Thu Nov 19, 1992 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] (Forwarded) Mark: I stumbled onto that printer driver error earlier than your post (see my post elsewhere in the BB)... But then, I don't expect a LOT from a program that has a mispelled word on the opening screen (Indusrties). I did get to enter data, etc. by adding records. This may be a nice program, I don't know. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't spend $30 on it. ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 10 Thu Nov 19, 1992 CBM-MARK (Forwarded) A few things I figured out about ROOTS V2.0; first off, when you run it don't bother creating a data disk. You'll save yourself grief later on. The program will crash if the ROOTS program files are not found on disk so use your program disk as the data disk too. Always, exit the program when you are done by selecting item #12 from the main menu. An index type file of whats on disk will be written to the data disk and MUST be there when you re-load&run ROOTS next time. If it's not, ROOTS can't find what is on disk. To enter data: Select #7 (Name Index) from the main menu. A list of names will come up which will be empty the first time. Enter the number of an empty slot and you'll be back at the main menu. Now select #5 (Add Name...) from the main menu. Enter all the info the program asks for about the individual. Just press return if you don't have anything to enter at a particular time. When all the info is entered you'll be taken back to the main menu. To enter another name select #7 from the main menu again and pick a empty slot again. Again, back to the main menu; select #5 and enter the info about the new individual. Follow the same pattern for each name to be entered: #7 main menu, pick empty slot, #5 main menu, enter info, back to #7 main menu. Names are stored on disk as charts which are groups of individuals but I have no idea how MANY individuals can be in a chart. There is one of two ways to save a group(chart) to disk. One is to select #8 from the main menu and pick and empty slot. The chart of individuals currently in memory will be saved to disk and the empty slot will now be in memory for you to work on. This is also how you can move from chart to chart, by selecting not an empty chart but by selecting a listed (on disk) chart. Let me WARN you, I had this fail once when I wanted to have the current chart in memory saved to disk and I selected a listed chart. Don't know why but the chart in memory was only erased and the new one loaded. Old one with my changes was not saved to disk first. The other way your chart in memory is saved to disk is when you exit by selecting #12 from the main menu. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY YOU SHOULD EXIT!! The reason I suggest you use the program disk as the data disk too, is because if you are going to send anything to the printer you are not warned or prompted to insert the program disk at all. More than likely you'll have the separate data disk (if that's how you do it) in the drive instead; ROOTS will crash if the printer file is not found. All the unsaved changes you made will be lost! Of the printers supported, I don't have any. So I chose printer file#2 for "other 132 col printers". No, mine isn't 132 col only 80 but I set the pitch swicth to compressed. Mine is a Panasonic1091i with Xetec SG interface set to Super Graphics mode. When asked for the printer codes I just pressed return and used the default settings. Printouts were surprisingly good! I think I have enough here for you to get started. If not, just holler ;) ▐▐Mark▐▐ ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 11 Thu Nov 19, 1992 CBM-MARK (Forwarded) Posted previous message before I read the ones before it. Ed, yeah, I wasn't all that impressed with it either. Spending the $30 on Lineages would be a better idea in my opinion. ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 12 Thu Nov 19, 1992 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] (Forwarded) You DEFINITELY do nice work Mark. I found out a lot of that but did not express it any way nearly as clearly! And I never figured out the need for exiting to save the data... like I said before, as a programmer, I have no use for some programs. That lack of prompt thing drove me MAD! And when I get a FORMAT DISK screen that seems to offer no alternative, I tend to be kind of linear in my thinking (and come up wit the disk). I too ran the wide print, but again without your foresight. I *do* have a wide carriage printer but didn't have wide paper in at the time. The printout looked as though it might be nice,but it was hard to tell. VERY nice piece of work tho! (Your getting an answer to this, not the guy who wrote it). And don't you hate mis- spellings in programs. >> aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh! << ------------ Category 3, Topic 12 Message 13 Fri Nov 20, 1992 CBM-MARK (Forwarded) Thanks Ed! ;) You know, I never noticed the misspelling at all :> ------------