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Goodies for Early July.
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by Larry Phillips.
This disk brings us two telecomm programs, Aterm 6.11, probably the best
working and most reliable Aterm yet, and Jim Nangano's Starterm, a shareware
product. If you do use Starterm and find it useful, PLEASE send him his
requested donation. Support shareware! Aterm is fully public domain, and has
been worked on by many, so no donation is required. If you are a C programmer,
look it over and see what YOU can do to improve it.
It's always nice to be able to compare files to see if they are the same, but
DIF and SSED take the concept one step further. No need to store every single
version of the source for a program as backup. Simply save your first version,
the last one, and DIF files for all the versions in between. If disaster should
strike, use SSED and the original to recreate the latest version, or any
version in between the original and the latest. Modem updates to friends at
considerable time savings. From Rick Schaeffer of Tacoma.
Have any C64 pictures around? If they were generated with Doodle or Koala
Pad, run them through the converters in the graphics directory, then use DPaint
to enhance them. Print Shop graphics (side "A" only) may be made into DPaint
brush files for "clip art".
Only one general purpose utility this time, CP, a fast (buffered) file copy
from Rick Schaeffer. Uses UNIX style wild cards.
Miscellaneous text files gleaned from around the networks will be found in
the TEXT directory. Almost as good as a magazine!
Mantis's MenuEd has been updated, and is included here. A very nice program
of the shareware variety. Again, if you use it, please pay. This will ensure
that we will continue to have a steady flow of good quality programs from those
who have the ability to write them, but no inclination to go into large scale
marketing with its attendant high prices.
A font editor is also included. I have only fired this one up briefly, so
can't comment on it too much. Seems functional.
aterm (dir)
aterm6.11 - The latest in the Aterm series. Works very well indeed
at.c - The source code for Aterm6.11
Aterm6.doc - A generic documentation file for Aterm6.nn
difssed (dir)
dif - Find file differences, create a command file for SSED. The
combination of DIF and SSED allow you to find the differences
between two files and to create a file that will, with SSED,
make the old file into the new one. Handy for sending updates
via modem.
difssed.doc - Documentation for DIF and SSED. Complete instructions.
ssed - Stream editor. Uses output from DIF.
graphics (dir)
convdoodle - Convert C64 Doodle pics to IFF
converters.txt - Brief descriptions of the converters in this
directory.
convkoala - Convert C64 Koala pad pictures to IFF.
convpsg - Convert Print Shop graphics to DPaint brush files.
text (dir)
1megcorrection.txt - More on the homebrew 1 Meg RAM: upgrade.
compute.txt - A letter to Compute! in answer to their August issue.
monitor.txt - A short dissertation on colour monitors, persistence,
and flicker. By Bob Pariseau.
online.opinion - One man's opinion of Online! from MSS.
sales - Some tidbits from C & SN.
starterm.bugs - A few Caveats and tips for Starterm. The 3.01 version
is included on this disk.
trojans.txt - The idiots have arrived. A few known "trojan horses"
that are being circulated.
util (dir)
cp - Yet another version of COPY. Unix style wild cards.
Fast. (See also the addendum by Jeff below.)
mantis (dir)
MenuEd - The lates Mantis menu editor. Freeware/Shareware.
Less prone to crashing. Very nice.
MenuEd.info - Icon file for above.
README - Minimal docs for MenuEd. Send the author a donation
for full docs and support.
Sample.menu - A sample menu to play with in MenuEd.
fonted (dir)
.info
fonted - A font editor. Haven't played with this one.
Fonted.info - Icon for above.
readme - Some docs for Fonted.
starterm (dir)
starnote - A "quick and dirty" doc file for Starterm. A few
things are not mentioned, see Starbugs in the TEXT
directory of this disk.
starterm - Jim Nangano's terminal program. Quite full featured.
Despite the "about" screen's insistence, this is
version 3.01, and not 3.0.
starterm.info - Icon for Starterm
modula (dir)
simple.mod - Example program showing a simple requester in TDI's
Modula 2.
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Addendum by Jeff Lydiatt ...
I also added the program "Copy" in the Util directory. Copy is a modification
of the "cp" program by Rick Shaeffer to which I added AmigaDos style wild
expressions. The program uses a 32k buffer to read and write which speeds up
copies considerably, particularly if reading and writing to the same disk.
The AmigaDos wild expression algorithm is a translation of a regular expression
algorithm and an expression compiler originally coded in BCPL which was
published in the September 1979 issue of "Software, Practice and Experience."
Both C source and a version compiled under Aztec C is provided in the
directory "Util".
Useage: copy [from] infile [to] outfile.
"infile" may be any valid AmigaDos wild expression. IE.
copy #?.c to ram: will copy any file ending in ".c" such as abc.c a.c or .c.
copy ?.c to ram: will copy a.c, b.c e.c or any file with a single character
ending with ".c".
copy (abc)|(def) to ram: copies the two files "abc" and "def" to ram: