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MANUSQ.HLP
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The manual file is in 2 parts. The first is ANALY.TOC, the
table of contents and license agreement. Read this first.
ANALY.MQN is the "squeezed" manual file. To unsqueeze it,
copy ANALY.MQN onto a blank DSDD disk:
COPY/B ANALY.MQN B:
and now, (with this disk as A:) type
A:USQ ANALY.MQN
which will create ANALY.MAN, the readable manual file.
Note that this file is about 210000 bytes long, so
be sure there is at least that much free space on the disk
you are using before the unsqueeze.
As further improvements are made in AnalytiCalc, the space
released by distributing these files in squeezed form permits program
improvements to be made without sacrifice of any of the components of
the distribution. A future major release is expected to significantly
increase execution speed. It will be available at nominal cost to owners
of the current version.
There are several extra utilities on the disk in
squeezed form, including:
EDIT.EQE Screen editor. Type H when it comes in for
a brief explanation of keys. (IBMPC and look
alikes only.) The S command goes into full screen
mode in which most keypad keys do the default things
(arrow keys, PgUp and PgDn work, Del deletes a letter,
End goes to end of line, Home goes to end file (front
or back end depending on direction default set with
F1 or F9)) and control-Z gets back to command mode.
May be used as a "pipeline" editor to edit files of
any size by repeated R and W commands in command mode.
Can use all of memory.
LST.EXE Fullscreen file inspector. Allows you to search
through or look at disk files on screen very fast
a page at a time, with backspacing also. Type ?
for help to it.
KER.EXE Old "generic" Kermit communications program. This
one uses the BIOS and is useful only up to 1200 baud
and the baud rate MUST be set before starting to
use it (via MODE). However it can talk to other
Kermits and allows ANSI.SYS to give it partial
VT100 terminal characteristics. Type HELP or
STATUS for info on current switch states internally.
This version uses BIOS INT 14H to access the comm port,
and works on most any IBM PC compatible or near compatible
machine, or on IBM PC itself. Note that the BIOS will require
carrier detect, so you may have to fiddle with switches or
cables to use with a smart modem. For a dumb modem, just
make the connection first, then run KER.
CPM.EQE and ZERO.EXE Utilities that allow access to CP/M - 86 or CP/M-80
disks from MSDOS (IBM CP/M-86 or Seequa CP/M-80 format
SSDD disks only). Read/write/directory/erase/list/rename
access. Use lowercase commands. Invoke CPM via
CPM -0 for A: being CP/M disk or CPM -1 for B: as
CP/M disk. Type help for help message. Zero inits
CP/M directory structure on disk. ZERO 0 does on drive
A: and ZERO 1 does on drive B: ZERO 2 or ZERO 3 are
alternates; 0,1 assume disk is formatted with PCDOS 2.0
in 8 sector mode but PCDOS thinks it's in 9 sector map
mode. 2,3 assume real 8 sector formatting as CP/M does.
Experiment to assure right combinations.
GRF.BQS Demonstration BASIC program for extended line or dot graphs
from saved spreadsheets. It can read up to 5 regions of the
spreadsheet and display them with numerous options. Have a
look at the comments, and use <enter> after the function
keys. In conjunction with the PCDOS GRAPHICS utility it will
make beautiful line plots or other graphs on screen or hard
copy. (The PIE.BAS utility does piecharts separately.) This
program will also fit lines ("linear regression") to data
points.
The above utilities are extras and may or may not be on the kits; they
are NOT a part of the AnalytiCalc distribution, but are extras supplied
from one PC user to another if present. Better versions exist for most,
especially Kermit, which has had MAJOR improvements since this version
came out, BUT this version works with any PC that has a BIOS interface
even remotely similar to IBM's.
To unsqueeze a file, copy the file onto a disk with ample room
for the unsqueezed version and use the command USQ file.nqn (the
Q in the middle of the extension indicates a squeezed file). The
original file will be regenerated.