¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF OHAUG MEETING 10/10/98¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS opened the meeting by¢ asking for a review of last month's¢ meeting. RON informed members that¢ at the last meeting we did a demo on¢ the LES WAGER disk utility which is a¢ fantastic disk utility for recovering¢ bad files, bad disks, etc. but he is¢ now on the 4th upgrade and is a great¢ programmer. RON modified the DOS with¢ this program and gave everyone copies¢ of the revised program.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS reported he has been in¢ correspondence with JOE HICSWA about¢ the implications for the ATARI¢ computer regarding the Y2K problem.¢ Joe has written to the White House¢ and Senators about this. A discussion¢ then followed on program modification¢ and other factors affecting PCs.¢¢ ALAN has also been in touch with TOM¢ ANDREWS and TOM sent us a new version¢ of the Newsletter program which Alan¢ will demo at this meeting.¢¢ TREASURY REPORT:¢¢ RON FETZER reported that we are in¢ the black.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS demoed a disk from TOM¢ ANDREWS which is a new version of the¢ newsletter program. When Tom first¢ sent the program, Alan noticed that¢ the original color scheme was set up¢ in AUTORUN.SYS, and thus it would¢ appear briefly on the screen when the¢ disk loaded. Alan told Tom about it,¢ and Tom immediately sent Alan a¢ program that would correct the¢ problem. ALAN ran the new program¢ for Club members. There were some¢ comments about the green color scheme¢ and the choice of colors. JACK¢ GEDALIUS would have preferred yellow¢ on brown, which is what Alan gets¢ with his 130XE using the same color¢ codes that give everyone else the¢ greens. Nobody else objected to the¢ green theme, however. The program¢ code has been simplified with many of¢ the comment lines taken out. The¢ Welcome Screen comes up faster. The¢ menu now substitutes a "change sides"¢ choice for the print configuration,¢ since print configuration sets up¢ from Side 1. The title has been¢ restored to the top of the text¢ window, and the instructions for¢ using keys and joystick to scroll the¢ text are now constantly at the bottom¢ of the screen. Scrolling is from the¢ bottom up, and the last line of the¢ last page is repeated at the top of¢ the next -- a great convenience. ¢ Since no warning messages are¢ displayed when there is no BASIC¢ program to run from the spacebar,¢ there will be a BASIC program on both¢ sides of each newsletter from now on.¢ Alan also reformatted the HELP.DOC¢ file so that it has a much neater¢ appearance and the few errors in¢ grammar and spelling have been¢ corrected. Tom did a great job with¢ the program, and Alan thanked him for¢ it, as did the assembled local¢ members.¢¢ DOORPRIZES:¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS won the first door¢ prize.¢ AL PEGLER won second,¢ MEL LEVINE won third.¢ HARRY TUTHILL won fourth.¢ AL SHARKIS won fifth.¢¢ The next meeting will be at the¢ library on Saturday, November 21,¢ 1998.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢¢
