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- AV Software Designs, Ltd. October 4, 1985
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- DEC Rainbow Archive Package # 4
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- Package Title - "Murphy's Sayings"
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- Version - 1.1
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- System - DEC Rainbow 100/A/B/+/190
- MS-DOS Version 2.11+
- Compatible over MS/PC-DOS
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- Language - TurboPascal Version 3.01A
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- Author - Alan I. Vymetalik for
- AV Software Designs, Ltd.
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- All doucmentation, sources, and programs -
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- Copyright (c) 1985 by AV Software Designs, Ltd.
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- COPYRIGHT, WARRANTY, AND DISCLAIMERS
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- Any material included in this package may be used for
- whatever application desired. However, no documentation,
- sources, or programs created AV Software Designs, Ltd. may
- be sold or otherwise included, in whole or part, in other
- software being sold. Licensing arrangements can by made
- through the above address.
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- Special exception is made for any sources that this
- package contains. The source routines may be used in any
- manner the user wishes. The user is encouraged to include
- the routines in his software to better the quality of the
- software and thereby the quality in public domain circula-
- tion. Appropriate references are appreciated.
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- Since these materials are being released under the
- FreeWare concept, any user of this software may freely
- donate money, ideas, and comparable routines in return for
- using this software if the user has felt he has benefitted
- or learned something from this software. Funds and ideas
- will go a long way in helping the author develop new soft-
- ware and to maintain this and other packages. Address all
- inquires and communications to the above address.
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- Warranties and Guarantees - None! Though these pro-
- grams have been tested as thoroughly as possible, neither
- the author nor AV Software Designs, Ltd. assumes nor is
- responsible for any damage occuring to any hardware or
- software of the user nor for any typographical or logic
- errors that may occur. This package and its contents are
- subject to modification without prior notice and no com-
- mitment of any kind is stated or to be inferred.
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- PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
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- Murphy's Sayings is a proverb, truism, and old adage
- generator for the DEC Rainbow 100 MS-DOS Version 2.11+
- operating system. It will also function properly running
- under PC-DOS 2.0+ if the ANSI.SYS driver is installed.
- MURF was revived from the DEC RSX-11 and VAX versions by
- the author as a bit of fun and amusement for all.
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- Place a call to it in your AUTOEXEC for a random say-
- ing everytime you boot your system. If the demand is high
- enough, we'll consider releasing MURF under other operat-
- ing systems.
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- MURF is a fairly small program but its data is huge.
- To allow the user to run MURF on any size system, the pro-
- gram (about 11K) is loaded and then reads a keyed-data
- file MURF.DAT. The data file can be anywhere you want it
- to be. If the file does not exist (leave the data file
- with its original name) or if it appears to be corrupted,
- MURF will abort.
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- The calling line in an AUTOEXEC.BAT, for example,
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- MURF E:\BIN\
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- will look for the file MURF.DAT in E:\BIN\ (yes, you need
- the closing '\' except when using the default directory.
- Also, if all files are in the default directory, you can
- omit the path name.
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- If you happen to have that wonderful 'PATH' replace-
- ment called 'SEARCH' from Arborsoft Systems, you can leave
- off the path name all together.
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- Since random number generators are not and because
- the DEC Rainbow utilizes the system clock to seed its ran-
- dom generator, it is strongly advised that you set the
- system time with either the MS-DOS command or, preferably,
- with AV Software Designs' RBCLK.
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- If you called MURF from your AUTOEXEC without setting
- the time (or at least pausing on the command long enough),
- you stand a good chance of the same saying everytime you
- booted. MURF attempts to pause long enough to get a good
- random number, but it is still dependent on the system
- time at boot-time. To solve this, at least set the time or
- use the MS-DOS 'time' command, pause, and then hit return.
- Then call MURF. Maybe we'll get a real-time clock for the
- Rainbow someday!
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- Files needed to run MURF:
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- MURF.COM
- MURF.DAT
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- Information:
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- MURF.DOC
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- MURF Version 1.1
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- Copyright (c) 1985 by AV Software Designs, Ltd.
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- DEC Rainbow Archive Package # 4