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SPANISH INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS
FOR IBM COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS
by
Philip Roger Yant
Doctor Yant's AdequateAnswers
Release 1.1
August 1990
Release 1.1 corrects a bug in the SP_MATH unit that
mishandled the input of an accent. Accents don't appear often in
numbers, so this was not caught in testing and some users may not
have experienced it. There was also an occasional problem with
the verb programs when using a configuration file. While fixing
these, other improvements were made, many of which will be
transparent. In addition, a special "Student Manual" has been
prepared that concentrates on the student-program interface and
ignores the machine.
Because this release corrects a genuine bug, it is being
sent free to all registered users and does not count as the
"significant upgrade" mentioned on the registration form.
MESSAGE FOR USERS
Doctor Yant's AdequateAnswers are dedicated to solutions
requiring the least hardware, useable by the most people.
A lot of the software that I see requires the best hardware
currently available. It's fun to program for the best hardware
and it's fun to use that hardware, if you have it. However, I
know that many times a program that requires VGA graphics and a
color monitor does not really need those things to do what it is
intended to do. That means that those of us with monochrome
monitors, or LCD laptops, can't use those programs. Other
programs that require a lot of memory or CPU speed probably could
have been written to require less, if the programmer felt the
need.
Deciding what is adequate for a particular purpose is not
easy. It partly depends on assumptions about the hardware
available to users. I suspect that I have undershot the mark.
There are a lot of bells and whistles that I can add in before my
programs become unuseable by anyone. I am considering more on-
line help, for example, and more helpful screen displays. The
tradeoff is that each pop-up window adds to the memory
requirement of the programs.
Registered users receive several small utilities that help
in the preparation and manipulation of vocabulary files. So far,
I have resisted the urge to write a special editor for entering
vocabulary and verb files. It wouldn't be difficult to prepare
something that would help in these tasks, and make it easier to
enter parts of speech into vocabulary files, for example, and to
be sure that there are the correct numbers of words on a line.
However, every time I think of this, I decide that the world
doesn't need another editor, there are so many that are perfectly
adequate.
What do you think? What features would you like to see?
I really would like to hear from users. Send me both
suggestions and criticisms. These programs have advanced to
their present state as a result of suggestions from users.
I can be reached on GEnie with address P.YANT, through
Internet with address Philip_Yant@ub.cc.umich.edu, and through
Bitnet with address UserGB2P@umichub. Internet is accessible
from both MCI mail and CompuServe. From MCI, choose a foreign
EMS and the Internet address above. From CompuServe, use
>internet:Philip_Yant@ub.cc.umich.edu. Or use USPS to the
address on the registration form. I welcome and appreciate any
comments and suggestions.