ICTARI USER GROUP MAGAZINE                                 MARCH 1993

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                       I C T A R I   U S E R   G R O U P

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    Hi, and welcome to Ictari User Group,  disk 1. Featured on this disk is
    my very own Personal Accounts program,  which I am currently re-writing
    in C. Also  included  on  this  disk  is  Glenn's  excellent Bootsector
    Cpmanion, which checks for viruses and allows you to install bootsector
    programs,  repair  disks,   etc.   If   anyone   has  any  unrecognised
    bootsectors, even if you know they are harmless can you use the program
    to store them, and send them to Glenn, or myself.

    The document displayer is being used  to help read the documentation, I
    presume you are using this now, although  it's not essential. I do hope
    in future to write my own  version  of  this  in the near future. Check
    out the GFA  datatbase  program  in  the  the  GFA  folder  which needs
    unarchiving, this program provides an excellent database for sources of
    information to GFA, it was written by Neil Warwick (How about a copy of
    the source please).

    Because of some incompatibility problems  with  some  programs with a 4
    Meg setup, I have included a  memset  program which will configure to 1
    Meg. This is required  by  me  for  example  to  run Glenn's Bootsector
    program, which mysteriously does not work on 4 megs. Can anyone provide
    an explanation for this ??????? .

    The rest of the disk  is  separated  into  various popular languages in
    which I have had contributions sent in for. This includes 68K, STOS, C,
    and GFA. I hope  other  languages  can  be  supported  later. Also this
    edition is the first edition, and therefore  there was a lack of hints,
    requests, etc which hopefully will be  increased once the magazine gets
    distributed.

    I hope to write for the next  edition  a  C tutorial and a 68K tutorial
    that starts from the basics. <No  promises though>. Also I hope members
    will send me there recommended books,  utilities and programs so people
    who hope to start in a particular  field  on the ST will have plenty of
    advice.

    Unfortunately this issue contains little on MIDI and GRAPHICS which are
    other important issues. Hoever  I  am  prepared  to  cover these issues
    should I get some contributions  relating  to  them. It is important to
    remember that this is your  group  as  much  as  it's mine and that you
    decide what goes in the magazine by  what  you send me. I shall only be
    selective should an issue of space  arise.  Hopefully with my letter in
    ST Format, and the thus constant increase  in membership as a result of
    this, I hope membership will continue to  grow, and the quality of this
    magazine vastly improve, in all aspects.

    Ok, That's it for this  edition,   enjoy   and get those contributions,
    and disks sent back to me for the next edition.

    Ictari Disk Magazine 2 to be released April 12th 1993

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