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- FILES ON THIS DISK
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- 1. Your CAT980 disk contains the following files:
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- A. CAT980.EXE This is a stand-alone, executable program.
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- B. CAT980.CFG This is a configuration file you can rewrite.
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- C. *.MNU These are menu files - you can create more!
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- D. *.MEM These are memory load files - you create too!
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- E. CAT980.DOC This is what you read when all else fails.
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- F. README.TXT This file.
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- A friend of mine in the amateur retail biz said a lot of folks have
- picked up a YAESU(tm) interface unit. If you have one you will probably go
- straight for the throat and call up cat980.exe. That's fine, it defaults to
- COM1: and you can use <^p> to pick ports 2 thru 4 before it captures the FT-
- 980 transceiver. <F1> will pop up a help display.
- But after you get that out of your blood, please take time to review
- the doc file. This program has features far beyond the radio. Scanners,
- additional frequency commands, memory control, 300 new frequency memories -
- and an ability to 'read' files you can write to deploy the radio to suit your
- operating interests. Read it; you'll like it.
- And if you don't have or plan to obtain a commercial interface, check
- out Appendix D in the doc file. I have included a schematic of a simple
- interface I use at this QTH.
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- RUNNING THE PROGRAM
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- I've run this program on an Epson Equity LT lap top computer which
- has the same screen specs as an everyday IBM and a desk top clone with a
- Hercules graphic card. They both run fine business.
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- ABOUT PRINTING CAT980.DOC
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- I've always had trouble printing large doc files where the writer was
- doing me a favor and putting in a lot of control characters to make it print
- correctly. It may have run fine on their printer but not on mine! I've
- tried not to do that to you. There are a couple of line feeds to make sure
- the schematic prints on a single page - but for the most part the doc file is
- free of such commands. I printed it at this QTH by using the MS DOS SetPrint
- command to skip over perforations for my Epson. If you don't have that
- version of DOS just use the print command straight out.
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- Feel free to distribute these files, unmodified, to any BBS or fellow
- amateur. The more the merrier.
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- Hope to hear from you....
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- K5YEF/Art Harding/PO Box 861719/Plano, Tx. 75074/USA
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