Oakland CPM Archive/oakcpm.iso/sigm/vol227/geneolgy.lbr/GHOST.FMT

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* GHOST.FMT
@  0, 0 SAY "+-------------------------------------------------"
@  0,50 SAY "+"
@  1, 0 SAY ":       -- MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR'S GHOST --"
@  1,50 SAY ":"
@  2, 0 SAY ": I wrote this program because I'm interested in"
@  2,50 SAY ":"
@  3, 0 SAY ": genealogies and computers. Being on a computer"
@  3,50 SAY ":"
@  4, 0 SAY ": should make it easier to pass on to following"
@  4,50 SAY ":"
@  5, 0 SAY ": generations because updating and distributing"
@  5,50 SAY ":"
@  6, 0 SAY ": it becomes so easy. I only wonder whether"
@  6,50 SAY ":"
@  7, 0 SAY ": dbaseII and cpm will still exist when it's my"
@  7,50 SAY ":"
@  8, 0 SAY ": grand childrens turn to keep the thing up to"
@  8,50 SAY ":"
@  9, 0 SAY ": date!! They'll probobly be updating it on their"
@  9,50 SAY ":"
@ 10, 0 SAY ": wristwatch or god knows what else."
@ 10,50 SAY ":"
@ 11, 0 SAY ":  Well I wrote this thing while living in Paris"
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@ 12, 0 SAY ": in 1983 and Bill Graham who organised the first"
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@ 13, 0 SAY ": French Osborne user's group (Osborne was the"
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@ 14, 0 SAY ": first portable computer) suggested I toss it,"
@ 14,50 SAY ":"
@ 15, 0 SAY ": like a note in a bottle, into the seas and"
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@ 16, 0 SAY ": rivers of public domaine software. Since you're"
@ 16,50 SAY ":"
@ 17, 0 SAY ": reading this now, it must have washed up on the"
@ 17,50 SAY ":"
@ 18, 0 SAY ": distant shore of your computer. If you like it,"
@ 18,50 SAY ":"
@ 19, 0 SAY ": hate it, use it or whatever I'd like to know so"
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@ 20, 0 SAY ": please send me a note in a bottle: SAM WASHBURN"
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@ 21, 0 SAY ": 3 Temple Place, Andover, Ma. 01810 U.S.A."
@ 21,50 SAY ":"
@ 22, 0 SAY ":      TYPE ANY COMMAND"
@ 22,24 GET COMMAND
@ 22,50 SAY ":"