VTYPE is slowest because of extensive character testing going on as text is
scrolled--scrolls forwards and backwards line-to-line or page-to-page, near
instant goto bottom-of-file or top-of-file from anywhere within file, in con-
text help, plus many other bells and whistles. TYPE is from command processor
(CCP) of ZCPR v3.3 and has option to stop automatically at screen page breaks.èZFILER's V command has line-by-line and page-by-page, and to end-of-file
scrolling abilities. Draw your conclusions as to how much faster a SemiDisk
9.2MHz DT42 would be over Ampro 4MHz Z80 (hint: see testing results in Z-News
409 and 501).
Thanks, Richard, for sharing your results with us. We recommend you
order today your longed-for DT42 computer.
Z-Node Activity. A programmer's tip that comes from Al Hawley, Z-Node #2
Sysop and present ZAS/ZLINK shepherd, suggests using ASET instead of EQU under
certain conditions. If you are having trouble with multiple same-label defi-
nitions coming from more-than-one, several "include" or "maclib" files, ASET
may be an answer. ZAS provides both these pseudo-op code possibilities. ASET
is useful when a label takes on more than one value during the course of
assembly. EQU permits a label to acquire but one value. ASET accepts getting
identical values from several sources during an assembly.
Software Update Service Report. Well, another SUS diskette is in the making.
Subscribers have received fair value: we promised you at least 9 diskettes per
year--we have already shipped 11. Here's how #12 looks at newsletter go-to-
press time:
XDIR III, Version 2.0 Horizontal Listing by File Name/Type
Disk: F User: 0 Name: BACKUP, File Attributes: Non-System
Filename.Typ Size K RS Filename.Typ Size K RS Filename.Typ Size K RS
Disk Directory v1.4 is alternative to DIR coming from Terry Hazen--a very nice
ZCPR3 utility. FOR-NXT2 are useful batch (FOR-NEXT-PERFORM) utilities, espec-
ially for RAM and fast hard disk users, from Dreas Nielsen, the Z-System shell
expert. Also from flinty Dreas comes Z3VARS, a library he uses to make easy
creation of shells and other utilities.
ZF10F is latest upgrade of ZFILER from Z-Team member, Jay Sage, author of
ZCPR v3.3. ZFILER v1.0f has macro-command file tagging facility, a real
break-thru for our shells. Jay soon further upgrade ZF to more than it is
now.
ZLDIR is NAOGer Bruce Morgen's update of Sigi Kluger's LDIR. ZLDIR is
fast, much faster than LLF but doesn't have some of LLF's bells and whistles.
We use ZLDIR in our TLF alias for seeing the text files to be scanned in a
library file (see below for an update to the TLF suite).
ZMANG-20 is Z-Node #60 Sysop Bob Peddicord's near-final product for file
management under Z-System. Menu shell is declared a "super utility" and will
find uses by those wanting extreme flexibility to manage application programs
and general housekeeping. Syntax is near identical to ZFILER making menu pro-
gramming easier. Soon all our shells will have similar parametric syntax and
grammar.
Z-User's Corner. Correctly placed hyphens within words permit lines to be
justified neatly flush left and right, with even and not too much space be-
tween words and characters. WordStar, Release 4.0, comes with The Word Plus,
TW for short, with expanded main dictionary of over 61,000 words. Earlier TW
had only 45,000 words. In addition to all the new WordStar features, math, èmacros, proportional spacing with right-margin alignment, TW adds word handl-
ing tools: SPELL, REVIEW, LOOKUP, FIND, ANAGRAM, MARKFIX, HYPHEN, WC,
DICTSORT, and WORDFREQ. You can run spell checks from WS's main menu and you
can run any command. As a ZCPR3 shell and utility, WS v4.0 knows paths and
named directories, command errors are turned over to installed error handler.
(We use Z33VERR from SUS #12.) From within WordStar, using the "R" command
from main menu, many aliases have been found useful, and actually at lot of
fun to design and develop.
hyph if ~nu $1;echo $0 - d%>etermine word hyphenation; <<