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The programs on volume 80 were contributed by:
David E. Trachtenbarg
120 W. Arcadia
Peoria, IL 61604
309 688-9742
Here are a few comments extracted from his very complete
submittal forms:
* They all require Cromemco 32K Structured Basic
* Most have hardware dependency on a Hazeltine 1500 terminal.
The statistical programs have optional plotting routines that
require a dot matrix printer.
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The remaining is directly from the author:
This disk contains a set of programs that I wish to donate to
the CPMUG for noncommercial use. Most of the programs are
entirely original programs that I wrote from scratch. Others
are based on algorithms that have been described by others.
None have been published as Structured Basic programs before to
my knowledge.
Although all of the programs work, some still have minor bugs
in them that I know about. All of the programs could be
improved upon. I considered waiting until all of the programs
were in the best possible condition before sending them into
the CPMUG. However, if I did that I never would get around to
submitting any programs. Therefore, I have sent in this set as
is. Perhaps in the future newer better verions will be
included on this disk.
Files SMENU.STB, SPELL.STB, CEDIT.STB, DEDIT.STB, CHECK.DAT,
TRANSFER.STB, DICTION.DAT and WORDLIST.TXT are all parts of a
spelling checking program. The program was written before the
commercial spelling checkers were first marketed. Unlike the
commercial checkers it is very slow since each word is checked
in a ISAM dictionary file. Also unlike other spelling checkers
it costs less than ten dollars.
A text file containing a short list of common words is also
included. The program will scan a text file and place all of
the words not in the dictionary in another file to be checked.
After all of the words in the check file have been reviewed
they may be added to the dictionary. The writer must use an
editor to correct any misspelled words. Some other limitations
of the program are that words longer than 15 characters are
automatically put in the check file since the dictionary won't
store them properly and that proper nouns may be stored in the
dictionary capitalized, but the spelling checker does not check
the text for capitalization.
DATE.STB, MMENU.STB, REC-EDIT.STB, REC-PRN.STB, ZIPSORT.STB
and BACKUP.STB are all parts of a mailing list program. It
allows names to be entered, modified and deleted. Printouts
may be made of all the entered data, mailing labels sorted by
zip code or alphabetically and in a membership list format.
The program should be easy to customize.
CONV-ASC.STB and CONV-BAS.STB were written to help convert
Microsoft and C-Basic programs into structured BASIC programs.
I have used them to help convert most of the CPMUG games. Some
limitations are that String functions and disk I/O usually
still need additional work. Also C-Basic programs that do not
have sequential line number or line numbers that are too close
together will not convert. I found that about 2/3 of the
programs will run properly after being "put through" the
conversion programs and the others require some additional
modification.
STAT.STB, X2.STB and SPEAR.STB are all statistics programs
using standard algorithms.
TREK.STB and TRK-HELP.STB are part of a new Startrek program
that I wrote that is based on every other Startrek program that
I have ever used.
GRADER.STB uses the algorithm published by Donald Goodman and
Sandra Schwab published in Creative Computing to calculate the
Fog Index and the Flesch readability scale. The program itself
has been rewritten to operate on text files rather than having
someone type in text manually in a special format.
SORTS.STB was inspired the the 2 part article in August and
September 1981 Interface Age by Gene cotton comparing different
sorting routines. It lets the users compare different standard
sorting routines done on an array of random numbers. The
procedures may also be used in other programs.
UTILITY.STB is a program that will "strip" the line numbers
off of a Cromemco Basic program and latter add them again. I
have found it useful to use in combination with a text editor
if blocks of a program need to be rearranged. Unfortunately it
does not take GOTOs into account. If you need to alter a
program that uses GOTOs I would suggest using labels instead of
numbers.
TRADE.STB is a Structured Basic version of an old CPMUG game
from volume 21. The game has been rewritten to follow a
structured format. There is not one Goto in the entire
program!
PRN-TEST.STB is a simple printer testing program.