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- Path: sparky!uunet!island!moon!cyberden!phbill
- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Daisy Dot III
- Message-ID: <HRPFoB3w164w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 14:05:16 PDT
- References: <1992Jul20.234003.18850@neb>
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
- Lines: 33
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- I got a call from David Richardson a day or two ago (he was verifying my
- address) and is going to send me 5 disks worth of ARCed files - unARCed
- size being >9< disks!!! which describes how to add pictures to text files
- and I suppose has examples (he says there are over 100 fonts on these
- disks). Anyways.. what he says to do is unARC them all, then go into
- DDIII's PP.COM and go thru EVERY SINGLE text file on each disk!!!! He
- says the docs come out to be about 47 pages. WHEW! Welp... I got some
- disks ready to be mailed out to him so he can mail 'em back with the ARCs
- on 'em... THis'll be fun! :)
-
- One thing he said tho is there's probably 20 copies of some of the fonts
- because they're used thruout the entire text. WHY!? Why wasn't DDIII
- made to be disk-swapable!? Instead of having each disk w/ a copy of a
- font, just have it on one disk and when the PP.COM file reads from the
- text to change fonts, and it sees that it can't, it should request a disk
- swap! SIMPLE! Sure, you'd have to hang around the computer all the
- time, but I have to anyways because the paper I use in my printer likes
- to jam if it's not seen to every once in a while...
-
- Oh well... one day that'll hopefully be fixed.
-
- Oh..just as a note David & I got into talking about Graphics 9 dumping
- (which he says this can do) and said he's made plenty of ColrView
- digitized pictures with ComputerEyes... he also plays with GIFs alot...
- he got an IBM just to look at the GIFs... how ironic that an 8-bitter
- gets an IBM JUST to help out the 8-bit! <snicker!>
-
- "Be seeing you!"
- Say|____________9_year_veteran_ ||| __
- Hi |PhBill: Bill Kendrick / | \
- if |moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- in |__________________________________
- NJ!| July 24, 1992
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