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- Questions & Answers Part 3
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- From: A. Sessanna
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- > Oh don't you cry for me... <
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- When somebody sends in some
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- questions how many issues pass before
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- they are answered?
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- > We attempt to operate on a schedule
- > two months ahead of our publication
- > date. This helps insure that an
- > issue is thoroughly tested, but also
- > delays user responses.
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- Is cleaning the disk drive rough on
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- it like formatting is?
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- > According to our sources, neither
- > formatting or cleaning is bad on the
- > drive. The general rule of thumb is
- > to clean your drive head about every
- > 25 hours of use.
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- Is there any way to change the name
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- of a SEQ file?
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- > The normal rename command will work
- > for SEQ files. To use it, type in
- > the following:
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- > OPEN15,8,15,"R0:NEWNAME=OLDNAME"
- > CLOSE15
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-
- When I turn on my disk drive the
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- light doesn't go out for about 1
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- minute. Is there a way that this can
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- be stopped?
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- > That is a problem we have never
- > heard of. There is undoubtedly
- > something wrong with your drive.
- > Try typing this after you turn on
- > your machine and insert a formatted
- > disk:
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- > OPEN15,8,15,"I0:":CLOSE15
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- > This is the command to initialize
- > the disk drive. If there are no
- > other problems with your drive,
- > then just ignore the light.
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- Is it illegal to use part of someone
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- else's program in one of your
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- programs and send it in to LOADSTAR?
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- > Yes, IF it is copyrighted.
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- From: Jim White
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- I would like to thank all concerned
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- for some fine software. The PGM
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- program (Loadstar #21) has given me a
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- lot more power on my 64.
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- One thing I would like to do is
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- print the hires screens from your
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- disks. Can you help me?
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- > Because our pictures can be in
- > several different formats, and there
- > are so many different printers out
- > there, not to mention so many
- > different interfaces, there would
- > have to be dozens of specific
- > programs to do the job. We don't
- > anticipate tackling it, but will
- > gladly accept program submissions
- > that do it.
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-
- I would like to see an alarm clock
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- program.
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- > We published an alarm clock program
- > in Loadstar #9. Why not order it
- > and check it out?
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- From: Brown
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- I am having problems with a
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- program from disk #23, the program is
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- "123 DIRECTORY". Sometimes it works
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- but most of the time it doesn't.
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- When I load and then run the program
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- I will get: Bad Subscript Error in
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- 100.
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- Line 100 reads as follows:
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- GET#1,A$,B$:X=ASC(A$+N$)+ASC(B$+N$)*
- 256:C$(I,L)=STR$(X)
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- > We have found that "123 Directory"
- > is very sensitive to control
- > characters in filenames. Try to
- > make sure that you don't run it on
- > any directory with such characters
- > embedded.
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- From: Chris DeYoung
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- I'm ten years old. I made a program
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- that lists all the houses I deliver
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- to on my paper route. Whenever
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- somebody stops or starts receiving
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- the newspaper I deliver, I have to
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- change about ten lines in the
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- program then save the program
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- again. I want to be able to save the
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- numbers in a sequential file so that
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- I can alter the data without changing
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- program lines. I want to learn how
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- to create and access the file; could
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- you give me some information?
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- Thank you.
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- > To create a NEW SEQ data file
- > and write information to it:
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- > 100 REM OPEN THE DATA FILE
- > 110 :
- > 120 OPEN5,8,5,"FILENAME,S,W"
- > 130 :
- > 140 REM PUT DATA INTO AN ARRAY
- > 145 REM WITH NO COMMAS IN DATA!
- > 150 :
- > 160 A$(1)="JOHN DOE"
- > 170 A$(2)="1315 STRAIGHT ST."
- > 180 A$(3)="SHREVEPORT LA. 71104"
- > 190 :
- > 200 REM WRITE DATA TO SEQ FILE
- > 210 :
- > 220 FOR T=1 TO 3
- > 230 PRINT#5,A$(T)
- > 240 NEXT : CLOSE5
- >
- > To read data from the file do this:
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- > 200 OPEN5,8,5,"FILENAME,S,R"
- > 210 FOR T=1 TO 3
- > 220 INPUT#5,A$(T) : PRINT A$(T)
- > 230 NEXT : CLOSE5
- >
- > Good luck with your newspaper
- > route as well as your program
- > to organize it! I hope this is
- > enough information to get you
- > started on putting your data into
- > SEQ files.
- > For full information on disk use,
- > order our disk, "DOS and DON'TS".
- > See the "About our Products" file on
- > Side Two.
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