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Asc2Com Ver. 2.00 Shareware by MorganSoft All Rights Reserved Copyright 1989-1992 Liscening: ΓAsc2Com and the Ascc2Com package may not be distributed forΓ Γprofit without express, prior written approval from MorganSoft;Γ Γthe maximum copying charge that may be charged for copyingΓ ΓAsc2Com iS $7.50. BBS'S and shareware libraries (such as theΓ ΓPublic (software) Library) are encouraged to distribute theΓ ΓAsc2Com package (with thanks from MorganSoft). Γ ΓIf you have an unregistered, evaluation copy, please feel free toΓ Γtry it out as you see fit. You are not, however, toΓ Γdistribute the resulting files in any fashion whatsoever.Γ ΓYou are allowed a reasonable period of time to evaluateΓ ΓAsc2Com before registration becomes obligatory (For the purposesΓ Γof this agreement, a reasonable evaluation period is to be notΓ Γmore than 6 weeks). Γ A private registration costs π$25.00π and licenses you to produce but not distribute programs. Commercial registrations begin at π$35.00π and licenses you to produce and distribute any programs produced, in a commercial endeavor, ΣEXCEPT FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKSΣ ΣAND MAGAZINES. A Royalty fee of 5% of the cost of the ElectronicΣ Σbook or Magazine distributed will be required. THIS IS A CHANGEΣ ΣFROM PREVIOUS POLICYΣ. I repeat, for clarity: royalties will be charged for Electronic Books and Magazines, but not for other programs. Disk Vendors for the purpose of this agreement will NOT be required to pay a royalty. (Too many have been too supportive in the past. It wouldn't seem right.) All registrations entitle you to use Asc2Com on any computer that you have access to & to one update free (plus a $3.00 shipping & handling charge for domestic orders, $6.00 for international. Canadian orders will be handled as domestic rather than international) whenever you elect to (and a newer version exists). ΓTHE ONLY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AN UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE COPYΓ ΓAND A REGISTERED ONE ARE AS FOLLOWS: Registered copies have yourΓ ΓRegistration ID Number in them. Unregistered version also alwaysΓ Γbegin with a dialog box identifying the program. Γ ΓIF YOU DO ELECT TO UPLOAD ASC2COM TO A BBS, PLEASE KEEP THEΓ ΓENTIRE PACKAGE TOGETHER. Γ Purpose: Asc2Com is a general purpose documentation utility/help file generator that·makes documentation for programs and files easy to access for the user. Specifically, Asc2Com generates a self- listing Com program from an ASCII text file. You have your choice of six differing types of programs to generate: FileList: The entire package consists of the following files: Main Programs: πAsc2Com.Exe π Main Program. πA2C.Exe π Command line version. πSed.Com π Editor supplied with Asc2Com. πLzw.Exe π Compression Program. πA2C.Exe π Command Line version of Asc2Com. Aux. Files: πAsc2Com.Brs π Resource file containing menus. πA2CHlp.Hlp π On-Line Help File. πLzw.Exe π Compression program. πAsc2Com.Ico π Windows 3.x Icon. Lister Image Files: πComprss.Bin π πFL.Bin π πPage.Bin π πLite.Bim π πWide.Bin π πPrintr.Bin π Documentation Files: πAsc2CDoc.Com π Main Doc File. This one. πSEDDoc.Com π Doc file for editor. πSEDEDIns.Exe π Command Installation program for SED. πWhatsNew.Com π What's new with Version 2.0 Configuration Files: πA2C.Cfg π Current Defaults for program. πA2CTran.Stm π Configuration of Transfer programs. πA2CClr.Cfg π Colors to be used with Asc2Com. Installation Files: πRunMe.Exe π Installation program πInst.Def π Configuration program for install. Setup: If you have an unarced copy of Asc2Com package, copy all the files to whatever directory that you decide will be the home directory for Asc2Com. (if you have the arced version, copy that to the directory and unarc.). Next, you will need to set one environmental variable. To do this, using whatever editor you, edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file by adding the following line: Γ set a2c=PATH Γ where PATH is the full path name for the directory where Asc2Com will be. Γ ASC2COM WILL NOT RUN WITHOUT THIS LINEΓ in your autoexec.bat. The program needs to be able to locate several files at all time and will not be able to, should the environment not be set correctly. Once you have done this, reboot your computer and you're ready to run. Menu Options: The menu bar for the program consists of 3 options: Files Lister Options which have the following functions: Files: relates to opening and manipulating of files that you wish to view. Lister: allows you to change the Lister Type, the Colors used, the Hot Keys, and other parameters of the various listers. Options: provides a means of changing the default colors of Asc2Com itself, actually chose and process a file, or to run external programs. Individual Menu Options: Files: Open Open a file to browse Close Close the most current file window Tile Make all windows non-overlapping Cascade Overlap windows, leaving top visible Prev Make the previous window current. Next Make the next window the top window Zoom Either make the top window full screen, or shrink Resize Change the size of the current window Chg Drive Change the current drive or directory Shell Shell to DOS Register Fill out the form to Register Asc2Com. Exit Leave Asc2Com (return to DOS) Lister Type Chose the type of lister to produce Color Pick the colors that the lister will use Hot Keys Pick the Hot Keys that will be used by the Printer lister Help Screen Configure the Help Screen Special Chars Pick which characters will mark colors or taglnes Filters Set various filter options Options Colors Pick the colors that Asc2Com uses Process Chose a file and then process it Transfer Transfer control to an external program. Options of Lister Type Γ Compressed: Γ The compressed lister is new to the 2.00 version and is a complete rewrite of the original full lister. All of the options available under the full lister are available--except for the complete omission of BIOS screen writes and command line switches. CGA Snow Checking is available through a toggle while in the program. Also numeric paging is not supported. The new options are as follows: π Ten End User Bookmarks. π More mouse support. The Status Line now allows clicking on the various options, allowing the user to page, scroll up or down, invoke Find/Repeat Find, and Help. π Automatic Resume:π if the user leaves the program, and then returns, he will be immediately placed on the same page. π DOS Shell:π π Keys Reconfigurable:π Most of the Keys are Primary User Reconfigurable. (Through the Main Program, Asc2Com). π Pagination:π Write to Printer now includes end user configurable pagination. π Print Marked Blocks:π Blocks may be marked and written to the printer. π Help Screen Reconfigurable:π The help screen is primary user configurable. (Again, through the Main Program, Asc2Com, rather than the 1.76 Version, HelpInst.Exe). π Limits Expanded:π In addition, the limits of Asc2Com have been expanded considerably, through the use of LZW data compression. Full Lister: Listing can be accomplished by single lines up and down, page, or by numerical choice. The output file can take a /h (Hard Copy), /c (CheckSnow), /p (Standard Output, Pause), and /s (Standard Output) switch. A Find option is available, 2 "TagLnes", user chosen, Write to File (Alt-F), Write to Printer (Alt-H), and a Help Screen (F1). A mouse is fully supported, as well as five colors: Main Screen Color, Bottom Line Color, HelpScreen Color, Accent 1 Color, and Accent 2 Color. Page Lister: This lister is functionally the same as the full lister except it will NOT scroll line by line. The size is slightly smaller. Prnter: The smallest and simplest of the Com file produced by Asc2Com (about 400 bytes of overhead) and lists the file to LPT1 only. No switches are allowed (or needed). Lite: The smallest of the 5 video listing Com files and it has many of the same listing abilities as the Full Lister. The only differences are that 3 switches are allowed by programs generated with this option: /c (CheckSnow), /f (Produce File), and /h (Print File). The mouse if fully supported, as are all 5 colors available under the Full and Page lister--the help color will be used as a third Accent color in lieu of being used with a help screen. No find option has been incorporated at this time. Wide: This lister is based on the Lite, and has all of the same command lines options. However, as the name suggests, you're not limited to files of 80 columns or less. Strings of up to 255 characters are allowed. The mouse is fully supported, as are all colors. Preparing the Text File: How you prepare your text file will depend on the type of lister you chose to use. Several of the listers have aspects in common and will require pretty much the same preparation. For the Full, Page and Comprssed Listers, you will need to decide if you wish to use TagLnes and if so, where. You might wish to scroll through the file and see what natural breaks there are, or places where important topics are located. (For example, each topic of this help file is part of TagLne1. The second TagLne takes the user to either contacting MorganSoft, or Registration Information). With the Page Lister you need to set up the paging for the file carefully, so that each page is complete. Next, decide if you wish to highlight certain portions of the text with different colors. You have 4 colors available for this and you might need to process the file several times before you achieve the effect desired. If you are using the Lite or the Printer Lister, you have very little in the way of preparation to do--both of these produce a clean, tight stream of data with little embellishment. I suggest the use of these two listers for ordinary but important documentation. The preparation for the Wide Lister is the only lister that does NOT require that you truncate all lines at column 80. Lines can be as long as 255 characters. The Comprssed Lister, since this lister has the most number of options, requires the most preparation, particularly so since how the file is prepared will directly affect how much compression is achieved. See the section on compression. Colors: The 1.75 version of Asc2Com added quite a bit to the available colors in the output lister. You will have a choice of five foreground and background combinations to use in your files. The five colors are used in the following manner: Screen Fore & Background: This is the foreground (FG) and background (BG) colors that will be used for the screen and general text the lister will display. Default is white FG and blue BG. Bottom Line FG & BG: This is the color that the prompt line at the bottom of the screen will have. Accent 1 & 2 FG & BG: The accent colors and their placement are determined by placing the corresponding accent character. To mark any section of text that you wish to high light or "accent", place the corresponding accent character before the first position you wish to highlight and immediately behind the last portion--σALL ON THE SAME LINE.σ Very strange results will occur when you scroll if you do not pair characters on each line. When placed, the characters will πNOTπ be shown on the screen. Note, however, that they will print out when the lister prints to file. Help FG & BG: This is the color that will be used for the help screen when it pops up. Also used as a third Accent color. Filters: Filters are operations (with one exception) that will be performed on each line of the source text file before being written out to the COM file. You may perform the following operations: Make Upper Case, Make Lower Case, Pad the left margin with spaces, Strip the left margin of characters, or Strip ASCII control codes between 0 and 31 inclusive. In previous versions the option of expanding tabs was also available, but is no longer supported. All of the active filters are shown in the dialog box. If you elect to change one of them, simply mark the appropriate box and then fill in any other information required (suggest column increment for the Pad or the Strip Left options). Keys: This menu option is only for the Compressed Lister, The following keys can be changed by the Primary User : ΓFind Γ ΓFind Again Γ ΓBegin Marking Γ ΓEnd Marking Γ ΓJmp TagLne 1 & 2 Γ ΓWrite File Γ ΓPrint File Γ ΓShell Γ ΓToggleSnow Γ ΓEnter Mark Mode Γ ΓJmpToBK 1-0 Γ ΓSetBK 1-0 Γ ΓHelp Γ Disabling Hot Keys: All hot keys except help can be disabled if you so wish. To do so, simply set the hot key to the same as a proceeding hot key. (That's why you can't disable Help--it's the first hot key). Only certain characters or keystrokes are allowed to be hot keys: ΓA-Z (= a-z) Γ ΓShiftF1 - F10 Γ ΓAltF1 - F10 Γ ΓCntlF1 - F10 Γ ΓAltA - Z Γ ΓF1 - F10 Γ HelpScreen: As mentioned above, the Help Screen in its entirety is configurable from this option. Simply type in the help screen you wish, using the up and down arrow keys to move between each line. π Note: when π πyou first move to a line, it should change color; if you wish to π πkeep any of the line intact--PRESS AN ARROW KEY first.π If you enter any character, the entire line will be wiped. Also note, if the cursor is a single line rather than a block cursor, you will need to present the INS Lock key (changing the mode to overwrite). The default help screen completely fills up the space allowed for the help screen and if in insert mode, no characters can be be inserted. The box drawing characters are available using the keys outlined to the right of the help input lines. Process: A Dialog Box will appear showing the current directory and those files available. The default extent is .TXT. Simply pick the file you wish and move the highlight to "Open" with the Tab Key or use the mouse to select that button. That file will then be processed with the current set of options. Transfers: This dialog box allows you to Run, Delete, Edit, Add (New), and Cancel program transfers. These transfers are actually programs that you can run from within Asc2Com. Each entry is will consist of three lines of input: the first is the Title that will appear in the List Box (on the Left side of the dialog box). The πsecondπ is the πfull path name of the programπ to run. It MUST include the drive, the directory, the name, and the extent if the program is to run correctly. The third line will be used to provide the program with command line parameters. Please note, Γ some programs will "hang" when run from the TransferΓ Γbox--they need their own copy of COMSPEC invoked. If you encounterΓ Γa program that "hangs", try the following:Γ Fill in the Title as you would normally. Instead of placing the full path name of the program you wish to run, place instead the full path of whatever COMSPEC (generally command.com) your system uses. For example, if your system boots from drive C normally, uses DOS version 3.00+, and keeps it's copy of command.com in the root directory, then you would use the following line: C:\COMMAND.COM In the line for Cmd Line Parameters, you need to place the name of the program you wish to run, PRECEEDED by a "/C ". For example: /C C:\UTILITY\MYPROG.EXE file1 file2 would run a program called Myprog.exe, found on the C drive, in the subdirectory Utility, with two command line parameters: file1 and file2. Shell: This a typical DOS shell which allow you to do anything you could normally do from DOS, subject to memory constraints of course. To return to Asc2Com simply type "exit" at the DOS prompt. Exit: Does exactly what it says. Exits from Asc2Com. SED Editor: Run the program SEDDoc.Com for information about using this program. ComFile Operation: Four of the Com Files produced accept command line switches, as follows: /c: Wait for retrace, used for CGA systems with snow. /p: Pause mode. Use the Standard BIOS Output and pause until key pressed, before going to the next page. /s: Use Standard BIOS Output, instead of direct screen writes. /h: Send output to printer. Lite Lister & Wide Lister: Switches: /h, /c, /f. /h: Sent output to printer. /c: Wait for retrace, used for CGA systems with snow. /f: Generate text file from Com file. Compressed Lister: No Command Line switches supported. In this section, Compressed Lister Default Commands will be framed in brackets {}. F1 {F1}: Help. This pops up a screen listing all available keys and what they do. See HelpInst for details of customizing. F2 & F3 {F2 & F3} : TagLne1 and TagLne2. Special "Find"commands, that only locate 1 of 2 non- display characters. Place the special TagLne characters where ever you wish the user to be able to jump to when they hit the appropriate key. You could, for example, place all TagLne1 characters at topic headings--thereby allowing the user to jump from topic to topic with a single keystroke. These characters will be invisible due to the fact that during processing they are converted to Hex 00 or Hex FF which appear as spaces. Alt-H {Alt-W}: Write to Printer. This option clears the screen and queries if you want to send the file to the printer. When the printing is completed, the screen will be cleared again, on the same page. Alt-F {Alt-P}: Write to File. This also clears the screen, but only the words "Writing File" will appear in the center of the screen. An ASCII copy of the original file, with the same file name will be created IN THE CURRENT ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND DRIVE. As with the Alt-H option, you will then be returned to the same position in the file when the action is completed. F/F7 {F}: Find. When pressed, a prompt will appear on the bottom line "Find:" and the user can then enter a maximum of 11 characters for the search. When the search string is found, the string will be highlighted in its entirely in reverse video. The search will be "Global" in that it will begin on the line directly below the top line on the screen, and "wrap around" back to that position. That is, if you have line 40 at the top of the screen, the search will commence with line 41, through the end of the file, and then re-start at line 1, and then ending at line 40. If not found, a bell will sound. Searches are CASE INSENSITIVE. If you make a mistake entering the "Find" string, use the backspace correct it. R/F8 {A}: Repeat Find/TagLne. This repeat begins the search from immediately below the last find. If another occurrence of the target string exists on the same Compression Pointers: The compression algorithm used in Asc2Com is the standard LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) one originally used in the Arc programs. If you understand a bit of HOW the algorithm works, you can make some changes to the structure of your text file, that will increase your compression, often by as much as 10 %. So here goes. The LZW algorithm is a dictionary approach that assumes NOTHING about the incoming data stream, and works on one single pass through the data. A set of tables are set up to hold codes and individual characters which are generated on the fly--making LZW one of the faster methods available. At the beginning, two bytes are taken from the incoming data, a number computed (peculiar to the two characters) and the first available char is written to the code table. This represents the combination of these two characters (say a "T" and an "h" from the word "The"). The second character is written to character table. Now the program places the first character into the output, moves the second character into the slot of the first, and grabs the third char. At this point, the programs tries to begin using the tables to compress the data--it computes the a number (as above--it's called a Hash Value) and looks it up in the table. If it finds it, it places the corresponding code in slot one, discards the second character, and grabs another, to repeat until done. The reason LZW works is that it uses numbers larger than can be held in a single byte for the code representations--in the case of Asc2Com, I use 9-Bit and 10-Bit values--thus saving some space by often coding three or four characters into, say, 9 bits. (Saving for 3 characters is 27 - 9 or 18 bits, or 2 bytes. (For heavy weight programmers out there--I know, a gross and slightly inaccurate representation of LZW. Forgive me). The main points to remember are that 1: There are only so many code values available using 9 and 10 bit values. 2: Letter combinations that are common throughout the file are a "plus". Now for suggestions. ΣIf you can avoid using graphics characters atΣ Σthe beginning of your file, do so. The combinations you get willΣ Σ"clog" the tableΣ and not give you much by way of compression. If you have a left margin, try to keep it close as possible to a multiple of 8--the size of a tab. Asc2Com will automatically substitute a tab for you, and you'll find that you'll get a better mix of codes in your table. A slight digression here: the basic logic of my implementation of LZW came from an article by Mark Nelson in Dr. Dobb's Journal, which was written in C--I never was able to get the original to work. I suspect a misprint in the source code, but in any event, I had a dickens of time translating it into Assembly Language. Due to the time it did take, I elected to freeze the Asam source when I finished the 9 and 10 bit implementation, rather than going on to adding 11 and 12 bit tables. Quite frankly, I was sick of it. Expect the next version of Asc2Com to implement that, plus table flushing and a couple of other tricks. I suspect the amount of compression will go up significantly. Limitations: For all of the Listers Except the Compressed Lister: Max file size that can be processed is variable--I wish I could give you a firmer answer that that. It depends entirely on how much of the file gets converted to tabs it to a tab, gaining 7 bytes back. The Full Lister and the Page Lister take up a bit more than 4 K now while the Wide Lister takes up a little over 2k. The Lite Lister takes less than 1.8 K. All in all, with normal margins, you should break even at something around 40 K in text file size. Comprssed Lister: 80 columns maximum width with maximum files size (depending upon compression results) between π70 and 130 K.π I would normally expect that you would get compression of about 50%, giving you 65K-10K=55K data space, 55 * 1.5 or about 82.5 K. I've had some files do much better (one came in with 150 K+ of text) but I certainly wouldn't count on it. ΣNOTE: do NOT use LZEXE or PKLite on these files. I Σ Σwould expect problems should you do so.Σ Misc. Credits, Reports, What-Not of Historical Nature. Version 2.00 Present version. This version was a long time in the making--I think I learned more Assembly Language than I'd ever thought I would, plus quite a bit of C, To give credit, I'd like to thank the following people who gave me advice either directly or though Compuserve, or through demo programs and code they've released. Rosemary West for beta testing and encouragement (including finally talking me into joining ASP). Gary Elfring for originally finding the color/mono bug and beta testing. Bob Dodson for testing, and before that, listening to endless progress reports--gripes, and frustrations. Bud Rasumussen for assembly tips. Mark Nelson for writing the article on compression (and the book Data Compression. Excellent book, I recommend it.) Vern and Julie Buerg for advice and together with some others during a rather weird experience, reality checking. Bug reports came from in less frequently on the 1.76 release; to be specific, only one that I know of which dealt with Tandy Computers running a version DOS 2.2 (I believe it was the Tandy HX? HD? In any event, discontinued.) Ken Finto was the unfortunate who ran into the problem with his business--and by the time it came to my attention I was already deep into the rewrite. Gary Elfring's bug was as follows: on monochrome systems, if the file used highlighting at all, you ended up with a "mottled" screen. It took me a couple of hours to trace the bug down (I confess to stupid coding here) and it's been fixed in this version. Ver. 1.76: One of the caveats that applied to earlier versions of the program is no longer strictly true. IF the listers are used in the direct video mode, then the presence of ANSI.SYS (or equivalent) will not cause problems with "mottling" of the screen. The help screen will be in the ANSI/DOS colors, but that should be the only effect that you see. For those of you who use a rather nice product called FlickerFree [ (C) by Steve Gibson] FlickerFree had to be off when using Asc2Com generated programs. (By the way, I heartily recommend FlickerFree. Gibson is one Dynamite programmer and I salute him. I just wish I was half as good). Ver. 1.75: Ken Finto of Finto Software, Rosebud, TX, or finding the Find/First Key Escape bug. Bob Dodson for keeping me up to date on developments upon Compuserve. Bud Rasumussen, for as always being one heck of a source of information on the PC. Ver. 1.65: Bob Dodson, when he gets off the idea of me writing a mouse based COMM program is always a good person to bounce ideas off of. Bud Rasmussen has been very patient with a fumbling assembly language programmer, lending access to his huge library of source code, his own code included, and his large reference library. Peter Tiffany alerted me to a problem with DOS 4.01 of which I was unaware. Briefly, the following explanation: If a user has the Config.Sys file containing the command "BUFFERS = NN /X" where the nn is any number (and unimportant), programs generated by Asc2Com will lock up. I've reproduced the problem but can NOT get it to happen under Turbo Debugger. Version 3.3 of DOS works fine. The good news is that other changes I've made in the program (with the 1.75 version) that were designed to help Hercules card cursors, apparently fixes the conflict with buffers loaded into extended memory. I've no idea why. Anybody out there who has information about this please contact me. I'm curious as hell as to what is going on. Ver. 1.50: Three people deserve special thanks for this release. All three, Bob Dodson, Bob Hunter of CCC BBS, and Tony Bonillo of Modem XChange BBS have done yeoman duty in beta testing, suggesting, and prodding me to produce a better product. Let's face it, I'm lazy; they're not. Two users are mainly responsible for this edition of Asc2Com (and the changes). One is a gentleman who shall remain nameless (mainly because I can't find where I wrote his name down) who had a large need for the Wide lister--specifically, for use with large reports generated by DataBase applications (like Paradox--(C) Borland Inter.) The Find Option was rather feverishly added at the request of Greg Hastings of Pinpoint Publishing. I am pleased to announce that Asc2Com is being used by these rather nice people for the Help File & Documentation for two of their products: Bon Appétit & Micro Cookbook. (C) by Pinpoint Publishing. While much more a hacker than a user, I can recommend these programs as being both useful (if you eat) and fun. I take credit for the help screen, but I only decided to add it due to two suggestions (from Nelson Ford) that I incorporated--the Alt-H and Alt-F suggestions. The Status Bar was getting cryptic to the point of a James Joyce passage--I wasn't even sure what everything meant. Ver. 1.25: To my beta testers en masse, with particular thanks to Mike Heggen again. Mike made several suggests that were incorporated into the interface (filter section). Bob Dodson pointed out some rather idiotic mistakes and some relatively subtle ones too. Chris Lafournaise was good enough to test out several different things as well. Ver. 1.10b: Thanks go to David Roper for suggestions as well as to Nelson Ford-- both had excellent suggestions and they've been incorporated: Reverse video for the command line and a printer option. I can truthfully say that I'd thought of them, but I'd elected not to implement them for reasons that escape me now. Hack fatigue no doubt. Ver. 1.10: Thanks go to Jim Radcliffe of ON AIR Software for suggestions. The addition of numeric paging came from a talk with him on the phone about the needs of his company. Thanks also go to Bob Dodson for file searches on CompuServe and putting the program up on same. As always, Bob's programming ideas, comments, and tongue lashings have been a big help. Ver. 1.00: Thanks go to two people who've helped by beta testing this program for me: Mike Heggen of Uff Dah Systems and Bud Rasmussen. Mike informs me that his monitor (a Herc clone) DOES NOT WORK on the default option. Weirdness reigns because he also informs me that using the "/c" option gives him a display. I'm at a complete loss to explain that. So, if you've got a Herc or Herc clone, be warned that you may be stuck with using either one of the command line switches. ΓContacting MorganSoft: Γ If you have any questions, please contact me at the address below, or phone the number (no collect calls accepted) or leave me EMAIL on any of the three BBS's listed below. Since I live on the West Coast, adjust your phone call accordingly. I'm generally available between 5:00PM and 10:00PM Monday - Friday. You take your chances on the weekends cause I'm in and out all the time on those days. σMorganSoft σ σ2170 Raynor St. SE σ σSalem, OR 97302 σ σPH: 503-364-2002 σ Compuserve σ71167,2664σ Salem Public Library (Co-Sysop, Pascal Base) 503-588-6086 503-588-6130 503-588-6081 If you wish to call, please call between 4:00 PM and 10:00 PM, Monday -Friday. On the weekends, 10:00AM to 10:00 PM. END-OF-FILE>>>