This is the monthly newsletter of the Eagle Computer Users Group, P.O. Box 3381, Saratoga CA 95070. Deadline for submission of material for the newsletter is two weeks before the following meeting. The remaining 1989deadlines are Oct. 27, Nov. 24, and Dec. 29 (for the Jan. 1990 newsletter).
The material in this newsletter is copyright ~=105~q~=083~ 1989 by the authors. Unless otherwise noted, the author is the editor of the newsletter. Permission is hereby given to reproduce material belonging to the editor, aslong as the notice ~=109~Q~=083~Copyright ~=105~q~=083~ 1989 David A.J.McGlone~=109~q~=083~ is included in the reproduction. For permission toreprint other material, contact its author or authors.
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~=008~MEETING PLACE~=083~
Meetings are held at Tandem Computers Incorporated, 10435 North Tantau Avenue,Cupertino. To get there, take 280 to Wolfe Rd. exit, left at Vallco Parkway,left at Tantau, over the bridge and turn in where it says ~=109~Q~=083~TandemComputers~=109~q~=083~ on the ~=094~left~=083~. Sign in with the guard at thelobby. The meeting will be in either the Strategy Room or the War Room.
Meetings are the second Saturday of every month, from 9 A.M. to Noon. Theremaining 1989 meetings are Nov. 11, and Dec. 9.
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~=008~NOVEMBER 11 MEETING~=083~
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|9:00| Meeting begins.
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|9:30| Board meets to hear President's report on non-profit status and discuss. No presentation has been scheduled for this meeting.
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~=008~RENEWALS DUE~=083~
|All Screaming Eagle| members who have not already sent in $15 to becomeRegular Members will expire in October, one year since the Screaming EaglesUsers Group sent us the fee to get all of their members our newsletter for ayear. Since SEUG no longer has a treasury, they can't do that again. If youare a Newsletter Member, you will cease getting this newsletter in Octoberunless you renew. Do it today before you forget. I have enclosed a membershipform in this newsletter, since there are so many of you. See page 8.
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~=008~NEW MEMBERS~=083~
There are no new members this month, but several Newsletter Members haverenewed as Regular Members. See ~=094~More roster corrections~=083~ in the~=094~News~=083~ section.
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~=008~NEWS~=083~
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|Eagle Computer history
Members Ron Crowther, in Houston, Texas, and John Fulton, in Hasbrouck Heights,New Jersey, kindly donated further articles towards the history of EagleComputers. Thanks, guys. I still have nothing on the suit that Lexisoftbrought against Eagle for non-payment of Spellbinder license fees. Anybody outthere have material on that?
Undated material in alphabetical order:
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle IIE Series Business Computers~=109~q~=083~ Eagle Computer,Inc. Data sheet for Eagle I through Eagle IV, renamed Eagle IIE-1 throughEagle IIE-4.
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle Computer Ultracalc Financial Planner~=109~q~=083~ EagleComputer, Inc. Ultracalc data sheet.
~=109~Q~=083~EagleNet I: Local Area Network (LAN) The Next Step in PersonalComputing.~=109~q~=083~ Eagle Computer, Inc. EagleNet data sheet.
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle PC Plus Series. Performance of a PC, Plus More~=109~q~=083~Eagle Computer, Inc. PC Plus series data sheet.
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle PC Spirit Series. Performance In A PortablePackage~=109~q~=083~ Eagle Computer, Inc. Spirit series data sheet.
Dated material in chronological order:
Ahl, David H. ~=109~Q~=083~Eagle PC-2~=109~q~=094~ Creative Computing,~=083~February 1984, pp. 28-36.
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle's Battle for Survival~=109~q~=094~ The New York Times,~=083~6/9/84, pp. L31 & L34.
~=109~Q~=083~A Founder Returns As Chief of Eagle~=109~q~=094~ The New YorkTimes,~=083~ 10/12/84, (page unknown).
~=109~Q~=083~Bad News For Eagle Investors~=109~q~=094~ Computer Currents,~=083~5/20/86, page 45.
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle Hears Other Shoe Drop, Files For Bankruptcy~=109~q~=094~Computer Currents,~=083~ 7/1/86, page 49.
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle to Liquidate~=109~q~=094~ The New York Times,~=083~ 7/31/86,(page unknown).
~=109~Q~=083~Eagle Chief Assesses An American Tragedy~=109~q~=094~ The New YorkTimes,~=083~ 8/4/86, (page unknown).
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|More roster corrections
The following Newsletter Members have sent in the membership money to becomeRegular Members, and included the following information for our roster:
Tom Cone, 202 Madison St., Tampa FL 33602, (813) 949-3716 H, (813) 223-3888 W,has an Eagle IIE, Eagle IV, AT clone, a Tally Spirit 80 printer, and an Avatex1200 modem.
Ron Crowther, Adair Secretarial & Telephone Answering Service, 3815 RichmondAvenue, Houston TX 77027, (713) 522-4108 H, (713) 623-4195 W, has 3 Eagles IIE,an Eagle IV with a 20 Mb hard disk, an AT&T 6300 with a 20 Mb hard disk, 2 NEC3530 and 1 NEC 7730 printers, and a Baby Blue 24 external modem.
John Fulton, 242 Paterson Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights NJ 07604, (201) 288-6010 H,(201) 288-7269 modem, has an Eagle IIE-2, an Apple IIgs, a Juki 6100 printer, aHayes 1200 SmartModem, and a Supra 2400 modem.
Shirley Shawn, SAI Yoga Academy (self-owned), 11643 Via Carlotta, El Cajon CA92019, (619) 670-0370 W, has an Eagle II, an Epson RX-80 printer, and no modem. Shirley says she uses Spellbinder only.
R.M. Titus, Apartado Postal 5-798, Colonia Chapalita, Guadalajara, Jalisco,Mexico, phone 011-52-36-33-75-55 H, has an Eagle IIE, C. Itoh F-10/55 andBrother DM-5 printers, and 2400 bps modem in his home in Yakima WA; in Mexicohe has an Eagle II, C. Itoh F-10/40 printer, and 1200 bps modem. He also has aZenith Z180 laptop with two 3~=109~@~=083~" drives.
Norman Wiseman, Alexander's Home Furnishings, 90 Eureka Square, Pacifica CA94044, (415) 355-6444 W, has Eagle IIE and Epson Equity II computers, an EpsonFX-80 printer, and a Leading Edge 1200B modem.
Besides these, Regular Member Leonard Johnson informs me that he has an SanyoMBC-1150 (a CP/M machine), an Eagle PC-2, a Star SG-15 printer, and a 2400-bpsExpress Card 24/48 modem.
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~=008~CONSULTANTS~=083~
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|Jerry Davis| Eagle software, hardware & service; modem software and hardwareservice. Call (408) 972-1965 for rates.
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|David McGlone| SELECTOR V, Nevada COBOL, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Modula-2, CBasic,Spellbinder macros, disk copying and translation. Rates vary with services. Call (408) 293-5176.
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Eagle Spirit XL for sale, upgraded 6 months ago with new 30 MB hard disk,Wilkinson BIOS version 2.8, new floppy drive, 640K memory. Contact PatrickJackson during the day at Allstate Insurance, (408) 270-7811
For sale: (1) Panasonic answering phone with day and time recorded (2) Toshibafax machine model 30100 (3) Autoswitch TF500, so the above work on a singlephone line. Call Dick Dethlefsen, (408) 246-5378
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For sale, 1 copy of WordStar, version 5.5. Make offer to Dorothy Wolfe, (415)591-8664.
For sale: Eagle IIE, with Daisy Writer printer model 1500-2000. Used very verylittle, make offer to Fred K. Petersen, (408) 739-0083.
For sale, Eagle II computer, two drives, in good shape. Includes printer, nearletter quality, cables, Spellbinder software and manual, and a box of diskscontaining assorted other programs and games. Asking $400 for it all. Pleasecall Eva at (415) 641-4557.
For sale: my Eagle Computer keyboard, virtually unused. 105 keys, including 24function keys and an [<ENHANCE[> key. Steel construction, strong enough to beused as armor plate. Seems to work OK on my XT clone. Send offer to JimHolloway, 5334 Emerson, Dallas TX 75209.
For sale: Eagle Turbo PC, 640K, 20Mb hard disk, monochrome monitor, key board,MS-DOS, latest Wilkinson ROM, shareware programs. $695. Call Jerry Davis,(408) 972-1965.
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~=008~REMINDER~=083~
If you have something for sale, or wish to be listed as a consultant, contactDavid McGlone. For membership matters, contact Shirley Welch.
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~=008~ECUG LIBRARY~=083~
~=094~The Convocation,~=083~ entire run from 1/1 (March 1985) through 4/1(Spring 1988). Donated by Leslie Lieurance, who was its editor. Extra copies(he donated several copies of each issue) will be brought to our meetings. Thanks, Les, and thanks for your kind comments about our newsletter, too.
~=094~README.DOC,~=083~ monthly journal of the Orange Coast IBM PC User Group,Vol. 5 No. 9 (September 1989). Donated by David Banoff.
~=094~Winging It,~=083~ newsletter of the Washington Area Eagle Users' Group,the Columbia Data Products Special Interest Group, and the Televideo SpecialInterest Group, Vol. VI Nos. 1-9 (January-September 1989). Donated by ChetPryor.
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~=008~LETTERS~=094~
R.M. Titus, a retired member who lives in Mexico, wrote to me back in July. Ihave procrastinated printing his letter, because of having to type it (or getit typed) onto disks for the newsletter. I hope he will forgive me if I cut itdown a little. After thanking me for the newsletter and providing informationfor the roster (see the News section), he continues:
~=083~The Guadalajara Eagle operating system permits (yeah, demands) if bootedfrom the hard disk that one select an operating system ~=109~-~=083~ CP/M orthe Z-System ~=109~-~=083~ after the first cold boot. I worked this outbecause the use of the hard disk almost demands the greater capability of theZ-System, but Spellbinder, Ultracalc and my version of dBase II don't recognizethe file definition capability of Z (unless someone can tell me of a simpleapproach that I have missed). Incidentally, although I have Lotus, dBase III,Spellbinder (version 5.4), WordPerfect, and other ~=109~Q~=083~neatthingies~=109~q~=083~ on the Zenith, I use the Eagles (including Ultracalc anddBase) for most everything. If nothing else, they have a lot better keyboardand a more readable screen. The Zenith screen is great for a portable, but~=109~-~=083~
I am quite familiar with MS-DOS and used one of the U.S. Government Zenithsbefore I retired, but I really don't need flashy pictures, which is the biggestdifference I see for my work. Of course, for CAD/CAM or other high-poweredcomputational requirements the new machines are ~=109~Q~=083~out of thisworld.~=109~q~=083~ I sometimes wish I were just starting engineering againtoday ~=109~-~=083~ usually I thank god that I'm not.
I use dBase II (CP/M again) for all bookkeeping functions, which includes myown, plus work that I do for a local orphanage. (Anyone who still uses anEagle must have an affinity for orphans ~=109~-~=083~ more on this later!!) Ialso use a host of public-domain programs from my modeming days. (At onepoint, I was fascinated by disassembling programs to obtain a usable sourcecode.) Although I have a U.S. Robotics modem here in Mexico, I have neverfired it up because of the financial charges imposed by dear old~=109~Q~=083~Telefonos de Mexico~=109~q~=083~, along with possible othercharges. If you think the Bell system is uppity, you should be worked over byTelMex.
The Zenith was bought for income-tax preparation, since there are no up-to-datepackages for CP/M (that I know about). I had also intended to use the Zenithfor writing, and to that end I have managed to get the Zenith and the Eagle IIexchanging data and word files using direct connection. Incidentally, as youprobably know, one doesn't even need to use a ~=109~Q~=083~nullmodem~=109~q~=083~ since the Eagle already comes with screwed-up 2 and 3 pinsin the serial ports. For this interchange I use MEX on the Eagle, andSmartTerm 2.40 on the Zenith. Since I had an MS-DOS Spellbinder left over frommy days with the government, I had a friend port it over to the 3~=109~@~=083~"disks. This makes the files completely compatible between the two computers. However, so far it has just been an exercise to prove I could do it, since whenI am traveling I don't write anything, and when I am home I prefer the Eagle.
Originally (like 8 years ago) I used the Eagle IIE at work and the II at home,with the advantage that I could carry disks back and forth with completecompatibility. This was in St. Louis, MO. After retiring, I moved the II toMexico and still had complete compatibility. However, last fall, after movingthe Eagle IIE from St. Louis to Yakima, it wouldn't work any more. A localblacksmith realigned the drives for the IIE in Yakima, and now both machineswork quite reliably as individuals, but the compatibility has become highlyquestionable. Either machine seems to read disks formatted and written on theother machine, however, usually as soon as one tries to write to such a diskwith the ~=109~Q~=083~foreign~=109~q~=083~ machine the disk becomes unreadableon either machine. I.e., |neither| machine can then log the directory, noteven the one that formatted it! The disk can be largely salvaged by foolingthe machine by inserting a good disk during the directory log sequence, settingthe heads in the right location, and then reinserting the~=109~Q~=083~bad~=109~q~=083~ disk and lock out the bitched-up directorysector, using ~=109~Q~=083~Patch~=109~q~=083~ or ~=109~Q~=083~Zap~=109~q~=083~. Any better ideas?
If I could get both machines together in a competent shop, it could be resolvedpretty rapidly, but the damn machines are some 9 days driving time apart, and,in any case, it is not an impossible problem to live with. When I take a diskup to Yakima, for example, I have learned to copy everything from that disk toa new one formatted in Yakima immediately, and never once try to write to theGuadalajara disk. When I come back to Guadalajara, just the reverse. I nowhave all disks marked ~=109~Q~=083~Guadalajara format~=109~Q~=083~ or~=109~Q~=083~Yakima format~=109~Q~=083~ and I have no problems ~=109~-~=083~but it bugs me after all those years of just ~=109~Q~=083~chugging~=109~Q~=083~a disk into whichever machine was closest.
P.S. Note that I have taught the Eagle to speak spanish, i.e., accents,tildes, etc. However, this is often attained by encoded backspacing to includeaccent marks in the right location. This is great except that Spellbindercounts out the line lengths with the back spaces included as forward letters. This results in line-length errors most noticeable in justified printing. Seeabove! Any ideas?
~=094~Well, R.M., taking your questions and observations in order:
Spellbinder, Ultracalc, and dBase II are CP/M programs, rather than Z-Systemprograms. They run just fine under the Z-System, but they weren't designed totake advantage of operating-system features that didn't exist when they werewritten. In a perfect world, Ashton-Tate and LTek would be rushing to enhancetheir products so that they can find files in other directories, includingtheir own overlays, either by explicit naming by the user, or by searching thepath. As it is, all I can offer you right now is ~=109~Q~=094~SpellbinderUnder Z~=109~q~=094~, which I printed in our September 1988 issue, pages 4 and5. If enough members request, I will reprint it.
For a current CP/M tax program, see Elliam Associates, P.O. Box 2664,Atascadero CA 93423, phone (805) 466-8440. They offer a product called FIT forboth CP/M and MS-DOS. The individual version is $49.95, the tax preparer'sversion $79.95, and there is a depreciation package for $15.00.
Your incompatibility problem with your two Eagles sounds like a version of aproblem we hear about from time to time, where A and B can exchange disks, andB and C can exchange disks, but A and C cannot. In this example, A's driveshave drifted out of alignment one way, and C's the other; they're close enoughto right that B can read and write both of them, but far enough apart that theycan't read each other. A company that specializes in repairing and aligningdisk drives could probably make one of your Eagles match the other by tweakingyour drives so that they produced diskettes identical to a sample from theother machine, but I doubt a blacksmith could.
I have had to print your letter without the accents, etc., because the fontthat I use for the normal text in this newsletter is an ASCII font only,without any of the extra characters from HP's Roman Extended character set. Further, the enya, inverted exclamation point and inverted question mark onlyexist in the Spanish symbol set. Maybe it's time I switched from MagicDeliteto a typeface I can manipulate however I want.
Your line-length problem seems to be that rarest of birds, an actualSpellbinder bug, although it isn't exactly the bug that you think. I see thatlines in your letter with a single accented e are one character short of beingright-justified properly. That means Spellbinder is counting both the e andthe accent, so it pads out the spacing 1 letter short of matching the rightmargin. It must count [<BACKSPACE[> as 0, otherwise the line would be |two|characters short. It should count [<BACKSPACE[> as -1. I can't think of anyfix but an actual change to Spellbinder.~=083~
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September 22, 1989
Dear David:
In your September newsletter you asked for copies of Eagle memorabilia. I'mhappy to oblige. I've enclosed a number of photocopies of articles from~=094~The New York Times.~=083~ The last article in the series is, I think,quite poignant. With the exception of a review of the Eagle PC-2 in the lateand much missed ~=094~Creative Computing~=083~ (photocopy enclosed), that's itfor me as far as commercially published articles.
I've also enclosed a copy of the documentation for SETDISK2, a commercialprogram by Dennis Welbourn of E.C.H.O. Engineering in Pasadena. I don't recallhaving seen mention of the program recently, either in your newsletter or thenewsletter of the Washington Area Eagle Users' Group, of which I'm also amember. I bought the program some years ago so that I could read public domainfiles from a friend's Kaypro. The program worked like a charm. The docsmention that Dennis was working on a more advanced version; perhaps he actuallygot around to writing it. In any event, the program is worth mentioning.
I believe I've seen an ad for a similar, though more sophisticated program, butI cannot recall where. Perhaps it was in the catalog of ~=094~CP/MTimes~=083~, published by Central Computer Products, 330 Central Ave., FillmoreCA 93015, but if so, the program is not listed in the most recent catalog Ihave from the company.
~=094~CP/M Times,~=083~ by the way, would be worth mentioning to your readers. It is heavily oriented toward Kaypros, but it certainly has useable softwarefor Eagles. I recently purchased Mite, a modem program available from CentralComputer Products, in hopes of ditching Modem7. The program was supplied inEagle single-sided, 390K format. It works, though I have been unable to usethe autodial function. Oh, well, back to Modem7.
In case you're interested, I have numerous back issues of the Screaming Eaglesand WAEUG newsletters, going back to the days when the 8-bit Eagle was stillthe big bird of the roost. I also have, on diskette, copies of John Mazor'sBugBytes, which was a feature of the WAEUG newsletter. I can't promise to copy500 pages worth of newsletters in one session at the photocopying machine, butI could copy a few at a time for you. Let me know if you are interested.
Now, if I may ask a favor: I'd very much like a photocopy of the article byJames H. Wilbanks, ~=109~Q~=083~Spellbinder Word Processor~=109~q~=083~, fromthe January 1983 issue of ~=094~Interface Age,~=083~ which you listed in theSeptember issue of the newsletter. If my request is beyond the pale, that'sOK, too.
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John Fulton
242 Paterson Ave.
Hasbrouck Heights NJ 07604
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~=094~John, thank you for the articles, which I've listed in the News section. I am happy to send you not only the Spellbinder article I already had, but twoothers sent me in the last month.
SETDISK2 gets mentioned fairly often at our meetings, but you're right that ithas been a while since it's popped up in the newsletter. You have crystallizedsome vague dissatisfactions I've had about how much we're helping completelynew Eagle owners. As soon as I can find time, I will prepare a specialnewsletter containing what ~=109~Q~=094~everyone knows~=109~q~=094~, that wecan send new members. This would include not only a description of all threeEagle lines and what you can do with them, but what software came with them,what software we recommend for various purposes (like SETDISK), where to getmore software (CP/M, Z-System, and MS-DOS), and specials that we offer, such asthe $7 back-issue package. Thanks for the idea.
We now have all the issues of ~=083~The Convocation~=094~ in our library, butwould be glad to get all the back numbers of ~=083~Winging It~=094~ as well. Thanks for the offer. Don't spend all your time or bankrupt yourself to do it,of course.~=083~
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September 2, 1989
Dear Dave:
Your comment about the file-saving macro jogged my memory. At one time I wrotesuch a macro as you describe, but it was executed on the A command.
If the first line of a file contains a remark command followed by the file name(the latter surrounded by spaces), so:
.r fred.txt [<
then the following macro automatically returns to the top of the file, picks upthe name FRED.TXT, and writes the file to disk under the name FRED.TXT. Itthen returns the cursor to the position it occupied prior to executing themacro.
:%1 = $3
:%2 = $2
t
:%A = !
:%B = !
b0
wo/%B
w/wd
f%1-1
:mc%2
When you first load it with the AD command, this macro will execute. Toexecute it again (after you've changed the text, for instance), return to thecommand mode and enter an |A| command. Although you may be doing some editingin the middle of the file when you decide it's time to save it, the cursorreturns to the same location.
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B.V. Deltour
1210-2 Greengarden Drive
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~=094~Thanks, Del! There are just two things I'd like to add. First, everyoneshould be careful not to use this macro on a file too large to fit in memoryall at once. Doing so (or typing W/WD in command mode, or hitting the SAVE keyon your Eagle) will confuse the |G| command as to what the current file openfor writing is, and what it's supposed to put where. So be careful.
I thought I'd also list what each line does, to help people who want to learnto write their own. |1. :%1 = $3| saves the line number of the current cursorposition in the numeric variable %1. |2. :%2 = $2| saves the column number ofthe current cursor position in the numeric variable %2. |3. t| moves thecursor to the top of the file. |4. %A = !| stores the first token, .r, in thealphabetic variable %A. |5. %B = !| stores the second token, the name of thefile, in the alphabetic variable %B. |6. b0| moves the cursor back to theleft margin of the line, otherwise the saved copy wouldn't have the .r and thefile name in it. |7. wo/%B| opens a file with the desired file name forwriting, and renames any existing file with that name to a .BAK file. |8. w/wd| writes your text to that open file. |9. f%1-1| moves the cursor fromthe beginning of the file back to the line you were on before you hit |A|. Sayyou had been on line 100. Now you're on line 1. You want the cursor to moveforward 99 lines, which is %1 minus 1. |10. :mc%2| moves the cursor to thecolumn where the cursor had been.
Actually, this is even neater than the SAVE.WPM I mentioned, because that oneused hardware specific to the Eagle II line; it was activated by the ENTER keyon the Eagle number pad. This macro will work on any machine with either CP/Mor MS-DOS Spellbinder.
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~=008~GENESTUFF~=094~
Here's some stuff that member Eugene Austin has sent in recently. BillBradley, another member, kindly typed some of this onto disk for me. Thanks,Gene. Thanks, Bill.~=083~
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Information requested for Eagle monitors
I recently forgot a POP and put characters on screen that are in my printerdriver, but I can't get them on screen. Now that I know they're there, whycan't I get at them? When I went through EBIOS, I found a trap that keepscontrol characters out of the monitor, but not the rest of the system.
There is a 16-byte EQU table titled "VIDEO CONTROLLER PORTS". But EBIOS leavesso much of it unused that I can't figure out what to do with all those inputsand queries, or what else might be available in the ports they do use.
Does anybody have a manual for the Eagle III monitor (Mine is made by Motorola. I have the ID numbers.) that will tell me what one puts into what port to dowhat? Given that, I will put my special characters on screen and hope to doLarry Welbourn one better and take the cursor offscreen, which he says he can'tdo.
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Spellbinder macro variables
The enclosure ~=094~[[see next page ~=109~-~=094~ DAJM[]~=083~ is the firstprintout using a macro-generated table with 128 variables, some reserved forexpansion. Age tables go to 30, year tables start with 1970 and go to 2000. For this, the macro ran about 370 lines, split into three files. Once started,the macro runs all three without attention. It took 13 minutes, but mysituation is a long time between runs, so that's not a problem.
The working macro (with comments stripped) is 1877 characters. It uses nestedloops. Minimum requirement is one string and three numeric variables. I usemore to avoid hopping around, which slows the macro and costs program lines. Expanding macro variables by the hundreds is worth doing!
Please return the disc so I can write a new article about the use of tables toexpand Spellbinder macro variables. I see seven things to write about: (1)Macro management of oversize files, (2) The use of tables to get morevariables, (3) Benefits of standardized formats and offsets in the tables, (4)Nested loops that use data differences to direct the action, (5) Requirementsof screen and hard-copy printouts, (6) Spellbinder 5.3's macro~=109~Q~=083~call~=109~q~=083~ command, which is undocumented in the operator'smanual and Eagle book, almost so in the Spellbinder Macro Manual written for5.3, and (7) Benefits of converting string variables to numeric.
I wonder about a series of seven? Makes more sense for you. If so, I'll sendall seven in ready-to-print form.
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Sincerely,
Eugene Austin
P.O. Box 115
Tilden NE 68781
No Telephone
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~=094~I'll see what I can do about getting you a Motorola manual, Gene. Ibelieve all Eagle monitors were Motorolas. I look forward to the Spellbinderarticles, too.~=083~
