To: All
From: Ben Willow K8P
Subject: Poems
Good Morning;
Reply given with a scowl,
Easier than a smile,
Frustration feeds his ever
Present hunger;
We move off, I hoping he will
Improve; Cocks and Hens feeding
Abundantly, questioned where
Are the young? Their they are
Another missed moment of
Frustration;
Work flows the morning,
He issues no order,
I on returning, He satiates
His hunger;
That's why I count Oak Trees
One day one might have
Moved;
Words Of Rain
Plants need growing Rain,
When set in for the Day,
Drizzle is a nuisance,
Not even lays the Dust,
Sky's full of It,
A driven Soaking;
To: 999 (all members)
From: K6N (Brian Raw)
Subject: ADVERT FOR TBI-79
EDITOR... Brian has written a disc full
of utilities that may be found in the
library as TBI-79. They are DFS and
ASCII utilities. Here is a message from
Brian regarding his recent update to
the disc adding ASCII utilities.
If like me, you only have a BBC B and
do not wish to give a whole rom slot
over to a wordprocessor rom then this
set of programs should solve most
problems caused by the fact that most
commercial software for wordprocessing
is somewhat cumbersome and does not
allow an 80 column screen.
These utilities were written to allow
text manipulation in 80 column mode on
the most basic machines.
EDITOR
******
With only 32k of ram and no shadow
screen, this will hold 4823
characters which is 60 lines or one
sheet of A4. Documents then can be
built up of lots of these files then
added together to make one big one
using JOIN.
SPLIT/JOIN
**********
These are for splitting up large text
or source files to be small
enough to fit into the editor with
room for additions.(4000 characters)
If you fill this to the editors limit
of 4823 characters then you will have
to put the file back together and then
re-split it, alternatively you could
make an extra file and rename the
files in numerical order before
joining them.
Previewing text files originally
written in 80 columns in a 40 column
mode can be hard to follow. The usual
method would be to use MODE 1 or 3 and
*TYPE the file which scrolls the file
but has no method of scrolling back.
The main point being that the data is
kept on and read from disk.
What is needed is a program which
examines the file and notes the depth
into the file (PTR#F%) of the carriage
returns storing them in a table, then
a simple routine can calculate the disk
address of the data you wish to see.
LINEX1 file viewer
*******************
This is just such a program and
it can store 1150 CR's or 18 pages A4.
This program also allows the visual
marking of a block of text which can
then either be printed or saved to
another file, furthermore it then
allows to save both the texts prior and
after this block to separate files.
So now you can split and edit files
where ever you like and put them back
together afterwards using JOIN.
Should you need more capacity then :-
LINEX10 file viewer
********************
In fact this has no extra capacity
instead it stores the position of
every tenth CR that is two per screen
effectively storing 11500 lines or 180
pages of A4, other than this both
programs are the same.
Should you need even more capacity :-
LINEX20 file viewer
********************
Same again except it stores every
20th CR that is one per screen
effectively storing 23000 lines or 360
pages of A4, quite encyclopaedic.
At this point it may be worth looking
at the capacity of an 80 track 200k
disk
CHR$/line lines/disk A4 pages
********* ********** ********
80 2560 42
40 5120 84
20 10240 168
10 20480 336
From this you can see that unless the
average line length is low this
program should be able to cope with
anything stored on an 80 track disk.
From: D3C (JIM MCCOLL)
Subject: 8BS
As a new member I thought I would like
to write and give you my impressions
after just two months membership.
Well, I must say that the magazine has
been a real God-send to me. As a
recently returned 'prodigal son' I was
despairing about finding any software
for the Beeb as all of the suppliers I
remembered had stopped any connection
with the Beeb. However, I found out
about you from a guy advertising in the
Micro Mart, and I am now working my way
through the catalogue.
I am a Music teacher and therefore
particularly interested in Music (see
message elsewhere), so if there is any
member needing help with the more
theoretical aspects of Music I would
be only too willing to help. It's the
least I can do.
Keep up the good work!
To: 999 (all members) +483
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Subject: Acorn User Competition
The Acorn User Aug 95 has a picture
of a 'OXO cube packet' submitted by a
Benjamin Shimmin of Bolton. It won a
prize. Is this the same family as our
own Daniel (483) of Bolton? Another
keen Shimmin.
Editor.... Daniel does have a little
bro he calls Benjamin I think.
To: 999 (all members)
From: 20G (Roy Dickens)
Subject: Another succumbs to the
RiscPC.
Sorry, no more programs from 'Rushden
Roy'.(I am a bit deaf so I cannot hear
you all cheering!). Cos' I've gone
and done it. Yes a RiscPC 600, CD rom
and a 486 card. Using the Acorn
Advance package which is a integrated
'Mini Office' style WP,Sheet,DB and
Graphs.
It certainly takes a bit of getting
used to, although the mouse and
windows makes life easy. When I was
editing in the Basic command I
couldn't find a COPY key! Panic!
Surely I haven't to type that whole
line again? It took me ages to find
that the 'END' key is really the copy
key. Ah well! There is nowhere to
stick the Fkeystrips. Panic again!
I had printed some lovely strips
from the April 94 ACORN COMPUTING and
no place to put them. So a spiral
paged calendar has been shaped into a
nice little stand with the strips
stuck on and lodges close to the
Fkeys.
I had been receiving the ACORN
COMPUTING every month with a BBC 8bit
disc.(The disc contained a very small
amount of progs). Then ACORN USER
carried on when AC ceased. Lucky for
me and full marks to AU one of their
cover discs was a CD Rom with a
million or near of useful stuff
including about a hundred cover/subs
back issue discs from AU and AC. So
now I have the Archi. progs. for all
my pile of magazines.
The MASTER that I have will still be
near-by. So that I can still continue
with the 8-BIT and SOLINET discs.
Because I look forward to receiving
these every issue.
All the best ROY.
To: 999 (all +K6X Cluke )
From: K5U (Simon Godfrey)
Subject: Albumen !GULP!
RE: Reactor message from K6X 8BS-43
Regarding my PC/Beeb comms lead, it is
indeed multi-strand as you assumed.
It's intended use was as a telephone
extension lead. I agree, multistrand
cables are much more reliable for
datacoms, shielded even more so.
Anyway, I hope my article didn't mis-
LEAD anyone (sorry for the pun :-/ ).
I've sent an updated version of my
conversion program and article to
Chris - perhaps for inclusion in a
future issue of 8BS?
EDITOR...... It's in this issue.
To: 999 (all members)
From: K2F (John Davis)
Subject: ?!?
The picture in 8BS 43 purporting to
be from the Acorn show didn't fool me
for a minute. It was clever to take
off the fedoras and hide the cigars
and machine guns, but I could still
recognize Bugsy Richardson and his
ruthless mob in that garage in
Chicago...