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To: 999 (all members)
From: D9U (Ray Thomas)
Subject: Lottery Check Program
The Lottery Check Program that I sent
in for Iss. 56 contains a bug.
Please edit Line 3230 to read:
"IF sum%(I%)=5
PROCcheck(ptr%(I%),res$(7))"
Iam sorry about the error.
EDITOR........ Copies received from me
after 18/06/97 have this bug corrected.
To: 999 (all members)
From: D7Y (Andrew Medworth)
Subject: L O N G Words
Just a little addition to the recent
discussion of long words - this word
is the longest word in the English
language, according to The Guinness
Book of Records :-
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoko
niosis
Alternative spelling:-
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoco
niosis
And it is "a disease of the lungs
caused by the inhalation of very fine
silica dust".
Phew!
And by the way, did you know that the
enjoyment of saying long words is
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism.
Andrew Medworth D7Y
To: 999 (all members)
From: D7Y (Andrew Medworth)
Subject: BT - Free Local Calls?
ReplyTo: 4WL - Martin Wilson
I am an enthusiastic user of the
Internet (but I don't have it at home)
and this issue of free local calls is
very relevant to the Internet.
My little illustrative story comes
from the USA. In the USA, America
Online is the largest service
provider. Well, America Online (AOL
from now on) moved from their scheme
of charging users for a few hours
acces per month then an bills by the
hour after that to a flat rate price -
an all-you-can-eat job for $20 or so
per month.
As you may know, local calls are
free in the USA, and AOL's head count
increased by several million. BUT the
trouble was that people were logging
on and not logging off again - they
had no incentive to. And if a user
could find a free line, she or he
would know they were unlikely ever to
get another chance - so they didn't
log off either.
As you can imagine this brought what
we Internet users call the
infrastructure to its knees, and soon
AOL faced uncountable lawsuits for not
providing the service they pledged.
Fortunately this cannot happen in
the UK as BT currently charges for
local calls - thank goodness. This is
why BT is either NOT giving free local
calls, or NOT giving them on calls to
ISPs - Internet Service Providers. How
can I be so sure? Well, Internet
Magazine certainly is sure of it, and
if they're sure, I can safely be too.
I hope this clarifies matters.
Andrew Medworth (D7Y)
To: 999 (all members)
From: D7Y (Andrew Medworth)
Subject: Concept Keyboard Wanted
Does anybody have an old concept
keyboard they don't want any more? I'm
looking for one for a present for my
sister, who has been doing some
programming with them at school.
It is important that we have any
controlling software that came with
it, of course. We will pay a
reasonable price.
Thanks.
Andrew Medworth D7Y
45 Milton Avenue
Bath
BA2 4QZ
01225 422892 out of school hours
please!
NEIL PARRY IS AFTER INSTRUCTIONS FOR
PENZANCE CONTROLLER. CAN ANY ONE HELP?
To: 999 (all members)
From: D6G (Sprow)
Subject: Summer holidays
The university summer holidays start
for me on the 27th of June and last
for just over 3 months!
As a result,I wont be able to check my
email since this is done through the
university.Therefore,only email me non
urgent stuff.
The webpages remain online throughout
the break - go to
www.york.ac.uk/÷rps102/bbc/bbc.htm
You'll find detailed elsewhere the
software from me,and also a snippet
from the lengthy 'forsale' list.
Please remember that a portion of
sales goes to Guide Dogs for the Blind
as much of what I'm selling is on
behalf of Charles Spender.
Hope you all have a good break too,
Sprow.
Contact 6 Bollinbrook road,
MACCLESFIELD
Cheshire.SK10 3DJ.
Or 8BSmail D6G
To: 999 (all members)
From: D6G (Sprow)
Subject: Speed
I love it when there's a maths
intensive program submitted to 8BS.
A prime example was the prime number
finder in issue 55.The beeb chugs
away and searches.
Looking closer,I find it's all written
in BBC Basic and spend a few moments
putting it on an ADFS disk.
This is then read by a Risc PC and
run in BBC Basic V.This is ///FAST///
So if there are more mathemetically
minded people out there - send in
your programs!
Sprow.
6 Bollinbrook road,
MACCLESFIELD,
Cheshire.
SK10 3DJ.
8BSmail - D6G
To: 999 (all members)
From: D6G (Sprow)
Subject: Double height printing
The question was raised last time by
Gary Scott how to print non standard
height text from a BBC.
Well,there are 3 ways:
1)If you have a good printer manual
with all the control codes in
the back cover then you should
find that the font size can be
changed.24 point is double height.
Send the sequence to the printer
using a VDU1,x,1,y,1,z structure
2)Likewise to the above,some printer
manufacturers such as EPSON allow
you to redefine the fonts used
for printing ('softfonts').
With a bit of hard maths and a pile
of A4 paper you can work out the
bit pattern for the tops of all the
characters you want and print those
the do the same for the bottom
halfs.ie.you're sending the text
twice like in double height MODE 7
Remember,printer fonts aren't 8x8!
3)Do it via a printer dumper,so that
you get the double height on the
beeb's screen (using whatever
method you want) and do a graphics
dump.The better ones support MODE 7
too.
Hope this helps,
Sprow.
6 Bollinbrook road,
MACCLESFIELD,
Cheshire.
SK10 3DJ.
8BSmail - D6G