T H E T I P R O F E S S I O N A L S
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
F I R S T L I B R A R Y D I S C
1. This is the FIRST library disc produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disc type
.
2. This disc is written in BASIC and machine language. Most of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disc and use
the copied disc for your working disc. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disc because of the copywrites. Format a new
disc with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disc with a command. Then copy this new
library disc onto your newly formatted disc by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disc will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disc will run from the menus. The
first menu on this disc is "MEN1". Some of the demonstration programs
are not on the menus but can be addressed individually with a RUN
command. The document files (*.DOC) are instructional support
documentation for the Disc (ie the text you're reading now). You
access these documents directly from the DOS system by entering etc. The CALENDAR.TXT is a 1983 Calendar in a DOS text
file. To run it revert to the DOS system by selecting "8" from the main
menu and then enter .
5. The PCMAN demonstration program that is on the disc has been
deleted from MEN1. If you would like to restore the selection to MEN1,
make the following editing changes to the MEN1 program:
a. Load "MEN1". Add lines 243 and 244 as follows:
b. 243 COLOR 7
c. 244 PRINT" (27 spaces) 9";:COLOR 5:PRINT" - PCMAN"
d. Save this on the disc in "MEN1".
6. The JETSET program is a Boeing 747 Instrument Flight Simulator.
The program was originally published in the November 1982 BYTE Magazine.
It has been modified from a program written for a TRS-80 computer and
therefore has some changes from the documentation as printed in the
magazine. There is separate documentation on this disc for the JETSET.
7. I hope you find this disc challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #1
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
CALENDAR TXT 14266 11-28-83 11:25p
MEN1 BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:05p
STATEFLG BAS 1024 10-18-82 1:20a
COLWHEEL BAS 896 10-18-82 1:33a
PCMAN BAS 4096 10-18-82 12:37a
YAHTZEE BAS 5760 10-18-82 12:35a
SOFT BAS 1408 10-18-82 12:09a
CHASE BAS 3456 10-18-82 12:36a
TILOGO BAS 33664 10-18-82 7:47a
CIRCLE BAS 256 10-18-82 12:37a
LAMP BAS 8320 10-18-82 3:52a
SHAPE BAS 384 10-18-82 12:35a
MERLIN BAS 5248 10-18-82 12:39a
PEGUNIT BAS 4608 10-18-82 12:34a
PUTEST BAS 512 10-18-82 1:54a
PROP BAS 1920 10-18-82 1:17a
OS BAS 2176 10-18-82 2:34a
GRAPHDEM BAS 5248 10-18-82 2:34a
MUSIC BAS 3968 10-18-82 12:16a
APPL BAS 640 10-18-82 12:05a
KALD BAS 896 10-18-82 2:00a
EASY BAS 2048 10-18-82 1:05a
COLBLK BAS 1792 10-18-82 2:39a
MPEX BAS 8576 10-18-82 12:06a
PACMAN BAS 896 10-18-82 2:39a
AUTOEXEC BAT 13 10-18-82 12:22a
JETSET BAS 25984 12-29-83 7:45p
GAMEMENU BAS 1280 4-08-84 12:06p
OS2 BAS 640 10-18-82 1:15a
DEMO BAT 13 10-18-82 12:22a
SYS COM 605 10-18-82 11:00a
LANG BAS 2432 10-18-82 12:57a
HELP BAT 16 10-18-82 1:18a
HELP MEN 1291 10-18-82 1:18a
SONGMEL2 BAS 128 10-18-82 12:24a
DEM850 BAS 16000 10-18-82 12:21a
DISC DOC 2713 8-01-83 2:44a
ABSTRAC1 DOC 3500 8-01-83 1:58a
STALOC DOC 1055 4-06-84 3:51p
JETSET DOC 40716 4-29-84 10:43p
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
S E C O N D L I B R A R Y D I S C
1. This is the SECOND library disc produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disc type .
2. This disc is written in BASIC and machine language. Most of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disc and use
the copied disc for your working disc. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disc because of the copywrites. Format a new
disc with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disc with a command. Then copy this new
library disc onto your newly formatted disc by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disc will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disc will run from the menus. The
execptions are some of the graphics programs (they have filename
extensions of .GRP), the GRDUMP.EXE and the documentation files (.DOC).
5. The document files, DISC.DOC and TIDRAW.DOC, are support
documentation for the Disc (ie the text you're reading now). You
access these documents directly from the DOS system by entering .
6. The "Generalized Adaptive Filtering" program on the Investment
Analysis menu is a mathematical means of forcasting future numerical
events based upon past history. It can be used to forcast future stock
prices, market averages, etc. For a reference on the technique refer to
"Forcasting Methods and Applications" by Makridakis and Wheelwright
published by John Wiley, 1958.
6. I hope you find this disc challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #2
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
DISC DOC 2151 8-01-83 1:02a
AUTOEXEC BAT 17 2-22-84 11:02a
GRDUMP EXE 2048 2-21-84 8:21p
MAINMENU BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:10p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:11p
DEMO BAS 1024 2-18-84 3:11p
DRAWTEST BAS 1152 2-18-84 3:16p
PERSPECT GRP 768 2-18-84 3:12p
SOLARSYS GRP 1024 2-18-84 3:22p
SATURNRG GRP 512 2-18-84 3:21p
CLRGRPHC GRP 512 2-13-84 4:42p
ELLIPSES GRP 384 10-18-82 12:58a
RECTANGL GRP 384 2-13-84 5:11p
CIRCLPNT GRP 256 10-18-82 2:29a
TRIANGLE GRP 384 10-18-82 1:59a
STRNRGLF GRP 512 6-12-83 10:52a
CIRCONCT GRP 512 6-12-83 12:05p
DRAWSHPE GRP 768 6-12-83 2:14p
CIRCLES9 GRP 384 2-13-84 4:06p
LINESRND GRP 128 6-05-83 2:35p
PSETTEST BAS 512 10-18-82 1:11a
PALUSING BAS 512 10-18-82 1:50a
DRAWTEST GRP 768 9-04-83 10:39p
SQUARES GRP 256 9-05-83 8:44p
ICROLL BAS 1280 2-24-84 10:53a
ROLL GR2 27776 10-18-82 3:20a
ROLL GR3 27776 10-18-82 3:21a
ROLL GR4 27776 10-18-82 3:21a
TIDRAW BAS 33920 10-18-82 12:52a
TIDRAW DOC 22987 10-18-82 12:06a
TIDRAW SUP 640 10-18-82 3:50a
TIDRAW BAT 128 11-17-83 5:10p
TIFONT BAS 4864 2-24-84 11:10a
TIFONT BAT 128 11-17-83 5:24p
FNTDATA DAT 18304 7-21-83 1:41p
PRNTGRAF BAS 1152 2-24-84 2:03p
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:10p
NUMWIZ BAS 1280 12-19-83 1:24p
BIOPLOT BAS 3456 2-20-84 4:59p
BLACKJ2 BAS 3200 10-18-82 12:18a
CALENDAR BAS 1920 2-25-84 1:54p
INVEST BAS 1536 4-08-84 12:09p
DAYS BAS 1664 2-26-84 2:47p
BONDYEIL BAS 1408 2-26-84 2:48p
STKOPT BAS 2432 2-26-84 2:56p
FUTOPT BAS 1792 2-26-84 2:49p
GAF BAS 2560 2-26-84 2:50p
STKSTAT BAS 2816 2-26-84 2:50p
ABSTRACT DOC 3610 8-01-83 2:21a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
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T H E T I P R O F E S S I O N A L S
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
T H I R D L I B R A R Y D I S C
1. This is the THIRD library disc produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disc type .
2. This disc is written in BASIC and machine language. Most of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disc and use
the copied disc for your working disc. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disc because of the copywrites. Format a new
disc with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disc with a command. Then copy this new
library disc onto your newly formatted disc by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disc will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disc will run from the menus. The
execptions are the two picture files and the direct command files. To
display the pictures revert to the DOS system by typing
. Then type or . The quality of the pictures will appear better on a
monochrome display than on a color display since colors have been used
to create shades of coloring.
5. The Command files are the PRT.COM printer control, the
SDIR.COM selective directory control, the SCR.COM screen control and
the SDEL.COM selective delete control. The printer control is set up
for a C. ITOH printer. We're working on a modification for other
printers. You can use additional parameters with all of these commands
to increase their effectiveness -- ie SDIR /A gives an alphabetic
listing of the programs, SDIR /D gives a listing by date, SDIR /X gives
a listing by filename extension.
6. The Black Jack program on this disc corrects the problems
encountered in the program on the Second Disc. This one is a great
program.
7. I hope you find this disc challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #3
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
AUTOEXEC BAT 17 2-22-84 11:02a
MAINMENU BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:13p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:14p
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:14p
SCR COM 484 10-18-82 12:18a
SDIR COM 1492 10-18-82 12:14a
PRT COM 441 10-18-82 1:54a
SDEL COM 768 8-05-82 9:19p
EGG BAS 5248 3-25-84 3:34p
MICKEY BAS 5888 3-25-84 3:39p
PANTHER BAS 5376 3-25-84 3:46p
JWW PFS 32895 4-20-83 9:59a
EUF PFS 32895 4-20-83 9:59a
GLOBES BAS 640 3-25-84 3:36p
GLOBES RED 27648 10-19-82 3:49a
GLOBES BLU 27648 10-19-82 4:57a
GLOBES GRN 27648 10-19-82 4:21a
WTELL BAS 4864 3-25-84 3:57p
CHESS BAS 15488 3-25-84 3:07p
MORSECOD BAS 3968 3-25-84 3:17p
BLAKJAK BAS 11520 3-25-84 2:57p
SLOTMACH BAS 4864 3-25-84 4:17p
CIA BAS 13824 8-01-83 12:16a
DISC DOC 2474 8-01-83 12:50a
PFS COM 364 4-20-83 10:01a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
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T H E T I P R O F E S S I O N A L S
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
F O U R T H L I B R A R Y D I S C
1. This is the FOURTH library disc produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disc type .
2. This disc is written in BASIC and machine language. Most of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disc and use
the copied disc for your working disc. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disc because of the copywrites. Format a new
disc with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disc with a command. Then copy this new
library disc onto your newly formatted disc by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disc will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disc will run from the menus. The
execptions are the AUTO.BAS, the SDIR.COM and the three document (.DOC)
files. If you tried the SDIR.COM as suggested in paragraph 1 above you
are familiar with it's use. Try the AUTO.BAS. It is an interesting
program that uses the files directory to build a menu and permits you to
select a program from the disc by moving the cursor and activating the
key.
5. The three document files, DISC.DOC, SHARPMOD.DOC and STARTRK.DOC
are instructional support documentation for the Disc (the text you're
reading now), for the Sharp Investment Evaluation Model, and for the
Star Trek game. You access these documents directly from the DOS system
by entering etc.
6. The TI Draw program on this disc is the same as the program on
Disc TWO except that this version can be "listed" if you are interested
in how the program was written. The Stock Option program on this disc
is also an update of the program on Disc TWO which appeared to have some
operating problems. You should replace it with this program.
7. I hope you find this disc challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #4
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
MAINMENU BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:16p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:17p
SDIR COM 1492 10-18-82 12:14a
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 4-08-84 12:17p
AUTOEXEC BAT 17 2-22-84 11:02a
FINMENU BAS 1536 4-08-84 12:19p
3-DPLOT BAS 1664 3-28-84 1:13p
TIDRAW BAS 33920 3-28-84 1:20p
TIDRAW BAT 128 11-17-83 5:10p
TIDRAW SUP 640 10-18-82 3:50a
HANOI BAS 4992 3-28-84 3:42p
STARWAR BAS 7296 3-28-84 12:01a
SPACEADV BAS 17408 3-28-84 12:09a
STARTRK BAS 30208 3-29-84 11:48a
STARTRK DOC 6540 10-18-82 12:23a
METEOR DAT 128 3-29-84 12:23p
ZAP'EM BAS 4224 3-29-84 12:20p
FINANCE BAS 29568 3-29-84 12:41p
FINPAK BAS 13440 3-29-84 12:56p
STKMGMT BAS 27264 3-29-84 1:12p
SHARPMOD BAS 1024 3-29-84 1:42p
SHARPMOD DOC 6554 10-18-82 12:16a
LINREG BAS 896 3-29-84 1:29p
STKOPT BAS 2688 3-29-84 1:34p
AUTO BAS 896 3-19-84 10:50p
MUSIC BAS 8704 3-29-84 2:19p
DISC DOC 2445 3-29-84 3:18p
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
F I F T H L I B R A R Y D I S C
1. This is the FIFTH library disc produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disc type .
2. This disc is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disc and use
the copied disc for your working disc. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disc because of the copywrites. Format a new
disc with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disc with a command. Then copy this new
library disc onto your newly formatted disc by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disc will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disc will run from the menus. The
execptions are the SDIR.COM, the three support files (.GR5 and .SUB) and
the four document (.DOC) files. If you tried the SDIR.COM as suggested
in paragraph 1 above you are familiar with it's use.
5. The four document files, DISC.DOC, ABSTRACT.DOC, BUDGET.DOC and
JETSET.DOC are instructional support documentation for the Disc (the
text you're reading now), for BUDGET, Family Budget Planner, for the
JETSET flight simulator program that was on DISC ONE and a list (in the
ABSTRACT.DOC) of the programs on all of the first five DISCS with a
short description of the program. You access these documents directly
from the DOS system by entering etc.
6. The JETSET documentation was originally duplicated and
provided by hand to members when purchasing the DISC with the program.
The problems associated with duplicating and handling the multi-page
document prompted this more efficient means of handling the
instructional material. Additionally, this will be much more efficient
and cost effective for the out-of-town members ordering discs by mail.
7. I hope you find this disc challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #5
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
SDIR COM 1492 10-18-82 12:14a
AUTOEXEC BAT 17 2-22-84 11:02a
BUDGET BAS 14592 5-06-84 3:57a
BACKGAM BAS 4992 4-26-84 5:52p
YAHTZEE BAS 16384 4-25-84 5:22p
ARTILLRY BAS 2688 4-26-84 5:17p
MAINMENU BAS 1408 4-27-84 1:38p
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 4-28-84 4:51p
FINMENU BAS 1664 4-27-84 1:36p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 4-27-84 5:24p
FACE BAS 512 4-27-84 1:18p
RITA BAS 896 4-27-84 1:21p
ELIZA BAS 4480 4-27-84 4:42p
MUSIC1 BAS 2432 4-27-84 5:21p
FACE GR5 45440 8-24-83 8:37a
RITA GR5 19584 8-24-83 8:39a
GRAEXP SUB 256 8-01-83 9:45a
BUDGET DOC 2040 4-25-84 3:40p
JETSET DOC 40716 4-29-84 10:43p
ABSTRACT DOC 14743 4-30-84 1:20p
DISC DOC 2519 4-30-84 3:09p
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
S I X T H L I B R A R Y D I S C
1. This is the SIXTH library disc produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a
list of the programs on the disc type .
2. This disc is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. This disk is designed to run with either the 1.1, 1.25, or 2.11
versions of MS-DOS. The Cribbage program on the Game Menu requires the
2.11 version of DOS and the PC Emulator filter to run in it's current
form. (I spent some time trying to trouble-shoot it and never got it to
run with the 1.25 DOS. Perhaps some of you smarter members can work it
out.) I have modified the automatic execution batch file to load the
Emulator file if it exists. Members who have the 2.11 DOS should copy
the Emulator file to the new disk as well as the operating files and
Basic. Members using an earlier version of DOS will get an error message
indicating that the Emulator can not be found but the program will
continue to load the remaining part of the batch file and will run all
but the 2.11 programs.
4. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disk and use
the copied disk for your working disk. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disk because of the copywrites. Format a new
disk with the command. If you have 2.11 DOS copy the PC
Emulator onto the disk with a command. Then
copy your BASIC program onto the disk with a
command. Now copy this new library disk onto your newly formatted disk
by a command. Your newly formatted and copied disk will
now start and run automatically.
5. Most of the programs on this disk will run from the menus. The
execptions are the four command (.COM) files and the three document (.DOC)
files. If you tried the SDIR.COM as suggested in paragraph 1 above you
are familiar with it's use. The SD2.COM will create a sorted
directory similar to SDIR.COM but it will pause when the display is full
and it will list sub-directories and "hidden" files in lower case
letters. (CAUTION! When SD2 is used with DOS 1.1 or 1.25 the volume
label and remaining space are incorrect!)
6. The READONLY.COM file will change a file on a disk to a "hidden"
file thus permitting the file to be read but not changed or deleted. The
NORMAL.COM file reverses this process and makes a "hidden" file normal
so it can be changed or deleted. Format for use of either file is:
"READONLY B:NAME.EXT". The VOLSER.COM file permits adding or altering a
disk volume label. This is used only with DOS 2.11 which permits
labeling disks. (The command file must be on the disk in the default
drive when using them but they can operate on files in either drive.)
7. The three document files are support documentation for the Disk.
You access these documents directly from the DOS system by entering
etc. The DIRALPH.DOC is new to this disk. It is
an alphabetical listing of the directories of the first six User Group
Disks. It includes the name, extension, size, and location of the file.
This can be printed off and used as an index or referenced on the disk.
I hope you find it useful.
8. I hope you find this disk challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #6
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
OTHELLO BAS 7040 6-10-83 12:16a
SDIR COM 1492 10-18-82 12:14a
MAINMENU BAS 1408 6-10-83 9:16a
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 6-01-84 10:55a
BLKJACK BAS 8448 5-18-84 9:38p
BREAKOUT BAS 4096 6-10-83 9:09a
MAZE BAS 3584 5-23-84 2:52p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 6-10-83 9:33a
FINANCE BAS 17920 6-01-84 9:22p
COREDUMP BAS 1152 5-24-84 2:42p
BESTLINE BAS 896 6-10-83 9:17a
CRIBBAGE BAS 23296 6-05-84 12:03a
CRIBBAGE BLD 128 8-22-82 1:21p
FINMENU BAS 1664 6-05-84 12:47p
UTILMENU BAS 1664 6-10-83 9:13a
REDSKINS BAS 768 6-01-84 11:17a
SD2 COM 1536 10-01-83 11:09p
VOLSER COM 1152 9-11-83 6:38p
NORMAL COM 128 10-16-83 11:42a
READONLY COM 128 10-16-83 11:43a
AUTOEXEC BAT 26 6-01-84 3:33p
DISC DOC 3878 6-05-84 3:12p
BARGRAPH BAS 26368 6-05-84 1:31p
SAMPLEB BAR 2432 1-29-83 9:35a
SAMPLEA BAR 2304 1-29-83 9:38a
JUKEBOX BAS 2944 6-10-83 9:44a
JUKEDOWN MUS 896 9-18-82 12:20p
JUKEGARO MUS 1024 9-18-82 12:23p
JUKESATI MUS 1024 9-18-82 12:20p
JUKESOUN MUS 768 9-18-82 12:19p
JUKECARA MUS 896 9-18-82 12:20p
JUKEIMPO MUS 896 9-18-82 12:20p
JUKESUNR MUS 640 9-18-82 12:21p
JUKESECO MUS 1280 9-18-82 12:19p
JUKETHIR MUS 10880 9-18-82 12:09p
JUKETAKE MUS 1152 1-01-80 3:11a
ABSTRACT DOC 18377 6-05-84 4:13p
DIRALPHA DOC 6722 6-05-84 7:21p
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
S E V E N T H L I B R A R Y D I S C
1. This is the SEVENTH library disk produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disc type .
2. This disk is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disk and use
the copied disk for your working disk. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disk because of the copywrites. Format a new
disk with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disk with a command. Then copy this new
library disk onto your newly formatted disk by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disk will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disk will run from the menus. The
exceptions are the SDIR.COM and the SDEL.COM, the support files (.GR*,
.DAT and .SUP), the "Template" files (.VC) and the document files
(.DOC). If you tried the SDIR.COM as suggested in paragraph 1 above you
are familiar with it's use.
5. The document files, DISC.DOC and ABSTRACT.DOC are instructional
support documentation for the Disk (the text you're reading now). You
access these documents directly from the DOS system by entering etc.
6. The DRAWFONT.DAT and DRAWFONT.SUP are required to support the
DRAWFONT.BAS program. These programs are all similar to the TIDRAW and
TIFONT programs that were on previous disks but ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE.
Be sure to keep these programs together when moving them to other
disks. The DESERT.* files on this disk are sample picture files created
by the DRAWFONT program and are accessed from the DRAWFONT program. They
are not required by the program (to develop other pictures) but are
provided for example.
7. New on this disk are several "Template" files. A "Template"
program is one that is designed to run "piggy-back" on another program,
usually a spreadsheet. By designing a Home Budget Program, for example,
to run on a spreadsheet the program can be shorter, simpler, and
cheaper. The template programs on this disk were designed to run on a
Visicalc spreadsheet with an IBM computer. Few of our members have this
combination -- however, the LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet has the capability
of transforming Visicalc files to Lotus files. Other spreadsheets may
also have this capability. Therefore, if you have Lotus, you can
transform these *.VC files to Lotus *.WKS files and use them on your
Lotus program. None of the programs I have seem to be of great value but
the demonstrate another capability and provide some examples. I have
included them primarily for educational purposes. Note that the
FEDTAX.VC program is for 1983 taxes and the SINGLE.VC is for 1981 taxes.
8. I hope you find this disk challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #7
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
AUTOEXEC BAT 26 6-01-84 3:33p
ABSTRACT DOC 3832 6-26-84 11:24p
FLAG BAS 1536 6-18-84 9:10p
BLKJAK BAS 12160 6-19-84 12:23p
PASSWORD BAS 512 6-19-84 11:24a
MAINMENU BAS 1408 6-25-84 12:56a
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 6-25-84 12:47a
GAMEMENU BAS 1536 6-25-84 12:53a
FINMENU BAS 1536 6-18-84 8:41p
UTILMENU BAS 1664 6-19-84 11:18a
DRAWFONT BAS 18944 7-14-84 12:07a
DESERT GR2 27648 11-17-83 12:51a
DESERT GR3 27648 11-17-83 12:51a
DESERT GR4 27648 11-17-83 12:52a
DISC DOC 3458 6-25-84 10:01p
DRAWFONT DAT 18432 11-17-83 12:41a
DRAWFONT SUP 640 11-17-83 12:30a
FEDTAX VC 12032 2-04-82
VBREAKEV VC 5248
VBARCHRT VC 1152
VCHKBK1 VC 2176
SINGLE VC 10229 2-14-82 12:54p
OPT123 VC 6272 1-01-80 3:10a
OPTCASH VC 6272 1-01-80 2:11a
OPTMAR VC 3456 1-01-80 3:21a
HOMEBDGT VC 4736 2-14-82
SDIR COM 1492 10-18-82 12:14a
SDEL COM 768 8-05-82 9:19p
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
E I G H T H L I B R A R Y D I S K
1. This is the EIGHTH library disk produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disk, type .
2. This disk is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disk and use
the copied disk for your working disk. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disk because of the copywrites. Format a new
disk with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disk with a command. Then copy this new
library disk onto your newly formatted disk by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disk will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disk will run from the menus. The
exceptions are the command files (.COM), the "Template" files (.WKS) and
the document files (.DOC).
5. The document files, DISC.DOC etc, are instructional support
documentation for the Disk (the text you're reading now). You access
these documents directly from the DOS system by entering etc.
6. New on this disk are two LOTUS 1-2-3 "Template" files. A
"Template" program is one that is designed to run "piggy-back" on
another program, usually a spreadsheet. By designing a Home Budget
Program, for example, to run on a spreadsheet the program can be
shorter, simpler, and cheaper. The template programs on this disk were
designed to run on a LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet. The computer is
unimportant with the LOTUS worksheets.
7. There are several command utilities on this disk. The COLOR.COM
files are short files that permit you to change the color of the text on
a color monitor to one of four choices - on a black screen. The two
RPT*.COM files allow you to turn the "repeat" function of the keyboard
on and off. The DUMP utility permits you to view the contents of a
binary file in hexidecimal and ASCII format similar to the output of the
DEBUG utility. The difference is that with this DUMP facility you
display the contents of a file whereas the DEBUG load a program into
memory and then displays the contents of memory. There is also
documentation for the DUMP program on this disk.
8. The MINICALC.BAS program on this disk is another excellent
program. It is a miniature spreadsheet with eleven columns and
twenty-two rows. It has much of the power of large spreadsheets, just
smaller. There is documentation for the MINICALC program too. There are
several "bugs" still in the program -- a challenge to some of you
programming experts. The program does NOT display the cursor position
highlighted on a cell as the documentation states. I expect that is
because it was designed for an IBM PC. Also, the worksheet and the
graphs will not print. You can save your work on a disk file and you can
display the worksheet and the graphs - but they won't print out at this
time. How about a hand from some of you experts out there? A word of
caution. The MINICALC program is intolerable of syntax error. You MUST
address cells by a three character designation, one letter and TWO
numerals. Thus, the upper left cell is A01, not A1.
9. I hope you find this disk challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #8
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
GREEN COM 16 10-18-82 12:18a
YELLOW COM 16 8-20-84 3:47p
CYAN COM 16 8-20-84 3:44p
WHITE COM 16 10-18-82 12:17a
RPTON COM 16 10-18-82 12:36a
RPTOFF COM 16 10-18-82 12:33a
DUMP EXE 1408 5-04-84 11:19a
AUTOEXEC BAT 26 6-01-84 3:33p
MAINMENU BAS 1408 8-13-84 9:16p
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 8-24-84 2:51p
UTILMENU BAS 1664 8-12-84 8:30p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 9-02-84 5:04p
FINMENU BAS 1664 8-13-84 9:10p
BUSMENU BAS 1408 9-03-84 2:58p
MINICALC BAS 12160 8-13-84 9:13p
COMBST BAS 2048 8-12-84 8:20p
BRAKE BAS 640 8-12-84 8:07p
MATHQZ BAS 1280 8-12-84 4:56p
TREE BAS 4352 8-12-84 4:28p
GARFIELD BAS 2944 8-12-84 5:07p
FLAG BAS 896 8-12-84 4:08p
BBALL BAS 3328 8-12-84 4:50p
ST-MINE BAS 7936 8-12-84 8:17p
ALSORT BAS 6528 8-12-84 8:39p
GOLF BAS 6016 8-24-84 2:31p
SW-PEGS BAS 5888 8-24-84 2:53p
CLOCK BAS 2560 9-02-84 5:00p
PIECHART BAS 1536 9-03-84 2:52p
PAD WKS 29312 8-24-84 2:03p
CHKBK WKS 17664 8-26-84 3:11p
CHKBK DOC 4671 9-02-84 2:53p
DUMP DOC 1168 9-02-84 3:22p
MINICALC DOC 12180 4-07-84 11:47a
DISC DOC 3954 9-03-84 5:49p
ABSTRACT DOC 24813 9-03-84 4:52p
DIRALPHA DOC 7332 9-03-84 9:12p
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
N I N T H L I B R A R Y D I S K
1. This is the NINTH library disk produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a list of the
programs on the disk, type .
2. This disk is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disk and use
the copied disk for your working disk. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disk because of the copywrites. Format a new
disk with the command. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disk with a command. Then copy this new
library disk onto your newly formatted disk by a command. Now your newly formatted and copied disk will start and run
automatically.
4. Most of the programs on this disk will run from the menus. The
exceptions are the support files (.DAT, .LST, and two files without
extensions) and the document files (.DOC).
5. The document files, DISC.DOC etc, are instructional support
documentation for the Disk (the text you're reading now). You access
these documents directly from the DOS system by entering etc.
6. This Disk is very limited in scope with three basic types of
programs. There are some games but they are all good, another Black
Jack, a Football game, and a Killer Maze that makes you the white rat!
There are also three "educational" games, the first we've had. They are
all excellent. First is HANGMAN, the word spelling game. Second is a US
geography lesson -- a map of the US that randomly selects a State and
quizzes you on the Name, the Capital, and the abbreviation. Finally
there is a program that allows you to generate your own Flash Cards for
drill on spelling, vocabulary, math, language, or any other feature you
want to address. The Flash Cards can be easily made, saved, recalled,
edited and tested. They all use good color and graphics and are easy to
operate.
7. The final type is the EPISTAT set of statistical programs. It
appears to be an excellent package that will be of great value to those
looking for statistical programs. Unfortunately, like so many of our
programs this was originally written for the IBM and at the present time
requires DOS 2.11 to run. There appear to be additional problems with
the program since it disables some keys (all function keys) and appears
to affect the DOS operating system although perhaps not too seriously. I
have noticed that the "DIR" directory command does not function normally
after using these programs but it is easy to re-boot before you go on. I
thought the value of these programs was great enough to justify
distribution before they are fully "patched" up. If any of you find
solutions to the problems let me know and I will be sure to get the
information into the Newsletter.
8. I hope you find this disk challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #9
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
AUTOEXEC BAT 26 6-01-84 3:33p
EPISETUP DAT 128 3-12-84 11:27p
EXAMPLE 640 3-21-84 10:09p
MAINMENU BAS 1408 9-10-84 9:35p
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 9-10-84 9:24p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 9-10-84 9:31p
BUSMENU BAS 1536 9-10-84 9:33p
HANGMAN BAS 6272 9-07-84 9:27p
STATES BAS 28288 9-09-84 9:59p
MAZE BAS 6528 9-09-84 10:03p
FOOTBALL BAS 12160 9-09-84 9:53p
TWENTY-1 BAS 10112 9-09-84 10:15p
EPIMRG BAS 3456 3-21-84 8:35p
EPISTAT BAS 11264 3-21-84 8:35p
DATA-ONE BAS 10624 9-10-84 3:23p
ANOVA BAS 5376 3-21-84 8:37p
BAYES BAS 3200 3-21-84 8:38p
BINOMIAL BAS 2176 3-21-84 8:39p
CHISQR BAS 3584 3-21-84 8:39p
CORRELAT BAS 3200 3-21-84 8:39p
FILETRAN BAS 3968 3-21-84 8:40p
FISHERS BAS 1792 3-21-84 8:40p
FORTRANS BAS 2816 3-21-84 8:40p
HISTOGRM BAS 4480 3-21-84 8:41p
LNREGRES BAS 4608 3-21-84 8:41p
MHCHISQR BAS 2048 3-21-84 8:41p
MHCHIMLT BAS 2944 3-21-84 8:41p
MCNEMAR BAS 1920 3-21-84 8:41p
NORMAL BAS 3200 3-21-84 8:42p
POISSON BAS 1792 3-21-84 8:42p
RANDOMIZ BAS 3456 3-21-84 8:42p
RANKTEST BAS 6528 3-21-84 8:42p
RATEADJ BAS 3072 3-21-84 8:43p
SAMPLSIZ BAS 3456 3-21-84 8:43p
SCATRGRM BAS 5632 3-21-84 8:44p
SELECT BAS 6784 9-10-84 3:26p
T-TEST BAS 3712 3-21-84 8:44p
XTAB BAS 4224 3-21-84 8:44p
FLASHCRD BAS 7680 9-30-84 2:41p
FLASHCRD LST 128 6-02-83 12:09a
FLASHCRD 896 6-02-83 12:09a
PRINTEPI DOC 24927 3-21-84 9:03p
DISC DOC 3492 9-10-84 10:39p
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W A S H I N G T O N A R E A
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
T E N T H L I B R A R Y D I S K
1. This is the TENTH library disk produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a
list of the programs on the disk, type or use the
selected directory program on this disk by typing .
2. This disk is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs. This disk
will be especially useful for members with HARD DISK DRIVES and those
using DOS 2.11.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disk and use
the copied disk for your working disk. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disk because of the copywrites. Format a new
disk with the command. If you are using DOS 2.11 also
copy the EMULATE.COM file to the disk. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disk with a command. Then copy this new
library disk onto your newly formatted disk by a
command. Now your newly formatted and copied disk will start and run
automatically.
4. Many of the programs on this disk will run from the menus. The
exceptions are the FINANCES programs and the utility programs.
5. The document files, DISC.DOC etc, are instructional support
documentation for the Disk (the text you're reading now). You access
these documents directly from the DOS system by entering etc.
6. There are some excellent graphic demonstration programs on this
disk with almost photo quality resolution. There is also a new game
program, an NFL football predictor program that does as good as the
newspaper picking winners. If you move the NFL-PIKS or graphic programs
be sure to move the support programs, too.
7. The FINANCES set of programs is an extensive set of personal
financial files combined in one. It will keep a check record, keep
investment records for you and retain expenditures in budget categories.
This one requires DOS 2.11 and the EMULATOR to run. There are four data
(.DAT) files that are used by the program so it is best to transfer this
set of programs to a separate disk where you will have adequate room for
the data files and to minimize the risk of losing other data. Because of
the way this program operates it continually accesses data on the disk
resulting in slow operation and drive noise. To minimize the operation
of the disks and to speed the operation of the program, I have set this
one up to run from a RAMDISK, the drive "G". To use the program in this
mode, prepare a new application disk with the command.
Then copy the EMULATE.COM and RAMDISK.DEV files to the new disk. Then
from this disk copy the CONFIG.SYS, FINANCES.EXE, CHECKING.DAT,
INVCAT.DAT, INVEST.DAT, and PURGRP.DAT files. Finally, from this disk,
copy the AUTOEXEC.FIN file but change the name of it to AUTOEXEC.BAT so
that it will start the disk automatically. (You do this by the command
.)
8. When completed, the disk will boot the system and set up the
RAMDISK and the EMULATOR then copy the Finance data files to the RAMDISK
and start the program. The FINANCE program has a code word protection on
it. It requires a nine character code word and gives you three chances
to get it right. Right now the code word is "COST PLUS", all upper case
and with one space in the middle. It is particular about the exact
format of the code word. CAUTION! Remember, you are working in memory
and all of your data will be lost if you don't copy it before turning
the computer off. The AUTOEXEC.BAT file will automatically save your
new data back to the disk when you exit the Finances program. After you
exit the FINANCES program you will get a "G>" prompt and
see the AUTOEXEC.BAT copying your DAT files from G: back to A:. (I have
set aside 79 K bytes for the RAMDISK. It will probably run with about 20
K if you have 128 K or less. Change this in the CONFIG.SYS file if you
have trouble. After using this program you may have to reboot the system
to get rid of the RAMDISK for other programs that use a lot of memory.)
9. There are three other files on this disk. The SDIR.COM is
another format of a Selected Directory. It is especially useful since it
can be displayed it two, four, or six columns and has a PAUSE mode. This
requires DOS 2.11 to run.
10. The WHEREIS file will be especially useful for members with a
Hard Disk. It's purpose is to locate a file and it will return the path
and filename. The greatest use will come is searching for a file you
know exists but have forgotten what sub-directory it is in. The command
can be used with "wild cards" and will return the paths for all files
that match the filename.
11. Finally, this disk contains replacement BACKUP.EXE and SYS.COM
files for the DOS 2.11. The BACKUP.EXE file is used to make backup
floppies of the data stored on a hard disk. The original BACKUP file on
the 2.11 disk frequently malfunctions losing data WITHOUT ANY WARNING TO
THE OPERATOR. This new BACKUP file has been supplied by Texas
Instruments as a replacement for the file of the same name in the
initial distribution of DOS 2.11. If you have a hard disk and use the
2.11 BACKUP function it is important that you replace the original file
with this file. The new SYS.COM is also a replacement for the original
file furnished with the DOS 2.11. This new SYS.COM file will permit you
to put the DOS 2.11 operating system on the LOTUS 1-2-3 and other
program operating system disks. TI will include these two updated files
in the next version of DOS (DOS 2.12) but have provided it to us to get
the corrected files into users' hands.
12. I hope you find this disk challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #10
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
AUTOEXEC BAT 26 6-01-84 3:33p
MAINMENU BAS 1408 10-11-84 1:20p
GAMEMENU BAS 1536 9-26-84 3:48p
UTILMENU BAS 1664 9-17-84 9:37p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 10-04-84 3:32p
CONFIG SYS 23 9-21-84 1:18a
CROSS BAS 9088 9-17-84 9:34p
AUTOEXEC FIN 72 11-05-84 11:59a
FINANCES DOC 6656 12-21-83 3:03p
FINANCES EXE 72832 12-21-83 3:01p
CHECKING DAT 256 12-21-83 3:04p
INVCAT DAT 128 12-21-83 3:04p
INVEST DAT 128 12-21-83 3:05p
PURGRP DAT 128 12-21-83 3:05p
WHEREIS COM 768 7-21-84 4:57p
WHEREIS DOC 621 9-21-84 1:50a
NFL-PIKS BAS 5120 9-24-84 11:21p
STATS 1024 12-19-84 10:44a
SDIR COM 3584 9-09-84 12:50p
SHOW BAS 384 10-04-84 3:33p
GRAEXP SUB 256 8-01-83 9:45a
CAR GR1 32000 5-04-84 2:17p
CAR BAS 384 9-26-84 3:45p
GM1 GR1 18048 9-18-84 11:58a
GM1 BAS 384 10-04-84 3:36p
TI1 GR1 29952 11-17-83 1:33a
BACKUP EXE 26112 5-17-84 11:00a
DISC DOC 6549 11-05-84 1:22p
SYS COM 3569 5-17-84 11:00a
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W A S H I N G T O N A R E A
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
E L E V E N T H L I B R A R Y D I S K
1. This is the ELEVENTH library disk produced and distributed
by the TI PROFESSIONALS, the Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group. To
obtain a list of the programs on the disk, type .
2. This disk is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs. This disk
will be especially useful for members using DOS 2.11.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disk and use
the copied disk for your working disk. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disk because of the copywrites. Format a new
disk with the command. If you are using DOS 2.11 also
copy the EMULATE.COM file to the disk. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disk with a command. Then copy this new
library disk onto your newly formatted disk by a
command. Now your newly formatted and copied disk will start and run
automatically.
4. Many of the programs on this disk will run from the menus. The
exceptions are the PC-Yearbook (Desk Calendar) program, the Dow Jones
Market Rallies and Declines LOTUS template program and the documentation
files.
5. The document files, DISC.DOC etc, are instructional support
documentation for the Disk (the text you're reading now). You access
these documents directly from the DOS system by entering etc.
6. This disk, as disk TEN did, contains replacement BACKUP.EXE
and SYS.COM files for the DOS 2.11. The BACKUP.EXE file is used to make
backup floppies of the data stored on a hard disk. The original BACKUP
file on the 2.11 disk frequently malfunctions losing data WITHOUT ANY
WARNING TO THE OPERATOR. This new BACKUP file has been supplied by Texas
Instruments as a replacement for the file of the same name in the
initial distribution of DOS 2.11. If you have a hard disk and use the
2.11 BACKUP function it is important that you replace the original file
with this file. The new SYS.COM is also a replacement for the original
file furnished with the DOS 2.11. This new SYS.COM file will permit you
to put the DOS 2.11 operating system on the LOTUS 1-2-3 and other
program operating system disks. TI will include these two updated files
in the next version of DOS (DOS 2.12) but have provided it to us to get
the corrected files into users' hands.
7. Of special interest on this disk is a compiled version of a Desk
Calendar program, the PC-Yearbook. You can access this program directly
from the DOS by entering . You will probably want to
move this program to another disk though, since the program generates
calendar and memo records in additional files. You will need to have the
program on a disk with some open space and also, it must NOT be write
protected. This compiled program runs quite fast and effectively and is
one of the more efficient Desk Calendars I've seen.
8. In the Utility area there are two versions of a simple, Modem
Communication program. DIALER1 is for use with TI-PC's with INTERNAL
Modems and DIALER2 is for TI-PC's using EXTERNAL Modems. These programs
are written in BASIC (they were published in the July, '84 issue of TI
Professional Computing) and may be accessed from the Utility Menu. Be
sure to read the special documentation (DIALER.DOC) to ensure you have
the right set-up for your Computer-Modem configuration.
9. The Business Menu and the Games Menu also have interesting
collections of programs. As tax time rolls around, the Accelerated Cost
Recovery System program may be of special interest to some members.
10. I hope you find this disk challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #11
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
LANDFILE 1024 11-12-84 1:36p
ACRS BAS 3456 1-09-85 10:46p
BACKGAMN BAS 7552 1-07-85 6:27p
BUSMENU BAS 1408 1-09-85 10:51p
CHECKCON BAS 1920 1-09-85 10:53p
DIALER1 BAS 4608 1-07-85 1:04p
DIALER2 BAS 3968 2-10-85 2:07p
FINANCE BAS 16640 1-09-85 10:49p
FINMENU BAS 1664 9-27-84 3:01p
FISHWIN BAS 9984 11-28-84 4:53p
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 1-07-85 6:30p
GRAPHMEN BAS 1408 11-30-84 9:56p
MAINMENU BAS 1536 1-11-85 1:55p
PREY BAS 4096 11-30-84 9:38p
REALEST BAS 4992 11-28-84 5:10p
TRIVISTE BAS 2560 11-28-84 5:00p
UTILMENU BAS 1664 1-07-85 1:26p
WATER BAS 512 12-09-84 1:54p
AUTOEXEC BAT 22 12-06-84 8:45p
SYS COM 3569 5-17-84 11:00a
ACRS DOC 6807 1-09-85 9:49p
DIALER DOC 7435 11-17-83 1:25a
DISC DOC 4305 1-11-85 2:29p
FINANCE DOC 16388 1-09-85 10:24p
PCYRBK DOC 8830 1-07-85 10:12p
BACKUP EXE 26112 5-17-84 11:00a
PCYRBK EXE 27136 1-07-85 9:50p
DJUPDWN WKS 18432 11-28-84 12:07p
DIRALPHA DOC 9858 1-11-85 5:42p
ABSTRACT DOC 31192 1-12-85 6:15p
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W A S H I N G T O N A R E A
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER USERS' GROUP
T W E L F T H L I B R A R Y D I S K
1. This is the TWELFTH library disk produced and distributed by the
TI PROFESSIONALS, the Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group. To obtain a
list of the programs on the disk, type .
2. This disk is written in BASIC and machine language. Some of the
programs include graphics but many of them can be run on a computer
without the graphics board by properly editing the programs.
3. It is recommended that you immediately copy this disk and use
the copied disk for your working disk. The COMMAND.COM and BASIC.EXE
have been removed from the disk because of the copywrites. Format a new
disk with the command. If you are using DOS 2.11 also
copy the EMULATE.COM file to the disk. Then copy your BASIC program onto
the disk with a command. Then copy this new
library disk onto your newly formatted disk by a
command. Now your newly formatted and copied disk will start and run
automatically.
4. Some of the programs on this disk will run from the menus but
there are a large number of programs on this disk directly accessable
from the DOS operating system. The Dow Jones Market Rallies and
Declines and the FEDTAX84 LOTUS template programs, the Chess game, the
COVER, IPLTIME, PAGE, CLEAN, and ZDIR command programs and the
documentation files all run from DOS directly.
5. The document files, DISC.DOC etc, are instructional support
documentation for the Disk (the text you're reading now). You access
these documents directly from the DOS system by entering etc.
6. This disk has two more LOTUS templates. One, the DJUPDWN.WKS is
an improved program of the Dow Jones Rallies and Declines program that
was on disk Eleven. The other, a template to assist you in preparing
your 1984 Federal Income Taxes was modified from a 1983 program that we
just recently acquired. This 1984 update is a result of the excellent
efforts of our own John Wheeler. Although it will be late for some
people, you can use it to check your taxes and we will hope to have next
year's version ready much earlier.
7. There are also several good games on this disk. The Chess game
is a "compiled" version that runs quite fast. To play this one you move
the cursor with the cursor keys and pick up and put down the chess
pieces with the INS and DEL keys. From the game menu there are a Craps
game, Bowling for 1 to 4 players, Tic-Tac-Toe, MasterMind and a revised
version of the JETSET instrument flight simulator. The Bowling uses the
key to roll the ball but it takes some hand-eye coordination.
The JET II program is an update which has added more color, instructions
in the heading and a partial map of the flying area thanks to member
Dave Perkins. Dave did such a good job that I also added more stations
to his list and moved the controls to the Cursor Keypad now. This, like
some of our other programs, get better as other members offer
modifications.
8. In the Utility area there are several new and excellent
programs. Most of these programs have their own documentation on the
disk. The IPLTIME program allows you to reset the computer clock date
and time if you desire. This might be useful to put a specific date or
time on a program in the directory.
9. I hope you find this disk challenging and interesting! Happy
Computing!!
Volume in drive A is TI-PROF #12
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
BASIC EXE 54272 11-17-83 12:15a
AUTOEXEC BAT 26 6-01-84 3:33p
MAINMENU BAS 1536 3-06-85 11:08a
GAMEMENU BAS 1408 3-06-85 11:02a
JET2 DOC 41728 2-02-85 11:24p
DISC DOC 3915 3-07-85 4:57p
ABSTRACT DOC 4373 3-07-85 9:08p
IPLTIME COM 2560 1-13-85 9:13p
CHESS EXE 10240 1-24-85 6:43p
CRAPS BAS 8320 1-27-85 10:15p
JET2 BAS 41856 2-11-85 10:24p
TICTAC BAS 4224 2-05-85 12:17a
MASTER BAS 4864 2-05-85 12:42a
COVER DOC 2326 2-05-85 10:44p
COVER COM 1152 3-14-84 2:50a
DJUPDWN WKS 18176 3-09-85 11:39a
FEDTAX84 WKS 58752 3-27-85 5:09p
CLEAN COM 640 2-14-85 10:37p
CLEAN DOC 2921 3-06-85 2:48p
PAGE COM 896 2-17-85 10:39p
PAGE DOC 363 3-06-85 3:08p
ZDIR COM 2304 5-17-84 12:18a
ZDIR DOC 736 3-06-85 3:20p
BOWLING BAS 2432 3-06-85 10:58a
26 File(s) 32768 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
DISK DOCUMENTATION
This disk introduces a new format in disks from the
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group. The change is made in
response to several suggestions and is being introduced on a
trial basis. We would like to get feed-back from you, the
users, about how you like the disks prepared.
The first Twelve UG Library Disks were designed to be
applications disks. They were designed so the individual user
could put the operating system on the disk and then run the
disks selecting most of the programs from menus.
As the size of the library has grown, it is sometimes
awkward to find the right disk for the program you want.
Additionally, some members are using Winchester hard disks
and find it more difficult to use the programs. Many members
want to consolidate their Games on one disk, Financial
programs on another, Utilities on another and so forth. Since
they were tailoring their software library to their own
taste, the format of the disks was not important.
This disk has no menus and no room on it for the
operating system. It is merely a collection of files -- over
300 K of them. This allows more data to be placed on the
disks and will permit individuals to extract and use the
programs that they desire. You will have to load BASIC of
course to run the .BAS files and you may need to load the
Emulator for some of them, too. The disk has been formatted
with eight sectors so that users of early DOS versions can
use them too.
There are some excellent Utilities on this disk. The
CLSG, FORECOL and BACKCOL were written for the TI-PC and
therefore operate especially well.
There are also several graphic demonstration programs on
the disk. You will find that the BASIC versions of these
programs run painfully slowly. Compare the compiled (.EXE)
versions' speed with the BASIC versions' speed. You will also
note that the compiled version is much larger since it has to
contain the compiler library module, too. However, it is not
a lot larger than the BASIC versions with the BASIC.EXE
interpreter on the disk, too.
The programs on the disk are identified in the
CONTNTS.TXT text file. It can be accessed, like this Disk
Documentation, with a command.
Please let us know how you prefer your disks -- like
this, like the first twelve, or perhaps some other format.
(Ken Berkman 836-7056 or Don Wilson 790-9439)
Volume in drive A is TI PROF #13
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
CLSG COM 6 3-27-85 8:26a
FORECOL COM 522 4-28-85 2:47p
BACKCOL COM 810 4-28-85 3:52p
COLRCOM2 BAS 1536 3-20-85 4:17p
COLRCUBE BAS 2176 3-20-85 4:20p
HALFTONE BAS 896 3-20-85 4:22p
SPHERE BAS 4224 3-20-85 4:33p
SPHERE2 BAS 4224 3-20-85 4:36p
COLRCOM2 EXE 28032 5-17-84 12:52a
COLRCUBE EXE 27904 5-17-84 12:15a
HALFTONE EXE 29312 5-17-84 12:20a
SPHERE EXE 35968 5-17-84 12:25a
SPHERE2 EXE 35968 5-17-84 12:29a
TEE EXE 6912 3-13-85 8:42p
TEE DOC 1553 4-17-85 9:24p
NUSQ110 COM 2560 2-23-85 9:02p
NUSQ110 DOC 23989 4-17-85 9:02p
CONVERT BAS 3968 4-28-85 4:39p
BASECONV BAS 640 4-28-85 4:46p
CALC BAS 5376 4-28-85 5:14p
LU86 EXE 24320 3-11-85 9:27p
SQ COM 14336 2-14-85 10:26p
SQPC COM 3072 2-23-85 9:01p
POSTER BAS 3840 3-14-85 8:24p
BACKSCRL COM 6400 3-14-85 8:10p
LU86 DOC 542 9-01-84 3:17p
CALC COM 17457 12-10-84 9:53p
CONTNTS TXT 1450 4-29-85 1:16p
DISK DOC 3144 4-29-85 2:10p
31 File(s) 7168 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 14
This is the fifteenth disk in the Washington Area TI-PC
Users' Group Software selections. This disk, like the last
one, is in a new format without menus and without the space
on the disk to accommodate the operating system and the BASIC
interpreter. Users will have to "boot" their computers with
an operating disk and, if BASIC is required, load the BASIC
interpreter from another disk. Some programs may require the
DOS 2.xx EMULATOR filter.
This disk has three principle programs. They are the
TERM communications program, the BASIC Professor, and the
PC-Touch typing tutor. There are other assorted programs and
two files about the Disk -- The DISK.DOC and the DISK.DIR.
The TERM communications package includes the TERM.EXE
and the TERM.DOC documentation. The program also generates
supporting files. The documentation for this program is quite
complete as is the program itself. This software is an
excellent complement to the very simple "DIALER" program on
one of the earlier UG disks. It is a highly complex and
sophisticated communications program but, since it is
compiled, it runs quickly and efficiently. It is very user
friendly and is tailored after the menu format of the TI TTY
Communications software.
The TERM program permits menu selection of
communications parameters for each number called. The
parameters can be stored for future use. All functions are
easily selected with function keys and key prompts are listed
across the bottom of the display for convenience. One of the
strong points of the program is that it supports the XMODEM
format for binary file transfer. This permits uploading or
downloading binary files from bulletin boards, etc.
I haven't used the TERM extensively yet but I have had
some problems downloading XMODEM files. The downloading works
fine and the files captured also work fine -- but I can not
get out of the XMODEM receive mode short of aborting the
program. I don't know if the problem is mine, the modems, or
the programs. Be alert to a possible problem in escaping from
a download.
I have also found that the TERM does NOT clear the
function key buffers. Therefore, if you have used the
function keys with a previous program you need to "reboot"
before loading the TERM. If you do not, the function keys
used during the TERM program will not necessarily perform the
TERM functions listed at the bottom of the screen.
For members who are just getting started in PC
communications, try this program out before you spend money
on a commercial communications package. I think this may
answer all of your needs.
The second major program on this disk is the
PC-Professor. In this program the PC-Professor is teaching
Beginning BASIC programming. This is an excellent hands-on
training program for users that have little or no experience
in writing programs in the BASIC language. It is well written
and is an excellent training aid. The use of graphic
demonstrations makes it fun to learn programming skills. Even
the experienced programmers will enjoy the presentation.
Most of the files on this disk support the PC-Professor.
To initiate the program "boot" your system and load the BASIC
Interpreter. Then put this disk in the default drive and run
"INTRO". The rest is all menu selected from within the
program. If you want, you can set this up on a disk with the
operating system and the BASIC interpreter and include a
batch file to automatically start the program. This program
also generates a configuration file after you answer the
question of whether you are using a color or a monochrome
display. After this point you can put a write protect tab on
the disk if you desire.
The PC-Professor has one major problem. This program was
originally written for the IBM PC and, as such, has a
keyboard exercise that is designed for the IBM keyboard. The
implementation of this part of the program looks into the RAM
memory to determine when a specific key has been activated.
Because of the very different keyboards on the two computers,
there is little about the keyboard acclimation drill that is
of value. The rest of the program is excellent and is all
pertinent to TI PCs.
The third major program on this disk is the PC-TOUCH
typing tutor. This program calls up text one line at a time
from a file called PC-TOUCH.FIL and you type what you see.
The program times your drill and counts the errors and
presents you with a percent accuracy figure and a words per
minute count. The included text would not be appropriate for
beginning typists but you can substitute your own training
material if you would like. You will need to rename the
current PC-TOUCH.FIL to some other name and make your new
file name PC-TOUCH.FIL. Any text file is suitable for this
use. You can generate such a file with the EDLIN text editor
or with a word processor. If you use a word processor you
will need to "export" the file to a text file and change the
name for use with the PC-TOUCH.
Also on the disk are two more versions of MS-DOS File
Manipulation Programs. These programs are called VFILER
Version 2.8 (VF150.COM) and "Z" (Z.EXE). The Vfiler doesn't
have documentation on the disk but does have a help (?)
function that appears adequate for normal use. The "Z" also
appears to have adequate instructions with the program. These
programs are similar to the CWEEP File handling program. Try
them all then take your choice.
In the Utility category there is also a file (CLIP.COM)
that changes the volume name on a Disk and a file (ASCII.EXE)
that prints out the ASCII (text) characters in a binary file.
This allows you to scan a COM, EXE, BAS or other binary file
for instructions, etc that are in ASCII text format.
Finally there are three independent BASIC files. The
first, SPFX.BAS produces varied sound effects -- of varied
value. The other two, CRAZY8S.BAS and DEPT.BAS are good
games.
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG 14
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 5-17-84 11:00a
TERM DOC 36608 11-17-83 12:26a
TERM EXE 69632 11-17-83 12:21a
PC-TOUCH BAS 9856 5-24-85 12:55p
PC-TOUCH DOC 4608 5-22-85 10:13p
PC-TOUCH FIL 4992 5-22-85 10:13p
A0 BAS 2304 5-21-85 4:09p
A1 BAS 896 5-21-85 4:25p
A2 BAS 896 5-17-84 1:29a
A3 BAS 896 5-17-84 1:33a
A4 BAS 1024 5-17-84 1:39a
AVERAGE BAS 384 5-17-84 1:43a
BACKUP BAS 512 5-17-84 1:46a
CONTENTS BAS 1664 5-21-85 10:02p
DATA1 BAS 1792 5-17-84 1:53a
DATA2 BAS 2432 5-17-84 1:57a
FORWARD BAS 512 5-17-84 1:59a
GUESS-1 BAS 512 5-21-85 9:48p
GUESS-2 BAS 896 5-21-85 9:52p
IFTHEN BAS 2048 5-17-84 2:14a
INDEX BAS 1664 5-21-85 10:03p
INTRO BAS 2944 5-22-85 11:15a
K0 BAS 11264 5-22-85 9:36p
K1 BAS 8192 5-22-85 9:53p
K2 BAS 2816 5-22-85 9:59p
LET BAS 4864 5-17-84 2:46a
REPEAT BAS 512 5-17-84 2:48a
VARIABLE BAS 1408 5-17-84 2:50a
COLOR PIC 4104 1-01-80
MONO PIC 4104 1-01-80
A1 TXT 8920 5-21-85 5:05p
A2 TXT 6260 5-21-85 5:40p
A3 TXT 6914 5-21-85 8:32p
A4 TXT 11616 5-21-85 9:57p
CONTENTS TXT 3957 8-01-83
INDEX TXT 4917 8-01-83
ASCII C 5120 5-18-85 1:53p
ASCII EXE 12544 5-18-85 1:54p
ASCII MAC 5632 5-18-85 1:54p
CLIP COM 1024 3-30-85 8:49p
CLIP DOC 512 3-30-85 8:50p
VF150 COM 11648 5-19-85 10:41p
Z EXE 9728 5-11-85 8:59p
CRAZY8S BAS 7936 6-07-85 9:49p
DEPT BAS 9344 6-12-85 3:52p
SPFX BAS 4096 6-07-85 10:22p
DISK DOC 4096 6-12-85 6:02p
47 File(s) 1024 bytes free
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 15
1. This is the Fifteenth Library Disk produced by the
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group. It is in the format of the
last few disks with no special disk format -- just a maximum
utilization of the available space on the disk. The disk is
recorded in an eight sector format so it is usable by DOS versions
1.xx and 2.xx although some programs may require the EMULATOR or
other files only available in DOS 2.xx.
2. There is one game on this disk, WILDCAT.BAS. This is a
BASIC file and requires the BASIC Interpreter to run (BASIC.EXE).
The game is an oil well drilling speculation game. It uses color
and graphics but the graphics are character graphics and should
run all right on all TI PCs.
3. There is a demonstration file of the PROLOG Operating
System on the disk with it's documentation. It is anticipated that
this program will be of little interest to most users but is
provided for information.
4. There is a BASICAID Utility file on the disk. This file
permits manipulation of BASIC files with a capability to list
variables, cross reference variables and GOTO statements, etc. It
is not usable with all BASIC files but is a great assistance where
it is operable.
5. The remaining nineteen files are concerned with the
major program on the disk, the Stock Market Graphing program. This
excellent program permits tracking up to 111 individual stocks
through up to 90 trading periods, either days or weeks. The
program requires keyboard input of the data but then will permit
viewing the tabulated input data or a graphical presentation of
the data for each stock entry. The graphical presentation requires
the graphics board and to print out the graphs requires DOS 2.xx.
6. The SM graphs present daily (or weekly) plots of
high/low/close prices on the upper plot with the corresponding
volume plotted on the lower scale. Additionaly, you can choose two
running average periods which are also plotted on the price graph.
The program also prints a title block on the graph including the
stock name, ticker symbol, trading exchange, price to earnings
ratio (current), yield (current), three to five years total
estimated return, the number of days or weeks plotted and the date
of the rightmost (latest) period recorded.
7. You must have a graphics board installed to display the
graphs. If you have a color monitor the graphs will be displayed
in color. If you are using DOS 2.xx you can print a copy of the
graph using the print screen device (PRTSCRN.DEV) contained in the
DOS 2.xx.
8. To run the SM program you will need a special computer
setup. I suggest you prepare a separate AM application disk. To do
so, format the disk with the "/S" option to put the operating
system on the disk. Then copy the PRTSCRN.DEV file from the DOS
disk to the new disk. Next copy BASIC.EXE to the new disk. Next
copy all the SM related files (including the CONFIG.SYS file) to
the new disk. This will install the print screen device in the
computer when you boot the disk.
9. The SM program is menu/prompt driven. It is easy to
operate and does not permit an out of range entry. (You can't put
a higher price in the daily low price or daily close price than
you put into the daily high.) To print a copy of a stock's graph
you select the "P" for print. You will be prompted to turn the
printer on. Then you will be prompted to hit any key -- which will
clear the prompt line form the screen so that it is not printed
with the graph -- and to hit the ALT-SHIFT-PRNT combination. This
is the print screen driver command to print both text and graphic
planes. It takes about 2 minutes to print each graph. Each graph
must be called up and printed separately. When the printer is
completed depress the "form feed" key ON THE PRINTER to set up for
the next graph. Press any key on the computer to return the screen
prompts and continue with the SM program.
10. To center the graph on the page, place the top of the
page under the rollers of the bail on the printer. The SM program
assumes that the SM System Disk will be in the A: drive and a
formatted Data Disk will be in the B: drive. If your Data is to be
saved some place else you will need to make a change in the four
SM operating files -- the four files with a ".BAS" extension name.
In file "SMCONFG1.BAS" change line 1120 so that 'DDEV$="B:"' is
changed to read the correct location of the Data Files. In the
other three files make the same change to the variable string
definition 'DDEV$="B:"' in line 1170.
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#15
Directory of A:\
REL1_5 3 4-24-84 2:06p
SMADDEL1 BAS 17920 7-15-85 8:15p
SMCONFG1 BAS 3712 7-08-85 4:35p
SMENTRY1 BAS 21888 7-15-85 10:59p
SMGRAPH1 BAS 20736 7-17-85 2:48p
AUTOEXEC BAT 38 7-09-85 3:28p
AUTOSTRT BAT 38 12-16-84 5:17p
SM BAT 38 7-17-85 2:59p
SPECCOPY BAT 413 4-24-84 2:09p
SMCOVER DOC 3061 7-06-85 9:26p
SMUSERG DOC 6775 7-06-85 10:41p
SMADDEL1 HS1 5650 7-15-85 9:09p
SMCONFG1 HS1 4588 7-15-85 10:43p
SMENTRY1 HS1 2769 7-15-85 10:13p
SMGRAPH1 HS1 2757 7-15-85 10:19p
SMENTRY1 HS2 4741 7-15-85 10:26p
SMGRAPH1 HS2 3157 7-15-85 10:31p
SMGRAPH1 HS3 3836 1-10-84 3:27p
WILDCAT BAS 10368 7-03-85 1:30p
PROLOG DOC 48640 5-18-85 1:49p
BASICAID EXE 75392 5-22-85 8:49p
PROLOG EXE 59008 5-18-85 1:48p
22 File(s) 54272 bytes free
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 16
1. This is the Sixteenth Library Disk produced by the
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group. It is in the format of the
last few disks with no special disk format -- just a maximum
utilization of the available space on the disk. The disk is
recorded in an eight sector format so it is usable by DOS versions
1.xx and 2.xx although some programs may require the EMULATOR or
other files only available in DOS 2.xx.
2. There are two new communication programs on this disk.
The first is an excellent program. It is compiled and runs quickly
and efficiently. It was written by a TI Engineer with the TI
Defense Suppression Group for use with TI-PCs. The program is
usable with either internal or external modems and is capable of
data transfer in the ASCII or XMODEM protocols. The REMOTE program
will build its own dialing directory to put on the disk. I think
you will find it an excellent, top quality communications program.
3. The second communications program is TI-TALK. This is a
modification of the frequently seen PC-Talk III program. Ken Zur
in St Louis made the modification and it was furnished to us by
Bob Rosenthal in Highland, IL. This is a BASIC program and it also
creates its own support files on the disk. It has one constraint -
your communication port must be port #1.
4. The remaining files on the disk are utility files. Most
of them are excellent and quite valuable. The DIR-X and the GCOPY
files require the EMULATOR.
5. First of the utilities is a revised version of the CWEEP
file manipulation program. CWEEP214 is an excellent program for
manipulating files. It is fast and efficient. I think you'll enjoy
this one.
6. There is a new Library Manipulation file, LUE. This is
used to group related files into a library module or to
disassemble a library module into individual files. With it is a
new unsqueeze file, the ALSQ11. Both are handy for opening files
that have been downloaded from a bulletin board.
7. For those who use hard disks with many sub directories,
the DIRTREE file will draw a map of your tree directories for you.
The file will be helpful to recall the file structure in a seldom
used file. THIS IS A FABULOUS PROGRAM!
8. The next file on the disk is the GCOPY. This file will
permit group copies of several related files. This is a less
useful file since the same functions can be accomplished from a
general file manipulation program like the CWEEP.
9. A very useful patch to BASIC.EXE is provided by the
BASIC-UP command. It modifies the BASIC.EXE program in order to let
you read protected programs. See the BASIC-UP.DOC file, and please,
only play with a copy of BASIC.EXE.
10. Three last files allow you to blank out your screen when it
is not in use. The OFF command works fine on my color monitor. Hit
any key and the screen comes back on. MONBLANK and MBLANK2 are more
sophisticated. Run MONBLANK once and it will automatically turn off
the screen if there has been no video activity for five minutes. I
have not had time to test MBLANK2.
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#16
Directory of A:\
REMOTE EXE 90488 3-08-85 10:32a
REMOTE DOC 15989 3-08-85 12:44p
TI-TALK BAS 35200 11-28-84 11:06a
CWEEP214 COM 26624 6-22-85 11:45p
CWEEP214 DOC 16637 6-22-85 11:45p
LUE COM 2688 5-23-85 11:14a
LUE DOC 3815 6-25-85 11:09p
ALUSQ11 COM 8064 3-28-85 4:31a
ALUSQ DOC 1158 2-13-85 7:06a
DIR-X COM 50944 5-01-85 12:13p
DIRTREE DOC 3200 5-24-85 9:51p
DIRTREE EXE 25984 5-24-85 9:52p
GCOPY EXE 14336 7-22-85 7:55p
GCOPY DOC 1007 7-22-85 7:55p
DISK DOC 3584 8-06-85 7:21p
BASIC-UP BAT 75 2-08-85 8:56p
BASIC-UP CMD 20 2-08-85 8:54p
MBLANK2 COM 256 7-14-83 3:25p
MONBLANK COM 393 12-07-84 10:24p
BASIC-UP DOC 766 2-26-85 4:22p
MBLANK2 DOC 1306 8-10-83 1:12p
OFF EXE 1536 2-01-84 9:32a
22 File(s) 47104 bytes free
The PROFESSIONALS
Washington D.C. Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 17
1. This disk, like the past several, is filled to about 320K
out of some 322K available on an eight sector formatted disk.
The disk has one application program, another good
communications program, and the remainder of the files on the
disk are various utility programs. Several of the utility
programs will be of special interest to users of Winchester
Hard Disks.
2. Most of the programs on the disk have their own
documentation in a .DOC file. I think the only exception is
the FDATE.COM. The FDATE program will change the date and/or
the time associated with a file on the disk. Most computer
files are assigned a date and time at the time they are
created depending on the date and time stored in the
computer. This program permits you to change any of these
date/times to anything you desire. Type to
get the format prompt. BE CAREFUL! There is no indication on
the display that it is working -- until you look at your
directory and find it has made the changes.
3. The Communications Program is the TERM Version 3.0. We
had the Version 2.6 on disk 14. Many of you have tried it but
some had encountered problems with it as I had. The new
Version 3.0 is changed in several ways and appears to run
very well. This excellent public domain comm program was
written for the TI-PC. It can handle normal ASCII teletype
communications with bulletin boards, on-line services such as
CompuServe and the Dow Jones News Retrieval and will handle
binary transfer of files with the XMODEM protocol. Anyone
contemplating the purchase of a MODEM should certainly try
this program (and TERMINAL on disk # 16) before investing
money in a commercial communications program. I think you
will enjoy it.
4. As I noted earlier, some of the Utilities on this disk
are especially useful for users of Hard Disks. These are the
TREEDIR3, the DIRTREE, and the DPATH30. The TREEDIR3 combines
the DOS TREE and DIR commands to help you locate files. The
DIRTREE writes a diagram of the directory organization on the
display. The DPATH30 permits writing to a file NOT in the
current directory.
5. The ARC program is an excellent file compression program.
It uses three possible choices in compressing files to
minimize space used on a disk. The program will analyze the
file and select the best choice of compression program for
the particular file. It will also expand the file to the
original format from any of the selected compression methods.
This would be an excellent selection to use to compress
documentation files to reduce the storage space of these
files that you seldom need to access. It will cut the space
required for document files about in half.
6. The ND and SDISK-21 are new directory utilities. These
add to the large number of directory utilities we already
have. The SDISK-21 will sort the directory AND WRITE THE NEW
SORTED DIRECTORY TO THE DISK. It does not rearrange the
files, just the directory.
7. The GCOPY is a group copy utility that will permit moving
a number of selected files at a time. The BOOT program
supposedly expands the working environment space in RAM.
8. It is recognized that all users are not interested in all
of these Utilities and we have had a large number of
duplications in performance. I would recommend that you scan
the documentation and perhaps try each of them to see if you
like the way it works. I use several and find them quite
handy. It depends on how much file manipulation you do with
your computer. We are trying to provide a good selection of
the available Public Domain programs. I hope many of you are
finding them useful.
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#17
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 5-17-84 11:00a
TERM DOC 63744 5-26-85 8:54p
TERM EXE 74944 5-26-85 7:56p
SDISK-21 COM 4480 7-03-85 12:48a
SDISK-21 DOC 1920 7-03-85 12:40p
TREEDIR3 C 6656 5-24-85 9:51p
TREEDIR3 COM 6400 9-29-84 2:23p
TREEDIR3 DOC 1258 8-25-85 4:13p
DIRTREE DOC 3200 5-24-85 9:51p
DIRTREE EXE 25984 5-24-85 9:52p
DPATH30 COM 2696 1-20-85 9:54a
DPATH30 DOC 9825 5-24-85 9:50p
BOOT DOC 4864 5-24-85 9:30p
BOOT EXE 1152 5-24-85 9:30p
GCOPY EXE 14336 8-25-85 5:54p
GCOPY DOC 830 8-25-85 5:55p
ARC DOC 17161 6-20-85 9:41p
ARC EXE 29432 6-26-85 11:24p
ND DOC 804 6-29-85 11:31a
ND EXE 16384 1-20-85 6:11a
NDCONFIG EXE 13824 1-20-85 6:15a
FDATE COM 1536 6-12-85 10:36a
DISK DOC 4674 8-28-85 2:46p
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The PROFESSIONALS
Washington D.C. Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 18
1. This disk, like the past several, is filled to about 320K
out of some 322K available on an eight sector formatted disk.
The disk has an excellent full-screen, reverse Polish (HP)
style computer calculator. It also has an excellent IQ
builder program that will drill the user in numerical and
word skills. There are several excellent BASIC Graphics
programs and finally some good utilities.
2. Most of the programs on the disk have their own
documentation in a .DOC file. Many of the programs are
grouped in sets so one documentation file applies to several
disk files.
3. The computer calculator is designed to run on call-up or
to reside in memory and run quickly at any time. The version
designed to run in background (TS10C.COM) has some problems.
I suspect it is running into memory allocation problems and
needs some skilled "adjustment". The call-up version works
well and if you enjoy working with the reverse Polish style
calculators you will enjoy this one. Be sure to read the
documentation first. It isn't hard but most commands are
designed to be used with the Shift-Ltr or CTRL-Ltr
combination. If you have the CAP LOCK on, the Shift-Ltr
commands are available with just the Ltr but you may get
confused. Also, with the CAP LOCK on the shift-sign and
exponent commands are not available - they're lower case
letters.
4. The BASIC Graphics are all good. There are some with
animation that are excellent. Note the Christmas Display.
That was written by a 13 yr old neighbor of Bob Dudley. I'd
say he's doing pretty well for a "teen".
5. If you have High School students that need drill on math
and vocabulary skills, the IQBUILD series is excellent. Many
of the problems are quite simple but it has some tough ones,
too. The ANALOG, ANTONYM, SYNONYM and NUMBERS files all work
with the IQBUILD series.
6. The remaining files are utilities. There is a LABEL
series that will print DISK labels (on 5" single, one up
labels). The LABEL version is adapted for a TI-PC using the
TI Model 855 printer. The LABPRT version is the original
version for an IBM and an EPSON printer.
7. The final series of files, GS-XXX, are BASIC utilities
to use with BASIC files to clean them up and reduce the size
before compiling them. (You're on your own here. I didn't
take the time to check these out.)
8. It is recognized that all users are not interested in all
of these programs but there is something for about anyone.
I have noticed that the quality of our programs has been
improving lately. We've had some very useful and excellent
programs. I would recommend that you scan the documentation
and perhaps try each of them to see if you like the way it
works. We are trying to provide a good selection of the
available Public Domain programs. I hope many of you are
finding them useful.
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#18
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 5-17-84 11:00a
TS10 DOC 3304 8-28-85 5:18p
TS10C COM 38950 1-01-80 5:48p
TS10 EXE 48640 1-01-80 5:09p
CH1F DOC 4578 5-17-84 12:40a
CH2F DOC 4005 5-17-84 12:40a
CH3F DOC 6134 5-17-84 12:41a
CH4F DOC 5092 5-17-84 12:41a
GS-UNUM5 DOC 17664 7-10-85 6:06a
GS-RENUM EXE 20096 7-10-85 6:06a
GS-UNNUM EXE 31488 7-10-85 6:06a
GS-VAREN EXE 22528 7-16-85 6:19a
FISHCAST BAS 9600 9-28-84 10:32p
ROLLCIR BAS 640 8-01-83 12:07a
TAROT BAS 4224 8-01-83 4:21a
POMP BAS 384 8-01-83 12:06a
BIRDCALL BAS 2048 9-03-84 8:12p
BOXSPIN BAS 1024 9-02-84 9:14p
POSTER BAS 2304 8-01-83 5:44p
WINDCHIL BAS 640 4-25-84 8:27p
BIRTHDAY BAS 384 8-28-85 8:33p
STARSONG BAS 256 9-03-84 9:36p
XMAS BAS 5120 8-29-85 12:04a
IQBUILD BAS 4736 9-03-85 9:11p
IQBUILD DOC 2575 9-03-85 9:15p
ANALOG BAS 4096 11-02-82 5:26p
ANALOG2 BAS 1280 11-02-82 5:25p
ANALOG3 BAS 3584 11-02-82 5:25p
ANALOG4 BAS 1920 11-02-82 5:24p
ANALOG5 BAS 1664 11-02-82 5:23p
ANALOG6 BAS 2304 7-16-82
ANTONYM BAS 3840 11-02-82 5:21p
ANTONYM2 BAS 2560 7-11-82
SYNONYM BAS 3840 11-02-82 5:23p
SYNONYM2 BAS 2048 11-02-82 5:22p
LABEL BAS 8320 8-22-85 10:53p
LABPRT BAS 6784 5-24-85 2:29p
LABEL DOC 4224 5-24-85 2:30p
NUMBERS BAS 3712 11-02-82 5:27p
NUM2 BAS 3584 11-02-82 5:27p
NUM3 BAS 1024 11-02-82 5:26p
DISK DOC 3722 9-03-85 10:02p
42 File(s) 4096 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
December 1985
Disk Documentation #19
1. This disk, like the last few disks, is prepared on a
double-density, double-sided disk with eight sectors so that
it can be used by members using either MS\DOS\1.xx or
MS\DOS\2.xx. There is no operating system (COMMAND.COM) on
the disk. There are no menus on the disk.
2. It is recommended that this disk be copied and that the
original disk be saved as a back-up. To run the disk you
must "boot" your computer with an MS\DOS disk.
3. The DOCUMENTATION files can be viewed by typing . If you would like a printed copy of
the the documentation, turn your printer on and depress the
key ONE time before you depress the key
above.
4. The other files on this disk are either executable
(.EXE) or command (.COM) files. They can be run directly by
typing from the DOS prompt (ie A>).
5. This disk has several excellent utility programs and
two graphic demonstrations. The Diana demonstration can be
run by typing . It is a good example of the
quality of graphics and color available from the TIPC.
6. The two pictures on this disk are exceptional. They
were both prepared with the DR HALO graphic program. If you
were impressed with the pictures of the Corvette and the
Porsche, wait until you have seen the "Ship" and the "House".
They are especially striking in color. To view them, type
(or HOUSE). To clear the graphics off
of the screen you will need to use the CLG.COM file on this
disk.
7. The first of the utilities is the SPOOL printer buffer.
This program was written by Mike Bookman who contributed not
only the assembled program but also the assembly language
source program for members who would like to see how it has
been written. The print buffer has a default of 16K. If you
would like a larger or smaller buffer, specify the desired
size when installing the buffer; ie where
nn is the size of the buffer in Kbytes. When the SPOOL is
installed it will reside in memory until you reboot. All
output from the computer to the parallel printer port will be
intercepted and directed to the print buffer. Then, the
contents of the print buffer will be directed to the printer.
This will allow you to send several pages of data to the
buffer and then continue to work on the computer while the
printer is operating. If you want to change the size of the
print buffer you will have to "reboot" the computer and
reinstall the SPOOL nn with the new buffer size.
8. The second outstanding utility on this disk is a lable-
maker program, LM. This program will prepare keyboard over-
lay templates to mark the use of the function keys as used
with various software programs. Four labels with groups of
four keys each are prepared for the F1-F4, F5-F8, F9-F12 and
the INS, DEL, BRK/PAUS and PRNT keys. Each label can have a
title above the keys and up to four combinations to provide
the Normal, Shifted, Control-Fn and Alternate-Fn keys. The
keyboard templates made in this manner are marked for the
cut-out for the keys. If you desire, the keboard labels can
be laminated in clear plastic sheets for better durability.
If you use several different software programs that use the
function keys you will appreciate the utility of this LM
program.
9. There is an ARCive 440 program on the disk that is
another good program for combining several programs into one
file for easier transmission. This is very useful for
browsing through bulletin boards. It works with files with
an ARC filename extension. It can also be used to prepare
the ARChive file.
10. Finally, there are several utilities to control graphic
displays, etc. These include the HSHOW to view Dr. Halo
pictures and the ISHOW to view Gem Paint pictures. The
document file, TIPCGRFX.DOC will give more detail about these
additional files.
11. This is an EXCELLENT disk. Input for the disk is from
two of our strongest supporters. Our thanks to Mike Bookman
for his excellent work with the printer buffer and to Dean
Fetterolf for collecting all of the others. Thanks, guys!
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#19
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 5-17-84 11:00a
SPOOL COM 563 10-25-85 7:32p
SPOOL ASM 4602 10-25-85 7:30p
ARC440 EXE 31616 11-03-85 1:02a
ARC440 DOC 23936 11-05-85 10:22p
CLG COM 1024 3-28-84 7:39p
HSHOW EXE 27940 8-04-85 1:52p
HOUSE PIC 37376 11-03-85 12:53a
SHIP PIC 27136 11-02-85 2:06p
LM COM 24869 9-14-85 7:50a
LM DOC 9053 9-13-85 9:16p
TIPCGRFX DOC 3483 9-21-85 4:12p
BACK COM 256 3-29-83 1:43p
GET COM 512 9-21-85 1:43p
GTOGGLE COM 200 2-17-85 12:12a
SAVE COM 512 9-21-85 2:29p
SAVER COM 1997 9-21-85 2:29p
SHOW COM 256 3-29-83 1:35p
TOG COM 512 9-17-85 12:35p
TXTOFF COM 218 2-17-85 12:16a
ISHOW EXE 14064 8-27-85 8:56a
MAP EXE 3584 11-01-83 10:50a
COPY BIN 2542 10-18-82 8:12a
CREDIT BIN 1230 10-18-82 8:12a
PICTURES BIN 10802 11-25-84 8:04p
PIE BIN 22528 11-18-83 11:10p
USA BIN 17160 2-09-84 1:22a
X EXE 29184 10-18-82 8:47a
DISK DOC 5480 11-16-85 6:06p
29 File(s) 0 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
December, 1985
Disk Documentation - Library Disk #20
1. Library Disk #20 is similar to the other recent Users' Group
disks. It contains a conglomeration of many programs, some of
them outstanding. Most of them are stand-alone programs that
may be copied to other disks where desired. Some of the pro-
grams have their own documentation. Many of them are so simple
to operate that they don't require documentation.
2. Disk Utilities once again predominate on this disk. One fine
utility program is the BLANK program that can be installed with
a batch file every time you "boot" the computer. It will blank
your screen after two minutes of no input -- an excellent way to
prevent burning a hold in the display.
3. Another outstanding utility is the PFM Personal Files Manager
and its companion XE executable editor. This is another of the
handy file manipulation programs that can permit you to read
text files; move, copy or delete single or multiple files; view
or change file attributes; and generally simplify the process of
moving around the disk files. With the editor you can easily
enter and change any text file such as a batch file or a
CONFIG.SYS file.
4. Along this same line is the DISKEDIT file that presents the
contents of a binary file so you can view it. The program menu
appears simple although there is no documentation with it. You
can enter it with the command "DISKEDIT " where the
filespec is the name of the disk drive and the filename of the
program you want to look at. You control the program with the
function keys (marked as fk1, etc across the bottom of the
display). I haven't been able to get it to write changes to a
file but the other functions work well.
5. Another interesting utility is the DOSEDIT file. This file
resides in background when installed and remembers your DOS
command inputs -- ie COPY, TYPE, DIR etc. Each of these com-
mands is pushed onto a stack so that you can quickly recall any
of them if you wish to repeat a command. You can always recall
the last command (with the F3 key) but this allows you to go
back farther. At times it is quite handy.
6. The ESKC file is also an interesting utility with specialized
use. It permits you to enter "escape key" sequences quickly and
easily. It doesn't save you the work of looking up the keyboard
character codes but you can quickly set up keys when required
for special functions. The escape codes can be set up in a
batch file when you use them frequently, but this permits more
flexibility when it is used infrequently.
7. The FREE, SORTDIR, and TIMER are less handy. Free will tell you
how much free space exists on a given disk drive. SORTDIR will
resort a disk directory and re-list it in alphabetical order.
This is not just a display but actually re-orders the directory
on the disk. The TIMER checks the clock speed in your computer.
Perhaps interesting but of little practical value.
8. The Hi-Lite of this disk are two good graphics programs. These
are the BITMAP and the ETCH. The BITMAP has good documentation
and permits very detailed graphic work including "fat bit" pixel
control. The ETCH program is interesting but lacks documen-
tation. It may take some experimentation -- or one of you users
might take it upon yourself to write us some documentation.
9. There are several other small programs on the disk. Most are
self-explainatory.
10. Like other recent disks this one is a goldmine of good utility
programs -- and a couple of good graphic programs, too.
E N J O Y
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#20
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 5-17-84 11:00a
PFM COM 23296 11-13-85 4:29p
XE EXE 13440 11-13-85 4:29p
PFMHLP HLP 9162 1-15-84 2:35p
PFM-XE DOC 2560 11-13-85 5:17p
BUGLE EXE 1024 11-03-85 12:28a
DOSEDIT COM 1792 10-08-85 9:47p
DOSEDIT DOC 1280 10-08-85 9:48p
TICLOCK COM 512 7-27-85 2:49p
TIMER COM 640 11-04-85 7:39p
BLANK COM 384 11-03-85 12:54a
BLANK DOC 1280 10-08-85 9:46p
PRTLASER DEV 8746 8-20-85 7:34p
PRTLASER DOC 915 8-20-85 7:35p
BITMAP EXE 98102 2-18-85 8:43p
BITMAP HLP 6906 2-18-85 6:23p
CHAR DEF 768 2-05-84 10:42a
GREEK DEF 768 8-25-84 2:29p
READ ME 186 11-05-85 9:58p
WINDOWS BAS 1408 7-27-85 3:06p
RUBIK BAS 13312 10-08-85 10:55p
RUBIK EXE 42368 10-08-85 11:07p
DISKEDIT EXE 18816 8-14-85 9:28a
ETCH EXE 27648 8-14-85 9:35a
ETCH DOC 1562 12-13-85 8:32p
LUP COM 5760 7-09-85 10:48a
LUP DOC 67 11-05-85 10:59p
SORTDIR EXE 4352 1-20-85 2:25p
CAPITAL COM 2560 12-08-85 1:59p
ESKC ASM 2271 5-31-85
ESKC COM 65 6-04-85 11:54a
FREE COM 768 11-15-85 2:52p
DISK DOC 4385 12-12-85 9:18p
33 File(s) 4096 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
February, 1986
Disk Documentation - Library Disk #21
1. Library Disk #21 is similar to the other recent Users' Group
disks. It contains a conglomeration of many programs, some of
them outstanding. Most of them are stand-alone programs that
may be copied to other disks where desired. Some of the pro-
grams have their own documentation. Many of them are so simple
to operate that they don't require documentation.
2. Some of the programs on this disk have been compressed with the
ARCHIVE program. You can identify the programs that have been
saved this way with the ".ARC" filename extension. You must use
an ARCHIVE program to extract the files. A copy of the ARCHIVE
Version 440 is on the disk. You can get a help menu by typing
. To extract the files from the compressed ARC
format, copy the desired file to a "working" disk where you will
have adequate room. Also copy the ARC440.EXE file to the work-
ing disk. Then type and the files will
be extracted. Now you can run them or copy them to another disk
for later use.
3. Like many of the recent disks, there are several programs on
this disk that require the DOS 2.xx EMULATE.COM file to run. I
continue to encourage you to get the DOS 2.xx. It is much more
powerful than the DOS 1.xx and opens the way to many useful
programs.
4. Most of the programs on this disk are Utility programs -- things
that will do useful file manipulation for you. One of these is
the PCBOSS. This is another excellent file manager program.
(This one requires EMULATE.) We have recently provided several
good file managers -- PFM, VFILER, CWEEP and now PCBOSS. Each
have their strong and weak points and all of them do basically
the same thing. Try them out and see which one you like. I
personally use the PFM but occassionally use one of the others
when I want other features.
5. The second handy utility is the CED program. This is a Command
line EDitor that allows you to recall DOS commands and allows
you to modify them. For example, if you had issued a command
like "COPY E:\DIR1\SUBDIR1\FILE1.TXT E:\DIR2\SUBDIR2\FILE2.TXT"
and then decided you wanted to change it to read "DIR3"; you can
do so easily with the CED program. Without it you almost have
to retype the entire command. (You can do it with the DOS
editing keys but most people are not proficient enough in their
use.) Also, in DOS you can only edit the last command where with
the CED you can recall and edit many recent commands.
6. There are also CRYPTOR and DIRHIDE programs on the disk. The
CRYPTOR allows you to encrypt and decrypt files for security
reasons -- but be careful, you risk losing them for ever when
you use a system like this. The DIRHIDE allows you to make your
directories and subdirectories "hidden" so that they do not show
up in a "DIR" command. This might be a better way to provide
security for files -- simply make them as hidden files in a
hidden subdirectory.
7. The PKXARC is a new "fast" archive program. I haven't tried it.
I have been content with the performance of the ARC440 also on
this disk.
8. The TERM PATCH program is a file that will upgrade the Version
3.1 of the TERM Communication Program to a Version 3.11. Unfor-
tunately it does not upgrade earlier versions of the TERM pro-
gram -- and the one we have in the library is Version 3.00. If
any of you have a Verssion 3.1 or later, please send it along so
we can add it to the library.
9. The PCCHECK program is a check management program to control
your home finances. It is written in TURBO PASCAL and compiled
and appears to run quickly and looks very friendly. It looks
like a great program.
10. The CHK4BOMB program is just what it says -- a program to
examine a new program to ensure there arn't any surprises. Many
of the Bulletin Boards have been getting programs that will
cause trouble in your files. Some seem to run all right for
awhile but when triggered by a date or a number of uses, it
ports off to a section where it does all kinds of misschief.
The CHK4BOMB works like the ASCII program on a previous UG disk.
It allows you to read the text strings out of a file before
running the file to see if it gives you any clues as to what it
does. At the present time it is important to use care when
trying new programs from unknown sources.
11. The SMGRAPH1 program is a modified graphing program to use with
the Stock Market Graphing program on a recent library disk.
This version has been modified to use the PRNTSCRN.DEV (from DOS
2.xx) to print copies of the graphs without the extra keystrokes
required in the earlier version. It also shows how to call the
PRNTSCRN.DEV from a BASIC program for any members that want to
see an example of the use. (Look at lines 4400-4500 in the
program).
12. The last file on the disk is the FEDTAX85.WKS. This is a
LOTUS\1-2-3 template. This template can be loaded into the
LOTUS like any other worksheet and will handle the mathematical
calculations on your tax for you. We will have more tax
programs later.
E N J O Y !
** Don Wilson 790-9439 **
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#21
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 12-10-84 11:00a
README 1ST 1561 1-31-86 1:35p
CED ARC 31605 11-24-85 12:12p
CRYPTOR ARC 15694 10-27-85 4:42p
DIR ARC 5952 1-31-86 1:17p
DIRHIDE ARC 2688 10-03-85 7:16p
DISK ARC 16501 1-31-86 12:48p
PC-CHECK ARC 43563 11-02-85 1:02p
TERMPAT ARC 997 9-07-85 11:20a
SMGRAPH1 BAS 20352 1-17-86 8:26p
PCBOSS COM 29952 10-26-85 11:32p
PKXARC COM 16384 11-06-85 4:03p
DISK DOC 6269 1-31-86 12:48p
ARC440 EXE 31616 11-03-85 1:02a
CHK4BOMB EXE 12032 11-14-85 8:21a
FEDTAX85 WKS 81792 1-04-86 10:03p
16 File(s) 23552 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
March, 1986
Disk Documentation - Library Disk #22
1. Library Disk #22 is similar to the other recent Users' Group
disks. It contains a conglomeration of several programs, some
of them outstanding. Most of them are stand-alone programs that
may be copied to other disks where desired. Some of the pro-
grams have their own documentation. Many of them are so simple
to operate that they don't require documentation.
2. All of the programs on this disk have been compressed with the
ARCHIVE program. You must use an ARCHIVE program to extract the
files. A copy of the ARCHIVE Version 440 is on the disk number
21. You can get a help menu by typing . To
extract the files from the compressed ARC format, copy the
desired file to a "working" disk where you will have adequate
room. Also copy the ARC440.EXE file to the working disk. Then
type and the files will be extracted.
Now you can run them or copy them to another disk for later use.
3. All of the programs on this disk are of special interest to some
users but may not be of interest to all users. The TERM320.ARC
is a new Version 3.2 of the TERM Modem communications program.
This version corrects the problems in past versions and is an
excellent Comm program for the TIPC.
4. The 85FEDTAX.ARC is a new version of John Wheeler's Federal Tax
template. This program is for users of the LOTUS 1-2-3 spread
sheet and is a big modification of last year's version. In
addition, John has updated the program to the 1985 forms (for
tax due in April, 1986) and has added the DC, MD, and VA sales
tax tables for automatic insertion. Many new improvements to
the menus and machros make this a very powerful new tax
preparation tool.
5. The ARC450.ARC is the new Version 4.5 of the ARC Archive
program. It is included to make available the very latest
version of this most useful utility programs.
6. The last two programs, LTSTIPS3.ARC and LTSTIPS4.ARC are both
collections of LOTUS 1-2-3 templates and useful routines. These
as well as the Tax program must be used with the LOTUS program.
E N J O Y
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#22
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 12-10-84 11:00a
LTSTIPS4 ARC 20608 12-08-85 2:30a
DISK DOC 2705 2-26-85 1:44p
TERM320 ARC 149511 2-04-86 9:07p
85FEDTAX ARC 56124 2-25-86 5:08p
ARC450 ARC 24716 1-05-86 12:20p
LTSTIPS3 ARC 61952 12-08-85 2:25a
7 File(s) 8192 bytes free
The PROFESSIONALS
Washington D.C. Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 23
1. This disk, like the past several, is filled to about 320K
out of some 322K available on an eight sector formatted
disk. We have continued to use eight sectored disks for the
benefit of the members who are still using the older version
1.xx of DOS. At the current cost of disks this loss of about
40K per disk is not big.
2. In response to requests by several members we have dis-
continued the practice of compressing the files on the disks
with the ARChive program. The ARC program is an excellent
way to compress files to save room on your own disks and also
to make transmission time shorter when sending a file over a
telephone line. However, it caused problems and inconven-
ience for some members and again, the saving of space is not
too significant with floppy disks so inexpensive.
3. The main program on this disk is the TERM Version 3.3
with its documentation. This is an OUTSTANDING communica-
tions program for TI PC's. It has been written in the "C"
language which makes it very fast and convenient to use. Any
members using his PC for communications with a MODEM should
try this program. Members who are interested in getting into
the fascinating world of PC Communications should try this
TERM program before they spend a dime on any other communica-
tions program. I think that much about this one.
4. Also on the disk are some interesting utility programs.
First of these is the PC-DISK that prepares a catalog of
files on your disks. It allows you to make notes that are
more descriptive than just the file names and then can sort
the catalog to find the program you're interested in. If you
are like me with a couple hundred floppies lying around, you
need something like this to give it all some order.
5. The other two utility programs are the DD double direc-
tory program that allows you to display two directories at a
time, side by side. You can then scroll either directory
separately. The last utility is a calendar program that will
display a current month calendar for quick reference.
6. I have noticed that the quality of our programs has been
improving lately. We've gotten some very excellent programs
that should be quite useful. For communications, I think the
TERM is soon going to be a standard for TI PC's, its that
good. I would recommend that you scan the documentation and
perhaps try each of them to see if you like the way it
works. We are trying to provide a good selection of the
available Public Domain (and also User Supported) programs
that run on the TI PC recognizing that most of them have been
written for that other machine format. Some of the programs
may require EMULATE to run and some may have limitations on a
TI PC. I hope many of you are finding them useful.
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#23
Directory of A:\
TERM EXE 101760 6-28-86 12:00a
TERM DOC 171742 6-28-86 12:00a
TERM STR 2012 6-28-86 12:00a
PC-DISK COM 33536 3-10-85 6:46p
CAL COM 1024 1-26-84 8:15a
DD COM 2911 1-06-86 2:53a
DD DOC 1470 12-25-85 4:55p
DISK DOC 3568 8-02-85 1:07a
8 File(s) 40960 bytes free
The PROFESSIONALS
Washington D.C. Area TIPC Users' Group
Library Disk # 24
1. This disk, like the past several, is filled to about 320K
out of some 322K available on an eight sector formatted
disk. We have continued to use eight sectored disks for the
benefit of the members who are still using the older version
1.xx of DOS. At the current cost of disks this loss of about
40K per disk is not big.
2. The main program on this disk is the CASH TRACK Personal
Finance Manager, CT512. This is a powerful home accounting
system designed to manage finances for a home or small busi-
ness.
3. The second large program on this disk is a word processor
using BASIC. I found this program a little clumsy and awk-
ward but some might like it. You might give it a try and see
what you think.
4. There are also two disk directory utility programs. We
have a lot of disk directory programs. Apparently a lot of
programmers out there don't like the way other people read
disk files. We continue to provide these duplicative pro-
grams so members can try them until they find the one that
best suits them.
5. As with most of our library disks, ALL of these programs
were written for the "Big Blue" hardware. You may encounter
problems with them even using the EMULATOR and members using
DOS 1.xx may not be able to run some of them. But that is
part of the fun of owning a computer!
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#24
Directory of A:\
PC-PAD BAS 18304 10-21-85 9:37p
PC-PAD DEM 15360 10-21-85 9:37p
PC-PAD DOC 21888 10-21-85 9:37p
CT512 DOC 150187 2-26-86 11:21a
CT512 EXE 87168 12-16-85 12:59a
LDIR26 COM 3040 1-05-86 4:19p
LDIR26 DOC 2883 1-04-86 5:25p
LF COM 9600 3-09-86 9:08a
LF DOC 4352 3-09-86 9:08a
DISK24 DOC 1845 8-02-85 3:54p
10 File(s) 43008 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
September, 1986
Disk Documentation - Library Disk #25
1. Library Disk #25 is similar to the other recent Users' Group
disks. It contains a conglomeration of several programs, some
of them outstanding. Most of them are stand-alone programs that
may be copied to other disks where desired. Some of the pro-
grams have their own documentation. Many of them are so simple
to operate that they don't require documentation.
2. Two of the programs on this disk have been compressed with the
ARCHIVE program. You must use an ARCHIVE program to extract the
files. A copy of the ARCHIVE Version 440 is on the disk. You
can get a help menu by typing . To extract the
files from the compressed ARC format, copy the desired file to a
"working" disk where you will have adequate room. Also copy the
ARC440.EXE file to the working disk. Then type and the files will be extracted. Now you can run
them or copy them to another disk for later use.
3. The two files on this disk that require the ARCHIVE program are
the DISKDIR and the DISKDOC archive files. They are collections
of the Disk Directories and the Disk Documentation files on the
first 24 TI-PC Users' Group disks. This is primarily for the
benefit of new members and out-of-town members who want to know
more about the contents of the previous Library Disks.
4. The main program on this disk is the TI version of KERMIT, a PC
communications program used by PC's to communicate with some
large databases on main frame computers. I haven't used this
program but understand from Al Hedrick that it is a good one and
runs well.
5. There are several BASIC programs on this disk. ANALYSIS is
similar to other statistical programs we have had. OTHELLO2 is
another good OTHELLO game. The HAYESTST is supposed to test and
check a Hayes type external MODEM. I don't have an external
MODEM and have not tested this program. The EZLABEL3 (and its
companion program DIRECTRY.COM) will make mailing labels or
address envelopes for you. CAUTION: DO NOT TRY TO USE THE
DIRECTRY PROGRAM AS IF IT WAS A STAND-ALONE COMMAND PROGRAM. It
will lock up your keyboard and leave you sitting in front of a
STUPID computer!
6. The REFRESH, SCLEAN and GCLEAN programs are utility programs to
format, single-erase or group-erase your disks including a hard
disk. I am happy with the other utilities I am using at this
time and therefore did not test any of these. The two CLEAN
files are BASIC files that create COM files that do the actual
work. I provide them "as is" for your information.
7. The MENU is a colorful menu reminder used by Steve Rogers to
call up his hard disk files. He would need batch files named
like the two character call names to access the actual programs.
19 File(s) 40960 bytes free
Directory of A:\
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#25
ANALYSIS BAS 9216 3-09-86 9:55a
ARC440 DOC 23936 11-05-85 10:22p
ARC440 EXE 31616 11-03-85 1:02a
DIRECTRY COM 256 12-30-85 11:08a
DISK DOC 3432 8-23-86 5:02p
DISKDIR ARC 24046 8-02-86 6:39p
DISKDOC ARC 56226 8-02-86 7:06p
EZLABEL3 BAS 7398 12-30-85 11:08a
GCLEAN BAS 3742 1-20-86 5:32p
HAYESTST BAS 2944 3-09-86 9:42a
KERMIT EXE 38400 6-20-85 11:43p
MENU 1592 8-03-85 9:40a
MENU DOC 1534 8-05-86 1:37p
OTHELLO2 BAS 7552 2-03-86 12:05a
REFRESH COM 1085 9-16-85 10:06p
REFRESH DOC 580 3-16-85 12:33a
SCLEAN BAS 3665 1-20-86 5:27p
TELFON EXE 34048 1-25-86 10:36a
TIKERM DOC 60032 2-06-86 12:46p
Washington Area
Texas Instruments Professional Computer Users' Group
Library Disk # 26
November, 1986
1. This disk continues in the format of the preceding disks. It is
formatted with 8 sectors but the majority of the programs will require
the DOS 2.xx to operate.
2. The principle program on this disk is the "3 X 5", an unstructured
database file program constructed in the image of 3" x 5" index cards.
The 3BY5 has just one executable file and it may be removed from the disk
drive after the program has been loaded. There is also extensive
documentation on the disk and several tutorial files.
3. The intent of the 3BY5 was to build a program that was capable of
storing unstructured data, searching the data, and retrieving it when
desired. Each record is composed of only ONE field of fixed size up to
8000 characters as selected by the user. Data may be arranged in any
manner but only the first 1024 characters can be searched. Search
strings can be from 3 to 60 characters long and support the logical "and"
and "or" operators. This program will search/edit multiple files. Two
windows may be created on the display and files simultaneously displayed
in each window.
4. The 3BY5 is supported by an excellent editor that provides typeover-
/insert operation and rapid cursor movement. Text blocks can be deleted,
moved, or copied within one file or between files. The 3BY5 will import
and search Perfect Writer or Word Star files or text files and can export
text files. This should be an excellent tool for maintaining research
notes.
5. Also on the disk is the SETRAM program that permits installing and
changing a RAMDISK without rebooting the computer. This provides much
greater computer control when memory is limited and permits adjusting the
RAMDISK to provide an optimum balance of program space and RAMDISK space
depending on the application program being run.
6. The final program on this disk is the WORDWARS word game. This game
is written in interpreted BASIC and requires the BASIC.EXE to run. In
this game the players are provided a string of characters and are each
given a chance to spell words using the letter characters provided. Each
player is scored on his list of words and scores are kept to determine a
winner. This appears to be an excellent game that is adaptable to many
different player skill levels.
E N J O Y !
22 File(s) 16384 bytes free
Directory of A:\
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#26
3BY5 EXE 96114 10-18-84 12:59a
CHAP1&2 DOC 16963 11-08-84 12:09a
CHAP3 DOC 56184 11-01-84 6:34a
CHAP4&5 DOC 47673 11-01-84 6:44a
CHAP6 DOC 23799 11-01-84 6:29a
COMMAND COM 15957 12-10-84 11:00a
DISK26 DOC 2528 10-21-86 8:36p
PRINTALL BAT 61 10-17-84 7:46a
RAM SYS 512 10-01-85 4:02p
RAM TXT 2232 10-21-86 5:08p
README 3X5 720 10-18-84 3:03a
SAMPLE1 3X5 19456 10-17-84 12:36a
SAMPLE1 MAP 3072 10-17-84 12:36a
SAMPLE2 3X5 5888 10-13-84 12:42a
SAMPLE2 MAP 1024 10-17-84 12:07a
SAMPLE3 MAP 2048 10-17-84 12:08a
SAMPLE3 WP 8369 4-11-84 12:06a
SAMPLE4 MAP 1024 10-17-84 12:08a
SAMPLE4 WS 2048 4-12-84 9:24a
SETRAM EXE 2048 10-01-85 4:17p
TI-3X5 DOC 3518 10-21-86 4:44p
WORDWARS BAS 13568 5-28-86 8:56p
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
December, 1986
Disk Documentation - Library Disk #27
1. Library Disk #27 is similar to the other recent Users' Group
disks. It contains a conglomeration of several programs, most
of them are UTILITY programs for use with other programs or to
enhance computer productivity.
2. In the past many members have objected to the use of the ARCHIVE
programs to compress the files on the library disks. Disks are
quite inexpensive and it doesn't make a lot of sense to try to
save space -- but there are several other reasons for using the
ARChive files that warrant the members learning to work with
them. Most Bulletin Boards now are ARChiving their files to
reduce transmission time. It especially makes sense with text
files. Also, if you want to store seldom used files, the ARC-
hive format will conserve up to half the space. I encourage
people to become "comfortable" with the ARChive files.
3. In that vein, I have included two ARChive files on this disk.
First is ARC.EXE and ARC.DOC. This is version 5.12 of the
ARChive program and the latest I've seen although about a year
old.
4. The second program is the PKXARC.COM, PKXARCJR.COM and the
PKXARC.DOC series. These are the "fast" ARChive files and work
especially well. The .COM version requires 105K of working
memory. The JR version requires less, only 71K of working
memory and may be more suitable if you have limited memory. The
DOC files supports both versions.
5. Another excellent supporting file for the ARCHIVE programs is
the COVERARC.EXE and COVERARC.DOC. This file combines the best
of two worlds. It makes disk directory listing that can be
slipped into disk envelopes like the COVER program does but it
extracts the listing of internal files in ARChive files. This
is a must if you are storing disks with ARChive files.
6. Another useful utility program on this disk is the ALTPAGE.EXE
and DOC files. This program will take a long text file and
divide it to two files, an EVEN file and an ODD file. Thus, if
you have a long documentation file that you would like to print
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE PRINTER PAPER, this file will create sep-
erate files for the Odd and Even numbered pages. You can print
the Odd file, remove the paper from the printer and turn it over
and then print the Even file on the backs of the Odd numbered
pages. It saves printer paper and reduces the size of your
output documents.
7. FK44.BAS and KEYDEF.DOC will generate a pair of batch files that
will set up your function keys for you to customize your com-
puter configuration. You run the BAS file with your BASIC.EXE
interpreter program. It will query you as to what you would
like to use the Function, Shifted-Function, Alt-Function and
Ctrl-Function keys for. It will then prepare a batch file
(KEYDEF.BAT) that will customize these key set-ups when you run
the batch file. It also creates an ORIGINAL.BAT to reset the
keys to the DOS normal settings.
8. FILER2.EXE, FILER2.DOC and WHATS.NEW create DOS like commands
(DIR, COPY, DELETE, etc) with a little more flexibility and
security than the regular DOS commands. If you have trouble
deleting the wrong files, you might try this.
9. NO.COM, NO.BAS and NO.DOC are utilities to EXCLUDE files from a
wild card action. (The NO.BAS can be run with the BASIC.EXE
Command Interpreter to create the NO.COM file, an interesting
approach.) To delete ALL the document files on a disk you can
use the command "DEL A:*.DOC". To delete all the document files
on a disk EXCEPT the NO.DOC file you can use this program like
so: "NO NO.DOC DEL A:*.DOC".
10. The remaining files on this disk are for use with LOTUS 1-2-3.
The Q123.WKS, RET.WKS and Q123.DOC are "Quick Menu" programs for
moving from one LOTUS sub-directory to another. The LOTUSBBS.TXT
and .DIR files
tell about the availability of a LOTUS Bulletin Board and the
DIR file gives an example of the programs on the BBS. Finally,
the COLORL.BAS is a Basic program that will change the colors in
the LOTUS 1-2-3 program. This was written by a user that didn't
like the dim shades of white he was encountering on a monochrome
monitor. (I haven't tried this one.)
E N J O Y ! !
26 File(s) 44032 bytes free
Directory of A:\
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#27
ALTPAGE DOC 4845 11-03-85 10:08p
ALTPAGE EXE 13824 11-03-85 9:00p
ARC DOC 60627 2-11-86 12:41a
ARC EXE 32429 12-15-86 9:08p
COLORL BAS 23808 1-30-86 9:45a
COVERARC DOC 4480 3-24-86 11:29p
COVERARC EXE 18357 3-19-86 9:36p
DISK27 DOC 5136 12-16-86 1:24p
FILER2 DOC 18895 5-14-86 9:04a
FILER2 EXE 33463 5-16-86 12:46p
FK44 BAS 1408 10-22-86 4:02p
KEYDEF DOC 7600 10-22-86 5:12p
LOTUS DIR 4830 1-30-86 11:10a
LOTUSBBS TXT 973 1-30-86 11:43a
NO BAS 4366 4-16-86 7:29p
NO COM 736 4-16-86 9:11p
NO DOC 12032 4-16-86 10:09p
P1 BAT 94 12-10-86 6:26p
P2 BAT 76 12-16-86 1:34p
PKXARC COM 9725 5-31-86 11:19p
PKXARC DOC 8841 6-02-86 12:48a
PKXARCJR COM 9643 5-31-86 11:19p
QUICK123 DOC 11227 4-29-86 10:31p
QUICK123 WKS 10624 4-29-86 10:15p
QUICKRET WKS 2304 4-29-86 10:33p
WHATS NEW 3540 5-16-86 12:58p
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
February, 1987
Disk Documentation - Library Disk #28
1. Library Disk #28 is primarily for members that are using the
LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. It contains predominately LOTUS
"Templates" although there are some other nice Utility programs.
2. The Primary Programs on this disk are three Tax Preparation Temp-
lates prepared by John Wheeler to assist members in preparing their
1986 Federal Income Taxes and the new W-4 forms. These are the
86FEDTAX.WKS and the W4.WKS files. John has also included a NEXT-
TAX.WKS template to estimate your '87 and '88 taxes. These are
excellent programs, very "User Friendly" because of the extensive
use of MACHROS, and out in time to help prepare your taxes.
3. Also for the LOTUS users there is a set of five Personal Accounting
templates and an Internal Rate of Return template. These files are
not as complex as the Tax files and probably not as useful although
they may meet your needs with some modifications.
4. For all users, there are several excellent Utility Programs. First
of these is a major revision of Mike Bookman's popular SPOOL.COM
Parallel Printer Buffer. This new version 2.1 offers four addi-
tional commands to Clear, Disable, Enable and Suspend the Print
Buffer.
5. Another excellent utility is the MEMBRAIN.EXE. This program creates
a RAMDISK driver (MEMBRAIN.SYS) that can be loaded by a CONFIG.SYS
file to set up a RAMDISK when you boot your computer. The unique
feature of this program is that you can control many of the parame-
ters of the RAMDISK such as disk size, sector size, cluster size
etc. I imagine that this driver requires DOS 2.xx although I have
not tried to install it with the DOS 1.xx.
6. The final file will be of interest and use only to those members
who are using the WORDSTAR word processor. The WSTODOS.COM file
will take the imbedded codes out of a WordStar file to produce an
ASCII text file.
E N J O Y !
20 File(s) 40960 bytes free
Directory of A:\
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#28
86FEDTAX WKS 82816 1-24-87 5:22a
AUTO123 WKS 1408 8-28-85 10:18p
DISBJRNL WKS 53504 8-28-85 10:37p
DISK28 DOC 2391 1-25-87 3:45p
GENLEDGR WKS 40576 8-28-85 11:01p
GENLJRNL WKS 38528 8-28-85 11:12p
IRR WKS 7552 6-23-86 7:53p
MEMBRAIN DOC 3840 5-31-84 9:40a
MEMBRAIN EXE 3072 6-26-84 12:02p
NEXTTAX WKS 20224 1-25-87 9:05a
RECTJRNL WKS 21248 8-28-85 11:22p
SET DOC 1749 8-29-85 2:37a
SETD COM 880 1-01-80 1:36a
SETE COM 854 8-29-85 2:21a
SLRYJRNL WKS 12032 8-28-85 11:26p
SPOOL COM 751 1-06-87 10:48p
SPOOL DOC 2322 1-25-87 3:15p
W4 WKS 8320 1-24-87 6:50p
WSTODOS COM 10772 10-31-84 7:54p
WSTODOS DOC 1024 10-27-84 10:57p
Washington Area
Texas Instruments Professional Computer
Users' Group
February 1987
Library Disk #29
1. Library Disk #29 is again formatted with some programs in the
ARCHIVE format. This has been done for a variety of reasons.
The NORTON.ARC is a compilation of help files for the Norton
Utilities. There are many of these files and they are all small
and would thus take up an inordinate amount of space on the disk
if they were stored individually. The BLOSSOM.ARC is a collec-
tion of LOTUS 1-2-3 Worksheet Templates. They take up a lot more
disk space if not squeezed with the ARCHIVE program. To get to
these files you must unARChive them with either the ARC.EXE or
the PKXARC.COM. Both of these programs are available on Library
Disk #27.
2. Many of these programs were written for the "Big Blue" computer
and it's clones and will require the DOS 2.xx and the EMULATE
program in order to run them. If you get a "System Error
1042:xxxxx" when trying to run a program, you have encountered
one of these programs and need to install the Emulate Filter.
3. The first program on this disk is the set of data files contain-
ing the names of the Washington Area, TIPC Users' Group members.
These are just name, address, telephone number and membership
expiration date -- we do not have the complete record of member
equipment ready for distribution yet. In fact, it is now out of
date and will probably not be distributed until it is updated.
You will need the PCFILE III, database program to access this
membership list. The PCFILE III program is available from many
Users' Groups and many Bulletin Boards. If you do not have a
copy of it, it is available from our library. We have Version
4.0, the latest version I believe.
4. The next file on the disk is for the genealogists among us. It
is a small BASIC file that will encode SOUNDEX Codes of family
surnames. In all US Census Reports since 1880 family surnames
have been coded with the SOUNDEX code so that similar sounding
names will be indexed together. Thus the names SMITH, SMYTH, and
SMYTHE would all be grouped together making a name search easier.
5. The RPRN program is a program to redirect the output from a
program to a disk file instead of the printer. It notes that it
is usable for programs that direct output through DOS commands.
It has not worked with a couple programs I tried it with but I
will add it to the disk so more of you can give this great idea a
try.
6. The FOLIO is the Portfolio Plus program that will calculate net
worth for you. Although it has been written in a TIPC version,
this is the BLUE version and requires EMULATE.
7. The NORTON.ARC files are NOT the commercially distributed NORTON
UTILITIES but are Information/Help files for them.
8. The SAP300 is a disk directory utility to clean up the disk
directory on a disk, remove deleted file names, and rewrite the
directory for faster access.
9. The BLOSSOM.ARC contains a set of LOTUS 1-2-3 Worksheet Templates
to calculate various statistical analysis functions upon input
data. These templates appear to be quite sophisticated and of
excellent overall quality. They make extensive use of Machros
thus making their operation quick and easy -- and with less
errors, too.
10. The STATGRAF is another LOTUS Template that has graphed several
statistical functions.
11. ELEMENTS is a database of the Elements in the Periodic Table. It
is an interesting program for those working with Chemistry but I
never did find an "elegant" way to get out of it. The best I was
ever able to do was to "break" the program with the "SHFT-
BRK/PAUS" keys.
12. The final program on the disk is the PALERT program, a disk util-
ity to warn you when you are reaching the capacity of a disk.
13. I continue to look for and solicit good programs of value to
other TIPC Users' Group members. Many of the best, and most
useful programs that we have are those that have been written by
our own members. I hope you will all take a look at the things
you've written and share the good ones with the rest of us.
E N J O Y !!
17 File(s) 43008 bytes free
Directory of A:\
Volume in drive A is TI-PC UG#29
BLOSSOM ARC 65536 11-04-86 3:16p
DISK29 DOC 5194 2-15-87 6:08p
ELEMENTS COM 38199 10-24-86 11:19a
FOLIO DOC 8192 8-23-86 3:56p
FOLIOB COM 35072 8-23-86 3:54p
NORTON ARC 11264 10-20-86 1:06p
PALERT DOC 11638 8-28-86 3:17a
PALERT EXE 22904 8-22-86 12:51p
RPRN COM 1280 9-09-85 11:11p
RPRN DOC 3072 9-09-85 11:13p
SAP300 ARC 31744 11-18-86 1:30p
SOUNDEX BAS 3072 2-16-87 12:23p
SOUNDEX TXT 2432 2-12-87 2:48p
STATGRAF WKS 19712 6-11-86 7:05p
TIUGRSTR DTA 46976 2-14-87 9:23a
TIUGRSTR HDR 128 2-14-87 9:19a
TIUGRSTR INX 4736 2-14-87 9:48a
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 30
April 1987
1. Disk #30 has several ARChived files on it. These were primarily
text files that take up a lot of space if not compressed. I would
hope that most of the members are now comfortable using the ARC or
PKXARC programs to un-ARChive these programs.
My own preference is the PKXARC "fast" ARChiving program. It can
be found on Disks Numbers 21 and 27. The latest version (5.12) of
the ARC program is also on Disk # 27.
2. There are THREE Library files on this disk. The DISKDIR file is an
ARChived grouping of the Directories of the first 29 disks and will
give you an idea of the size as well as the names of the files.
The second is the DISKDOC file that is an ARChived grouping of the
Disk Documentation files on the first 29 Disks. This will give you
more specific information about each disk with an idea of what each
file will do and how to run it.
The third collection is the LIBRARY file which is an ARChived set
of data files to be run with the PC-FILE III Database Management
Program. This will have to be un-ARChived and then will require
the use of the PC-FILE III, version 4.0 to view the database.
(This is available from the Users' Group Library and is an excel-
lent, easy to use database management program.) This is the same
database program we are using for the membership rolls. You will
need DOS 2.xx and the DOS EMULATE.COM file to run PC-File.
3. The next program on the disk is also ARChived. This is a new TI
Screen Dump driver to dump the graphics and/or the text screen to a
printer. If you are using one of the new TI Color printers, it
will print in color. It will print either horizontally or verti-
cally on the paper. You can also "zoom" the graphic print a little
to adjust the size or the output. This is primarily to be able to
match the graphic size with the type font spacing that you are
using. TI has made print drivers for use with both the TI computer
and also in a format to be used on the IBM computer. It can be
used with any of the TI-850 series printers or printers using
similar codes like the IBM and Epson printers.
4. The ASCII file is a small program that will display the ASCII
characters in a window on the right side of the display. This will
be especially useful for programmers.
5. The CALC is a "memory-resident" calculator program. This is not
the first of these calculator programs we've had but it is one of
the best. It has many powerful functions, can put answers into
other programs and can work in degrees or radians, "hex" or
"decimal" and with decimal or scientific (exponential) number
representation. It may cause interference with some programs.
6. The final program on the disk is the MYMACROS which is a LOTUS
1-2-3 spreadsheet template of many MACHROS. These can be copied
out and used in your own spreadsheets. They are nicely indexed and
well documented and should be a great help to LOTUS users.
7. About half of this disk is devoted to LIBRARY functions. In the
future I don't anticipate carrying all three files but just the
PC-FILE database listings. The other half of the disk has some
very useful and handy utility programs.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#30
Directory for ::/
DISKDIR ARC 27203 1987-03-02 14:59
DISKDOC ARC 66375 1987-02-15 18:08
LIBRARY ARC 12662 1987-03-13 16:44
SCRDUMP ARC 40729 1987-01-17 23:03
ASCII COM 15370 1986-12-03 20:39
ASCII MAN 1432 1986-12-03 20:39
CALC COM 42412 1987-01-24 22:00
CALC DOC 23955 1987-01-24 22:26
SETUP COM 39190 1987-01-24 9:06
MYMACROS WKS 43904 1987-02-07 17:47
DISK30 DOC 3840 1987-03-13 18:05
11 files 317 072 bytes
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T H E P R O F E S S I O N A L S
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 32
May 1987
1. This disk is a compilation of many programs and contains
something for everyone. Some of the programs are in the
ARChive format to save disk space. You will have to extract
them with the ARChive file or the PKXARC fast UN-ARChive
Utility. There is an updated version of the PKXARC file on
this disk that may be used.
2. Some of the programs will require DOS 2.xx and EMULATE
to run and some of them will require a 3-plane graphics
board.
3. There are two games on this disk. One is CHESS-TI which
is an better CHESS game then the one we have had on a
previous disk. You play against the Computer. You move
around the display with the cursor keys and pick up a chess
piece with the key. To put it down use the key.
For those who have been looking for a better chess game I
think this will answer the problem. The second game is SILO,
a ground-based missile silo that shoots down satellites.
4. There is one game/educational program on the disk. The
TYPEGAME is a BASIC program that gives you a phrase to type
and then scores your performance. You can select the level
of speed that you want to brush up on your typing skills.
5. The PKX34A20 file creates the latest version of the Fast
ARChive and UN-ARChive programs. It will extract PKXARC
version 3.4 and PKARK version 2.0. These do about the same
thing the ARChive program does (on the ARChive files) but a
lot faster.
6. The 123UNP is a collection of text files documenting the
various ways to "unprotect" the copy protected LOTUS 1-2-3
files. The LOTUS program is distributed on a copy protected
disk that loads very slowly since it is saved on disk in an
IBM disk format, not a TI disk format. This will allow you
to copy your LOTUS program to a hard disk or onto a floppy
diskette that will load about ten times faster than the
original diskette.
7. TTGEN10 is another Genealogical File that will create
"Tiny Tafel" formated surname files. This is the format
being used by the National Genealogical Conference to
coordinate research of common surnames with other researchers
working on the same surnames.
8. Finally, there are many UTILITY files on the disk. The
DESKTOP and the PAD both create LOTUS Templates that create
Desktop Utilities. Try them both and choose.
9. AUTOSAVE will periodically save your work to a disk file
to preclude loss of new data in the event of a power loss or
"crash". The DARC will delete all files in a subdirectory
that have the same name as a file in an ARChive package.
This is handy to prevent accidental overwriting when extract-
ing files from an ARC. FILES is an excellent Directory
program that will list the directory files grouped by
extension names. NAVIGATE creates BATch files that will make
it easier to move around subdirectories on a hard disk.
10. The TDPRT is a Print Utility that will give you printing
control when printing text files. The TDSTAMP will send a
"string" and a date and time to a disk file or the printer.
The WHERE3 is another file locator.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#32
Directory for ::/
DISK DOC 3456 1987-04-08 18:56
FILES COM 2426 1986-10-15 0:51
PKX34A20 COM 58368 1987-02-08 13:48
PKX34A20 DOC 545 1986-12-15 0:00
DARC EXE 14336 1986-11-26 10:27
DESKTOP ARC 45952 1987-01-11 14:12
AUTOSAVE ARC 15360 1987-01-20 14:15
NAVIGATE ARC 1024 1986-11-26 10:27
NAVIGATE DOC 593 1986-11-18 12:00
PAD ARC 13440 1987-01-19 15:22
TDPRT ARC 29696 1986-11-07 12:41
TDSTAMP ARC 3072 1986-11-24 14:17
WHERE3 ARC 1664 1986-12-03 13:31
TYPEGAME BAS 7424 1987-03-31 0:07
123UNP ARC 12032 1986-11-20 10:44
TTGEN10 ARC 58496 1987-03-28 16:01
CHESS-TI EXE 10496 1987-03-21 15:24
SILO COM 26930 1986-06-21 14:50
SILO DOC 5856 1986-06-21 15:32
SILO SCR 120 1987-06-21 12:32
20 files 311 286 bytes
2 048 bytes free
T H E P R O F E S S I O N A L S
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 33
November, 1987
1. This disk is being prepared as an ARCHIVED disk primarily
with files saved in the compressed ARC manner. It is also
being prepared on 9 sector disks to put more data on each
disk. It is believed that all TI PC users are now using DOS
2.xx and these changes will increase the usable data on each
disk.
2. One of the main attractions on this disk is the TI WIN-
DOWS screen driver that permits you to generate windows in
your TI Display. The program uses the ANSI extended display
controls. There is a DEMO batch file on the disk that shows
some of the potential of this driver. As with all drivers,
the WINDOW driver must be loaded by your CONFIG.SYS file at
the time you "boot" your computer similar to the RAMDISK and
PRNTSCRN drivers on the DOS 2.xx disk.
3. Another excellent program is the CASHFLOW accounting
program that appears to be an overkill for household finances
but would be adequate for many small businesses.
4. There is also an ELEMENTS program for the benefit of the
chemists in our group that need access to data from the
Periodic Table. Watch this one a little when you use it! I
have not found an "elegant" way to exit from the program. It
appears that the author has either assumed that all we do is
search the Periodic Table - or that once he has us "captured"
he doesn't want us to get away!
5. The SIGNMAKR.ARC file contains the program and document-
ation for the SIGNMAKER program to prepare Banner type signs.
There are several different print font drivers provided.
The banners are printed lengthwise on the paper and can be up
to 132 characters long.
6. There are many Utility programs on this disk. The
ARC520.COM when run will create the ARC Version 5.20 EXE
program and its documentation. The ARCE30E.ARC is the
Archived version 3.0E of the ARC Extract program.
These are the latest versions of the ARC utilities.
7. HDIR.ARC creates the program file and documentation for
the "Hot DIR" version 2.0. This creates a very colorful
Directory on a color monitor. You can get instructions with
the HDIR /h command and a color DIR with HDIR /a.
8. KILLDIR is a utility that will delete a subdirectory and
all files in it. (DOS will only delete empty directories).
You must be in the next higher directory to use this one but
it will save time when you are throwing out "junk". The
DIRNAME utility permits you to change the name of a directory
after it has been created. Normally with DOS you must create
the new directory with the new name, move the files, then
delete the old directory.
9. The VIEWDISK utility is a very powerful utility. It
gives you the opportunity to look at every sector on a disk.
You can view, in "hex" and in "text", any or all sectors on
a disk.
10. The XEQ is an interesting utility that permits you to
put small COM files into an XEQ "library" (so that they don't
consume so much space on your disk) and then permits you to
run the files from within the library with the Command
"Extractor". If you have run out of space on your hard disk,
this might help a little.
11. The TRAPDISK is another file that attempts to identify
and stop programs that contain "bombs" or other distructive
code that will reformat your hard disk or do other damage to
your files. If you frequently download files from uncontrol-
led BBSs, this might be handy.
12. The DRTYDOZN.TXT is a text file listing of the known
"Trojan Horse" or other defective files that may be encount-
ered on Bulletin Boards. The file has been ARCed to save
space. Note that some of the program titles listed in the
Dirty Dozen are files that we have published on our disks.
We try to take special care to make sure that all our files
are "clean" before we put them on the disks but that is not
true of all Bulletin Boards.
13. There are also several LOTUS 1-2-3 Templates on this
disk. The LOTUSBBS.ARC is a collection of things taken from
the new LOTUS Bulletin Board. It includes a listing of the
files available from that board.
14. Other LOTUS Templates include a loan amortization pro-
gram, a simple ledger program, an Internal Rate of Return
program and a sample Mail Listing although it appears pretty
simple to me.
15. Finally, there are two programs for the Genealogists.
One is the FRANCAL.TXT, a text file that discusses the abnor-
malities in the French Calendar in the late 1700's and early
1800's. The second is the VITLRCDS.TXT, another text file
that lists the addresses to write for birth or death records
in the various States and also lists the cost of such records
as of last Spring.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TIPC UG#33
Directory for ::/
ARC520 COM 55227 1987-01-12 17:13
KILLDIR ARC 6144 1987-04-30 13:58
HDIR COM 4736 1987-04-30 13:28
XEQ ARC 6272 1987-04-30 13:31
SIGNMAKR ARC 68608 1987-05-04 21:34
VIEWDISK ARC 16768 1987-05-04 21:39
ARCE30E ARC 11264 1987-05-04 21:43
TRAPDISK ARC 6400 1987-05-04 21:45
DIRNAME ARC 1536 1987-05-04 21:46
ARCE COM 5710 1989-07-02 12:46
VITLRCDS TXT 5120 1987-11-17 11:39
TIWIN111 ARC 2048 1987-01-15 19:30
CASHFLOW ARC 2048 1986-10-07 14:29
UTILS ARC 7552 1986-10-09 15:14
ELEMENTS ARC 30720 1986-11-20 10:28
DRTYDOZN ARC 24648 1987-11-09 17:03
FRANCAL TXT 1664 1987-11-17 11:58
DISK DOC 5888 1987-11-17 15:36
LOTUSBBS ARC 33792 1986-07-14 10:05
AMORT1X WKS 26496 1986-06-22 21:51
IRR WKS 7552 1986-06-23 19:53
LEDGER WKS 9728 1986-06-23 20:02
MAIL WKS 8320 1986-06-23 19:43
ARC DOC 0 1989-07-02 12:46
24 files 348 241 bytes
5 120 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
December, 1987
Disk Documentation - Library Disk #34
1. Library Disk #34 contains only two programs, the new
version 4.01 of the TERM communications Program and the TI-
Protector software written by Don Plorde of the Chesapeake
TI-PC Users' Group. Both of these programs are distributed
as "Shareware"!
2. The TERM program is one of the best PC Communication
programs and has been designed for the TI-PC. The new
version 4.01 brings us the "kermit" protocol and the same
fast, powerful performance.
3. The TI-Protector is used with the X-10 Powerhouse elec-
tronic computer interface to control the X-10 light switches,
and light or appliance modules. The software (used with the
IBM version of the Powerhouse) allows you to control up to
256 distinct modules with up to 128 different timed events.
You can control the ON/OFF time for lights, radios, coffee
pots, TVs, etc. With lights you can also set the light
brightness in several distinct power levels. The controller
has the capability of varying the timing of events to make
security lights look more normal. Best of all, it is easy to
program and DOES NOT HAVE TO REMAIN CONNECTED TO THE COMPUTER
after you have down-loaded the program to the Powerhouse
interface - it even has a battery to keep the program in case
of a power failure. Documentation is included in the self-
extracting EXE program.
** E N J O Y **
Volume in drive : is TIPC UG#34
Directory for ::/
DISK DOC 1744 1987-12-07 11:56
README 4282 1987-08-02 21:07
T400DOC EXE 84323 1987-07-22 21:51
TCONFIG EXE 40126 1987-08-02 0:31
TERM EXE 140504 1987-08-02 0:30
TERM STR 2012 1986-06-28 0:00
TIPROT EXE 85887 1987-07-12 19:11
7 files 358 878 bytes
0 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 35
January 1985
1. Once again this disk is made up of mostly ARChived files that will
require either the PKXARC or the ARChive Utility to extract the indi-
vidual files. This packing technique saves considerable space, up to
about 50% in text files, and therefore allows us to put many more
programs on each disk.
2. This disk is an assortment of programs with some specific appli-
cation programs and some useful utility files. It also contains some
Text files of interest to members of the Users' Group.
3. The first Application program is the CASHFLOW.ARC which contains a
corrected copy of the CASHFLOW accounting program that was on Disk
#33. I don't know what happened to the file on the previous disk but
it was damaged in some manner either during the ARChiving or copying
process. Sorry for the inconvenience.
4. The second major Application program is the FAMHIST.ARC. This is
the shareware program, Family History System, one of the highest rated
Public Domain/Shareware genealogy programs with many functions and
features incorporated. The program is written in BASIC and will
require the BASIC.EXE interpreter to run. It is a very complex program
using a system of batch and basic files. Because it is in interpreted
BASIC the program is sometimes slow but it is very powerful. Be sure
to read the documentation on how to get this one started. Also for
genealogists is a new listing of the Bulletin Boards in the National
Genealogical Conference that carry genealogy data in the GBBS.ARC
file.
5. For the Users' Group, this disk contains a complete listing of the
files on all of the UG Library disks in the PC-FILE III database
format. You will need a copy of the PC-FILE III program (shareware)
and the EMULATE.COM from the DOS 2.xx to run this. This is in the
LIBRARY.ARC file. Also on the disk is the ROSTER.ARC which gives a
current listing of the members of the User Group.
6. The remaining files on the disk are useful Utilities. The WSSI.ARC
is version 3.0 of the WSS Index program to index the programs on your
diskette library. This appears to be an excellent indexing program and
it is fast and easy to use however it doesn't have quite the flexibility
of using a database like the PC-FILE III.
7. The PKFIND10.COM is a file finder program. IBM402.arc is a new
version of a "better" (?) Emulate file. It appears to be well written
and more poserful than the DOS EMULATE.COM. I have not tested it exten-
sively and don't know how many more files it will allow you to use.
8. The last Utility is the ASMGEN.ARC. Once again, I have not tested it
extensively but it supposedly will take a EXE file and write the assembly
language program which would permit you to make some minor changes to a
program and recompile it. It sounds exciting but I have not tried it.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#35
Directory for ::/
CASHFLOW ARC 24576 1986-10-07 14:29
LIBRARY ARC 14929 1987-12-09 17:08
WSSI ARC 64439 1987-12-15 15:12
PKFIND10 COM 16272 1987-02-09 0:00
IBM402 ARC 8704 1987-11-22 19:14
GBBS ARC 5502 1987-12-17 12:19
ROSTER ARC 10980 1987-12-17 21:28
FAMHIST ARC 167296 1987-12-18 11:24
ASMGEN COM 11136 1986-08-24 1:22
ASMGEN DOC 25357 1986-08-24 2:15
DISK DOC 3200 1987-12-24 15:32
11 files 352 391 bytes
5 120 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 36
January 1985
1. This disk contains two ARChived files that will require either the
PKXARC or the ARChive Utility to extract the individual files. This
packing technique saves considerable space, up to about 50% in text
files, and therefore allows us to put many more programs on each disk.
2. The first file on this disk is the 1988 Version of John Wheeler's
Federal Tax LOTUS 1-2-3 Template, 87FEDTAX.ARC. John has spent quite a
bit of effort in getting the program updated earlier this year so that
it will be available to members early in their 1988 Tax preparations.
3. John cautions that members using this Tax aid should not just
automatically fill in the blanks - there have been many changes this
year is the definitions and in the data that goes into a given blank.
You will also note that when you start the program indicates you owe
$3.50 tax with all the blanks empty. This anomaly is a result of the
way the program calculates tax and produces an error if your total
income is less than $3000. John didn't correct this since people with
less than $3000 will probably not be using the template. He assures me
that for income above that level the program will operate correctly.
4. The second file on the disk is the Texas Picture Show, a program to
display pictures. The ARChived file includes many excellent graphics.
I don't know how these pictures were prepared and I don't know if the
program has the capability of generating pictures. For now it appears
to be an interesting display of the Graphic Capabilities of the TI-PC.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#36
Directory for ::/
87FEDTAX ARC 28623 1988-01-03 16:35
TPS ARC 323082 1987-11-22 18:51
DISK DOC 1920 1984-11-19 0:59
3 files 353 625 bytes
7 168 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 37
February 1988
1. This disk contains ARChived files that will require either the
PKXARC or the ARChive Utility to extract the individual files.
This packing technique saves considerable space, up to about 50%
in text files, and therefore allows us to put many more programs
on each disk.
2. The first file on this disk is another program to prepare and
calculate your 1987 Federal Income Tax. This is an Executable
file (EXE) and runs on a TIPC as it is, does not require LOTUS or
any other parent file.
3. The second main file on this disk is a greatly expanded and
improved version of the WSS Software Indexing system. This
version 3.2 offers many additional features over the previous
version on Disk 35 that I am putting it on another disk.
4. The last file on this disk is a new listing of Bulletin Boards
in the Washington, DC area. Bulletin Boards are proliferating all
over the country and this area is no exception. Our own TI BBS is
NOT listed here -- it is on (703) 893-4936 and operates at either
1200 or 2400 baud, no parity, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit. When
your computer connects you will have to hit the twice to
activate the BBS. Give it a try if you're into BBSing!
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#37
Directory for ::/
AMTAX87 ARC 114688 1987-12-24 11:18
AMTAXDOC ARC 13312 1987-12-24 11:18
BBSLIST ARC 10071 1988-01-18 17:38
WSSI320A ARC 109568 1987-09-18 12:37
WSSI320B ARC 107520 1987-09-18 12:46
DISK DOC 1536 1988-02-03 15:23
6 files 356 695 bytes
4 096 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 37 (Actually # 38)
March, 1988
1. This disk contains ARChived files that will require either the
PKXARC or the ARChive Utility to extract the individual files.
This packing technique saves considerable space, up to about 50%
in text files, and therefore allows us to put many more programs
on each disk.
2. This DISK is an assortment of things and should have appeal to
just about everyone. I think ALL of these programs run WITHOUT
the DOS Emulator or the IBMulate. Some, do require the 3-Plane
Graphics Board and a couple of them are BASIC programs and will
require the BASIC Interpreter, BASIC.EXE to run.
3. This Disk has an EXCELLENT graphic program. It is the KB Paint
program or KBP11 on here. This program needs the 3-Plane Graphic
board and will support the Mouse Systems 3 button mouse. After
looking at it, I think the Mouse would be an outstanding addition to
the program.
4. There are two files on the Disk for the cook of the house. The
Chef provides quite a few recipes with the option to add more of your
own. One of the strong points of this program is an immediate
capability to "resize" the recipe. You can alter it for a different
number or servings, or on the basis of the quantity of one ingredient.
If you only have three eggs and the recipe calls for four, the program
will quickly resize the other ingredients. A companion program is the
SUPMKT file (in BASIC) which will prepare printed shopping lists for
you. Both look like nice, useful programs.
5. There are two Word Perfect Accessory files on the Disk. One is a
WP Macro file and the other a Help file. Both were written for the
WP 4.1 in the IBM format and are not 100% compatible with the TI
version of WP. However, there may be some ideas you can use.
6. As usual, there are several handy Utility programs on the disk.
There is a DOSTIPS file that offers a lot of handy DOS ideas. There
is also a program (HELP21) that allows you to generate your own help
files. You can build a help file like you want it with a word
processor or a text editor, and then pick it up with the HELP program
to make the instructions you want.
7. The TIBROWSE lets you call up a text file and view it in a
humane manner. Unlike the DOS TYPE command which will go
through the text file once -- and you have to stop it with the PAUSE
key to read it -- the TIBROWSE will give you one screen of the file
and wait for you to scroll down a line at a time or take it a page at
a time. AND you can go back up, if you want. It looks like a very
handy utility.
8. The DGM, Disk Graphic Mate, will tell you about a disk. It shows
you how much space is used and how it is used. NOTE: This does
NOT work with the RAMDISK but does appear to do well with hard
disks and floppies. The TXT2COM file will convert a text file into a
COM file so that instead of having to TYPE a xx.DOC file you can
now just call it up like any other COM file.
9. And finally, there is a BASIC GAME for those Game-Players out
there. This is a "Wheel of Fortune" game for one to three players. I
found it a little slow and tedious, but I'm not much into games.
10. I think generally this is an OUTSTANDING disk and does a lot to
uphold the quality of programs that we seek. Many of these files
were uploaded to the User Group BBS by some of our members, an
excellent way to make the files available. I hope we get more uploads
of this quality.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#38
Directory for ::/
KBP11 ARC 80256 1988-01-28 8:10
WP-MACRO ARC 36052 1986-08-02 3:33
WPHELP ARC 35840 1987-06-09 14:11
THECHEF ARC 60928 1987-03-13 8:06
DGM COM 4096 1987-06-28 16:20
DOSTIPS5 ARC 78848 1988-02-04 11:27
WHEELS ARC 11136 1988-01-31 21:19
SUPMKT ARC 18816 1988-02-03 22:05
TXT2COM ARC 9216 1987-06-22 21:00
TIBROWSE ARC 9088 1987-03-12 8:03
HELP21 ARC 3072 1987-12-17 12:24
DISK DOC 3711 1988-03-05 15:25
12 files 351 059 bytes
7 168 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 39
April, 1988
1. This disk contains ARChived files that will require either the
PKXARC or the ARChive Utility to extract the individual files.
This packing technique saves considerable space, up to about 50%
in text files, and therefore allows us to put many more programs
on each disk.
2. The first file on this disk is a re-run of the TI-Windows program that
was on disk #33. For some reason, there were two ARChived files on that
disk that were corrupted during the preparation - and I don't know how.
However, I do apologize to anyone that has been inconvenienced by the
problem. As I had explained before, the TI-Windows is a Window Driver.
It must be installed in the CONFIG.SYS file prior to use. However, it also
causes interference with some other memory resident programs. As it is
presently configured, I don't see much utility in the program. However, I
am hoping that some of our more adventurous members can find a practical
use.
3. The largest file on the disk is a Floppy Almanac produced by the Naval
Observatory in Washington. This will be a very limited use disk - very
valuable for anyone navigating by starts and interesting for people
interested in sunrise and sunset.
4. The last two programs are utility programs. The PAINT20 is a Graphic
Utility to provide 36 colors. Once again documentation is incomplete but it
appears that this program can be used to paint graphics prepared by other
programs. The first time you run the program you will find it quite slow
in that it must build some graphic support files. Subsequent times it loads
much more quickly.
5. The final program is the ACHART2 program that has two memory
resident programs to call up the ASCII tables. One program gives the first
128 characters, the other has all 256 ASCII codes.
10. The programs on this disk were uploaded to the Bulletin Board by some
of our Members. This is an excellent way to exchange files and I hope to
see it used more often in the future.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#39
Directory for ::/
ALMANAC ARC 265480 1988-01-01 0:00
TIWIN111 ARC 25472 1987-01-15 19:30
PAINT20B ARC 53120 1986-12-03 8:01
ACHART2 ARC 4864 1987-03-13 7:59
DISK DOC 2266 1988-04-05 13:47
READ ME 268 1988-04-05 13:48
6 files 351 470 bytes
7 168 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 40
August, 1988
1. This disk contains ARChived files that will require either the
PKXARC or the ARChive Utility to extract the individual files.
This packing technique saves considerable space, up to about 50%
in text files, and therefore allows us to put many more programs
on each disk.
2. This disk has many useful Utility files and all appear to run well on
the TI-PC - even WITHOUT the use of an EMULATOR program.
3. The LIBRARY file contains the PC-FILE III format of the software
library listing for the first 39 disks. You will need the PC-File program
to use these but it then gives you the opportunity to sort them and make
library lists of your choice.
4. Also on the disk are the latest versions of the two most popular
ARChiving programs. Version 5.21 of the ARC program is a self-extracting
.COM program. Just type "ARC521 " and the program files will extract
themselves. PK361.EXE is the latest version (v3.61) of the PKWare "Fast"
ARChiving program. Both are excellent programs although I prefer the PKX
for my own use. It will unARC some programs the ARC file won't handle.
5. The DMAC21 and MACS01 are for use with MacIntosh graphic files. Some
Mac picture files have been modified to run in DOS computers. These
usually have a .PIC or .MAC filename extension. The DMAC21 will display
these pictures on a DOS computer ie TI-PC. The MACS01 is a collection of
a few picture files. Note that because of the difference in screen pixel
sizes the pictures look better on a TI-PC if you use the "Zoom" feature by
pressing the "home" key.
6. For the electricians in the group ELECT is a BASIC program that
calculates many useful electrical equations. This is a high quality
program that is not only fast but appears to be well programed and very
accurate.
7. The FF207 is a file finder program that will make a rapid search for a
file. It can be used on one disk or on a multi-disk search. The program
can even find a file in an ARChive file and it is fast. It appears to be
one of the better file finders I've seen and runs quite fast.
8. The last file on this disk is the ARCF which will search for text
strings in Archived files. If you ARChive letter or other text files to
save disk space, this is an excellent utility to search through the
ARChives to find a specific file based on a search string.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : is TI-PC UG#40
Directory for ::/
LIBRARY ARC 15625 1988-04-06 13:17
ARC521 COM 57813 1988-02-28 23:26
PK361 EXE 119808 1988-08-05 20:28
DMAC21 ARC 3072 1987-08-11 19:21
MACS01 ARC 107329 1987-01-20 1:41
ELEC ARC 31744 1988-06-01 9:28
ARCF ARC 7808 1988-04-23 14:46
FF207 ARC 13312 1988-05-09 13:46
DISK DOC 2641 1988-08-14 17:02
9 files 359 152 bytes
0 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 41
February, 1989
1. This disk contains an ARChived file that will require either the PKXARC
or the ARChive Utility to extract the individual files. This packing
technique saves considerable space, up to about 50% in text files, and
therefore allows us to put many more programs on each disk.
2. There are two major files on this disk. First is the 88FEDTAX.WKS.
This is a Lotus 1-2-3 "template" to calculate your 1988 Federal Income Tax.
This program has been written by John Wheeler and is a continuation of the
Tax Template that he has produced the last several years. You will need the
Lotus program to run the template but you will find this to be a first Class
Tax program!
3. The second major program on this disk is the EMACS text Editor. This
program will run without any emulation - it is a TI compatible version! This
is a mighty powerful text editor but you will find that the documentation is
deficient. I suggest that you print out the MAGIC.DOC, EMACS.HLP,
EMACS.KEY and EMACREAD.ME files before you start. Then when you are
ready to "test drive" the program, enter "EMACS-TI EMAC.TUT " and run
the tutorial. This editor appears to be quite complex and will require a
lot of study and practice but it appears to be worth the effort.
4. There is also one game on this disk - the FIGHTER jet fighter simulator.
Although I have not run the program very much, it appears to run well and
has excellent use of color and sound with the graphics. You will need a
three-plane graphic card to run this one.
5. There are also two utility programs on the disk. The first is the TICED
TI version of the CED Command Line Editor. There is no documentation with
the program, however, it runs similarly to the previous version of the CED
that we have had. When installed, you can make editing changes to the DOS
Command line. The UP and DOWN cursor keys will cycle through the previous
DOS commands that are in the queue. If you want to use one of these again,
you can or you can move the cursor left and right and make changes to the
command line. Frequently this will be much faster and more convenient than
completely typing the line again.
6. The second utility is the FINDUPE program which will examine all
directories on your disk and report duplicate files.
E N J O Y !!
Volume in drive : has no label
Directory for ::/
88FEDTAX WKS 55488 1989-01-13 9:06
DISK DOC 2582 1989-01-30 17:15
EMACS ARC 120700 1987-03-24 20:54
FIGHTER EXE 86272 1986-10-26 23:41
TICED COM 7156 1985-12-28 22:37
TICED DOC 1002 1985-12-28 22:44
FINDUPE2 COM 23084 1986-01-03 21:31
FINDUPE2 DOC 1536 1985-04-08 22:04
8 files 297 820 bytes
60 416 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 43
Oct, 89
This diskette contains two programs only, ARCE.COM and the
WSSINDEX family of programs in archived format.
ARCE.COM is available as freeware through System Ennhancement
Associates, Wayne NJ, written by Wayne Chin and Vernon D Buerg.
It is updated to version 3.1b and now includes "unsquashing".
Version 3.0 had revisions a through f, and was available in
archived form on Library disk #33, with file name ARCE30E.ARC.
WSSINDEX is in archived form and has a number of index program
files as well as a lot of documentary support files. The indexing
file programs are the work of Robert Babcock of WSS Division of
DDC in Mass. and are issued to the public domain for copying. He
asks a very nominal $5.00 registration fee if you intend to use
it. The programs have been developed over the last few years and
released in a number of issues. Version 3.20 is on Library disk
#37. They are excellent examples of continued support to a
worthwhile program and at a most reasonable charge for their use.
Furthermore they have been developed into a tool that
many of us will find of real value. This is release 3.38 and is
to be the last available as freeware. Further releases are
available and include a version for the TI Pro for what is a very
reasonable price, $25.00.
The programs include an indexer that is very fast to use, a custom
print program for the compiled index, an import, a merge, an ID
adder and a print definition file. He also includes CUTPAST3 on
his distribution disk and a wealth of miscellanious support
configuration files and documentation. The compiled index file
can be used for a regular print-out, for diskette pockets and for
diskette lables.
Indexes of most any combination of source file input can be made.
These can be selective for whatever purpose or presented in any
order and format option you wish. These programs serve no other
purpose than to make indices and use all the data in the
directories plus volume label and/ or subdirectory names as you
select its format. I have a combined listing of what is on my
harddrives and all diskettes. I used it to recognize
duplications, duplicate file names and version updates and to
ferret out non descript files for junking. Some files have been
developed and are around in multi versions in various locations.
This WSSINDEX lets you select and weed out the obsolete as well
as make a more constructive set of directories. It also helps you
to retire files, keeping just the original floppy or an inactive
archive or library section, but still showing on your total
library listing for tracability, and simpler harddisk management.
It reqires you to give volume lables to each of your floppies and
so you can file, find and store with its help.
The index can be categorized, but this is limited to using one
letter of the alphabet. Remarks can be enterred. This makes for
a larger print-out line and is work to enter all the detail. Some
will no doubt find the feature useful.
The page index is great. The diskette pocket sized contents are
limited to 40 files, the rest are truncated. Labels are both
compressed and in fine print and are hard to read. The number of
files is limited to about 10 and it selects these according the
larger file byte count, which is not always the your preference.
AGH8910
Volume in drive : is TI UG-43
Directory for ::/
ARCE COM 7136 1987-09-16 3:12
ARCE DOC 11373 1987-09-16 3:12
WSS-INST BAT 1059 1988-09-09 23:21
WSSI338A ARC 131690 1988-09-10 0:28
WSSI338B ARC 127591 1988-09-10 0:20
DISK DOC 4224 1989-11-01 18:46
6 files 283 073 bytes
74 752 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 44
Dec, 1989
This is the Washington DC TI User Group Library Disk #44. It is
wholly devoted to programs by Ron Brunton to whom we are indebted
for some important, useful or intriguing software designed to work
on the TIPC. The diskette contains a screen saver, system
environment management programs and an illustrated catalog of
mathematical, musical, business management, C language utility and
programming support available from Computer Consultant Services,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The catalog, strictly speaking, as advertisement is not the type
of material we include in the Library. This one however is an
excellent example of the use of the computer, showing another of
its capabilities. It's this aspect that is reason to include it
in the Library, and illustrates what we can also achieve. This is
not intended to demean the programs offerred. They too are fine
examples of using the machine to produce useful (to some) tools to
do work, and at a very reasonable cost. They are all designed for
application on the TI Pro. And, if they are not exactly your bag,
you'll admit (I hope) that they are intriguing. Ron has made his
catalog "come alive" with computerised examples. Read through it
and try the examples by entering the numbers.
The CC Screen Saver comes on the original distribution catalog
diskette. As first intended, it is similar to a screen blanker,
providing a continuously varying pattern that avoids screen burn
in idle time. This program provides the pattern but not the
program to activate it in the computer's idle condition, and
therefore becomes simply a graphics doodle pattern that you
instigate.
The environment set of programs are a real asset. Until now, if
the statement "out of environment space" shows, you're up the
creek without a paddle! Not much you can do but back something
out of it. And because management of the environment is not
discussed as a subject in the manual we're left wondering: what
are we talking about! The environment is not a particularly
simple concept and here's not the place to discuss it at length.
Suffice it to say it stores initial software configuration
information. These are defined by statements, one of which is
always entered by DOS and the remainder we put there using the
PATH, PROMPT and/or SET commands. Ron gives us a way to expand it
and control the problem. The initial DOS environment space is
created by COMMAND.COM and ENV.BAT and ENVFIX change its
instructions for creating it.
ENV.BAT and ENVFIX require the availability of DEBUG. Place these
files in the root directory of the system boot disk. ENV.BAT
invokes DEBUG to look at the value which sets the space size in
COMMAND.COM and uses the batch file ENVFIX to give the DEBUG
commands to revise it. Initially in DOS 2.xx, the value is 0A (=
10) and ENVFIX changes it to 20h (= 32). This value is multiplied
by 16 bytes changing the environment space from 160 to 512 bytes.
You can restore the original value, or provide some other by
editing line two in the ENVFIX file to another hexadecimal number.
Type CATALOG and you are introduced to two mathematical program
disks, Polynomial, and Surfacing; two utilities Copy-all and
Labeller; a Music Maker program disk with considerable
versatility; two C language aids and a tool for the study of
demographic distributions, useful to businesses, political and
organisations interested in area statistics. Each of these
programs is written for the TI Pro and is provided with at least
one example of the type of presentation output it will give.
Polynomial: is a graphing tool to explore the nature of any
polynomial curve and observe the effects of changing any of its
variables. It has zoom capabilities in order to view sections of
the curve in expanded detail.
Surfacing: plots surfaces in 3 dimensions to show a mathematical
expression in graphic form. Even if you have no interest in
mathematics, the graphics are intriguing. To those interested, it
is a tool that allows them to explore relationships.
Copy-all: claims to help avoid mistakes using DOS COPY. You
don't have to copy one file at a time and lets choose which files
to copy. Protects one from copying on top of another file with
the same name. You can view a file one page at a time. File size
and space available on destination disk are displayed.
Provides full control of the back-up process. It has two back-up
modes - for current directory only and for the whole harddisk. It
has an on screen reminder of last time the harddisk was backed up.
Copies all files with flagged attributes and flag is turned off.
Labeller: constructs and illustrates labels for any use: mailing,
diskette, envelope etc..
Music Maker: enables the user to write music in standard notation
with editorial features to move, copy, erase or transpose the key.
Sheet music can be transcribed into tabular form for stringed
instruments. Music written can be played in any musical scale and
on the speaker. (The speaker is too small to do great justice to
your masterpieces; but as a melody maker's tool this is more than
worth the expense).
C Function Library: used in conjunction with MS DOS LIB program;
130 functions. Saves programmer from reinventing the wheel.
C Program Print Utility: a programming aid to write 'C' code,
helping to catch the inadvertent syntax error, with nesting
indentation and keyword highlighting aids. Similar in purpose
to the EXPLIST program on disk 42 written for the BASIC language.
Local Area Mapping System (LAMS): is a tool useful to map product
population or service distributions over some area. It will be of
interest to businesses, political, civic or commercial groups.
AGH891226
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Directory for ::/
CA TXT 3286 1989-02-07 8:05
CCS HLP 1751 1989-02-16 9:35
CCS PIC 28672 1989-02-06 15:15
CFL TXT 13733 1989-02-07 19:43
CP PIC 818 1989-02-06 14:55
CP TXT 1455 1989-02-07 20:07
CATALOG EXE 75858 1989-02-16 9:08
LAMS PIC 18944 1984-10-07 12:02
LAMS TXT 2214 1989-02-07 19:24
LB TXT 1885 1989-02-07 19:19
LB1 PIC 1712 1989-02-07 19:15
LB2 PIC 1827 1989-02-07 19:14
MM PIC 29184 1989-02-05 16:19
MM TXT 3299 1989-02-07 19:37
PARABOLA PIC 13824 1989-02-06 20:05
PN TXT 3064 1989-02-16 18:47
PNEG1 PIC 11776 1988-01-06 15:23
PNEG2 PIC 16384 1987-12-31 12:07
SF TXT 1838 1989-02-07 19:18
SFEG1 PIC 20480 1986-06-30 21:03
SFEG2 PIC 23040 1987-12-23 9:43
SP TXT 2470 1989-02-03 8:42
CC EXE 59305 1989-02-21 12:57
CA PIC 2029 1989-02-07 8:01
TAB PIC 1788 1989-02-07 18:48
READ ME 683 1989-02-07 20:26
DISK DOC 7040 1989-12-27 11:53
ENV BAT 29 1989-12-21 16:28
ENVFIX BAK 19 1989-12-23 14:41
ENVFIX 19 1989-12-27 12:00
30 files 348 426 bytes
0 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 45
Jan,90
This is Washington DC TI User Group Library Disk #45. The most
significant program on this disk is John Wheeler's annual edition
of his template of the federal tax forms. Thanks John, we owe you
our gratitude for sharing your effort with us for a sixth tax
season. Seems you have earned a following for this yearly
attraction. It's this type of program sharing that makes the
Library's usefulness to us all.
The tax program is a template placed on the Lotus 123 format. One
calls up Lotus; use the forward slash menu to display options and
select FORMS. This lands you in the next menu and you select
RETRIEVE, which then asks you for a filename. Enter the drive
(and path) where you have placed your TIUG disk and type:
89FEDTAX.WKS, which then displays the tax program inside the usual
Lotus worksheet format. You hit and are given another top
line menu from which you proceed with creating a file and viewing
the instructions for completing the forms. As with the tax forms
themselves there is only so much detail you can supply at the
initial pass and have to go to the schedules to complete other
details. The results from these other schedules are passed
automatically to the 1040 form when you hit function key F9, and
the calculations are all made for you. Alt-P gets the print menu
with preset macros for some of the more usual printers.
Incidentally, when entering your address at the start of things,
hit either ', (that's apostrophe ), to enter it or ESC to
skip over it. Because the printout is not certified by the IRS
you have to transcribe the results manually to the official IRS
forms. The template therefore gives you a "what if" capability
and minimises arithmetic errors.
The disk also contains some file management programs. DELBUT by
Scott Pakin, deletes all except the matching files. NAME by Dana
Nowell renames files, directories and volume labels without
requiring that the directory be emptied. FDATE allows you to
change the date and/ or time information of a file with a valid
date. You could use this to unify release dates on associated
program files you create. It also could be used to change the
file time which has very little purpose, to become a file version
number instead. For those who collect utility files and end up
with updated versions of the same file, here is a way to put the
version number right in the file's own data. DU gives the usage
(sum of file sizes) for each directory and subdirectory on a
drive. VTREEHP is a variation of the TREE command, obviously
written more for the PC-DOS user, because MS-DOS TREE is equally
informative and graphic, but you might prefer it.
The following are notes by Don Wilson when passing along the
following programs.
SP is an interesting Print Spooler program. We already have a
Print Spooler (SPOOLER.COM, I think) that builds a storage place
in memory and stores commands going to the printer. Thus, using
SPOOLER you can dump a large print job off to the printer - it
will be stored in memory until the printer can handle it - you
then can continue to do something else with the computer while the
printer is still running on it's hidden task.
This SP.COM works a little differently. This allows you to send
things headed for the printer to a disk file that you name. This
is sometimes handy when you want to take a look at the output
before it wastes paper. Also, some programs don't give you the
option to send their output to a disk file - using this program
you can intercept commands going to the printer and save them in a
disk file.
Also, many of the programs that do give you an option of printing
to a disk or to the printer just print the text file and do not
include the printer control codes. Thus, when you send a Word
Perfect file to a text file - you will lose the Underline and Bold
that you would get if it went straight to the printer. The SP
program preserves these commands so that you can print it as
intended with the underlines, bolds, etc all preserved.
Type "SP HELP " to get the short help instructions. After
using the SP program to send an output to a disk file you must
issue the "SP CLOSE" command to dump the file from memory to the
disk and save it. Without this, the file never gets completed.
DAYNBR is an interesting program. It allows you to number files
by the julian number of the day - from one to 366. This can be
used to renumber common name files to preserve their
individuality. As an example, I have a log file for the BBS that
generates a file called BBS.LOG. However, if I don't do anything,
it will keep appending log items to the file until the file
becomes too big and runs out of disk space. A log file is most
handy if you can quickly locate the particular day's file that you
are looking for. Therefore you can make a batch file that will
automatically change the name of the log file to a daynumber and
then insert it into a ZIP compressed file to save disk space and
also keep each day's file individually. If you put this in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT you will be able to run this kind of file on a daily
basis (provided this comes after you enter the new day's date)!
PKZ102.EXE is a self-extracting, compressed file. When you run
the program it will take the internal files out and expand them
automagically. The main files inside are the PKZIP and PKUNZIP
used to compress files to save disk space or make transmission
faster. ZIP packs files significantly tighter than ARC - and
v.102 is the latest.
Now, I've added three programs MAPMEM, MARK and MEMSCAN that have
to do with exploring and understanding the core memory. There is
no explanation and you're left on your own as to their
significance.
There is an update to PALERT, first available on disk #29. This
is a terminal-stay-resident program which produces a bar graph
presentation of the usage of the drive it is in. It can be used
as an alarm preventing programs from executing without sufficient
free memory to complete. Like many other TSR programs it could be
placed in the AUTOEXEC.BAT. Since TSR programs are bad neighbors
among themselves, an alternative is to put it in one of the
KEYSxxxx overlays of Dave Schmidt's Function Key Organizer, where
you can call it from time to time. In addition, there are two
other programs by Norm Patriquin, PDEL and PATTR, which provide a
more protected and selective file delete function.
This leaves mention of the one remaining file LIBRARY. This is
an updated listing of the files on disk in our Library. It is
revised every fifth disk issue. The file is archived and you will
need one of Buttonware's PC-File III programs to review it. You
can sort and select the files that interest you.
I would like to make a plea: my resources of new programs are
quite limited. I know a number of you search through some of the
bulletin boards and other sources. The "Professionallly Speaking"
has had mention of programs available in other groups which seem
of value to the authors, that we do not have. Will you not share
your findings with us; the Library depends on a variety of inputs
of diverse interests. My time is fully occupied with the disk
compilation, editing, description, publication, duplication and
selliing of the disks and there simply isn't the time to give to
searching and acquiring new program material as well. It's
your User Group and the Library depends on you too. AGH900203
Volume in drive : is TI UG-45
Directory for ::/
LIBRARY ARC 17978 1990-02-04 12:40
PALERT16 ARC 20975 1987-01-17 6:53
PATTR ARC 27428 1987-01-02 13:00
PDEL28 ARC 33585 1988-12-02 7:27
DELBUT COM 1280 1986-03-04 7:35
FDATE COM 1664 1985-07-01 19:26
MAPMEM COM 13454 1987-06-02 13:51
MARK COM 1408 1988-09-15 17:24
NAME COM 1792 1986-08-03 18:31
SP COM 1521 1980-01-01 15:17
VTREEHP COM 696 1980-01-01 1:15
DISK DOC 8960 1990-02-04 15:57
FDATE DOC 723 1982-12-06 15:30
DU EXE 3072 1985-05-14 8:24
MEMSCAN EXE 934 1985-05-27 0:17
PKZ102 EXE 135808 1989-10-02 18:03
89FEDTAX WKS 66560 1990-01-16 21:14
DAYNBR ZIP 11346 1989-12-10 15:10
18 files 349 184 bytes
5 120 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 46
Mar,90
This is Washington DC TI User Group Library Disk #46. The whole
diskette is devoted to one program KBPAINT. It is a program
for use on the TI Pro only. It was brought to us by Ed Cameron
who has been in contact with Kent Briggs of Waco, TX. Kent had
used to offer his program as shareware. You paid him a nominal
fee and he would send a registration code. With this you could
open up the program's remaining files.
He has decided to stop actively supporting the program and to make
it available to user groups like our own. It is a very complete
graphics editor. The change makes it a freeware version of the
program on disk #38. It is still worthy of your recognition of
the effort and integrity of the program and urge you to send his
suggested registration fee, even though there will be no further
growth to the program. I feel sure he would straighten out any
difficulties you might encounter in using the program.
AGH900305
Volume in drive : is TI UG-46
Directory for ::/
KB-FONT COM 3489 1987-12-26 16:18
KB-FONT DOC 2022 1988-01-18 22:15
KB-PAINT DOC 42073 1988-01-20 1:02
KB-PAINT EXE 43479 1990-02-07 20:00
KB-PAINT HLP 21238 1988-01-13 19:43
KB-PAINT ZIP 56737 1989-11-07 11:45
KB-REG DOC 798 1989-01-09 19:34
KB-REG ZIP 647 1989-04-29 10:49
KB-SHOW COM 4951 1988-01-13 14:36
KBFONT1 FON 2382 1989-11-06 21:39
KBP11 ZIP 53368 1990-01-27 19:49
PALETTE PAK 48368 1987-12-22 16:39
ROMAN FON 5486 1987-12-24 18:38
WCBA8911 PAK 14310 1989-11-10 19:52
MBWA PAK 42440 1989-11-13 18:30
REGISTER COM 1156 1988-01-20 1:00
DISK DOC 1408 1990-03-05 22:44
17 files 344 352 bytes
8 192 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
Library Disk # 47
Apr 90
This diskette contains six programs of interest. Five of the
programs are ZIPed. The latest version of PKUNZIP is on the disk.
All you have to do is type PKUNZIP FORMLTRS and you will get the
contents of the FORMLTRS.ZIP group of files. We will use this
method more and more since it has the dual merits of compressing
the files and of combiming associated files together into a group,
using one name.
RONBO This is a file that belongs more on diskette #46. It
had to be removed to make room for the DISK.DOC. It is
not certain what it is, but belongs to the KB-PAINT
package. Believed to be a graphics of "Ronbo".
FORMLTRS Is an "assemblage" of some 100 form letters. If you are
short of an idea of how to address some correspondence,
here are a 100 posssible choices covering about as many
issues.
LIST73D LIST reads directories and employs selection filters and
sort capabilities to file or to display subgroups of the
directory. It comes in three different versions with
increasing power and includes DEL, COPY, MOVE, VIEWARC,
PATH, RENAME and SORT functions. It looks to be a
very powerful tool altogether and mostly for the
sophisticated computer user. The program is made
available to us by Vernon D Buerg. As is to be expected
it is written for the IBM keyboard and includes a use of
a number of keys we do not have marked as namaed.
These key equivalents are:
Pg-up = Alt Cursor-up
Pg-dn = Alt Cursor-down
End = Alt Line Feed
^End = Ctl Line Feed
^Pg-up = Ctl Cursor-up
^Pg-dn = Ctl Cursor-down
TAX89 This is the tax preparation program brought along by
Connie Graham. It is a shareware program that requires
IBMULATE to run. If you use it, you are asked to send
in your registration fee. Though late in the tax season
there are some additional capabilities offered to the
registered user.
WARMBOOT This replaces the . Since one normally
uses the warm reboot key combination when the keyboard
is locked, how do we enter WARMBOOT at the time we need
it? Obviously, this not the answer. Is it a replacement
for NOBOOM? (We do not have this program on disk yet --
it's coming. NOBOOM stalls the "System 1042" lockup).
BATCHTUT This is an interesting tutorial on the use of batch
files. It provides hands-on demonstration of writing
and using batch file commands. The tutorial has some
additional commands to make richer and more user
friendly presentations. These include the ability to
ask the session user for yes/ no/ ESC responses; the
ability to respond with an extended function key; an
ability to determine the equipment both present
and active, i.e drive B with its door closed; find a
file on any active drive. The tutor requires MORE.COM.
The one provided with the program did not function on
the TI and is replaced. This tutorial is also written
for the IBM keyboard and the same equivalent keys as
noted above can be used where required.
AGH900403
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Directory for ::/
DISK DOC 4352 1990-04-03 23:17
PKUNPAK EXE 15112 1988-08-02 0:00
RONBO PAK 9216 1984-11-19 1:18
BATCHTUT ZIP 59270 1990-04-03 22:08
FORMLTRS ZIP 54012 1990-04-03 19:39
LIST73D ZIP 66816 1990-03-07 14:18
TAX89 ZIP 132279 1990-04-03 19:29
WARMBOOT ZIP 1005 1989-03-08 17:06
8 files 342 062 bytes
16 384 bytes free
THE PROFESSIONALS
Washington Area TI-PC Users' Group
FIRST Library Utility Disk
This disk marks a new first for the TI-PC UG Library. For the first
time we have assembled enough Utility programs to justify producing a
disk entirely devoted to a single type of program.
Unlike the previous disks that were mostly menu selectable, this
disk has no menu. All programs must be called and used individually. The
CWEEP program is a multi-function utility that tends to combine many
functions in its own menu; but, it is an exception in that way. Some of
the programs use color but none of them use graphics and so all should
run well with or without the color-graphics board. Some of the programs
will require DOS 2.11 and the EMULATE program to run.
Some of these programs adapt themselves to use on several disks.
Some are more selective and may be more useful an a special "editing"
disk. With that in mind, it might be helpful to put additional DOS
editing files on your Utility Disk. At the least you will want to put
the DOS operating files on the disk with the command.
Additionally you may want to add the EMULATE.COM, RAMDISK.DEV,
EDLIN.COM, DEBUG.COM and FILATR.EXE files from the DOS 2.11 disk.
As with previous disks, it is recommended that you prepare a working
copy of this disk and save the Original Library Disk as a backup. To do
so, format a new disk with the option. If you are using the
DOS 2.11 you should format in 9 sectors to get additional room on the
disk. Then copy the above DOS files, as desired, onto your new working
disk. Finally copy the files from this disk to your new disk with a
command.
Some of these files have appeared on previous disks and are repeated
here to pull them all together. Many of them are new and are the result
of the efforts of several of our members who have down-loaded them from
Bulletin Boards. Special recognition should go to Sig Schuldiner and
Dean Fetterolf whos efforts have been especially helpful.
It would be of interest to the UG and to the Librarian especially to
know if the members like the idea of disks with a single theme -- ie
Utility, Games, Business Programs, etc -- and whether the Utilities are
of general use to the membership or only to a few of the members.
Volume in drive A is TI UTIL #1
Directory of A:\
COMMAND COM 15957 11-17-83 11:00a
DEBUG COM 12223 11-17-83 11:00a
EDLIN COM 8080 11-17-83 11:00a
EMULATE COM 1354 11-17-83 11:00a
RAMDISK DEV 928 11-17-83 11:00a
FILATR EXE 13312 11-17-83 11:00a
AUTOEXEC BAT 106 3-17-85 6:27p
SETUP BAT 166 3-18-85 1:15p
CLEAN COM 640 2-14-85 10:37p
COVER COM 1152 3-14-84 2:50a
DATEBOOK COM 14592 12-26-84 8:20p
NUSQ COM 2560 7-21-84 12:43p
PAGE COM 896 2-17-85 10:39p
SCR COM 484 10-18-82 12:18a
SDEL COM 768 8-05-82 9:19p
SDIR COM 1492 10-18-82 12:14a
SDL COM 2560 10-09-84 9:40a
SQ COM 14336 7-21-84 6:17p
ZDIR COM 2304 5-17-84 12:18a
ABSTRACT DOC 5419 3-18-85 9:41p
CLEAN DOC 2921 3-06-85 2:48p
COVER DOC 2326 2-05-85 10:44p
CWEEP DOC 8293 3-11-85 6:04p
DATEBOOK DOC 5679 3-18-85 5:39p
DISK DOC 2521 3-18-85 10:11p
LU DOC 7816 3-11-85 2:03p
NUSQ DOC 9393 3-11-85 4:20p
PAGE DOC 363 3-06-85 3:08p
SDL DOC 1858 3-17-85 6:39p
SETUP DOC 4885 3-18-85 2:28p
SQ DOC 899 3-11-85 4:19p
SYSLOG DOC 19072 12-31-84 2:10p
SYSLOG2 DOC 6144 1-02-85 11:33a
TI-IBM DOC 11415 3-17-85 5:55p
ZDIR DOC 736 3-06-85 3:20p
CWEEP EXE 26368 8-12-84 9:37p
LU EXE 22528 2-11-85 8:39p
SYSLOG EXE 29824 12-31-84 2:06p
DCAREA NUM 9216 12-29-84 9:27a
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