STORK@mit-mc.ARPA (Eric Stork) (04/18/85)
This message announces the availability of SYA.LBR.1
in SIMTEL-20, Directory MICRO:<CPM.WSTAR>
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Filename Type Bytes CRC
SYA.AQM BINARY 18048 BD9EH
SYA.DQC BINARY 3968 C3B0H
SYA-WS.COM BINARY 2816 7185H
The following is an extract from the DOC file:
It shouldn't happen -- but it does.
You're using your favorite word processor -- a report, letter,
program, what-have-you -- and a glitch locks up the terminal.
Of course, if you know a lot about how CP/M's memory works, have
DDT or its equivalent available, don't overlay your
text-in-memory with DDT or its clone, know where your word
processor's edit space begins, know how to move the content of
memory to 100H, know how to find the end of your text in memory,
know how to figure the number of pages to save -- if you know ALL
of the above you can save your assets and start over.
But now there is a better way to SAVE YOUR ASSets - enter SYA.
SYA is a 3k program that you should keep handy. Menu-driven, it
can be figured out easily even if yu've not used it for a while.
If you screw up, just exit SYA and invoke it again. Since you
don't have to move memory around, you can try as many times as
you like so long as you don't turn the power off.
Here's what SYA does:
. Starting at the beginning of the editor's storage
space, SYA dumps memory to the console.
.. DUMPing can be a screen-full at a time, or a line
at a time. Set and reset as you like with the
'L' command.
.. All control characters (exept CR,LF, & TAB) are
filtered from the console, to keep the screen
from doing weird graphic things.
.. If you DUMP past your text, you'll get garbage on
the screen, but that will stop eventually. Then
you can do 'L', 'B', or 'T' - see below.
.. If you get a long run of garbage without stopping
(because SYA doesn't encounter a stopping
character), hit any key to interrupt the DUMP,
then do 'L', 'B', or 'T'.
. After each screen, or each line in single-line mode,
a SPACE or CR will continue DUMPING.
. 'B' will ask you how many lines you want to back up.
. 'T' puts you at the TOP of the storage space again,
and DUMPS from there.
. 'L' (for LINES) asks if you want PAGING or
SINGE-LINE dumping.
. 'S' will SAVE your file from its beginning to where
you were when you typed 'S'.
. 'M' gives you a MENU of options.
. 'X' will EXIT. So will ^C.
I wrote SYA for my own and some friends' use. As of
now it works only with Wordstar 3.0, and with the
old TSC line editor.
You can easily set up SYA.ASM for YOUR favorite editor, or for any
other program that uses a defined area of memory for data (it
should work for dBASE-II, SUPERCALC, etc.).
Eric Stork
STORK%MIT-MC
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