patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) (10/19/87)
This is an answer to Bob Church's request for info on the
Spanish version(s) of FrEDwriter/FrEDsender; sorry to post
this to the *net* but our mailer is bouncing mail back.
FrEDsender can also be used with the Apple ][c but *only* at 300 Baud;
this program is used primarily in a CMS (comupter message system) -
if you'd like to see it in operation call the San Leandro site
(300/1200 Baud, 24 hrs) at 415-895-1785.
FrEDwriter and FrEDsender may be available in languages other than
English and Spanish; for more information contact:
Hands On Training Co.
4021 Allen School Road
Bonita, CA 92002
If you'd rather download both FrEDsender and FrEDwriter you can do
so by calling:
OPEN CAMPUS BBS (300/1200/2400 baud, 24 hrs) at 415-895-0135
Los Angeles TEC (300/1200 baud, 24 hrs) at 213-803-3166
Children's Television Workshop BBS
(30/1200 Baud, 24 hrs) at 212-595-4588
N.B.: The downloads are ENGLISH versions!
Here's the introductory information on both FrEDsender/writer:
FrEdSender Release Notes
# Version 2.1a
March 16, 1987
At long last, the new release of FrEd-
Sender is here. We've included bug
fixes and new features that many of you
have requested. FrEdSender now sup-
ports the Hayes Micromodem IIe and the
Prometheus ProModem. It should also
support any modem that is compatible
with the Micromodem or the Hayes exter-
nal/Super Serial card set-up.
Also the Apple IIc can now be used with
FrEdSender (hooray!), but only at 300
baud (boo!).
Some of you have requested things like
full pathname support, the ability to
use a hard disk or network, etc. FrEd-
Sender is not a power users program.
It was designed to give the novice or
casual user an easy-to-use, inexpensive
telecommunications tool. You don't
have to understand pathnames before you
can use FrEdSender, nor do you have to
save capture buffers, configuration
data, phone numbers and so forth; these
were some of our design goals. A power
user will be better off with one of the
fine full-featured commercial telecom-
munications programs that are avail-
able.
The following are some miscellaneous
comments on this version of FrEdSender:
If you have an Apple II+, TAKE OUT
YOUR 80 COLUMN CARD.
The documentation printer now allows
you to include or exclude linefeeds.
FrEdSender intercepts the last dis-
playable character on the screen so
it can perform an interruptable line
feed. This is necessary due to a bug
in the original Apple IIe ROMs. This
means that a character that would
normally get displayed in the 80th
column (or 40th on a 40 column Apple)
gets wrapped down to the next line.
(S)END will ignore a carriage return
that appears as the first character
of a text file. This is required for
compatibility with the CMS School Net
BBS.
(A)NSWER THE PHONE first stores each
received file with the name 'file.x'
where 'x' is a sequential number. It
then renames each file to the correct
name when the transmission is com-
plete. If you forget to use a newly
formatted disk and you happen to have
a file that has the same name as one
that's been transmitted, the rename
will fail. The transmitted file will
still be on your disk, however, with
the name 'file.x' where x is some
number.
If you use an Apple with a single
floppy drive, be sure that your FrEd-
Sender disk (side 1) is in drive 1
whenever you end a program. The menu
program tries to re-load itself from
side 1 of the FrEdSender disk. It
gets very unhappy if it can't do
this.
Don't use your FrEdSender disk as a
data disk. There isn't any room
left.
When dialing, you may insert a 1 sec-
ond pause by inserting a comma in the
number to be dialed (ex: 9,555-1212).
Two commas will pause for two seconds.
There is one correction to the documen-
tation for setting up the Promethues
ProModem. It's on page 7 under 'Set
the jumpers as follows:'. 'Carrier De-
tect - put the jumper over the TOP two
pins' should read 'Put the jumper over
the BOTTOM two pins'.
You may set the file type by using the
File Type selection in the File Select-
or program. This is useful because all
files downloaded with Xmodem have their
file type set to Txt. By separating
the Xmodem and file-typing functions,
you can download files from non-Apple
systems.
When using the File Selector to type
files downloaded using Xmodem, cer-
tain restrictions are necessary. The
File Selector will not correctly type
Var type files. Also, the File Sel-
ector will assume a page 1 hires pic-
ture for binary file types, and a ran-
dom access record length of 1 for ran-
dom access text files. A random access
text file must be explicitly retyped by
using the File Selector to set its rec-
ord length to 1, otherwise it is assum-
ed to be a plain text file. Sys files
and Bas files are retyped correctly.
Note that you do not need to retype
plain text files.
We appreciate your comments even if we
don't write back. Everything gets read
and taken into consideration.
Michael (Mick) Fitzgerald
Hal Gibson
03/16/87
FrEDwriter v.4 is an easy ProDOS word processor for beginners to use; it
has a tutorial that will walk you thru all phases of using the program
to format a disk, copy a document, edit a text file, etc. FrEDwriter
works with FrEDsender so that students who have created text files
using FrEDwriter can send them via modem to their teachers at school
and friends on other BBS systems. KIDWIRE is a special feature on
CMS School-Net; students report on the news and use FrEDwriter to
create their text files of important news and then send them along
the CMS School-Net system using the FrEDsender program.
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