GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) (09/08/88)
Hello All,
In an attempt at self-agrandisement I'm willing to distribute
3 new (yes, N-E-W!!) programs for the Rainbow. Actually, they should
all run on any MS-DOS machine, but they were developed on a Rainbow.
They're small hacks I've done teaching myself programming languages
(C, assembler and Pascal). If you're interested, send me e-mail; I'll
post if there's enough interest. And once INFO-DEC-MICRO gets it's
own LISTSERV and anonymous FTP capabilities I'll make them available
there.
Anyway, here's a description of the programs. They are in the public
domain and include source code, documentation and MS-DOS executables.
ESCAPE - resets certain characteristics of the Rainbow screen/
board or send an arbitrary escape sequence. For instance, restores
US/ASCII character set, restores screen to normal video, alters
codes generated by arrow/keypad keys, ... In assembler
QUOTE - generates "random" quotes from a 300+ quote database.
Since the database is straight ASCII text, it's an easy matter to
modify it. Currently, there's about 300+ quotes. Great fun if you're
bored with your work. In assembler.
FF - formats files and sends them to standard output. Place
the file name/current date/page number in page headers/footers,
process carriage controls, control top/bottom/left/right margins,
specify line spacing, ... Use MS-DOS I/O redirection (with the
'>' character) to send output to a disk file, the printer,
communications port, or the screen. In C.
Hopefully others will distribute their own hacks, too.
George
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