This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Willett, I'd be very interested, especially in the debugger. Does it have any other "advanced" features, such as "symbolic" information? A few years ago, I was given one that did — but also has at least one major bug, itself. — Carl
Willett, Just checked, and you should find the three WUITL 3.2 files available now in LIBrary 3. (For those looking on, these files are the latest version of the Winchester UTILity and work with MS-DOS 3.10b. One of the files allows slightly faster booting if you have a TURBOW board.)…
Bill, Just guessing offhand, I would doubt that there would be any advantages to compiled menus under MS-DOS. They would simply have to be kept in a larger .EXE file as opposed to a separate data file, and it's easy enough to write a program that uses pointers to read…
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#ANSI Graphics on Rainbow
Message #21213
Rick, Actually, the Rainbow handles ANSI graphics fine, if they're true ANSI graphics, because the VT102 that the Rainbow emulates uses ANSI escape sequences. What the Rainbow doesn't display correctly are *IBM* character sets, which are not ANSI anything. However, my communications program, QC, available in LIB3, maps some of…
Brian, I haven't seen the August magazine yet. (It may be in the pile that's waiting for me.) But in the past, I've always gotten the IBM inserts. Come to think of it, I may even have gotten some Apple inserts. Oh, well…
Willett, Thanks. That does explain things. By the way, because I originally bought an A, I only have the 100A owners' manual, which is why I didn't see the "gotcha." — Carl
#<ESC> c sequence
Message #21122
Willett, Do you know anything about how the VT100 c sequence, called "reset to initial state," performs on Rainbow. When I first discovered it, I thought it might be a shortcut to put everything back to the state that it had been in on leaving a program like QC, which…
Bill, Thanks. I'll try enclosing a short program to reset "all pitches" mode in case that helps. I'm also sending a definition file for one-across labels, which should allow a work-around one way or the other. — Carl
#Printer query
Message #21091
Yikes! The hazards of being a "public domain software" author. I got a call a few minutes ago from a woman in Tucson who had just received a copy of MLRB, a mailing list program that I wrote five years ago, from Caroline Mack. She got everything entered and ready…
Richard, Thanks for the compliment. And I would be extremely grateful if you would be willing to write a short review of Derive for the newsletter. The equivalent of a page or two would be fine. (In fact, I try to keep articles fairly short.) The Silicon Valley Rainbow can…
Dennette, That would require someone to have written a virus for the Rainbow. It's obviously possible for someone to write generic MS-DOS viruses as well as IBM-PC viruses, as well as Rainbow viruses. Most of what I have seen described appears to be IBM-specific, though some are at least partially…
Dennette, I did run a not-entirely up-to-date version of ViruScan over both STRTRK.EXE (the self-extracting file) and STARTREK.EXE (the program itself) and got no viruses reported. The version of ViruScan that I used was a couple months old. I'll go get the latest version and report back if there are…
Mike: There *is*, or at least used to be, a software solution. It's called Media Master and is or was sold by Intersecting Concepts, 80 Long Court, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91360, phone (805) 373-3900. I believe that versions of Media Master for the IBM PC or AT sold for about…
Brian, I do find the VT100 manual — well, actually VT102 — pretty convenient for finding these things. I'm not even sure of what you have in a Rainbow owners manual, because my owners manual told me absolutely nothing. Anyway, my VT102 manual is DEC publication no. EK-VT102-UG-003, which may…
Brian, The Rainbow's method of selecting character sets entirely duplicates the use of character sets by DEC's VT100 terminal. I would imagine that it is rooted in history and that DEC is stuck with the system because it was developed years ago. Anyway, the Rainbow does have two main character…
Dennette, This won't provide much help for Paul, but for the record, I did the download testing of STRTRK before it was made "public" in Lib 3, and I experienced no problem, other than that I don't have a pilot's license to fly a space ship. So I agree with…
#Big Brother
Message #20974
Yikes! It's the CompuServe Kops! When I just asked it to upload the latest Silicon Valley DEC PC users group newsletter (available soon as SV0790.ARC), I got the message: Under our Agreement and Operating Rules, you must own or have sufficient rights to any information you place on the Service.…
Jeff, When DEC designed the Rainbow, the company assumed that the only time anyone would want to display color on the monitor is in graphics mode. Therefore, the color monitor is wired so that the text mode — which is what Word Perfect deals with — only receives the green…
Jennifer, Actually there's a specific answer about how much memory you need to run Code Blue for certain (actually most) IBM applications, including WordPerfect: 768K. The answer has nothing to do with the size of Code Blue but with the way most IBM PC programs write to video. Because IBM,…
Jennifer, Just in case you have difficulty reaching Intersecting Concepts through the U.S. mail, I checked the CompuServe directory for Mark Graybill, who "is" (or maybe was) Intersecting Concepts. I came up with this listing, which seems at least to be in the right neighborhood: Mark D. Graybill, Agoura Hills,…
John, I, too, have used DOG occasionally. It's now in version 2.0x and seems pretty reliable. I had a bad experience with version 1.0x: I had a bad sector on my hard disk; DOG bombed out on that sector and left several files cross-linked. Fortunately, I had backups. From what…
John, Quattro Pro very definitely works on the Rainbow, at least under Code Blue with Suitable Solutions' patches and MS-DOS 3.10B. I've been using it since around January and prefer it to the Rainbow versions of Lotus 1-2-3. — Carl
#Help
Message #20873
John, A footnote: Because Winchesters can be partitioned into more than one "virtual" drives, pressing W ordinarily gives you a second menu asking which virtual drive to boot from, as in E, F or G. The utility that you used to partition the disk should have an option to let…