#ProWrite
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Hi Bill, Hope you had a good weekend. The ProWrite came today. I've been
enjoying it alot. It's very easy to learn, it is very similar to the LPD
Writer that I had. More progessed, and definately impressive tho. I like it
alot and feel that I made the right decision. You're advice was just what
made the difference and I thank you.
With any luck you'll probably be hearing what my aunt and cousin have done
for our people in operation Desert Shield. Let me know if you hear about a
surprize from any fellow operators on that side of the world. I'd tell you
everything but have to respect my aunts wishes for now.
Is 10/4 an accurate sign off for HAM? Jacquie
>> Is 10/4 an accurate sign off for HAM?
Depends. The proper Ham sign off for dimwits is 73. Which is fine when
the S/N ratio isn't so good. The rest of the time I suggest the plain
vanilla, "Good Bye!"
– Nelson …
(With a grin and a chortle, the old ham'ster rides off into the sunset.)
Jacquie,
I'm glad you are so pleased with ProWrite. (Though I'm sure that Jim
Bayless at New Horizons is even more pleased. 🙂 )
What are your aunt and cousin doing for the troops? I'm retired from the
Army, and it makes me feel good to hear about folks helping our military.
It wasn't so long ago that we were called "baby killers" and spat upon.
<sigh>
I live in an apartment, so long distance ham communications is somewhat
difficult. One of these days I'll be rich and famous, and then I'll put up
a big antenna farm. (Of course, here in Florida it will probably fall into
a sink hole as soon as it is erected. 🙂 )
10-4 is public service talk, and the CBers picked it up when they couldn't
figure out how to say goodbye in English. 🙂 The normal ham signoff is
73, or best regards, or, in the case of ladies, 88, which means "love and
kisses." These are both old telegrapher's codes.
Bill, K3OZM
Bill, Thanks for filling me in, I've always been curious. The only person
that I've known that has been in service was my dad and he never talked
about it much. He lots of pictures and some kind of book that resembled a
year book. I know he was in Germany and Italy. Thats it. WWII. In his
pictures he looked great in uniform. I still have his hat, somewhere. When
he passed away he did'nt have much. There are five of us girls and we each
tried to find a little something. I got his wedding band and his army hat.
My sisters all held kinda a grudge against him, but I lived with him for a
year and got to know him as a person and not a father. It was great, we
were really good friends. Well, to get to some "lighter" stuff. I can't say
much right now about what my aunt and cousin have done. She has a son over
there and will miss him at the holidays. So, she put this projuect together
with him in mind. It snowballed into a production and what transpired in
the process is really beautiful. I can't wait to tell you. I'm late for
work now, but maybe later I'll mail you the info. Should I try writing it
on ProWrite then uploading? I know it can be done, do you think I should
give it a try? Jacquie um-73
Jacquie –
Sure, write it in ProWrite and upload it. It will be good practice for
you. There are a few things you need to do to make the upload work,
however.
Since we both have Amigas, you can save the text file any way you want to.
If you were to upload a message to Pets, or other forums where folks use
computers other than Amigas, you do have to watch a few things in your
formatting.
Margins should be set so the line does not exceed 80 characters. It's
wasteful to have a left margin on CIS, so I use a setting of Left Margin =
0, Right Margin = 76.
Save as a TEXT file, and set for LineFeeds after Every Line.
There is a length restriction on messages in forums, so keep your file to
40 lines or so to make sure you don't exceed the limit when writing
messages. E-mail also has a size limit, but it is big enough that you
could almsot send "War and Peace" if you felt like typing it. Uploads to
the libraries don't have a size limit.
A long, long time ago (in a galaxy not so far away :)), someone did publish
a yearbook for our Basic Training class. I'd guess your father's book was
similar. The Army also takes official photographs of classes attending
service schools, and gives a copy to each of the students. They also like
to take pictures of things like promotions, awards ceremonies, etc.
Bill, K3OZM
Bill, Be watching for my letter in EMail. I'm gonna type it and try sending
it to you there. Jacquie
It arrived Jacquie.
I think you saved it normally, rather than as a text (ASCII) file
though. It is close enough to ASCII in it's default format that Whap!, just
read it rather than downloading it, but there is a lot of formatting
information along with the text. You might also want to experiment with
the right margin a bit. It looks to be about 4 or 5 characters too wide so
as not to cause the lines to wrap on my screen. It just takes a little
practice combining a new wordprocessor with an alien (on-line ASCII)
environment.
I think that is a fantastic thing your aunt is doing! I'd like to clean
it up and post it over on Veteran's Forum, if you would permit it. I know
lots of military people, active and retired, who would love to hear about
this effort.
Bill, K3OZM
Glad everything at least got through, tho not quite right. I remember
responding to an ASCII request somewhere, maybe I neglected to do something
else I should have. I did try to find the margin sets, darned if I could.
Although, I did save it to disk, so when my says "go" I can send it to you
right away. Then I'd be delighted to have you pass it along. I don't know
when they were mailed, how long it will be before they are received, and so
on. Hopefully it won't be too much longer. I'm very excited for her. Will
keep you posted. Can you tell me about what I need to use Whap!? I
downloaded it, I think, last week. I was told to get something called
ARC:EXE from the library to "unpack" it. I'm confused. Easily done. Now,
where does the binary file part come in? Will I be able to print out the
directions on my printer? I need to have something in my face that I can
keep referring to. Okay, so the fact that I have the ProWrite manual and
can't find margin settings contradicts that, NORMALLY, I do alright. My
best friend lives in FL. Not too far from Orlando. I keep promising to come
down, but too many others have dibbs on my time. Both my businesses involve
live animals being cared for daily, plus I have lots of birds that I breed
for sale and pet birds. Did I forget to mention my 7 (count 'em) dogs? Dad
used to say I was an animal magnet! Anyway, I was wishing I was there this
am. When I pulled into the driveway at the kennel there was a tree down
across the parking area. Luckily, the only real damage was to a parimeter
fence and an electrical line. Meanwhile, the wind was just ripping through
town. The landlord (ham operator) came down with his son and a backhoe,
moved the heavy part and left me to the rest. I'm 5'3 + 100lbs, I got blown
from one side to the other. Good thing I like ammusement rides 'cause thats
what it felt like! 73 – Jacquie
Jacquie –
No problem for me on the message. All the information was there, and then
some! <grin> If I get a chance later tonight or tomorrow, I'll reformat
it and send it back to you so you can see how it was done. Incidentally,
you can send messages to yourself through e-mail if you want to test what
you've learned.
Now for the biggie….. What to do about Whap!
Whap! is compressed with the utility LHARC. The file extender .lzh gives
this away. I have no idea what LZH stands for, if anything, but LHARC
appends this extender to the filename during the archiving process. In any
event, you will need the LHARC program, not ARC, to decompress Whap!.
Luckily, you can find that in Library 5 here under the filename LHARC.EXE.
(If you need to know how to find a specific file in a library when you know
the filename, let me know, and I'll try to 'splain it.)
I don't know what kind of system you have set up there, so you may have to
fudge these instructions a bit to make it work. I'll assume you have at
least 1 megabyte of memory, since ProWrite and Whap! both need that much.
First, put LHARC.EXE onto a new disk with the filename LHARC, which you
name Whap while formatting.
CD to this disk. The shell prompt should now show 1.Whap> (or something
similar)
Place the disk containing the Whap.lzh archive into another disk drive.
(You can copy the archive onto the new Whap disk if you do not have another
drive.)
From the shell prompt type the following line:
LHARC X df1:WHAP
LHARC calls the file to be run, the X means eXtract, df1: is the drive
where the archive is located (just change this to the appropriate name if
you don't have the disk in df1:), and WHAP tells LHARC it is going to work
on the file named WHAP.LZH. The disks will now gronk, grind, flash lights,
and do all manner of things to let you know they are working. Your screen
will also show a whole bunch of information, letting you know that you are
extracting, unsqueezing, uncrunching, or whatever, the files in the
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archive. When the 1.WHAP> prompt comes back, the file will now be
dearchived, and a whole bunch of files will be on the Whap: diskette.
At this point, we are done with the disk containing the archive. Hold on
to it just in case something goes wrong during the installation and you
have to repeat the process, but you can remove that diskette, and replace
it with a workbench, another blank, or whatever you normally keep there.
Now, do a directory of the Whap: disk. One of the files on the disk is the
manual. It used to be called Whap.PRT, though that may have changed. When
I wrote it, it was a 50 page manual (including pictures), but it's been
changed quite a bit since that time. Anyway, this is the file you need to
print out.
To print out the manual, there are lots of options. One of which is
loading the beast into your new wordprocessor, and formatting it as you see
fit. The quick and dirty method is to go to the shell and type the
following line:
COPY WHAP:WHAP.PRT PRT:
(Please make sure your printer is turned on before typing that line.)
The manual contains instructions for installing, and using the Whap!
program. If you have any trouble getting it to work, just holler!
I'm located in a suburb of Orlando called Maitland. We're just north of
the city, and the only way you really know you're in a different town is
when you see signs informing you of the fact. If you get down this way,
give me a yell, and we'll get together for some coffee or something.
Now….. it's about time to go off and see the Orlando Magic break the NBA
record for the longest losing streak in their home arena. I'll be on later
tonight if you have further questions.
Bill, K3OZM
Bill,
Hope you enjoyed the game! Good that you're a positive thinker, hope they
did you proud. Well, I copied everything you gave me. I can't thank you
enough! I have to hit the sack now unfortunately, that alarm will be going
off too soon for me. I am looking forward to working on this tomorrow. I
like the way you give directions, you have'nt steered me wrong yet.
Thanks! Jacquie
Jacquie –
The Magic are a second year expansion team who had lost 15 straight games
at home. All indications pointed to their losing tonight as well, and
setting a new NBA record for losing at home. They did lose, and now have a
place in the record books. Tonight's game was rather sloppy on both sides,
but the Magic are fun to watch anyway…… how many other teams have a
mascot named "Stuff, the Magic Dragon?" They also have fantastic pre-game
and half-time shows.
Just holler if you have any problems, and I'm sure I've forgotten
something. I check in several times a day.
Bill, K3OZM
Bill,
Well it sounds like win or lose, you have fun. That's the most important
thing. Really, tho, 15 games straight ? That sounds hard to take! I like "
Stuff the Magic Dragon " that's neat. Well they're in the record book, I
guess thats something.
Just stopped home and got your messages in E-Mail. Will be working on all
the good stuff you gave me later when I slow down. Am looking forward to
sitting down and working on the WHAP!. Will check out the settings in
ProWrite too.
You're really great to help me so much. I'll check in with you on my
progress, you'll be proud!
73, Jacquie
The Whap doc has been extensively rewritten and is now in ascii format and
named Whap.DOC.
-sja
I realize it has been almost completely changed, just couldn't recall if it
had been renamed off the top of my head.
Bill, K3OZM
Jacquie,
"10-4" means "OK" not "Bye"
Don
Didn't "10-4" mean "goodbye" or "signing off" at one time (like back in
the 50's or 60's)?
Steve
Steve,
Nope…always meant "Ok/Will comply/Acknowledge" (all equivalent
terms) but often was the last transmission so many folks thought it meant
"out/done/bye".
Don
I think 10-4 came into the national conciousness due to its use on the TV
show "Highway Patrol" starring Broderick Crawford. They always used it to
mean roughly OK and signing. This was in the 50's.
Tom