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March 1985
An Applewriter //e Enhancer
by Steve George
Don Lancaster has been writing about
e l e c t r o n i c s a n d s p e c i fi c a l l y a b o u t
computers and interfacing for several
years. His writing has always appealed
to me, due to the way he presents
complicated information in an easy-toswallow fashion.
I enjoy using Applewriter ][ but am
just a little jealous of those of you who
can use the lie version. Thinking that
Lancaster's latest publication, TEARING
INTO APPLEWRITER He, would help me
to better understand my AW][, I sent
for his $30 set of disks.
What you receive is 3 disks (6 sides)
jammed with text files (AW//e format, of
course). 1800 SECTORSO) of text on
disk... Hmm... After 'converting1 it to
AW][ (just reducing the file sizes to bite
sized portions), I sent it to the printer
in condensed mode and: 80 char line
width, 58 lines per page. 150 pages
later, I had a great technical reference
manual of the internals of AW//e. About
1/3 is verbiage discussing things like:
Memory Maps, Page Zero Uses, Entry
Points, and Memory Management. The
remaining 2/3 is Tables such as: Work
File Details, Main Program Detailed, How
to Patch, and How to Capture Source
Code.
The information it contains isn't really
what I was looking for, but for you lie
users it could definitely be a bonanza!
Let me know if you'd like to glance at
the hard-copy before you decide to 'pop'
for these disks.
[Lancaster now offers his User and
Hacker (3 disks each - 6 sides), in a
combination: the info of each on 4 disks
- 8 sides for $40]
In addition, Lancaster sent along a
copy of one of his previous books — he
definitely follows his own philosophy of
giving the customer something extra
(detailed in the free book!).
F i n a l l y, h e m a i n t a i n s a ( t o l l )
"enhancing hotline" for you to call with
questions. Very impressive!
In the words of Bob Sander-Cedarlof
(author of the S-C Assembler) ..."After
a thorough analysis, he completely
documented [AW//eJ... It doesn't matter
if you like Applewriter or not. You still
can learn a tremendous amount by
reading through Don's text and
comments. Of course it is better if you
DO have Applewriter //e, because he
tells you how to make some great
customizing modifications"
"TEARING INTO APPLEWRITER He",
is published by Synergetics, Box 809,
Thatcher,
AZ
85552.
-a.
$ & £ Formatter Erratum ■"*
59000 DC$ = RIGHT$ ( STR$ ( INT(DC
+ (DC < 0) * 1 + (DC > = 0)*
.005)) + "." + RIGHT$ ( STR$
(INT (( ABS (DC) + 100) * 100+
.5)),2),10)
The erratum was the missing final
paraenthesis... hope you can use this.
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