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NEW and OLD HINTS ABOUT TAMING THE B-SYS-

TEM By: Elizabeth Deal

Does your B-machine hang up when you try to load Super

script or some other program? Do all the red lights on the drive

go on when you say PRINT DS$ or try some other disk talk?

Does it hang up when you try to SAVE? Mine does. It has to do

with equipment plugged in but not turned on. It drives me nuts,

but I think I have finally found a routine to prevent/fix the crash:

So if your printer is connected, but not on (as in "I don’t plan

to print for a month!") you can either turn it on or unplug it.

That will fix the problem 100 %. What if you have already loaded

a bunch of stuff successfully and then realize that you may crash

SAVEing? Simple: turn the printer on. Now, press the little reset

button. When the computer says "ready." everything should

work. PRINT DS$ should return something on the screen. I

push that little button whenever I change anything on the IEEE

bus. It seems to tell the computer what’s out there... I don’t really

know why the B behaves so funny. It has something to do with

the current the tri-port chip has to sink. I don’t know much about

sinking things. My PET never had this kind of difficulties!

< Liz, I’ve never had this problem and I run with the printer off

quite often to keep from waking the wife — but with two

keyboards on the same IEEE, there is often some strange goings

on that we’ve not had time to study > Norm.

To print any program on a printer do this:

open 4,4:cmd 4:Iist

when all the noise stops, you have to type:

print# 4:close 4

If you forget that last part, not much harm is done on the

printer. At worst, the last line will not print, and the cursor may

act rather funny. Doing anything that causes a SYNTAX ERROR

is one way to stop the mess. BUT, try to learn to use the last

line. When you begin using disk for writing things, forgetting

those last two commands could well lead to severe corruption

of your disks.

You can change spacing between the lines on the 4023

printers. I find it convenient sometimes to attach a piece of paper

with a disk directory to the disk envelope. I can print a fairly

long directory in small space using 9 lines per inch. Here’s how:

Set text (not graphic) mode: open 4,4,7 :print#4:close 4

Set line spacing: open 4,4,6:print#4,chr$(24):close 4

Now list and close as above. If you read your printer book,

you’ll see a different number. In fact they say that 24 will give

you 6/inch. Don’t trust everything you read, especially the

printer manual, which just dragged old 4022 info along. Our

values are new, we have a 4023. These numbers seem to do the

job:

chr$(18) - 12/inch

24 9

28 8

30 7.5

32 7

34 6.5

36 6/inch - this is the default spacing

When you page, i.e. skip printing over the perforations, the

above will cause a mess unless you also change number of

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EDITORIAL by Bruce Faierson

In this small amount of space I will try address several

important topics.

1.) I’m extremely sorry for the delay in the publication of this

issue. I am pursuing a new direction in the accounting field.

2.) We will keep the library going if we get enough sales!!

3.) This issue is solely on the Commodore IEEE printers.

Although most of this information has been published, there is

some new and revised material in a compact, organized package.

4.) THE LAST ISSUE will be published in late 1993 or early

1994. I would like to get all the original contributors to write

a piece regarding the B-128, CBUG, Norm Deletzke or just

their personal perspective on their years involved with the B.

SS3 Hints & Tips for the 8023p by Dave Ritterbusch

Note: A blank line is required before each group of

commands when used in the text (edit mode) of SS III to

send the 8023p secondary address commands.

rem mandatory blank line

*sal3,13

rem these two lines set 8023P

*sal5,13

rem to NLQ mode

rem mandatory blank line

*sal4,14

rem these two lines reset 8023P

*sal6,14 rem to Draft mode

rem mandatory blank line

*sa6,12

rem sets single line spacing

*p!66

rem sets page length to 66 lines

rem mandatory blank line

*sa6,18

rem sets 11/2 line spacing

*pl44 rem sets page length to 44 lines

rem mandatory blank line

*sa6,24 rem sets double line spacing

*p!33

rem sets page length to 33 lines

rem mandatory blank line

*sa8,8 ‘rem set NORMal mode.

*sa7,7 rem set GRAPHics mode.

4023 Hints & Tips NOTE: I don’t know if a blank line

is mandatory with the 4023 printer before each set of

secondary address commands.

*sa6,36

rem sets single line spacing

*pl66

rem sets page length to 66 lines

*sa6,54 rem sets 1 1/2 line spacing

*p!44 rem sets page length to 44 lines

*sa6,72 rem sets double line spacing

*pl33

rem sets page length to 33 lines

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