Title: FOGHORN Index for Best of Volume I (compilation from Oct 81 - Sep 82) Date: Updated April 25, 1991 Version: 1.02 ?Foghorn Best of I% ^Subject Area Categories#Oct 84$ @Each entry in this database falls into one or more of the following categories: *[Apple]* *[Beginner]* *[Business]* *[Communications]* *[Convert]* *[Correction]* *[CP/M]* *[Database]* *[Exec]* *[Games/Sports]* *[Hacking]* *[Hardware]* *[Labels]* *[Library]* *[Modem]* *[O-1]* *[Printer]* *[Programming]* *[Review]* *[System]* *[Util]* *[WordProcessing]* *[Workbench]* ?John Gaudio%Best I ^From The Doghouse#Oct 84$6 @Setup Special Function Keys (SFK) *[O-1]* ?John Gaudio%Best I ^From The Doghouse#Oct 84$7 @Using MODEM7 *[Communications]* ?John Gaudio%Best I ^CP/M Part I#Oct 84$9 @General background on CP/M *[System]* ?John Gaudio%Best I ^CP/M Part II#Oct 84$9 @General background on CP/M *[System]* ?Kent Walker%Best I ^A Hint for CBASIC Authors#Oct 84$10 @Using WordStar to write programs *[Programming]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^Clear Up CP/M Messages#Oct 84$11 @<Ctrl>Z clears the screen for many CP/M systems *[CP/M]* *[Beginner]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^Random Bits - WordStar With Epson#Oct 84$11 @Installing WordStar 2.26 for your printer *[WordProcessing]* *[Printer]* *[Hacking]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^Random Bits - Stripping WordStar Document Files#Oct 84$11 @WordStar, Strip 8th bit using pip newfile=oldfile[z] *[WordProcessing]* *[Util]* *[CP/M]* *[Hacking]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^Random Bits - General Ledger Update#Oct 84$11 @Osborne McGraw Hill General Ledger in BASIC *[Business]* *[Programming]* *[Library]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^Random Bits - BDOS Error - Bad Sector#Oct 84$12 @How to recover from BDOS Error *[Util]* *[Hacking]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^WordStar Patches Revisited#Oct 84$12 @WordStar, Epson install *[WordProcessing]* *[Printer]* *[Hacking]* ?Bob Briggs%Best I ^Odds & Ends#Oct 84$13 @To get to specific WordStar page, use find ^QF with ^N; number of times equals 55 lines per page (^N is hard carriage return; hints is for non-document files); to link MBasic program to assembly (ASM) program use 'CALL' function *[WordProcessing]* *[Programming]* ?Paul Pease%Best I ^Tips (or tricks)#Oct 84$13 @WordStar, Special Function Keys (SFK) for letterhead, copyright sign using upper case O with ^PH c, MailMerge dot commands *[WordProcessing]* *[O-1]* ?David Oates%Best I ^A Few More Tricks#Oct 84$14 @Four keys (characters) available but not shown on key caps; other systems have similar "missing" characters *[O-1]* *[Exec]* ?Bradley S. Albom%Best I ^That's Not a Bug, It's Feature#Oct 84$14 @MBasic screen scrolling and width command *[Programming]* ?Jim Ulrick%Best I ^Trouble Closing a Disk Drive Door#Oct 84$15 @What to do when the door sticks *[O-1]* *[Workbench]* ?Larry Robison%Best I ^Epson Instructions#Oct 84$15 @Epson printers info *[Printer]* ?Author Unknown%Best I ^Static Electricity#Oct 84$16 @Some suggestions on how to avoid static electricity dangers *[Hardware]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^WordStar With NEC 8023A#Oct 84$16 @NEC printer - review of use with WordStar *[WordProcessing]* *[Printer]* *[Review]* *[Hacking]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^WordStar With Epson#Oct 84$18 @Epson patches and patch names *[WordProcessing]* *[Printer]* *[Hacking]* ?Frank Morton%Best I ^Get Your Printer Up!#Oct 84$19 @Epson printers setup *[Printer]* ?Kent Walker%Best I ^A Stand for Your Osborne-1#Oct 84$20 @Plans for a simple stand you can build *[Workbench]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^NEC 8023 vs Epson MX-80#Oct 84$20 @NEC printer installation and review of WordStar *[WordProcessing]* *[Printer]* *[Review]* *[Hacking]* ?Mike Marzalek%Best I ^The Osborne 1's RS-232#Oct 84$21 @Serial port RS 232 pins 2 <-> 3 reversed DTR not RTS; Pinouts for Osborne's serial port *[Communications]* *[O-1]* ?Bob Morgan%Best I ^Pascal/M Timer for Osborne#Oct 84$21 @Pascal time for Osborne and ROM 1.2 *[Programming]* *[O-1]* ?Kent Walker%Best I ^The Olive-80 Typewriter-Printer#Oct 84$21 @Olivetti 80 printer review *[Printer]* *[Review]* ?Allen Munro%Best I ^Transferring Apple Pascal Files to the Osborne 1#Oct 84$22 @Osborne to Apple file conversions; Pascal notes *[O-1]* *[Apple]* *[Programming]* *[Convert]* ?Mel Crutts%Best I ^The RS-232-C Standard Revisited#Oct 84$23 @RS-232 port, serial, standards general info *[Hardware]* *[Communications]* ?David Oates%Best I ^WordStar Patches#Oct 84$25 @WordStar 2.26 patches *[WordProcessing]* *[Hacking]* ?David Oates%Best I ^Osborne Battery Pinouts#Oct 84$25 @Battery pinouts 5 +12, 1 +5, 7 and 8 ground (tied together); CRT, monitor info *[Workbench]* *[O-1]* ?Peter Fleming%Best I ^ANS MUMPS Available for the Osborne-1!#Oct 84$26 @MUMPS operating system, where to get *[Programming]* ?Jay Siegel%Best I ^REPORT from the BOG (Boston Osborne Group)#Oct 84$26 @WordStar with IDS printers, also special function key info (SFK), and XDIR *[WordProcessing]* *[Printer]* *[Hacking]* ?Dave Radke%Best I ^Addendum to Thom Hogan's WordStar Mod Article#Oct 84$28 @WordStar patches, Portable Companion errata *[WordProcessing]* *[Correction]* *[Hacking]* ?Gale Rhoades%Best I ^Notes, Notes and More Notes#Oct 84$31 @hints on printer, typewriter, and breaking large files into smaller pieces *[CP/M]* *[Util]* ?Ralph Nottingham%Best I ^A Non-Program for Information Retrieval#Oct 84$33 @WordStar, Creating a file using its 'Find and Replace' to search file for strings, like this file system *[WordProcessing]* *[Database]* ?Al Frazer%Best I ^An Answer#Oct 84$33 @MBasic screen scrolling and width command *[Programming]* ?Mike Mehr%Best I ^Saving Lost WordStar Text Data#Oct 84$33 @ASM program to save lost file, programming hints *[WordProcessing]* *[Programming]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^SUBMIT Instead of AUTOST#Oct 84$34 @Modify autostart to start MBasic 'file.bas' wherein copyright message is used as file.bas, use DUU or DDT *[O-1]* *[Util]* *[Programming]* *[Hacking]* *[Library]* ?Byron A. McKay%Best I ^Simple Patching of AUTOST.COM#Oct 84$34 @Patch autostart to run anything or to change message *[O-1]* *[Hacking]* ?Bill Essex%Best I ^Turn Your Osborne Into an Electronic Filing Cabinet#Oct 84$35 @Using MailMerge to emulate a data base, use dot commands *[WordProcessing]* *[Database]* ?R. Hunter Morey%Best I ^Using Your Special Function Keys on the Osborne 1#Oct 84$37 @Setup SFK (special function keys), WordStar functions *[WordProcessing]* *[O-1]* *[Hacking]* ?Howie Starkey%Best I ^Changes in WordStar#Oct 84$37 @WordStar version 2.26 patches to get rid of menu *[WordProcessing]* *[Hacking]* ?Bob Briggs%Best I ^Special Special Function Keys#Oct 84$38 @Patching SETUP to give special function key, SFK non-standard codes for special printing etc *[O-1]* *[Hacking]* ?Howie Starkey%Best I ^SUBMIT Control Characters#Oct 84$39 @Patching SUBMIT.COM to allow a control code entry such as ^Z; change addr 442 from 61 to 41 *[Hacking]* *[Util]*ch game, hints *[Programming]* *[Games/Sports]* ?Dave Blair%Best I ^Experiment With DDT#Oct 84$42 @DDT to write typewriter program *[CP/M]* *[Programming]* *[Util]* ?MicroPro & Gale Rhoades%Best I ^Three Across Labels with WordStar#Oct 84$43 @WordStar & MailMerge tutorial on use of dot commands and printing address labels *[WordProcessing]* *[Beginner]* *[Labels]* ?Doug Hurst%Best I ^AUTOSTarting#Oct 84$43 @Auto start patches with DDT *[CP/M]* *[Util]* *[Hacking]* ?Mike Mehr%Best I ^ch game, hints *[Programming]* *[Games/Sports]* ?Dave Blair%Best I ^Experiment With DDT#Oct 84$42 @DDT to write typewriter program *[CP/M]* *[Programming]* *[Util]* ?MicroPro & Gale Rhoades%Best I ^Three Across Labels with WordStar#Oct 84$43 @WordStar & MailMerge tutorial on use of dot commands and printing address labels *[WordProcessing]* *[Beginner]* *[Labels]* ?Doug Hurst%Best I ^AUTOSTarting#Oct 84$43 @Auto start patches with DDT *[CP/M]* *[Util]* *[Hacking]* ?Mike Mehr%Best I ^The Modem Chronicles, Part 1#Oct 84$45 @Introduction to the series *[Communications]* ?Mike Mehr%Best I ^The Modem Chronicles, Part 2#Oct 84$46 @BBS and how to use, OBJ file is COM file which has been renamed so it can't be executed on the BBS *[Communications]* ?Mike Mehr%Best I ^The Modem Chronicles, Part 3#Oct 84$47 @Modem, CompuServe, Source, Dow Jones *[Communications]* ?Mike Mehr%Best I ^NOTES#Oct 84$48 @Updates to original Modem Chronicles articles *[Correction]* *[Communications]* ?Bill Houk%Best I ^The Source and the Osborne 1#Oct 84$49 @Modem, The Source *[Communications]* ?Jack Brown%Best I ^Modem7 & the Hayes Smartmodem on the Osborne 1#Oct 84$49 @Modems - Modem7 and Hayes - mini tutorial *[Communications]* *[Modem]* ?Jack Brown%Best I ^Software Reviews from Vancouver, Canada#Oct 84$50 @SmartKey, SmartPrint, etc *[Review]* *[Util]* ?Jack Brown%Best I ^Accounting Software#Oct 84$51 @Businessmaster II+ with A/R, A/P, G/L, Payroll, Inventory Fixed Assets and mail list manager *[Review]* *[Business]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^General Ledger Update#Oct 84$52 @Osborne McGraw Hill General Ledger in BASIC *[Business]* *[Programming]* *[Library]* ?Jim Woolley%Best I ^PACMAN Fever#Oct 84$52 @What to do when you don't want auto horizontal scrolling *[O-1]* *[Library]* *[Games/Sports]* ?Greg Hinze%Best I ^A Hands-on Learning Experience#Oct 84$52 @Using Special Function Keys (SFK) for MBasic *[Programming]* ?Jay Siegel%Best I ^Report From The BOG# $ @MBasic to display graphics; PEEK & POKE may need ROM update (Omitted from Best of I; see Issue #7:Jun/July 1982; page 5) *[Programming]* *[O-1]* ?Richard Ezzard%Best I ^East Bay FOG# $ @^P toggle to print; WordStar, Control shift question mark is delete key on O-1 (Omitted from Best of I; see Issue #11:Sep 1982; page 7) *[WordProcessing]* *[CP/M]* *[O-1]*