THE FOLLOWING IS A PUBLIC MESSAGE BY THOMAS KEENE,EDITOR OF IEAUG ON THE SOCA BBS (7l4-775-l603) AND IS REPRODUCED HERE FOR ITS TECHNICAL CONTENT AND INFO ON POSSIBLE UPLOAD/DOWN LOAD PROBLEMS WITH EOS & CPM USAGE.
 
 
A636 13:07 Jan-06-1990 
 
TO: Barry Wilson FROM: KEENE, Thomas J.CA 6 
SUBJ: Problem files 
Hi Barry! I read your reply to my comment about downloading the files on the contest.  I was able to reconstruct the files into a usable document. I have gone further than that. I have written an article for this month's IEAUG newsletter based on the press handout. I am pretty sure of the nature of the file problem. I would guess that it was written in EOS (probably with SMARTWRITER) and then uploaded with a CP/M program. And more than likely the file was transferred to CP/M from EOS with ADAM.COM. My reason for this speculation is that the file, as downloaded, had en interminably long sentence line. This happens when an EOS file is sent directly to CP/M without certain precautions.  SMARTWRITER doesn't require a line feed with each carriage return, so when you type a carriage return in SMARTWRITER, no line feed is issued. No problem in 
EOS, because EOS supplies automatically issues a line feed.  And EOS has a wrap around feature which obviates the need for even a carriage return. So you can type an entire paragraph and never sens a carriage return. None of these features are 
available in CP/M. When a 
file is converted from EOS 
to CP/M it is converted 
EXACTLY as it was written. 
So CP/M may get no line 
feeds and maybe not even a 
carriage return at 
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A637 13:07 Jan-06-1990 
 
TO: Barry Wilson 
FROM: KEENE, Thomas J.CA 6 
SUBJ: Continuation 
Read (Y/N/Quit)>y 
the end of a normal "EOS" 
sentence. When it gets to 
CP/M, the sentence maybe 
be many lines long. And 
even if a carriage return 
was eventually sent, there 
will be no line feed and 
so the printer will just 
print over the previously 
printed line. Verstehen 
Zie? The files I 
downloaded looked as I 
have just described. Once 
I recognized the 
situation, it was duck 
soup to revise the text. 
Now about that other 
comment you made regarding 
the Panasonic Printer 
Control commands. Yes they 
were there also. And I 
have seen them in many of 
the files in the ANN 
newsletter. I recognize 
them, but I don't know 
what they do. For example, 
What does ^A mean to your 
printer. If it is 
possible, could you send 
me (on the BBS would be 
fine) a list of the 
control commands and their 
functions. With this 
information I might be 
able to convert them to 
WORDSTAR control commands 
and thereby incorporate 
them into my printer 
operation. I expect these 
commands do things like 
indent text, center text, 
change type fonts etc. 
etc. But if this isn't 
practical, just skip it. 
But in any case, I have 
always been able to use 
your material. It's just 
that I'm not sure that 
others can decipher these 
texts. Thanks for 
listening, Kindest 
re 
gards,.................Tom 

 
 
GENERAL > 
downloaded looked as I 
have just described. Once 
I recognized the 
situation,
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