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AV Software Designs, Ltd. October 4, 1985
DEC Rainbow Archive Package # 4
Package Title - "Murphy's Sayings"
Version - 1.1
System - DEC Rainbow 100/A/B/+/190
MS-DOS Version 2.11+
Compatible over MS/PC-DOS
Language - TurboPascal Version 3.01A
Author - Alan I. Vymetalik for
AV Software Designs, Ltd.
All doucmentation, sources, and programs -
Copyright (c) 1985 by AV Software Designs, Ltd.
COPYRIGHT, WARRANTY, AND DISCLAIMERS
Any material included in this package may be used for
whatever application desired. However, no documentation,
sources, or programs created AV Software Designs, Ltd. may
be sold or otherwise included, in whole or part, in other
software being sold. Licensing arrangements can by made
through the above address.
Special exception is made for any sources that this
package contains. The source routines may be used in any
manner the user wishes. The user is encouraged to include
the routines in his software to better the quality of the
software and thereby the quality in public domain circula-
tion. Appropriate references are appreciated.
Since these materials are being released under the
FreeWare concept, any user of this software may freely
donate money, ideas, and comparable routines in return for
using this software if the user has felt he has benefitted
or learned something from this software. Funds and ideas
will go a long way in helping the author develop new soft-
ware and to maintain this and other packages. Address all
inquires and communications to the above address.
Warranties and Guarantees - None! Though these pro-
grams have been tested as thoroughly as possible, neither
the author nor AV Software Designs, Ltd. assumes nor is
responsible for any damage occuring to any hardware or
software of the user nor for any typographical or logic
errors that may occur. This package and its contents are
subject to modification without prior notice and no com-
mitment of any kind is stated or to be inferred.
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
Murphy's Sayings is a proverb, truism, and old adage
generator for the DEC Rainbow 100 MS-DOS Version 2.11+
operating system. It will also function properly running
under PC-DOS 2.0+ if the ANSI.SYS driver is installed.
MURF was revived from the DEC RSX-11 and VAX versions by
the author as a bit of fun and amusement for all.
Place a call to it in your AUTOEXEC for a random say-
ing everytime you boot your system. If the demand is high
enough, we'll consider releasing MURF under other operat-
ing systems.
MURF is a fairly small program but its data is huge.
To allow the user to run MURF on any size system, the pro-
gram (about 11K) is loaded and then reads a keyed-data
file MURF.DAT. The data file can be anywhere you want it
to be. If the file does not exist (leave the data file
with its original name) or if it appears to be corrupted,
MURF will abort.
The calling line in an AUTOEXEC.BAT, for example,
MURF E:\BIN\
will look for the file MURF.DAT in E:\BIN\ (yes, you need
the closing '\' except when using the default directory.
Also, if all files are in the default directory, you can
omit the path name.
If you happen to have that wonderful 'PATH' replace-
ment called 'SEARCH' from Arborsoft Systems, you can leave
off the path name all together.
Since random number generators are not and because
the DEC Rainbow utilizes the system clock to seed its ran-
dom generator, it is strongly advised that you set the
system time with either the MS-DOS command or, preferably,
with AV Software Designs' RBCLK.
If you called MURF from your AUTOEXEC without setting
the time (or at least pausing on the command long enough),
you stand a good chance of the same saying everytime you
booted. MURF attempts to pause long enough to get a good
random number, but it is still dependent on the system
time at boot-time. To solve this, at least set the time or
use the MS-DOS 'time' command, pause, and then hit return.
Then call MURF. Maybe we'll get a real-time clock for the
Rainbow someday!
Files needed to run MURF:
MURF.COM
MURF.DAT
Information:
MURF.DOC
MURF Version 1.1
Copyright (c) 1985 by AV Software Designs, Ltd.
DEC Rainbow Archive Package # 4