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- The programs on volume 80 were contributed by:
-
- David E. Trachtenbarg
- 120 W. Arcadia
- Peoria, IL 61604
- 309 688-9742
-
- Here are a few comments extracted from his very complete
- submittal forms:
-
- * They all require Cromemco 32K Structured Basic
-
- * Most have hardware dependency on a Hazeltine 1500 terminal.
- The statistical programs have optional plotting routines that
- require a dot matrix printer.
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- The remaining is directly from the author:
-
- This disk contains a set of programs that I wish to donate to
- the CPMUG for noncommercial use. Most of the programs are
- entirely original programs that I wrote from scratch. Others
- are based on algorithms that have been described by others.
- None have been published as Structured Basic programs before to
- my knowledge.
-
- Although all of the programs work, some still have minor bugs
- in them that I know about. All of the programs could be
- improved upon. I considered waiting until all of the programs
- were in the best possible condition before sending them into
- the CPMUG. However, if I did that I never would get around to
- submitting any programs. Therefore, I have sent in this set as
- is. Perhaps in the future newer better verions will be
- included on this disk.
-
- Files SMENU.STB, SPELL.STB, CEDIT.STB, DEDIT.STB, CHECK.DAT,
- TRANSFER.STB, DICTION.DAT and WORDLIST.TXT are all parts of a
- spelling checking program. The program was written before the
- commercial spelling checkers were first marketed. Unlike the
- commercial checkers it is very slow since each word is checked
- in a ISAM dictionary file. Also unlike other spelling checkers
- it costs less than ten dollars.
- A text file containing a short list of common words is also
- included. The program will scan a text file and place all of
- the words not in the dictionary in another file to be checked.
- After all of the words in the check file have been reviewed
- they may be added to the dictionary. The writer must use an
- editor to correct any misspelled words. Some other limitations
- of the program are that words longer than 15 characters are
- automatically put in the check file since the dictionary won't
- store them properly and that proper nouns may be stored in the
- dictionary capitalized, but the spelling checker does not check
- the text for capitalization.
-
-
- DATE.STB, MMENU.STB, REC-EDIT.STB, REC-PRN.STB, ZIPSORT.STB
- and BACKUP.STB are all parts of a mailing list program. It
- allows names to be entered, modified and deleted. Printouts
- may be made of all the entered data, mailing labels sorted by
- zip code or alphabetically and in a membership list format.
- The program should be easy to customize.
-
-
- CONV-ASC.STB and CONV-BAS.STB were written to help convert
- Microsoft and C-Basic programs into structured BASIC programs.
- I have used them to help convert most of the CPMUG games. Some
- limitations are that String functions and disk I/O usually
- still need additional work. Also C-Basic programs that do not
- have sequential line number or line numbers that are too close
- together will not convert. I found that about 2/3 of the
- programs will run properly after being "put through" the
- conversion programs and the others require some additional
- modification.
-
-
- STAT.STB, X2.STB and SPEAR.STB are all statistics programs
- using standard algorithms.
-
-
- TREK.STB and TRK-HELP.STB are part of a new Startrek program
- that I wrote that is based on every other Startrek program that
- I have ever used.
-
-
- GRADER.STB uses the algorithm published by Donald Goodman and
- Sandra Schwab published in Creative Computing to calculate the
- Fog Index and the Flesch readability scale. The program itself
- has been rewritten to operate on text files rather than having
- someone type in text manually in a special format.
-
-
- SORTS.STB was inspired the the 2 part article in August and
- September 1981 Interface Age by Gene cotton comparing different
- sorting routines. It lets the users compare different standard
- sorting routines done on an array of random numbers. The
- procedures may also be used in other programs.
-
-
- UTILITY.STB is a program that will "strip" the line numbers
- off of a Cromemco Basic program and latter add them again. I
- have found it useful to use in combination with a text editor
- if blocks of a program need to be rearranged. Unfortunately it
- does not take GOTOs into account. If you need to alter a
- program that uses GOTOs I would suggest using labels instead of
- numbers.
-
-
- TRADE.STB is a Structured Basic version of an old CPMUG game
- from volume 21. The game has been rewritten to follow a
- structured format. There is not one Goto in the entire
- program!
-
-
- PRN-TEST.STB is a simple printer testing program.
-