CP/M/CPM_CDROM.iso/simtel/cpmug/cpmug092.ark/ADDENDUM.TXT

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 1090#title Secretary Addendums
0<RELEASE 8.1 ADDENDUM
1120
11401)INTEGRITY CHECK
L1160[When SECRETARY is loaded, the first thing it does is check itself for
N1180certain errors.  It will detect an error in writing the program to disk,
O1200reading the program from disk, and certain memory errors.  If an error is
R1220found, the message "INTEGRITY FAILURE" will be printed.  You should then try
I1240reloading or recopying it.  The original diskette is checked before
1260shipping.]
1280
13002)NEW CONFIGURE QUESTION
P1320[Since some printers cannot do a carriage return without doing a line feed
P1340and other printers cannot backspace, the underline function may not always
N1360work properly.  To fix this, the following question will be asked during
!1380the configuration command:]
&1400<UNDERLINE USING BS OR CR (B/C)?
M1420[If you printer does not backspace, enter "C" and it will do a carriage
O1440return without doing a line feed.  If your printer does not do a carriage
K1460return without a line feed, enter "B" and it will underline using the
0backspace character.]
1500
15203)AUTO COMMAND CHANGES
N1540[To cancel a line without stopping the generation of line numbers, enter
'1560control-A rather than control-C.]
1580
 16004)COMMAND LINE RANGE CHECK
M1620[On those commands which require a range of line numbers (such as DELT,
O1640COPY, LIST, etc), if the first line number is greater than the second, an
-1660"INVALID PARM1" error will be printed.]
1680
17005)EDIT CONTROL-N
M1720[Control-N will now cause the &new& line to be reedited rather than the
R1740old line.  You can enter control-G to list the line then control-N to reedit
,1760the line without entering EDIT again.]
1780
"18006)Control-C during DIRECTORY
P1820[If you type control-C while listing the directory, you will now return to
J1840SECRTARY rather than DOS.  This causes SECRETARY to make a temporary
;1860modification to DOS for the duration of the command.]
1880
(19007)PRINT BEGINNING AT A LINE NUMBER
H1920[If you enter the command PRINT followed by a line number (similar
=1940to the LIST command), printing will begin at that line.
O1960CAUTION: If you have imbedded commands at the beginning of the file, they
N1980will be ignored unless they occur after the line number that you enter.]
2000
2020\
2040<NEW COMMANDS
2060
20808) DESTROY filename
O2100[This command is similar the the North Star BASIC command.  It will erase
G2120the file name from the disk directory thereby deleting the file.]
2140
21609) CHAIN filename
P2180[This command will do a LOAD and an automatic PRINT.  Be sure the paper is
Q2200positioned before entering a carriage return.  This command may be imbedded
H2220within you text file to load and print multiple files at one time.
O2240Printing will begin on the next line so if you want the new file to begin
O2260on a new page, have a page eject character (back slash) at the top of the
Q2280chained file.  The COMMENT and SPACE commands, in addition to CHAIN, may be
L2300imbedded within the file rather than only at the beginning of the file
2320as the other commands.]
2340
"236010) BLOAD basic-program-name
Q2380[A BASIC program is not in the format that can be processed with SECRETARY.
Q2400To load a BASIC program and convert it to SECRETARY format in memory, enter
Q2420BLOAD followed by the name of the BASIC program file.  You can then use the
P2440editing features of SECRETARY on it.  NOTE: Renumber only changes the line
K2460numbers at the left side of the line and not references to those line
M2480numbers within a line (such as GOTO, GOSUB, etc) as the BASIC REN does.
O2500Use the CHNG command to change these references.  The line numbers in the
O2520BASIC program must not exceed 9999 so you may have to do a BASIC renumber
 2540before BLOADing the file.]
2560
"258011) BSAVE basic-program-name
M2600[This is the opposite of BLOAD.  It takes a SECRETARY formatted file in
G2620memory, converts it to North Star BASIC, and writes it to disk in
O2640basic-program-name.  Be sure that the disk file is already created, it is
M2660type 2, and it is large enough to include any changes that you may have
K2680added to the program.  Since the conversion requires scanning a large
Q2700token table, the program may take a minute or two to perform this command.]
2720
274012) EXPAND
P2760[These new features require an additional 1.5K of memory.  This means that
L2780text files that could be loaded before under an earlier release may be
J2800too large to load now.  To solve this problem, the BLOAD, BSAVE, and
P2820CONFIGURE commands have been put at the end of SECRETARY.  By entering the
O2840command EXPAND, you wan wipe out these three commands and expand the data
P2860area by about 2K so those large files will now fit.  &CAUTION: do not save
N2880a copy of the program after entering EXPAND or you will permanently lose
P2900the BSAVE, BLOAD, and CONFIGURE commands.  BE SURE TO SAVE ANY TEXT IN THE
Q2920DATA AREA BEFORE ENTERING EXPAND.  ANY TEXT IN THE DATA AREA AFTER ENTERING
)2940EXPAND WILL BE PERMANENTLY LOST.& ]
2960\
0<RELEASE 9.3 ADDENDUM
3000
%30201) UNIT RESET ON LIST AND PRINT
    3040>5,
F3060[After listing or printing on a device other than zero (UNIT 0),
A3080the print and list device will revert back to the console.]
3100>
3120
A31402) THE CHNG COMMAND WILL ACCEPT SPACE IN ADDITION TO CNTL-A
3160   TO REJECT A CHANGE.
3180
D32003) THE FIND COMMAND WILL PRINT ON THE DEVICE SPECIFIED BY UNIT
    3220>5,
E3240[With the extensive use of Secretary to edit BASIC programs, it
G3260may be desirable to get a cross-reference on hard copy using the
F3280FIND command.  For this reason, the lines printed by FIND may go
C3300to the printer specified by UNIT.  It will not revert back to
E3320unit zero (console) in case there are multiple cross-references
3340to be printed.]
3360>
3380
34004) BOOT COMMAND
    3420>5,
J3440[The BOOT command was included in release 9, but was not documented.
G3460BOOT will jump to E800 or E900 (depending on the disk density) to
J3480reboot DOS.  If you have DOS set to automatically bring up BASIC and
L3500and a menu program, you can bring it up without going to DOS directly.
F3520Using the BASIC program "LOADER" on the disk, you can even go to
13540Secretary from BASIC without going to DOS.]
3560>
3580
%36005) THE BSAVE BUG HAS BEEN FIXED
3620
'36406) THE DATA AREA BEGINS AT 60E0H.
3660
!3700<ADDENDUM 9.4 (MAY 1, 1980)
3720
G37401) The imbedded TITLE bug (converting all characters to caps) has
3760   been fixed.
3780
G38002) The tab/edit bug (losing tabs on edited lines) has been fixed.
3820
*38403) The control-A bug has been fixed.
3860
J38804) The bug that permitted file names to be greater than 8 characters
D3900   has been fixed.  If a file name is entered with more than 8
23920   characters, INVALID PARM will be printed.
3940
I39605) It must be repeated that you cannot use CHNG or CHAL to change a
G3980   string to a subset of itself or a string preceeded by a space.
D4000   To change X to XY, first change X to something obscure like
L4020   #$%  then change #$% to XY.  This is because of the way the program
M4040   rescans the line after making a change to find additional occurences
H4060   within the same line.  To change a string preceeded by a blank,
J4080   change the string to include a character before a blank or better
4100   still, use EDIT.
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