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1...Used 08152 and 08022, to configure a set with data base on D:, but
CONTACTS
0201 - Chips & Tech. 408 434 0600
020101 - Mr. Morris E. Jones
020102 - Vice President =Ext. 4283 car: 408 398 6004 Prodigy TBDG68A
020103 - Advanced Products =fax 434 0765
0202 - TMS Enterprises 510 685 4911 fax 510 685 4989
020201 - Mr. Richard E. Tull; President
SUBJECTS
Chips & Tech; Installation, SDS
Mouse & Windows; Config.sys; Path
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0705 - Summary/Objective
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070601 - Installed SDS again, per ref SDS 13 line 060810; use history at ref
070602 - SDS 6 line 29.
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070604 - Modified his config.sys to use emm386.exe, and moved smartdrv from
070605 - autoexec.bat to config.sys, similar to my configuration on cpu #7.
070606 - This increased the amount of RAM he has to run SDS, from 517K, to
070607 - 630K.
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070609 - Transferred mouse.com to his computer, but initially it has not
070610 - enabled him to use the mouse in SDS under Windows.
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070612 - Smartdrv does not seemt to be really working very well.
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070614 - We put SDS.BAT in
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070616 - c: lib
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070618 - ...since that is in his path.
070619 - ..
070620 - Transferred pw.exe to his norton directory, and set up sc.bat in
070621 - his c: lib directory so it can sort and compress his disk with all the
070622 - extra directories.
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070624 - Put the data base, sd 08, on his d: drive, so he can do ffile.exe, and
070625 - chkdsk quicker. Then removed sd 08, from his c: drive.
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070627 - Used 08152 and 08022, to configure a set with data base on D:, but
070628 - did not complete converting the file access functions.
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070631 - Had to copy ds.exe to Morris' Norton directory so sc.bat would run.
070632 - DS.exe was not in his Norton directory.
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070636 - New Computer for Morris
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070638 - He wants to get a new computer and give Terry the one he has, except
070639 - he wants the disk drives.
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070641 - We called TMS for a quote to do this work.
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SDS Business Plan
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080401 - Explain background from Seminar at Cal Tech, ref SDS 13 line 50,
080402 - discuss developing a business plan.
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080404 - Would like to submit SDS to the Seminar attendees with a check
080405 - for $100 to install SDS, and fill out a form to evaluate the
080406 - product as a focus group.
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080409 - Did not work on this today.
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SUBJECTS
SDS Improvements to Medit
Debug 100, Compiler
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100502 - Compiler Code Revised to Increase Capacity
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100504 - Morris fixed the Medit code for debug to overcome the problem
100505 - encountered running, SD 03 000006 #18 in debug mode, per ref SDS 4
100506 - 0001
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100508 - It appears we have solved the problems that were reported on 921017.
100509 - ref SDS 11 0000 104.
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100511 - I configured macro file 08022 in its original format, which had been
100512 - failing, and got it to run successfully.
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1008 - Compiler is Okay
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100901 - Ultimately it appears there is nothing wrong with the compiler.
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100903 - Morris at first believed it was close to exceeding the capicity of DOS
100904 - and the Assembler utilities, which he discussed on 921018. ref SDS 12
100905 - 1X5H Difficulties I recently encountered, ref SDS 12 0001, and
100906 - reported to him, in assembling the SDS program on CPU #7, probably
100907 - contributed to this belief.
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100909 - ..
100910 - After Morris discovered the problem was with the debug command, he
100911 - said the compiler is now at 5/8 of its capicity, or just over half.
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100913 - This morning when it seemed the compiler may be exceeding the capacity
100914 - of DOS and/or the Assembler programs, Morris tried to revise the code
100915 - for the compiler.
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100917 - These revisions took about 3 or 4 hours and were unsuccessful. Testing
100918 - showed they worsened the initial problem of running compiled macro 672
100919 - in debug mode. The Enter key, which normally opens a task in the
100920 - Schedule, was actually crashing the program, rather than simply
100921 - jumping into an extraneous loop while in debug mode. This meant the
100922 - program was completely unusable. Morris took a few breaks to do some
100923 - gardening and to fly his model glider at a field in Los Altos. We
100924 - finally discovered the source of the problem by stepping through it
100925 - carefully while observing the native code on CPU #7, during the
100926 - Assemble debug operation of the program code.
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100929 - ..
100930 - Received New Assembler "Make.Exe
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100932 - Found out today, he is using a newer version of make.exe. We compiled
100933 - e.exe using the compiled macros from CPU #7. We encountered the
100934 - problem with Enter, running 000006 in debug mode. Initially, Morris
100935 - tried to revise the compiler He was able to boot the debugger on the
100936 - compiler and after some study, he concluded we have a "mess."
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SUBJECTS
SDS Improvements to Medit
Timing Command
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110501 - Make timing device to replace debug 99 in initialization screens for
110502 - messages, per ref SDS 9 line 311.
110503 -
110504 - Morris created a command,
110505 -
110506 - tm n
110507 -
110508 - where n = .001 seconds; so,
110509 -
110510 - tm 5000 = 5 seconds
110511 - tm 2500 = 2.5 seconds
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110513 - The command has to be used with debug 1, and debug 0, in order to
110514 - accomplish our objectives in 04702, and 0470211.
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SUBJECTS
SDS Improvements to Medit
Insert Key, make it wrap within margins
Insert Key, Macro 610
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130601 - Morris completed the Insert feature this evening. It now calls the
130602 - macro assigned to a new function key called:
130603 -
130604 - pfinsw
130605 -
130606 - [On 931023 improved this function.
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SUBJECTS
SDS Improvements to Medit
Mouse Support
Quit, with mouse
1506 - Summary/Objective
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150702 - Mouse Executing Quit in 1 Screen Closing SDS
150703 -
150704 - Seems to be a problem with the mouse closing down everything after
150705 - awhile when we are trying to close just one file.
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150708 - Direct Assignment of Quit
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150710 - Would also like to be able to assing "quit" to the mouse so it will
150711 - work, per ref SDS 1 line 95.
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150713 - May have something to do with there being two codes being generated
150714 - by the single click of left mouse button.
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150716 - No work on this today.
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