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From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: MASM coding
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:24:51 GMT

Does anyone knows if there is any way for simpler coding of
	REP OUTS DX,WORD PTR ES:[SI]
I would like something like
	REP SEGES OUTSW
But seems prefix directives like SEGCS, SEGDS, SEGES, SEGSS are
in TASM only (or I don't know their MASM counterpart names).
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: Graphics Routines in ASM, without BIOS
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:12:47 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 18 Jan 1993 02:33:38 EST, Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> said:
Kumar> I was wondering if there were ready to use graphics routines in ASM, (SW,PD)
Kumar> with which I can draw pixels etc.  The BGI routines in BC++ is just too
Kumar> slow.

For what graphic adapter? This code is hardware-dependent, Borland
produced several drivers for graphics to work on almost any HW.
From: "stella chin" <stella.chin@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: want asm/tp programme
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:27:58 EST
Reply-To: "stella chin" <stella.chin@channel1.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

there is a programming job opening at Foley Hi-Tech Systems!!!

we are looking for a someone who is fluent in turbo assembler and
  turbo pascal.  if you speak both these languages, please contact
  david at (415) 882-1730...


stella
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: FPU
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:28:22 GMT

>>>>> On 14 Jan 93 16:29:11 GMT, riouxm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Rioux Martin) said:
Rioux> terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder) Writes:
>No. (Except for FStsw Ax on 80287 and better.) To gain speed use parallel
>execution of FPU and IU.

Rioux> What do you mean by parallel execution of FPU and IU..? I'm new at this.
Rioux> If someone has more HINTS for me please write...

FPU (more formerly NDP, Numeric Data Processor) works paralelly with
CPU (while FPU makes computations, CPU may execute next instructions).
This causes when FPU stores any result to memory, CPU must verify the
result was stored before attempts to get it (otherwise would be able
to read old contents of memory instead the newly stored data).
The verification is done by WAIT (FWAIT) instruction which waits until
FPU finishes its instruction. Note on 80287 or better any FPU opcode
acts as WAIT for previous (on 8087 not, since any but first FPU opcode
must be preceded by WAIT or result will be unpredictable).
There are cases when WAIT cannot be used: if want to reset FPU even if
it is busy (throwing away its current work for a case due to error it
is endless) or when don't know if FPU exist (would wait forever; to
detect FPU need execute FNINIT, delay, FNSTSW, delay, check what was
stored - if anything stored, FPU exists).
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
From: johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
Subject: Re: TASM routines anyone?
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:04:44 GMT

In article <35805@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> prangana@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Nicky
Ranganathan) writes:
>I will be teaching a course here at NYU this term mostly dealing with
>digital logic and assembly language programming (using TASM). I've 
>been following this newsgroup for a few weeks now, though there is
>not too much activity.
>
>I am looking for *small* and interesting TASM routines that I can use 
>as examples in my class. Also, any "overviews" of assembly language
>programming would help. I have checked out the archives at
>oak.oakland.edu and found some interesting (though oldish) stuff
>which I have ftp'ed. Anybody know any other sources/repositories.

You might want to talk to the folks at UC Riverside who have an assembly
lanuage library that has been basically built up by the students of the
class.  I believe they said that the final project in the class was to
write/test/debug/write documentation for/etc. a single 'useful' library
function.  The library is available from them too (as a starting point
perhaps?).

Hope this helps,
		John
		johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU

Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
From: rat@fullfeed.fullfeed.com (David Douthitt)
Subject: Re: teco in C and teco on the ][
Reply-To: rat@ruth.uucp
Organization: FullFeed - Public Access Usenet/E-mail (+1 608 246 2701 guest)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:02:18 GMT


In article <150@mccoy.dbaccess.com> steve@dbaccess.com (Steve Suttles)
writes:

| Why?  Editors should be as powerful as possible.  That's true of the O/S,
| too, but what do you expect on a ][?  (no flames, please--I'm referring to
| the 6502, not a derogatory comment against rotten fruit.  My favorite toy
| for a long time was the Atari 800, also a 6502 machine.  On which TECO runs.)

Forget the flames.  IS there a TECO for the Apple II?  ProDOS, I hope....

Secondly, is there a DECENT teco for the PC?  I have one, but it's not
documented well, and does not seem to support new/existing files well -
unless that's the way teco works.  I had to write a batch file to create
a non-existing file BEFORE teco runs to get it to work on my BBS.

By the way, to my knowledge, no one uses teco on the BBS :-)

....dave

BY THE WAY.... love my 65816 :-P

Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
From: rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker)
Subject: Re: editors more powerful than the o/s
Keywords: 42 rosebud xyzzy
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:03:25 GMT

secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:

>	Why is it sad ?  Just change mode ITS and rock.  Look at the
>	bright side -- at least I'd have more registers that way ;-)

seems i've touched a few hearts with my suggestion.  am i the only
one with a sense of irony?

-- 
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-- bob pasker
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
From: koning@koning.enet.dec.com (Paul Koning)
Subject: Re: What is the BEST TECO in C available!!
Reply-To: koning@koning.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Co., distributed systems architecture
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:20:17 GMT


In article <1993Jan25.014604.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
|>Am I the only one who is suffering reality control failure at the sight of
|>"best", "C", and "TECO" in the one sentence? Surely there are limits...
|>
|>:-)
|>~Paul

What's the problem?  C and TECO are about equally legible, and have an
equally loose view of data typing.  Then again, with C you can write
programs that destroy themselves, and with TECO you cannot.  So I suppose
you could say that, compared to TECO, C is a low level language...

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From: jerry@marin.uucp (Jerry C. Hudgins)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
Subject: Re: What is the BEST TECO in C available!!
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:20:28 EST
Organization: Private UUCP Node

In article <1993Jan25.014604.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> In article <RDH.93Jan22195835@ravel.sli.com>, rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk) writes:
> > In article <2402@sousa.tay.dec.com> secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:
> 
> Am I the only one who is suffering reality control failure at the sight of
> "best", "C", and "TECO" in the one sentence? Surely there are limits...
> 
> :-)
> ~Paul

Yes, you are. And no, there aren't.  8-}

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Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
From: rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk)
Subject: Re: What is the BEST TECO in C available ?
Reply-To: rdh@sli.com (or uunet!sli!rdh)
Organization: Software Leverage, Inc. Arlington, Ma
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:58:35 GMT

In article <2402@sousa.tay.dec.com> secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:

	   I need one to deal with OSF/1 in single-user mode when
	   I can't use EMACS on my DECstation (vi loses).

Have you considered running the TECO package that runs in EMACS? (I pre-
sume that EMACS can run "windowless" on a DECstation as it can on a Sun,
if not, well...)

					-RDH
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
Subject: Re: What is the BEST TECO in C available!!
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:46:04 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology

In article <RDH.93Jan22195835@ravel.sli.com>, rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk) writes:
> In article <2402@sousa.tay.dec.com> secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:

Am I the only one who is suffering reality control failure at the sight of
"best", "C", and "TECO" in the one sentence? Surely there are limits...

:-)
~Paul
From: secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
Subject: forget the flames... Apple ][ TECO
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:20:40 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


; Forget the flames.  IS there a TECO for the Apple II?  ProDOS, I hope....

If somebody has a hard disk and Aztec C I don't see why we couldn't
make one.  Seriously !

Regards,
rcs
From: secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
Subject: editors more powerful than the o/s
Keywords: 42 rosebud xyzzy
Date: 21 Jan 93 02:25:06 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


	Why is it sad ?  Just change mode ITS and rock.  Look at the
	bright side -- at least I'd have more registers that way ;-)

	rcs
Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
From: goldsmig@cgsvax.claremont.edu
Subject: TECO for MSDOS?
Organization: The Claremont Graduate School
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:54:14 PST

After about ten years away from TECO (which I once used for typesetting,
proofreading, and Greek, Hebrew, and Spanish language analysis, I'm in 
the market for a copy of TECO that can run on a vanilla MSDOS machine.  I
have no language compiler, so that I cannot compile a C version, for example.

Can anyone recommend a good implementation and its ftp site?  I need a low
or no cost version, and one that has a compiled executable.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

George Goldsmith 
Claremont Graduate School (student) and
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
From: tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco
Subject: Teco in C
Date: 21 Jan 1993 12:38:28 GMT
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I may still have a copy of a third-party TECO clone, written in C,
sitting around, if someone wanted it.  Does anyone know if DEC ever did
anything with either releasing the program if they no longer used it or
otherwise made it available?  

One of the salesmen for Univac's 90/60 Mainframe said that the EDT editor,
a programmable text editor was at that time the second most powerful
editor in existence, the only other editor that could come close was TECO.

Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: heinr@sci.kun.nl (Hein Ragas)
Subject: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
Summary: Help me please!
Keywords: Visual Basic
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:10:02 GMT

Hello.

I am fairly new to Visual Basic, but I have been working in Basic for a 
long time now.

However, I have a problem, and I hope that someone more experienced with
Visual Basic can help me solve it.

Basically, it boils down to this:
 How can I determine whether a file (in this case a .BMP) exists in the
 given path?

If someone can tell me what I have to do to solve this problem, please,
mail me. I would be very grateful.

Greetings,
          Hein Ragas

Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: bcbond@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Barry Bond)
Subject: Re: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:53:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.135724.234@samba.oit.unc.edu> dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina) writes:
>>Basically, it boils down to this:
>> How can I determine whether a file (in this case a .BMP) exists in the
>> given path?
>>
>>If someone can tell me what I have to do to solve this problem, please,
>>mail me. I would be very grateful.
>>
>You could set up a file list box for a particular drive and path 
>and search through the file list to see if the file is in the list.
>
>I would also be interested if anyone has found a more efficient way
>to do this.
>Thx Dave L
>
>

It's easier to use DIR$() to check if a file exists:  eg.
if Dir$("c:\vb\test.bmp") <> "" then
   debug.print "File exists"
else
   debug.print "File not found"
endif

Barry.


Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: ramkiss@ecf.toronto.edu (RAMKISSOON SHERWYN)
Subject: Re: VBDOS / QuickBasic 4.5 PD software
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:48:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.175034.17528@aber.ac.uk> hlr@aber.ac.uk (Hazel Marie Davey) writes:
>Hi there,
>
>	Does anyone know of an ftp archive site for PD / Shareware
>Software for VBDOS and/or QuickBasic 4.5
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Hazel
>
>-- 
>		(hlr@aber.ac.uk)
>Department of Biological Sciences
>University of Wales
>Aberystwyth

Or perhaps a list of BBS's catering to qb4.5/Vb. I've been looking for
a while now but haven't found any. 

Sherwyn
From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
Subject: Re: Math/stat programs in QuickBasic
Date: 20 Jan 93 20:18:04 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1993Jan19.101254.1@acad.drake.edu> jr2921r@acad.drake.edu writes:
=I am interested in acquiring mathematical/statistical programs which are coded
=in QuickBasic.  The programs should be able to do matrix algebra.  Any 
=suggestions?

There is a QuickBasic version of Numerical Recipes, authored by
Julius (Julian?) Sprott, and available from Cambridge University
Press.  This includes the example book, for about $35, and the disk
with the software, for about $35.  The text that accompanies the
softwares can be had from the Fortran/C editions of the textbook;
there is no Basic version of it.  Virtually all of the most common
matrix operations are facilitated by this software, as well as
several statistical operations.  In addition, you will have signal
analysis, differential equation solution, special functions,
eigensystem analysis, and some other stuff I can't think of off the
top of my head.

BTW, this software is a translation of the older, Ver. 1 Numerical
Recipes, and not the just published 2nd Edition.  No doubt the
QuickBasic stuff will be in the stores within a year or two.

cheers,

rick adair


Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: VB: Recognizing File System Changes
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:11:19 GMT

How can I make a File List Box recognize changes to the file system?
I know that I can use the Refresh method to force the File List Box
to update but how do I know when to refresh it?  If my application
changes the contents of the directory then I can simply do a refresh
at that time, but what if another application changes the contents
of the directory?  Is there an API call that will cause the application
to be notified?  There must be some way to do it because the File Manager
gets notified.  I guess I could set a timer event to refresh periodically
but I'd rather not waste cpu cycles.  Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanx,
Gary Fowler

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From: tcamp@acpub.duke.edu (Ted A. Campbell)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
Subject: PARallel ACTions in BASIC
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:03:30 GMT

An ANSI Solution to My Multitasking BASIC Query
-----------------------------------------------

Thanks for your responses to my query about Multitasking BASIC. I
was very surprised to learn when my copy of the Full ANSI BASIC
standard arrived that this possibility was more or less foreseen 
in the ANSI specification.  Their solution is that BASIC code
can be subdivided into code segments delimited as follows:

PARACT
   ...
END PARACT

PARACT
   ...
END PARACT

Each code segment so delimited is run as a "PARallel ACTion".  This
will be implemented as an option in bwBASIC 2.xx, but it is a fairly
costly one in terms of code size, basically increasing all code by
about 33% and slowing down processing.  Several persons pointed out
that this would probably not be worth it, especially in an interpreted
language.  So it can be commented out at bwBASIC compilation time. 

Has anyone ever seen a BASIC that implements this PARACT feature?


Ted A. Campbell
email: tcamp@acpub.duke.edu
Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: bdwheele@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler)
Subject: Re: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:53:59 GMT

In <1993Jan26.135724.234@samba.oit.unc.edu> dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina) writes:

>>Basically, it boils down to this:
>> How can I determine whether a file (in this case a .BMP) exists in the
>> given path?
>>
>>If someone can tell me what I have to do to solve this problem, please,
>>mail me. I would be very grateful.
>>
>You could set up a file list box for a particular drive and path 
>and search through the file list to see if the file is in the list.

>I would also be interested if anyone has found a more efficient way
>to do this.
>Thx Dave L

the Dir$ function Returns the name of a file matching a filespec.  if the
filespec is a filename without wildcards, it returns whether or not the file
exists.
Here's what I do:

const False = 0
Const True = Not False

Function Exists(Filespec$)
	if Dir$(FileSpec$) <> "" then
		Exists = True
		Exit Function
	else
		Exists = False
	end if
End Function

Brian Wheeler

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Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: stevey@cs.adfa.oz.au (Steve Yang)
Subject:  "Printer Selection from VB for MS Windows 3.0" 
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:07:02 GMT



==============================================================================
Help on  "Printer selection from  VB (Visual Basic) for MS Windows 3.0"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

How can I tell VB (Visual Basic)  to print out something on a different printer

if there are two printers (LPT1 and LPT2) available on Miscrosoft Windows 3.0 

under Novel Netware Lite?


If you can help me, please mail me an example of VB code to me or whatever. 

Thank you very much..


Best Regards,

Steve Yang

-------------------------------------------------------
This is my E-mail address:      stevey@cs.adfa.oz.au

================================================================================
From: gale@uts.EDU.AU (-s92975077-p.gale-com-200-)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
Subject: Fortran -> basic translator
Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:27:26 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: banksia.ccsd.uts.edu.au
Summary: looking for fortran->basic translator
Keywords: fortran basic translator wanted
Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Would anyone be able to tell me whether there is a fortran to basic
translator available?  Thankyou in anticipation.

Peter Gale
gale@socs.uts.edu.au

Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: soapy@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Soapy Phan)
Subject: compile to .com
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:10:31 GMT


hello all,

i'm looking for a basic compiler that compile to a .com instead of an
.exe.  is there one?

Soapy Phan                            Phone:    617.437.2627
134 Mugar Life Sciences Building      FAX:      617.266.6756
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Boston, Massachusetts 02115 U. S. A.  BITNET:   soapy@NORTHEASTERN.EDU

Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: paulk@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Paul E. King)
Subject: Re: compile to .com
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:44:07 GMT

soapy@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Soapy Phan) writes:


>hello all,

>i'm looking for a basic compiler that compile to a .com instead of an
>.exe.  is there one?

The only one that I know of is a watered-down BASIC compiler called ASIC
(as in: "Almost BASIC") which I had found in the Simtel-20 Archives
in the directory pd1:<msdos.basic>. The file is: ASIC20.ZIP.1. This compiler
and interpreter package makes up for the fact that it's watered-down by 
producing code which is extremely fast, compared to QBASIC's .exe files.
I don't use it much, due to its limitations, but you may find it useful.
I believe it is SHAREWARE, and an updated version may be had for a small fee,
_I think_. It comes with mucho documentation; be sure to read carefully,
since it is "BASIC-like", but with differences.

paulk
-- 
paulk@odie.cs.mun.ca

Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: mmb@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Michael Burger)
Subject: COM3/4 and 14400 BAUD in Quick Basic?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:30:42 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

The subject line says it all.  I need to know if there are any tricks or
add ons to have QuickBasic recognize COM3 and COM4 plus transmit in 14400
BAUD.


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*  mmb@lamar.colostate.edu        *  --A student responding to the question   *
*  A Beginning Computing TA Stud  *    "what will I remember from Beginning   *
*  over 500 students served       *     Computing after I graduate."          *
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
From: dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina)
Subject: re: HELP wanted: filehandling in Visual Basic
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:57:24 GMT

>Basically, it boils down to this:
> How can I determine whether a file (in this case a .BMP) exists in the
> given path?
>
>If someone can tell me what I have to do to solve this problem, please,
>mail me. I would be very grateful.
>
You could set up a file list box for a particular drive and path 
and search through the file list to see if the file is in the list.

I would also be interested if anyone has found a more efficient way
to do this.
Thx Dave L