Msg: 7352 *Conference*
12-02-97 15:05:33
From: RON WIESEN
To : COMET _
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #7350 (102/MODEM)
Thanks for the compliment Comet. You're right about it being more flexible. It's got a lot more to offer besides chord driven line-end treatments. It defines the BASIC F-keys as shown below, but the F7 definition is based on what Option ROM if any is found in the Option ROM socket. Once this .CO is run, the definitions are set and the chord driven line-end treatment logic is comingled in the definitions where it remains to support TELCOM Terminal mode operations of F7 and F6 (chord strike). First the BASIC F-key tags. BASIC F-key tags FILE LOAD SAVE RUN LIST EDIT MENU F1 shows FILES and then FRE(0). Tandy default is just FILES F2 gives LOAD" F3 gives SAVE" F4 gives RUN without CR, unlike Tandy default with CR F5 gives LIST F6 gives EDIT F7 gives something useful releative to an Option ROM. F8 gives MENU with CR like Tandy default As for F7, there are 7 possibilities: No ROM installed, one of five ROMs detected by signature, an unknown ROM installed. ROM2/Cleuseau is one of the five ROMs so you'll be interested Comet. F7 goes like this. Shows ROM Gives Kill no Option-ROM Kill" without CR Rom2 ROM2/Cleuseau CALL911 with CR can SuperROM call63012,0,1 without CR UR2 Ultimate ROM II CALL63013,1 with CR IS Innovative Solutions CLEAR0,60200 without CR Kill RAM+ Kill" without CR R# unknown ROM installed ?PEEK(63513) without CR Note in the case of ROM2/Cleuseau and unknown ROM, the Registered Trademark symbol shows as the first character, not capital R like I have above. Can't expect to see Tandy DingBat symbols here online. So with your Rom2/Cleuseau installed in the Option ROM socket, F7 shows (R)om2 where (R) is my approximation here online of the Tandy DingBat character of Registered Trademark symbol. As for TELCOM Terminal mode, of course nothing shows on the LABEL line for F6 and F7. Here's what they do. F6 strikes a chord. The CTRL, SHIFT, and GRPH keys are the 3-note chord. Respectively the notes are for the PRINTER, PHONE/RS-232C and the LCD screen. A key not pressed sets CR/LF treatment; a key pressed sets CR-only treatment. So the GRPH key pressed while F6 is struck disables LCD scroll and this allows Download (F2) at up to 600 baud. F7 is like BASIC F1, it does FILES and FRE(0). Of course you can use the files and free memory display as a test of LCD line-end treatment. If it scrolls then treatment is CR/LF, if it piles up on the bottom LCD line then treatment is CR-only. OK Comet, now the answer you've waited for. No. I've not put it anywhere here on Club 100 BBS. Several reasons, main one is that it's a .CO file. You can give me a shipping address (private mail if you wish) and I'll send the .CO to you on diskette (state PDD1 or PDD2) or on cassette tape. Otherwise I must "envelop" it as a BASIC program loader, and it just ain't worth it to do that. The .CO size is exactly 320 bytes (plus 6-byte header) and it's Top is the Alternate LCD Buffer so there is no HIMEM requirement. You invoke the .CO once and that's it - you can then kill the .CO because everything you need is in the permanent BASIC F-key definition area above MAXRAM. You only need to invoke the .CO whenever you change Option ROMs - to alter the BASIC F7 definition. Sound good Comet? Give me your address - I'll give you the .CO.