Msg: 4837 *Conference*
12-21-93 15:34:36
From: LEX JENKINS
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #4827 (HIYA)
WPC?/ 2BVTW+Courier 10 pitchb zNxxx, + xi@+o-+; HP LaserJet Series IIHPLASEII.PRS xi@+c+,==h05if/ 235=( #|x++E3+'E3+'StandardE3+'E3+'StandardeLfdsa dHP Lr"o<( ++Hi, Rick, Once a Perotista, always a Perotista? Sure, seems pretty looney but who am I to talk? I agreed with most of his concerns on NAFTA, particularly by the time of the Algore "debate," by which time he'dmodified his (RP's) position toward demanding a better NAFTA that wouldn't exploit the Mexicans, rather than simply opposing NAFTA outright.But I keep wondering what RP's hidden agenda is, and there's the Cuban thing, and the Black Panthers thing, and his daughter's wedding thing.On the other hand, consider what we wound up with in Casablanca (as G. Gordon Liddy calls the White House): "The Revenge of JFK's Hormones!!!", a Roger Corman film in Testosteronimation!Oh, on the Model T thing: I talked with Mr. Woods last week and suggested a few ideas, re: SIDKIK.BA. I didn't have my own 102 w/ Booster Pak handy, so I was winging it, but I think we'll get the problem solved. BASICally, you gotta have NOTE.DO, ADRS.DO and ALARM.DO in the Workspace (the conventional Model T's RAM space), with at least one alpha+numeric character in each .DO file (empty files will cause an error message when you try to run SIDKIK.BA). After you enter your real data, you can delete the junk character. But if you delete all data from, say, ALARM.DO, you'll get an error message.The trick to remember in getting accustomed to the Booster Pak is distinguishing between the Workspace, the RAMdisk, and Environments. The Workspace is exactly like your ordinary Model T's RAM. The RAMdisk works just like a floppy or hard disk (or even a CD, if you've got a read/write CD), only a tad more volatile + I've had one RAMdisk crash in 3 years, cause unknown, but probably operator error. And, just like an MS+DOS PC, you can run a program straight from any disk, but it still has to use up some RAM. So you can run SIDKIK.BA right out of the RAMdisk, without actually having a copy in the Workspace, but the program still must occupy, at least temporarily, some of the Workspace RAM. And, since SIDKIK.BA will look for NOTE.DO, ADRS.DO and ALARM.DO, those must be in the Workspace + SIDKIK.BA does not know how to look back into the RAMdisk for these files.Environments are just customized Workspaces. Each Environment can have your favorite programs and files "pre+loaded" (not really, but let's call it that) and ready to go. You can have several Environments in each Directory. This is just the Booster Pak's clever (or maddening + I prefer clever) way of utilizing 32K of RAM in an incredibly efficient way.I have reached 'nuff. 'Nuff. Happy holidays and a wonderful '94.<Lex>