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An Onipa'a Software Production        Vol. 7, No. 9 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net Internet Email, Editor................................lyle@FoxValley.net ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::                            TABLE OF CONTENTS                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                            September 15, 2004HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]     Two Copper WiresA2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS]     Two New Uploads in A2 Library------------------------------------[TNU]     Another Upload in The A2 Library---------------------------------[AUL]     Yet Another Upload in The A2 Library-----------------------------[YAU]     New Version of VNCview GS Released-------------------------------[VNC]     Wireless ADB Keyboard Tested-------------------------------------[WKT]     Juiced.GS V9I3 on The Way----------------------------------------[JGS]     Programmer's Chats Suggested-------------------------------------[PCS]     Cooperative Approach to Programing For The Apple II's------------[CPA]     Help With The Rez Resource Compiler------------------------------[HWR]     Programing Help--------------------------------------------------[PGH]     Help With Programing Using The Marinetti TCP/IP Stack------------[MTS]     How do You Create an Accented 'e' in Windows?--------------------[CAE]     Telnet/SSH Terminal Program for Windows--------------------------[TST]ILLUMINATING THE LAMP-------------------------------------------------[ITL]     An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!          2001ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS]     To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU]     September 2004 Issue of Syndicommotion Available-----------------[SSA]     New Page Added for Syndicommotion--------------------------------[NPA]LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE]     No Letters to the Editor This Month     An InvitationKFEST 2004------------------------------------------------------------[KFF]     Code for Ken G's HackFest 2004 Entry-----------------------------[KHF]KFEST 2005------------------------------------------------------------[KF5]     KansasFest 2005 to be Held July 19-24th--------------------------[TBH]     KansasFest Website-----------------------------------------------[KFW]     Golf Outing as an Event at KFest 2005?---------------------------[GOK]EXTRA INNINGS     About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]                                [*] [*] [*]READING THE LAMP!   The index system used by The Lamp! is designed to make"""""""""""""""""   your reading easier.  To use this system, load thisissue into any word processor or text editor.  In the index you will findsomething like:EXTRA INNINGS     About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]To read this article, simply use your search or find command to locate[INN].  There is a similar tag at the end of each article: [EOA].[OPN]-------------------------------         HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER |------------------------------------From The Editor"""""""""""""""by Lyle Syverson <lyle@FoxValley.net>                             Two Copper Wires                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     Observation of the valley from High Above The Rock River reveals thatthe cool nights and warm days of early Fall have triggered the start of theannual Parade of Colors.  Almost hidden among the changing leaves are thepower and telephone lines.  Cell phone towers sprout from hills.  Thisleads to contemplation of the evolution of electronic communication duringone's lifetime.     Back on the farm there were the poles carrying the two copper wires ofthe telephone system.  The wooden box mounted on the kitchen wall was ownedby the phone company and serviced by them if needed.  Two bells mounted atthe top on the outside, a crank on the outside on the right, a hinged arm12" in length allowed the mouthpiece to be adjusted for height, thereceiver hanging on a hook on the left side.  And a knife switch on thewall above the box to disconnect the phone during thunder storms.     It was a party line.  The number of parties varied... at one timethere were 27 parties on the one line.  Calling someone on the same lineinvolved using the crank to generate the power to ring the bells on allthose phones on the line... each party having a different combination oflong and short rings.     Calling someone on another line in the same exchange involved callingthe operator with one long ring and asking for the party by name.  Same forcalling someone long distance in another exchange.     It was easy to listen in on someone else's conversation so it happenedoften.  While you were talking to someone the signal would slowly becomestronger as the snoopers decided the conversation was not interesting andwould hang up.     For a fee the phone company would have the operator give a "generalring" (a really long ring) calling all phones on all lines of the exchangeand reading an advertisement.     The operators got to learn a lot about people in the community... whowas calling who... what they were talking about... etc.     By today's standards it was rather crude... but it was possible totalk to your friends and relatives without traveling to their home... orderfuel delivery to the farm... check on grain prices before hauling yourgrain to the elevator for marketing... check to see if a certain spare partwas available for your machinery, etc.     As time went on there were the dial phones... the party lines whereyou heard only your own ring... the private lines... the touch tonephones... own your own phones... multiple lines... direct dialing... faxmachines... modems... faster and faster modems... wireless (cell) phones.     And now DSL... and competition from the TV cable systems... to movedata faster and faster...     Broadband in the home must be getting quite popular... the localSalvation Army "As Is" store has 56K modems for $1... I picked up a spareand it works![EOA]ASCII ART BEGINS_________  _                     _                                      _|__   __| | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |___     ____       | |       _____   __ ___ _   _ _____   | |   | |    | ___ \   / __ \      | |      /____ \  | v   v | | v ___ \  | |   | |    | |  | | | /__\ \     | |       ____| | | /\ /\ | |  /   \ \ | |   | |    | |  | | | _____|     | |      / ___  | | || || | | |    | | |_|   | |    | |  | | | |_____     | |____  | |__| | | || || | |  \___/ /  _   |_|    |_|  |_| \______|     |______| \____^_| |_||_||_| | |\____/  |_|                                                            | |                                                            | |                                                            |_|ASCII ART ENDS[EOA][DAS]----------------------------------------------DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 FORUM at Syndicomm.com  |                                  (A2Central.com) |---------------------------------------------------by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>[TNU]TWO NEW UPLOADS IN A2 LIBRARY"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""There are two new uploads in thea2/system_software/misc_16-bit/desk_accessories/nda directory:File: myipnda1b2.bxySize: 6656Date: Aug 22MyIPNDA 1.0b2 is the latest version of my simple New Desk Accessory forreporting the IP address of the Apple IIgs it runs on.  Version 1.0b2 fixesa bug that may interfere with other NDAs or applications using substitutionstrings.  Freeware by Ryan Suenaga; email a2.ryan@syndicomm.com forassistance.File: theirip1b1.bxySize: 7552Date: Aug 22TheirIPNDA 1.0b1 is the latest version of my simple New Desk Accessory forlooking up the IP address of computers on the Internet.  Freeware by RyanSuenaga; email a2.ryan@syndicomm.com for assistance.Uploaded by the author, Ryan Suenaga.Tony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 37)[EOA][AUL]ANOTHER UPLOAD IN THE A2 LIBRARY""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""There is a new upload in theprogramming/a2pro_general_files/source.code.samples directory:File: waitctrl.bxySize: 13824Date: Aug 22WaitCtrl.bxy - A custom IIgs control and example NDA code to utilize it.Draws a rotating "barbershop pole".Copyrighted Freeware / BSD license.Uploaded by the author, Kelvin W Sherlock / kws@syndicomm.comTony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 38)[EOA][YAU]YET ANOTHER UPLOAD IN THE A2 LIBRARY""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""There is a new upload in thesystem_software/misc_16-bit/desk_accessories/nda directory:File: theirip1b3.bxySize: 7552Date: Sep 5TheirIPNDA 1.0b3 is the latest version of my simple New Desk Accessory forlooking up the IP address of computers on the Internet.  Implements a bugfix for the redrawing of controls, and fixes a significant bug introducedin 1.0b2.  Beta freeware by Ryan Suenaga; email a2.ryan@syndicomm.com forassistance.Tony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 39)[EOA][VNC]NEW VERSION OF VNCview GS RELEASED""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I've released a new version of VNCview GS, version 1.0b1 (it's at betastatus now, since it includes most of the features I have planned for a 1.0release and has been demonstrated to work for some people other than me).The main change is a considerable performance improvement in Raw mode;whenever the server's display changes, the screen is updated much morequickly than in previous versions.  This version also includes support forresizing the server's screen while connected to it (some servers don'tsupport this, but RealVNC 4.0 and OSXvnc do) and for using servers withscreen dimensions smaller than the IIgs's.  VNCview GS 1.0b1 can bedownloaded at:http://www.syndicomm.com/~s.heumann/VNCviewGSb1.bxyStephen Heumann(S.HEUMANN, Cat 11, Top 37, Msg 11)[EOA][WKT]WIRELESS ADB KEYBOARD TESTED""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I just finished testing a wireless ADB keyboard with both a Mac and aGS--this puppy works on both!It's made by Acer, and while it doesn't have the same feel as a real GSkeyboard, it's nice to be "unwired" once in a while.  There's a descriptionof it on the seller's webpage:     http://www.macsruscomputers.com/Later.................Howard(A2.HOWARD, Cat 17, Top 19, Msg 30)[EOA][JGS]Juiced.GS V9I3 ON THE WAY"""""""""""""""""""""""""I declared the pending Volume 9, Issue 3 of Juiced.GS final on Wednesdaynight and passed it on to the publisher, so blame any shipping delays onhim :-)RyanEditor-in-Chief, Juiced.GS magazine(A2.RYAN, Cat 23, Top 2, Msg 622)>>>>>"""""Volume 9, Issue 3 has been mailed to all subscribers.  Enjoy!Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 23, Top 2, Msg 627)[EOA][PCS]PROGRAMMER'S CHATS SUGGESTED""""""""""""""""""""""""""""After a chat with Ryan and a couple of others last night, it occurs to methat something that might be good is to have a chat or two scheduled wherepeople could get together and discuss some ideas for developing softwarethat interacts with each other.For example, instead of someone trying to write an email program, oneperson could write an address book NDA, someone else could write a sendemail program, and another person could write a read email program.Designed to interact using IPC, these can become a fairly substantial emailpackage.Similarly, a good all-around Uuencode/Binhex/Binscii/yEnc encoder anddecoder NDA, with some IPC calls, becomes an engine that can be used by webbrowsers, news readers, and email programs to deal with file archives.Nobody in our community has time for huge projects anymore -- we need tofind ways to develop lots of small, individual projects that work togetherto do big things.So I'd like to suggest that the staff here could host one, or a series of,RTCs where programmers and prospective programmers could talk about ideasfor how to do this and what sorts of projects could be done.I've already taken a step toward this by changing the design for my contextmenu manager (formerly PapaSan, now SideClick), so that any Apple IIgsprogram or DA can install items into the contextual menu, instead of havingto be done through SideClick-specific plugins.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.co                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 111)>>>>>"""""This sounds like a pretty good idea.  I'm still in the learning stageshere.  I'm trying to do some small programs and learn a thing or two.I like the new name of "Sideclick".It will be interesting to see how this turns out.Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 112)>>>>>"""""I think that this is a promising idea; where's that Kirk Mitchell guy tolook at a schedule?I would like to address some of your other comments--let's move this overto Category 50/topic 5, "Programmer's Cafe".RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 113)>>>>>"""""I'm willing to schedule something.I wonder if the forum might not be just as important in assistingprogrammers in deciding what to work on, as well as how.  I know nothingabout IPC, while Sheppy may explain it very well, so that even a dope likeme could understand, he's not going to want to do that live for everyignorant programmer that comes along to an RTC.The nature of the RTC does shine when brainstorming for ideas though.  Anyparticular evenings that folks would like to see this on, and should wemove it to one of our rarely used other rooms to avoid annoyingnonprogrammers?I'm always open for any RTC comments and requests!Kirk(A2.KIRK, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 114)>>>>>"""""I've always thought that the multiple rooms per forum was a greatlyunderutilized* feature of Syndicomm, and I would say that this would be theperfect opportunity to use it._________  | homas(TCOMPTER, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 115)>>>>>"""""I like the idea of using one of the other rooms, so non-programmers don'thave to put up with us. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 117)>>>>>"""""I'm wondering if this scheduled conference is to focus on TCP/IPapplications in particular or just applications?  One way or another, itmay be helpful to invite some of our friends who only occasionally jump inhere (like Richard Bennett-Forrest, for instance; Ewen seems to be absentnow too).Also, maybe a couple of conferences would make some sense as well.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 118)>>>>>"""""I would think any kind of applications could benefit from this notion.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 119)>>>>>"""""I am not absent, just somulent! I check in about twice a week these days,as until Henrik gets Sweet Sixteen sorted out for OS X, I have to reboot myMac to get to OS 9.0.It would certainly help to get a lot of these things into the desktop.Most of the Internet related stuff I have written has revolved roundSpectrum for obvious reasons.  Ewen Wannop - Speccie(CONDUCTOR, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 120)[EOA][CPA]COOPERATIVE APPROACH TO PROGRAMING FOR THE Apple II's"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""In another world (well, Cat 2, Top 6), Sheppy typed:>> Nobody in our community has time for huge projects anymore -- we need tofind ways to develop lots of small, individual projects that work togetherto do big things. <<I've been thinking (and conversing with you similar ideas) on this forquite some time.If we look at the example of, say, a stand alone email program (not SAM,that works, thanks, Ewen, but not everyone owns Spectrum :) I think thatone has not yet gotten done in some part because of feature creep, but alsothat--and we don't usually think of this, since email is such a part ofeveryday life--an email program is a -huge- undertaking.To address feature creep--I think that some folks start working on theiremail program thinking they'll bring Eudora 6 to the IIgs, when the realityis, it took a team of programmers many years and revisions to get Eudora 6on the platforms it's done completed.  It might be better to think morealong the lines of Claris Emailer Lite 1.0. :)Then there is just the issue of a big project.  It's much more likely smallprojects will get done than big ones, because of the time and size of suchprojects, and then there's the psychological factor--there's a certainreward psychologically of getting something finished and out the door.Like many other things in life, a completed program is likely to result inmore completed programs, and it can be contagious, which is only good forthe Apple II community :)In any case, I think that the idea of a bunch of small programs workingtogether is a great one.  Just last night I was thinking about thefeasibility of a CDev something like the old Internet Config on the Mac.  Idon't know enough about IPC yet to say how useful it could be, but it wasjust a thought.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 16)>>>>>"""""We actually talked about doing an Internet Config type of CDev years ago;Geoff and I discussed it in particular and I was actually working on one atone point but didn't get very far.I'm not sure there are enough network programs of any given kind to makethis really necessary. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 17)[EOA][HWR]HELP WITH THE Rez Resource Compiler"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Lots of Rez code in this message alert!I regret to say that I have spent way too much time away from working oncode and I have lost what little I knew about Rez.  I am currently drawinga window with a small title bar, a close box, and a small content region.I need to put a static text control in the content region (the wholeregion) and for the life of me I just can't get it.Here's my Rez code for the window currently:#include "types.rez"#define linedColors   1/*- Document Window --------------------------------------------*/resource rWindParam1 (1001) {   $C0A5,                      /* wFrameBits */   nil,                        /* wTitle */   0,                          /* wRefCon */   {0,0,0,0},                  /* ZoomRect */   linedColors,                /* wColor ID */   {0,0},                      /* Origin */   {0,0},                      /* data size */   {0,0},                      /* max height-width */   {0,0},                      /* scroll ver hors */   {0,0},                      /* page ver horiz */   0,                          /* winfoRefcon */   0,                          /* wInfoHeight */   {50,50,62,225},             /* wposition */   infront,                    /* wPlane */   nil,                        /* wStorage */   $0800                       /* wInVerb */   };/*- Standard color table for lined windows ---------------------*/resource rWindColor (linedColors) {   0x0000,                     /* frameColor */   0x0F00,                     /* titleColor */   0x020F,                     /* tbarColor */   0xF0F0,                     /* growColor */   0x00F0,                     /* infoColor */   };I think I need to make wInVerb $0802 and add a resource value for wStorage,then add a static text control, but no matter what I do I can't get it.Help?Thanks.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 9)>>>>>"""""Hi Ryan. It's been a while for me, but looking at some code I have here:wStorage should be the id of a rControlList listing the ids of thecontrols on the windowwInVerb I have as $0809So for example, you might have:wStorage 1101wInVerb  $0809Thenresource rControlList(1101) {        {                2001,                        }        };rControlTemplate (2001) {        1,              /* control ID */        {2,10,180,600}, /* control Rect */        statTextControl {{                $0000,  /* Flags */                $1002,  /* More Flags */                0,      /* refCon */                3003    /* Title Ref */                }};        };resource rTextForLETextBox2 (3003) {"The text for the static text box"};This is from my sketchy memory, and looking at a couple of listingshere. I hope it's of some use :)Kim(KIMHOWE, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 10)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Kim, that helped, although since I only had one control, I didn'tneed an actual rControlList (but I ended up going that route anyway,because I was having so many problems).  In any case, that along withremembering I had to use local instead of global coordinates for theresource and using a DrawControls call (duh) fixed most of my problems.Now I have to figure out how to do substitution strings for the static textbox. . .RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 11)>>>>>"""""I am at least starting to remember what I've done with Rez in the past andstarted getting some of my more simple resources done as you can see withMyIP.NDA (and I have a few more projects I'm working on, one more might beout before the end of the month).  What I've never really figured out ishow folks get their custom icons done and into their resources.  What's thesecret(s)?RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 12)>>>>>"""""I use an icon editor.  I think IconED can save as source code.  I don'trecall if it saves as rez code, but it should save as asm code (hexstrings) which can be converted to rez code fairly easily.GS+ published an icon editor (ICE?) which can save as a resource orold-fashioned icon file.  (I don't recall if it will save as rez codedirectly).Genesys also allowed add/editing resource icons.If you have a resource file, the derez utility can convert it back to rezsource code:(orca/gno prompt)# derez your_file_here Types.rez > source.rezthere are options to only derez certain types or resource ids.  "helpderez" for more information.If you have too much free time, you could also write a utility to convertan icon file to rez source code.  I wouldn't be surprised if such a beastalready existed.  Lots of stuff is lurking in Time In A Bottle (and thesyndicomm a2 library).Kelvin(KWS, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 13)>>>>>"""""I use ICE to create my icons.  Be aware of the bugs in ICE that allows youto create illegal icon files, though.I keep the icons in their own resource icon file.  When I want to add theicons to the resource fork of my application, I use the include command inthe rez file:include "icon.file";You don't have to worry about having to derez the icon file. You caninclude multiple icon files if needed--just make sure you use unique IDsacross your icons.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 16)>>>>>"""""Keeping the icons in an icon file also allows greater flexibility to editthe icons with your favorite icon editor.  You edit the source icon fileand then rerun rez to create your final resource fork (and then copy thefork to your app).Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 17)>>>>>"""""Here's another Rez question that must be stupid (but I can't find theanswer tonight):How do I make the text in a static text control appear boldfaced?RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 19)>>>>>"""""Take a look on page G-34 in Toolbox Ref 3. That shows an example of astatic text resource with several different style implemented.  TBStyleBoldenables bold face.  TBStylePlain is for plain text.  Take a look in13:rinclude:types.rez and you can find all the different LETextBox2 stylesthat rez knows about.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 20)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Geoff.  That helps.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 21)[EOA][PGH]PROGRAMING HELP"""""""""""""""Okay, my NDA is essentially finished, with one problem that I'm not reallysure how to fix.  When I move my NDA window, the windows underneath it areerased and not redrawn; I assumed TaskMasterDA would help me fix this, butmy reading is telling me that the Event Mask in TaskMasterDA is not used?I am basing this largely on the Byteworks example in Desktop Programming inPascal, and Mike's example does the same thing, which at least makes mefeel like I didn't break anything :)Suggestions?Thanks.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""It sounds like update events aren't being delivered to the other windows.Are you somehow swallowing events that don't belong to you?  I'd be curiousto see your event loop.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.co                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 2)>>>>>"""""I now think I understand what the problem is, but it's not really a bug,more that I want the IP to update automatically even if in the background;I'll explain more in a bit (gotta run--literally, got a few miles to put in:)RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 3)>>>>>"""""Ryan,If you're doing what I think you're doing, marinetti sends a messagewhenever marinetti connects or disconnects to the network.  If you callAcceptMessages() with a name of "TCP~RyanWare~MyIP", marinetti will callyour function whenever the network connects/disconnects.  As always, checkthe marinetti documentation for more information.If you use resources and try to do anything with them (the window,controls, etc), you need to save the old resource app (oldApp :=GetResourceApp), set it to yours (SetResourceApp(myResourceID)), do yourstuff, then restore (SetResourceApp(oldApp)).Kelvin(KWS, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 4)>>>>>"""""Ah.  Okay, that helps.  Now that I know this, I probably need to rewritethe whole thing from scratch :)  I was polling for any change in IPmanually, but clearly that's not needed.  Ya learn somethin' new every day.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 5)[EOA][MTS]HELP WITH PROGRAMING USING THE Marinetti TCP/IP STACK"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""After executing a TCPIPReadTCP or TCPIPReadLineTCP and getting the dataexpected into rrBuff, is there some way (or just some need) to flush therrBuff before attempting another read?  Or does Marinetti take care of thisautomagically?Thanks.RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 25)>>>>>"""""When you use TCPIPReadTCP or TCPIPReadLineTCP, you are retrieving it intoeither a buffer that you set up, or a buffer that Marinetti has allocatedon your request. In either case the buffer is your ownership, so do with itwhat you like, just remembering to dispose of it correctly when you arefinished. Ewen Wannop - Speccie(CONDUCTOR, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 26)>>>>>"""""Make sure you always retrieve data from TCPIPReadTCP as a handle.  Neverread to a pointer since Marinetti will purge its data when a connectiongets closed (the reason why older version of gwFTP hangs when closing aconnection).To handle different speeds of systems (non-accelerated, accelerated, andhyper-accelerated via an emulator), I found the best implementation to getthe number of bytes that Marinetti wants to hand to you.  So before callingTCPReadTCP, call TCPIPStatusTCP and get the number of bytes in the receivequeue.  You now know how many bytes to read for TCPIPReadTCP.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 27)>>>>>"""""I'm not sure I explained myself clearly the last time, so let me try thisagain:I am currently doing a TCPIPReadLineTCP into a buffer that Marinetti hasset up for me.If after getting some data using TCPIPReadLineTCP I do anotherTCPIPReadLineTCP, how do I make sure that this is new data rather that thesame thing I read previously?  Does Marinetti flush the bufferautomatically or do I need to do something to compare the results ofTCPIPReadLineTCP vs the previous result?Thanks.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 28)>>>>>"""""Well, I deleted that message I posted last night that had new code in itbecause it was obvious I was in a state of delirium when I wrote it :)I'll pose that question again a bit later.RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 30)>>>>>"""""I never use TCPIPReadLineTCP since there are plenty of broken servers outthere which use an EOL which differ from the RFCs.  For example, SIS andgwFTP supports the EOL being a CR, LF, or CRLF.  To support this, you haveto parse the buffer returned by TCPIPReadTCP by yourself.But to answer your question, I see no reason to not trust thatTCPIPReadLineTCP works as documented since Andrew's newsreader uses it andappeared to work correctly.  Granted, it was written for Marinetti 1.x, butI doubt that much would have changed for later versions of Marinetti.I just question the real world use of needing to use it.Also, I'm not sure what will happen if there are multiple lines left in thereceive queue and the socket is closed--you will either get one line andlose the rest or you will get multiple lines at once.  Either way, I'drecommend not to use this tool call.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 31)>>>>>"""""Okay, now I think I have my wits more about me than last night.  Afterimplementing Geoff's suggestions re: TCPIPReadTCP, I need some help onfiguring out why I am consistently losing the first character in the dataI'm getting from Marinetti:   while mysrBuff.srRcvQueued = 0 do begin {check on the buffer size}      dummy := TCPIPStatusTCP(ipid,@mysrbuff);      TCPIPPoll;    end;   {end the check on buffer size}    {Read in data the size of the buffer}    dummy :=TCPIPReadTCP(ipid,2,0,mysrBuff.srRcvQueued,@myrlrBuff);    HLock(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle);   HandToPtr(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle,@recieveddata,myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount);    HUnlock(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle);receivedata ends up with the leading "+" cut off from the expected"+OK someotherstuffhere" data.Any help appreciated.  Thanks.RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 32)>>>>>"""""How do you know that receivedata ends up with the leading "+" cut off?  Areyou looking at the buffer in GSBug?  If you are trying to write receivedataas a string, you won't see the first character since pascal strings use thefirst byte as a length.Can you show your code how you prove receivedata^ points to an 'O'.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 33)>>>>>""""">> If you are trying to write receivedata as a string, you won't see thefirst character since pascal strings use the first byte as a length. <<I was going to mention the same thing. This would be the first thing I'dcheck.- Aaron(A2PROGEEK, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 34)>>>>>"""""Another problem I noticed is this:HandToPtr(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle,@recieveddata,myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount);You have made an assumption that the recieveddata is at leastmyrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount long.  But you have no idea how bigmyrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount really is (i.e. if recieveddata is 256 bytes longand myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount is 257 bytes, you will corrupt memory in the257th byte since it does not belong to recieveddata).  It would be betterto allocate a new handle that is myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount long and copy thedata into that.But you don't even need to do that.  You already have the received data inmyrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle so you are just wasting cycles performing a memorycopy (and the tool calls to allocated and deallocate the extra memory).  Asfar as Marinetti is concerned, the data in myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle is yoursto mess with (you are to deallocated this handle when you are done with ittoo).Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 35)>>>>>""""">> If you are trying to write receivedata as a string, you won't see thefirst character since pascal strings use the first byte as a length. <<This is true, but I have done all the usual things I do to try to get thestring to be a proper P-string and I still haven't seen the +.  Yes, I amwriting it as a string; I am going to try some other stuff (it's clear thatcoding in the mornings or late at night after I teach is not the bestidea).Thanks.RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 36)>>>>>""""">> You have made an assumption that the recieveddata is at leastmyrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount long.  But you have no idea how bigmyrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount really is <<Point taken, although for the purposes of this exercise (and right now,that's all this is, an exercise.  Remember: I'm a social worker, not aprofessional programmer, and this is all about learning, not making aliving--for me anyway) I don't think that'll be an issue.>> You already have the received data in myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle so you arejust wasting cycles performing a memory copy (and the tool calls toallocated and deallocate the extra memory). <<While the point is also taken, there is a reason why I called HandToPtr;there's a procedure I use later down the line that I specifically wrote fora pointer and I -really- didn't want to change it.  Thanks, contentappreciated.RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 37)>>>>>"""""Instead of trying to write the text string, print each byte of thereceiveddata buffer (with a space between each number).  You'll need anASCII chart to convert the numbers to ASCII characters.  This is also a wayto make sure that your string manipulation routine is working correctly.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 38)>>>>>"""""Even with a handle, you would dereference it to get a pointer.  Then yourroutines later on that use a pointer will work correctly.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 39)>>>>>"""""I'm having some issues with my TCPIPReadTCP routine.  On Geoff's sageadvice, I switched from doing a TCPIPReadLineTCP to TCPIPReadTCP.  Theroutine appears to work the first time it's called but not a second time.Code looks like:      dummy :=TCPIPStatusTCP(ipid,@mysrbuff);      while mysrBuff.srRcvQueued = 0 do begin   {if no data in the queue}         TCPIPpoll;         dummy :=TCPIPStatusTCP(ipid,@mysrbuff);      end;   {if no data in the queue}      dummy :=TCPIPReadTCP(ipid,2,0,mysrBuff.srRcvQueued,@myrrBuff);There's a routine later to get rid of excess data if the rrMoreFlag istrue.The first time it's called, the routine seems to work fine; the secondtime, it loops forever as if it gets no data.  My sending routine (whichsends data) is called before this to send some data out and appears towork, but I tend to hang right here.  Ideas?  Thanks.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 40)>>>>>"""""First, it appears that you are unsure if the data you sent before callingthis routine a second time is actually getting sent.  That is the firstarea of suspect.  This is easily identifiable if you run a POP mail serveron your local UNIX box.  Run tcpdump while the GS is communicating withyour server and you can see what it is sending/receiving.  This makestroubleshooting much easier.  qpopper should be pretty trivial to set up onthe UNIX side.Second, you need to determine which area of the code is hanging.  Assumingmemory is in a state where it is not trashed or to a point where it isslightly trashed, the two areas where the problem is the while loop _or_the TCPIPReadTCP.  Unless you add some debugging code, you will need to useGSBug to figure that out.  If memory is getting very trashed,TCPIPStatusTCP could fail and you have bigger problems since all it does itcopy values of a few socket variables.  Again, GSBug or adding debug codewill help.It also isn't a good idea to just toss any data from the receive queue ifthe rrMoreFlag is set.  If _TaskMaster is being called by any app, thenTCPIPPoll can get called automagically and you could purge data that youare expecting.  It is a good idea to parse the data manually to make surewhat you get meets RFC specs (and modify your code accordingly for serverswhich don't meet RFC specs).Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 41)>>>>>"""""Ryan,The latest Juiced.gs mentioned you were using Marinetti v2 (to reviewVNCView).  I would recommend using the v3 beta, as it's more stable andseems to have fewer bugs.Not marinetti related, but 2 options to debug pascal (or C, integer basic,etc) code are Splat! (by Michael Hackett, formerly sold by Procyon, but nolonger available) and Orca/Debugger (available from Syndicomm, included onOpus II).I have Splat! and love it.  There are some limits (mostly imposed by theOrca debug format), but it lets you step through your high-level codeline-by-line and examine variables, look at structures, etc in an 80-column"windowed" text screen.I have Orca/Debugger, but I can't comment on it since Splat! is so good tome :).We all make logic/programming errors, and stepping through your code can bethe only way to find the problem sometimes.My 2 cents.Kelvin(KWS, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 42)[EOA][CAE]HOW DO YOU CREATE AN ACCENTED 'e' IN WINDOWS?"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I'd previously asked how, on a Macintosh, to create an accented 'e' asappears in the French pronunciation of my surname; the solution was topress Option-E then 'E' again.Now I'm wondering how to replicate this product in Windows?  Right now, allI know to do is open Microsoft Word, go to Insert->Symbol, and select thatlink - then if I need that character in another application, I can cut andpaste.  Surely there's a keyboard equivalent of this process?Thanks,-Ken(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 21)>>>>>"""""With Word 97, the insert->symbol window shows the keyboard shortcut at thebottom of the window (ctrl-',e in your case) and lets you reassign theshortcut as well.You could also record a macro while you insert the key.  Macros can alsohave key-equivalents.Kelvin(KWS, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 22)>>>>>"""""Kelvin,That works! :)  Too bad it's not the same key equivalent across Windows andMac.Thanks,-KEn(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 23)[EOA][TST]Telnet/SSH Terminal Program for Windows"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Can anyone recommend a good telnet/SSH terminal program for Windows -preferably one that supports split-screen chat?Thanks,-Ken(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 24)>>>>>"""""I'm not sure if it does SSH, but take a look at NetTerm.  It offers notone, but TWO chat panes (one for short answers and one for long)._________  | homas(TCOMPTER, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 25)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Thomas.  http://www.securenetterm.com offers a related program,Secure NetTerm, that works for both telnet and SSH.  I think that it, likeits predecessor, is $30 shareware.  The last time it was updated was lastweek.-Ken(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 26)[EOA][ITL]------------------------      ILLUMINATING THE LAMP |-----------------------------An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~By Steven WeyhrichFOOL ON THE HILL     Well, my one month hiatus on this column extended, unfortunately, tobe SIX months. For that I must apologize. The problem was simply too muchto do and not enough time to do it (again).HELP!     World events at the start of 2001 were, as usual, unsettled. Theresult of the U.S. Presidential election was finally decided amid muchcontroversy in favor of George W. Bush, and he was inaugurated in January2001. Race car driver Dale Earnhardt was killed at a race in the Daytona500 when his car struck a wall at 180 mph in the final lap. California'senergy situation worsened, and with record shortages of electricity,rolling blackouts occurred over the state. Oklahoma City bomber TimothyMcVeigh was executed on June 11th. And on Tuesday, September 11, the UnitedStates sustained a major terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in NewYork and on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The uncertainty of the sourceand extent of the attacks led the government to take the unprecedentedaction of grounding ALL air traffic in the country until the causes couldbe clearly determined. A part of the aftermath to the devastating attackincluded a major drop in the stock market, although this had improved bythe end of the year. Anthrax-tainted mail was discovered at major mediaoutlets and government offices, which further disrupted the economy. Whileinvestigators sought clues to the source, the offices of the postal systemhad to cleaned of any remaining particles of the infectious agent. TheTaliban-controlled government in Afghanistan came under direct attack [by]of a coalition of nations led by the United States, in an effort to captureOsama bin Laden, the suspected organizer of the September 11th attacks.     Microsoft announced on January 1, 2001 that Windows 95 had beenreclassified as a legacy product, and would no longer be sold or shipped.The company also introduced its own entry in the console gaming market, theXBox, which was the first gaming system to contain a hard drive. ByOctober, Microsoft also updated its Windows operating system with theintroduction of Microsoft Windows XP. In April, Dell became the largest PCmaker in the U.S. USB 2.0 was introduced as a higher-speed upgrade to theoriginal Universal Serial Bus interface. CPU's running at 1.4 Gigahertzbegan to become available. Excite@Home.com went into bankruptcy, as thedot-com bust further expanded.     At Apple, new models of the Power Mac G4 were released, with processorspeeds going beyond 500 MHz for the first time, with the support of a 133MHz system bus. Later in the year, the speed increased to 667 and 733 MHz.The higher end Power Mac G4 also included the SuperDrive, this time thename indicating the ability to read and write CD-ROM and DVD formats. Thetitanium PowerBook G4 also was introduced, starting at speeds of 400 and500 MHz. Updated consumer desktop Macs were the Flower Power and BlueDalmation iMacs, at speeds from 400 to 600 MHz. Beginning in March, Applebegan to ship Mac OS X 10.0, and version 10.1 appeared in September.Finally, new iBooks were released, receiving a speed increase to 500 and667 MHz. The form of the computer was also changed, from the originalcolored clam-shell appearance to a more standard-sized white form.THE LAMP! INFO     The year 2001 began with a near-emergency involving the production ofThe Lamp! itself. Just as Delphi had promised (threatened? warned?) duringlate 2000, the text-based part of the service began to experience failureswithin six weeks of the November 1st date that maintenance on that part ofDelphi was due to be discontinued. Editor Lyle Syverson used this as anopportunity to promote the new bulletin board system available in theSyndicomm.com service. By February, he found it necessary to depend on thepostings in the Apple II forum on Syndicomm.com for much of his material,as the message traffic on Delphi had declined considerably since thefailure of the text side of Delphi.DELPHI A2 FORUM     This malfunction of Delphi's text side, which had long been accessiblevia telnet, occurred during late December 2000. The Delphi systemprogrammers were focused almost exclusively on the web-based messageboards, which had been set up to take a message posted on the text side,move it to the web side, and then back to the text side again for display.The function of this failed, came back and worked inconsistently, and thenby mid-January 2001 was not functioning at all.     As the Internet boom of the late 1990's began to wind down, serviceswhose business model was based on advertising traffic began to see thatthis revenue model was not working very well. Many services that had beenhoping to make a killing in the online world were instead findingTHEMSELVES being killed. As Delphi was increasingly feeling the squeeze,its president, Rusty Williams, posted a message in January announcing theneed to reduce some support positions on its staff. During 2000, Delphi andanother Internet service called "Well Engaged" (which originated yearsearlier as "The Well") had combined forces to form Propsero Technologies, abusiness dedicated to managing message boards and chat services. Williams'letter went on to discuss ways in which services would be automated inorder to make do without as much staff. The consequences of this, as wellas the inconsistent functioning of the text access to the service, caused asignificant decline in activities in the Delphi A2 Forum.     Making official what was obvious to those trying to use the service,Delphi announced on February 22 that the text and web forum access would nolonger be connected (that is, a message posted on one side would no longerappear on the other side).  Finally, text subscribers were told in ane-mail on March 12 that as of May 1, 2001, all text-based services would becompletely discontinued. This included e-mail accounts, text messages, andtext-based chat. Because of this, and the significantly decreasedparticipation in the Monday (or Thursday) Night Chats, Joe Kohn decided todiscontinue his sponsoring of those special nights on Delphi. Archives ofmany of the bulletin board messages on Delphi A2 that were posted whileSyndicomm had managed the forum were made available on A2Central.com.A2CENTRAL.COM / SYNDICOMM     A2Central.com added e-mail service for its members in early January2001. It was made to work with any POP3-compatible e-mail program forreading mail, and required the use of the mail menu at the site in order tosend mail. Addresses were <username@a2people.com>.     In February, Syndicomm began the testing of enhanced account servicesfor A2Central.com. These enhanced accounts included 10 megabytes of storagespace, accessible via FTP, which could be used for storing anything,including a personal web site. At a rate of $15 per month, or $35 perquarter, some might have considered it too expensive; however, if youcompared this to the costs of subscribing to GEnie or Delphi or CompuServein their prime ($6-$9/hour), this was quite reasonable. One advantage ofthe enhanced service was the offering (in April) to these subscribers of anSSL-capable version of Lynx (a text-based web browser). By August, theenhanced service was expanded to be available to ALL subscribers, withoutany additional cost.     Members of the A2Central.com service were encouraged to write articlesfor the web site's news and reviews section, and a month of free servicewas offered to stimulate interest.     Starting in April it was also announced that Dave Miller had begunworking as Syndicomm's first full time employee, continuing the programmingwork necessary to build the service up into more than just a text-basedApple II community. Specifically, he was focused on fully upgrading theinterface and the coordination between the telnet and web-based sides ofthe service. He also upgraded the forum bulletin board software to givemuch faster results when scanning.     As part of the conversion of the forum and other parts of the serviceto Syndicomm.com, e-mail addresses were changed from<username@a2people.com> to <username@syndicomm.com>. Furthermore, personalweb space was now accessible at <http://www.syndicomm.com/~username>.Payment of the subscription to Syndicomm was also now possible via creditcards.     Around the time Miller began to work further on the system,instructions were posted instructing users to start accessing Syndicomm bytelnet to "syndicomm.com" instead of to "a2central.com" as it hadoriginally been designed. The reason for this was the beginning ofdifferentiation of the service into more forums than just the pioneeringApple II forum. Other new forums that opened during 2001 included the PalmOS forum (which started in May), and the Gamebits forum (hosted by KenGagne) and the Singles Forum (which opened during the summer). After theSeptember 11th attacks, a WTC forum was opened to discuss the events andtheir aftermath.     In July, the new Syndicomm online store opened. To enhance its productofferings, Sheppy negotiated arrangements to distribute Balloon, AutoArk,Shrink II, the line of Parkhurst Micro Products, and all of The Byte Worksand APDA products.HARDWARE NEWS     During 2001, the theme of many postings in the A2 forum focused onhelp with old hardware. These discussions included:o ADB device hot-swapping problemso Apple II Video Overlay Card and its pinouts for cable connectiono Apple IIe to IIGS upgrades and how to perform themo Apple IIe and IIGS favorite RAM cardso Apple IIGS accelerators and how they work(ed)o Apple IIGS recommended upgradeso Apple SCSI card DIP switch settingso DSL vs Cable modemso Dvorak keyboard modification instructions for the Apple IIe (thanks toChuck Stiles)o LocalTalk connections between a Mac and a IIGSo Monitors used on Apple II computers in the past, including the use of aCommodore 1040 monitor on the IIGSo MS-DOS disk formatting for optimum use with the MUG! utilityEMULATOR NEWS     F.E. Systems' Bernie ][ The Rescue 3.0 Preview, announced atKansasFest 2000, was released in January. It had improved full-screen mode,improvement in sound, and various speed improvements.     Charlie Danemark released FishWings in April. It was a freeware diskimage management tool for Windows. An update in May added limited DOS 3.3support.     "KEGS" (Ken's Emulated GS) had been mentioned only briefly in TheLamp! before this month. In 1999, the contents of a future Juiced.GS issueindicated that it was to be discussed in that issue, but thus far it hadnot appeared to any extent in The Lamp!. KEGS was designed for X-Windows(Unix) and KEGS32 was a port designed to run under Windows. In April,Thomas Compter released DiskChanger, a disk-mounting utility to simplifymanagement of disk images used with KEGS32.SOFTWARE NEWS:: COLLECTIONS ::     During March, collections of Apple II software on various FTP siteswere discussed. Also, Thomas Compter listed in the April issue the variouspieces of software he has written for the Apple II+, IIGS, Windows, and theWeb.     Juiced.GS publisher Max Jones prepared to release a Friends For LifeVolume 2 CD. Eric Shepherd released The Totally Sheppyware CD in May, andJoe Kohn released the A2-Central-On-Disk collection on 3.5 disks in July.     Howard Katz announced new additions to the Lost Classics Project inJuly, not only software (Beneath Apple Manor, Babble, and Linker) but alsobooks (Beneath Apple DOS, and Bag Of Tricks).:: PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE ::     Along with the various discussions of hardware that appeared during2001, software also received some attention. In April, favorite wordprocessors were debated and compared, ranging from Apple Writer (DOS 3.3version), Magic Window, Letter Perfect, SuperText, and Word Handler, toAppleWorks and AppleWorks GS, to EgoEd, ShadowWrite, and Hermes.     Geoff Weiss updated SCAP (Spectrum Create A PDF) to v1.1.1.     Lucas Scharenbroich released a beta of his project, GTE (Generic TileEngine), which helped in production of graphic tiles consistent with gamesused on various console games (i.e., Nintendo). (The current version ofthis product cam be found at http://iigs.dreamhost.com/gte/gte.html):: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE ::     Since A2Central.com was beginning to become a gathering place for theApple II faithful, a new offline reader was needed to help automate itsuse. One that was announced in January was written by Ewen Wannop andreleased as an open beta. SOAR was a collection of scripts made to workwith Spectrum 2.5.1 or greater, Marinetti 2.0 or 2.1, and an internetprovider with TCP/IP access. It was updated several times during the year.     Not to be outdone, ProTERM 3.1 also got into the act with a freescript for offline reading of A2Central.com written by Ryan Suenaga.Furthermore, Sheppy issued a programming challenge to anyone who couldproduce ports of CoPilot (for ProTERM 3, Spectrum, Talk Is Cheap, orANSITerm) or GEM (GEnieMaster) to work with A2Central.com. Since thestructure of the new service was quite similar to GEnie in its prime, thiswas certainly possible. A reward of $25 off of KansasFest registration wasoffered.     Wannop also released another Spectrum-scripted product in June. SAFE(Spectrum Automated File Exchange) v1.0 was a freeware FTP client for theApple IIGS. Kim Howe released his Telnet NDA for the Apple IIGS in April,and in May, Ninjaforce released Samurai, an Classic Desk Accessory-basedIRC client for the Apple IIGS.     IPNetRouter for the Mac was discussed in February as a way to allow aIIGS equipped with a LANceGS card to share an Internet connection with aMacintosh.     Kim Howe's Arachnid web browser for the Apple IIGS was updated toPreview 3. (It is still available today athttp://www.a2central.com/~kimhowe/arachnid.html, rather than at the linkmentioned in the Lamp article from 2001.) :: UTILITY SOFTWARE ::     February's issue of The Lamp! included a discussion of variousavailable IIGS programming languages and their advantages or disadvantages.In March, one topic of discussion was methods of translating (porting)programs from one language to another.     It was suggested in April that a "net install" version of System 6.0.1for the Apple IIGS made, one that had the full set of disks combined intoone large file. This would simplify the installation for those who wereinstalling it on an emulator. (Whether or not anything came of thissuggestion has never been revealed in The Lamp!):: GAMES ::     Jeff Fink continued to be busy during 2001 revising Silvern Castle. Anupdate to version 6.0 was released in December 2000, and by mid-January2001 he had produced version 7.0. It was re-written to run completely underMicroDot BASIC. Further updates to the game come out during the year, up toversion 7.3. Fink also uploaded several other games and utilities that hehad written, all as freeware.     Sheppy's Lemonade Stand GS was updated to v1.0.2 to correct a bug, andThomas Compter released his Apple IIGS game "Hammurabi", in both text andIIGS desktop versions.PUBLICATIONS     Juiced.GS continued to publish, concluding its fifth year and startingits sixth year. A surprise was announced at KansasFest: Max Jones, who hadbeen editor and publisher of the magazine since its start, was turning overthe magazine to Ryan Suenaga as editor, and Syndicomm as publisher.     A web site was discovered for The Apple Blossom, which had been out ofprint since 1998. (This site, www.appleblossom.net still works today.)     Syndicomm announced in May that it would be able to distribute pastissues GS+ magazines and copies of EGO software, having been grantedpermission by Ross Falconer.KANSASFEST     Registration for KFest 2001 opened in March. As in recent years, itwas sponsored by InTrec Software, Inc. The KFest FAQ, written by RyanSuenaga, was updated to version 3.0 and appeared in the May issue. Also inthat issue were recollections of fond memories of KFest events by pastattendees.     Webcasting of the event was again planned for this year. Sheppyannounced that he was going to use Sorenson Broadcaster this year tosimplify the production of the webcasts. He also planned to design thesetup to not overload the Avila network with webcasting as happened in2000.     KansasFest's keynote speaker for 2001 was Eric Shepherd, and therecipient of the annual roast was Juiced.GS publisher Max Jones. Thesessions presented at the conference ranged from the technical (the LANceGScard, by Geoff Weiss, and ways of getting the Internet to a IIGS, by RyanSuenaga), to games (Silvern Castle Exposed, by Bruce Baker), to thehistorical (Tony Diaz's tour of his Apple2.org site). Margaret Anderson wonfirst place in HackFest, and Joe Kohn won the GShisen tournament. The "BiteThe Bag" contest was again held, won this year by Geoff Weiss.WRITERS     For the third year in a row, Ryan Suenaga presented the Apple IIAchievement Awards in the January issue. The Best Commercial Product awardwas given to The Byte Works' Opus ][ CD collection. The Best SharewareProduct was Lemonade Stand GS, by Eric Shepherd, with Sarah Shepherd's GSROM Grabber given runner-up status. The award for Best Freeware Product wasgiven to Jeff Fink's Silvern Castle, which had changed status fromshareware to freeware during 2000. The honor for Best Publication againwent to Max Jones' Juiced.GS. The outstanding Apple II-Related Developmentwas given to //SHH Systeme's LANceGS Ethernet card. Finally, the award forOutstanding Individual Achievement went to Eric Shepherd for his manycontributions to the Apple II community both in 2000 and in past years.     Another major article by Suenaga in January was one describing the newSyndicomm.com online service (called initially by the same name as the website, A2Central.com).MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES     Sheppy announced plans to update and reproduce the Apple II TechnicalNotes, which had not been touched for quite a while. He asked for help increating these updates.     The merits of the use of PayPal for sales of items on eBay wasdiscussed in March. Ways to become a programmer were also debated thatmonth. Memories of the introduction of the Apple IIGS were related in theJuly issue. In November, the Apple II Documentation Project was announced.STATS     Here are statistics for the first ten years of GEnieLamp and The Lamp!The numbers refer to the size of each issue in "K" (kilobytes):Year    Min     Max     Avg----    ----    ----    ----1992    116K    212K    156K1993     80K    256K    172K1994    124K    216K    165K1995     92K    176K    125K1996     80K    192K    116K1997     44K    124K     85K1998     68K    156K    102K1999     59K    120K     91K2000     47K     81K     60K2001     47K     96K     71KMAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR     I have decided to do one additional ITL column during 2004, to coverthe events of the year 2002 for The Lamp! After that, ITL will re-emergesome time during 2005, and deal with 2003 and 2004. Although life hassignificantly slowed down, it is still a bit hairy at times, and to keep MEfrom being too spaced out on my own magical tour will require some moretime to work on other projects I've had to set aside for quite a while.Steven Weyhricha2history@syndicomm.comhttp://apple2history.orgReferences:"About Prospero"http://www.prosperotechnologies.com/about.htmComputer History For The Year 2001http://www.computerhope.com/history/2001.htm"Delphi, Well Engaged To Form Propsero 01/25/00", Newbytes(link no longer available)The History Of Computing Projecthttp://www.thocp.netThe History Of The World Timelinehttp://www.historychannel.com/timeline/index.jsp?year=2001Macintosh History: 2001http://www.lowendmac.com/history/2001.shtml[EOA][ANS]-------------------------------      ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM |------------------------------------by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>[TSU]TO SIGN UP FOR SYNDICOMM ONLINE"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Please visit our web site at http://www.syndicomm.com for information or tosign up!(Logon message)[EOA][SSA]September 2004 Issue of Syndicommotion Available""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The September 2004 (Volume 3, Number 9) issue of Syndicommotion has beenemailed to subscribers.  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You cansubscribe and unsubscribe from the emailed version, view the current issue,and browse back issues.Enjoy!Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, HelpDesk, Cat 5, Top 4, Msg 23)[EOA][LTE]-------------------------------             LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |------------------------------------LETTER TO THE EDITOR~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THIS MONTH"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The mail box for Letters to the Editor remained empty this month.[EOA]AN INVITATION~~~~~~~~~~~~~Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of theApple II computers.Send your comments to Lyle Syverson, Editor <lyle@FoxValley.net>The Editor reserves the right to edit any material submitted.The Editor reserves the right to reject any material he considersunsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.[EOA][KFF]------------------------------                       KFest 2004 |-----------------------------------[KHF]CODE FOR KEN G's HackFest 2004 ENTRY""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Here's the code to my HackFest 2004 entry.  It's simplistic and I'm surecould be neater or cleaner, but I wasn't interested in writing good code.:) 10 TALLY = 50:PAUL$ = " " 50  HOME : PRINT "Let's begin with a base of 50 attendees...": PRINT 100  INPUT "What year is it? ";A$ 120  IF  LEN (A$) <  > 4 THEN  GOTO 100 130 A = 1990 -  VAL (A$) 140  GOSUB 1000 200  PRINT "Did postcards go out this year (Y/N)? "; 210  GET A$: PRINT 215  IF A$ <  > "Y" AND A$ <  > "N" THEN  PRINT : GOTO 200 220 A =  - 1: IF A$ = "Y" THEN A = 3 230  GOSUB 1000 300  PRINT "How much has the price changed from last year?" 400  PRINT "1) -5%": PRINT "2) Same": PRINT "3) +5%": PRINT "4) +10%" 410  GET B: PRINT 415  IF B < 1 OR B > 4 THEN 410 420  IF B = 1 THEN A = 2 422  IF B = 2 THEN A = 0 423  IF B = 3 THEN A =  - 2 424  IF B = 3 THEN A =  - 4 430  GOSUB 1000 440  PRINT "When was registration information made available?" 450  PRINT "1) November": PRINT "2) February": PRINT "3) March": PRINT "4)May" 460  GET B: PRINT 465  IF B < 1 OR B > 4 THEN  GOTO 460 470  IF B = 1 THEN A = 4 471  IF B = 2 THEN A = 2 472  IF B = 3 THEN A = 1 473  IF B = 4 THEN A =  - 4 480  GOSUB 1000 500  PRINT "Have SARS, terrorists, or mad cows been in the news this year(Y/N)? "; 510  GET A$ 520  IF A$ <  > "Y" AND A$ <  > "N" THEN  PRINT : GOTO 500 530 A = 3: IF A$ = "Y" THEN A =  - 3 540  GOSUB 1000 600  PRINT "Who is the keynote speaker this year?" 610  PRINT "1) Steve Wozniak" 620  PRINT "2) Steve Jobs" 630  PRINT "3) Steve Weyhrich" 635  PRINT "4) Steve Gozdziewski" 640  PRINT "5) Steve Hawking" 650  PRINT "6) Steve Gagne, Esq. (my brother)" 660  GET B: PRINT 665  IF B < 1 OR B > 6 THEN 660 670  IF B = 1 THEN A = 13 680  IF B = 2 THEN A = 5 690  IF B = 3 THEN A = 2 700  IF B = 4 THEN A = 2 710  IF B = 5 THEN A = 8 715  IF B = 6 THEN A =  - 2 720  GOSUB 1000 730  PRINT "Is Floppy Disk Ninja being played this year (Y/N)? "; 740  GET A$: PRINT :A =  - 1:PAUL$ = " Paul Zaleski " 745  IF A$ <  > "Y" AND A$ <  > "N" THEN  GOTO 730 750  IF A$ = "Y" THEN A = 1 760  GOSUB 1000 999  GOTO 2000 1000 TALLY = TALLY + A 1005  IF A = 0 THEN  PRINT "No change there...": PRINT : RETURN 1010  PRINT : PRINT "Okay - that's "; ABS (A); 1020  IF A < 0 THEN  PRINT " fewer"; 1030  IF A > 0 THEN  PRINT " more"; 1040  PRINT PAUL$;"coming...": PRINT :PAUL$ = " " 1050  RETURN 2000  PRINT "Computing tally...";: GET A$ 2010  PRINT : PRINT "This year's KFest will be attended by "; 2020  IF TALLY > 1 THEN  PRINT TALLY;" people this year." 2022  IF TALLY > 60 THEN  PRINT "(could this be a renaissance?)": GOTO2040 2024  IF TALLY > 50 THEN  PRINT "(you must've done something right!)":GOTO2040 2025  IF TALLY > 40 THEN  PRINT "(not bad!)": GOTO 2040 2026  IF TALLY > 30 THEN  PRINT "(must be an off-year...)": GOTO 2040 2027  IF TALLY > 20 THEN  PRINT "(what, did someone blow up Nebraska?"):GOTO 2040 2028  IF TALLY > 10 THEN  PRINT "(that's not a convention, that's acoven!)": GOTO 2040 2029  IF TALLY > 1 THEN  PRINT "(could this be the end??)" 2030  IF TALLY <  = 1 THEN  PRINT "one person this year. (Thanks, Tony!)" 2040  END(KGAGNE, Cat 5, Top 6, Msg 50)[EOA][KF5]------------------------------                       KFest 2005 |-----------------------------------[TBH]KansasFest 2005 to be Held JULY 19-24th"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Mark your calendar and start saving some money.[KFW]KansasFest Website""""""""""""""""""Is located here:   http://www.kfest.org[EOA][GOK]GOLF OUTING AS AN EVENT AT KFest 2005?""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Now that I've actually been there I feel more comfortable to bringing agroup.  I am very awful at golf but enjoy the walk.  One lives for the goodshots and pretends to forget the bad ones.  By myself I can do a lot of doovers with no problems, especially if there is no one waiting impatientlybehind me.If we do it in the AM the crowds will be light.  As I was leaving around 1,the groups were lining up to get on the course.This is a pretty nice course.  Of course I hit from the red tees.  I alsoprefer few water hazards to lose my ball in.  There are few here.Bruce Baker(BBAKER, Cat 5, Top 7, Msg 10)>>>>>"""""If time permits I'd be interested in a "golf outing" with the KFest crew,Bruce. Won't lug my clubs so I hope I can rent them there? (I seem to beable to play just as bad no matter which clubs I use).WHERE would we play - how far from Avila? Also, Cost?Just "relim" questions, would probably go with you anyhow if time permits:)Steve(KFESTSTEVE, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 108)>>>>>"""""Minor Golf Club is right over on Minor.  It's maybe a mile away.  I'vewalked over there, in my walk exploring I found it across from the YMCA.Now they have several restaurants, a grocery store and a couple of gasstations.Minor is parallel to Wornall, the next major street over the opposite wayof how we usually go places, to the east.It looks like a pretty nice suburban public course.Renting clubs?  Do places do that?  Not many do in Houston, that's forsure.  I can't speak for K.C.  Hopefully something can be worked out.Whatever you rent will probably be better than my garage sale clubs.  :)Bruce(BBAKER, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 109)[EOA][INN]------------------------------                    EXTRA INNINGS |-----------------------------------About The Lamp!   The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month on"""""""""""""""   the WEB at:   http://lamp.a2central.com/This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computersusing Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes.  Apple II Forever!     * The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2004 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W.  All       rights reserved.     * To reach The Lamp! on Internet email send mail to       thelamp@sheppyware.net     * All issues of The Lamp! are available at The Lamp! 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