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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                         Feb 11, 1991

In this issue:
  RAINBOW MEMORY HELP
  RE: RAINBOW MEMORY HELP
  WP51 ON THE RB
  RE: RAINBOW CURSOR CONTRO


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Date:     6 Feb 91  18:24 -0500
From:     BOB SMITH
To:       JACK ANDERSON
Subject:  RAINBOW MEMORY HELP

I have seen messages telling you, you need the memory card with the
switches and sockets.  You also need an adaptor card (or 8087
NDP card) to go between the motherboard and memory card.

A very good program for using the Rainbow as a terminal is TCIIV321.
This program is the only public program I have found to do VT1XX
& VT2XX modes.  Most programs do VT102 and not VT220 (also to a
large extent VT240 & VT241 with graphics card and regis).

- --- msged 2.06
 * Origin: Bob's_point of Cuckoo's Nest : Hudson, NH  (1:132/119.4)

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Date:     9 Feb 91  09:17 -0500
From:     MARC NEWMAN
To:       BOB SMITH
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW MEMORY HELP

>I have seen messages telling you, you need the memory card with the switches
>and sockets.  You also need an adaptor card (or 8087 NDP card) to go between t
>he
>motherboard and memory card.

Bob, I have a non-Rainbow 8088 machine (SWP COPOWER) which I have wanted
to put a math coprocessor on, but I do not have a empty slot for it.  Is
this NDP card by any chance something that I could use on a system other
than a Rainbow, even if it took some mods?

Marc
- --- MSBBS 0.10
 * Origin: The Black Box RCP/M MSBBS, 713-480-2686 HST/V32/V42bis (106/601)

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Date:     8 Feb 91  19:49 -0500
From:     FRANK MALLORY
To:       BILL HLIWA
Subject:  WP51 ON THE RB

 BH> Frank -- I recall a while back that you said you had WP 5.1 running on
 BH> the Rainbow under Code Blue.  What version of Code Blue was that?
 BH> Could you post the switches you used again; I seem to have lost the
 BH> original message.

I'm using DOS 3.10b and the latest Code Blue; 2.01, I believe.

In my AUTOEXEC.BAT, I have SET WP=/f2

The WordPerfect program is on my F: drive in directory \WP51 (with
various  subdirectories for printer, graphics, macros, etc.) I
renamed WP.EXE to  WP51.EXE.

On my E: drive, I have a directory BAT which contains the following for
 WordPerfect, in a file WP.BAT:

cb f:\wp51\wp51/ss=24,80 %1

My PATH statement includes the CB, BAT, and WP51 directories.

The above lets me go to any application directory or subdirectory and
invoke  WordPerfect with the command WP JONES.LTR or whatever.

Let me know if you have any problems getting it set up.


- --- msged 1.99L MSC
 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417)

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Date:     9 Feb 91  12:19 -0500
From:     ALAN CONROY
To:       CARL HOUSEMAN
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW CURSOR CONTRO

  The purpose is to move the blinking box.  I can't use escape sequences
because I have an input routine which needs to update the cursor
position for each character typed at the keyboard (I put the
character out with direct video writes).  A fast typist (or even
myself) can get ahead of the computer in this case.  For now, I
turn the cursor off and set the video attribute for the
"cursor" to reverse-blinking. This works, however the blink is
too slow for my liking.
  Yes, I know that somewhere there has got to be a memory location
which contains the cursor address (I had thought at one point I even
found out which address), but so far I've been unsuccessful.


- --- Opus-CBCS 1.12
 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0)

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