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Filename: +gus1
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File size: 14DE bytes
Load address: 2B206576
Exec address: 31737567
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File contents
This disc is late because I have had to spend quite a lot of time
rearranging some files to suit both the EUG formats. 

I have been reluctant to say this in the past but could members who are
sending in programs try to keep file names to 7 letters or less? 

If a program needs a lot of ADFS disc space could you restrict
yourselves to ADFS M format?

Only use single letters for directory names.

When a file needs to change directories could you try to  write it as 
*DIR dir instead of *DIR ^ and if a file needs to return to the root
directory could you use *DIR $ instead of *DIR. The reason for this last
point is that ADFS recognises *DIR as an instruction to return to the root
directory while DFS needs to have any directory name including the root
directroy specified. In DFS a jump can be made between any directory
simply by calling it while in ADFS the directory path needs to be
specified. 

So in ADFS one directory branch might be A, then B and C, while a second
separate branch might be X then Y and Z. If you happen to be in C and yo
want to go to A you can type *DIR^^ and if you want to move from C to Z
you would type *DIR $.X.Y.Z. Returning to the root directory can be done
with *DIR.

In DFS moving from C to Z would be *DIR Z  
^ would be seen as a directory name and not recognised

Specifying each individual directory jump will ensure cross compatability.

A number of EUG members use DFS which has some special restrictions and
many EUG members using 3.5" drives have only single sided.

Please don't give up programming if these points are not clear. Send in
your programs anyway and I will do my best to sort them out. 

As I've said before without submissions from EUG members there will be no
EUG.



I have discovered evidence of life on another planet. It happened like
this. I was driving one afternoon listening to Radio 4 and there was a
discussion on the subject of why British men have so much difficultly
showing their emotions. One of the explanations was the English habit of
sending their sons to prep school followed by boarding school where
demonstrations of emotion were discouraged. 

Now the vast majority of English boys don't go to prep school let alone
boarding school and for that matter English men and indeed British men do
show their emotions. Then it occurred to me that the speakers are infact on
another planet, and by gradual deduction I worked out a number of
interesting facts. Surprisingly this planet has a number of place names in
common with Earth but this is where the similarity ends. 

There are only two countries, England and the rest of the world. The other
country is sometimes divided up into various regions but this is usually
unimportant since they are not English.

Most boys go to boarding schools, these are all terrible places with cold
showers, bad food and bullying prefects but everyone looks back with fond
nostalgia.

Films and TV don't have any violence, crime or sex. Consequently in
society there is no violence, crime or sex. OK so I lied about the sex.

Everyone has a garden of at least 1/2 an acre.

Generally only the women get diseases but when men do get ill they don't
like to talk about it.

Opera and Ballet originate in England and everyone protests if anything
less than huge amounts of tax payers money is used to pay for them.

Tennis is the national sport followed by show jumping. 

All children work hard to get A levels and go to university to study
Classics. It is almost unheard of for a young person to take an
apprenticeship and families have died of shame rather than admit that one
of their children wants to be a tradesman.

I haven't figured out what the name of this planet is but I'd be
interested in suggestions and any further information anyone may have.

An advert on some TV stations at the moment for a company looking to
finance inventions starts with some tension building music and a question
is printed on the screen,
   Who Invented The Telephone?  followed by three possible answers, 
   Alexander Graham Bell,
   Elisha Gray,
   Both.
After a moment the third answer is magically ringed. Then another question
is printed on the screen,
   What Was The Difference?  again followed by three possible answers,
   The Design,
   The Finance,
   The Patent.
An American voice then says 'The difference was the Patent.
Bell beat Gray by four hours so Bell is famous, Gray is forgotten. 

Now setting aside the inaccuracy of the statement it raises two points.
Firstly an American is not trying to claim that Thomas Edison invented the
telephone and of course he didn't but secondly the priority for the
American voiceover is that Bell is famous. Looking at this from a British
perspective I would have thought that the most sought after reward would
be to make lots of money. But for the 'average ' American it seems that
fame is what counts. Fame seems to be the driving force in American
popular culture and it seems to be fame at any cost. Many British people 
might like to be famous sportsmen or perhaps popstars but this is surely
more a desire for admiration rather than fame itself. For American popular
culture being famous seems to be the first thought with the assumption
that material security will follow naturally.

The number of this company for anyone interested is 0800 123411 

Gus, December 1997



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