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From: ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com (Donald Ekman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: QBOOK096.ZIP - QuikBook v0.96a: Free-form recipe database pgm
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.175121.27725@wdl1.wdl.loral.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 17:51:21 GMT
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In article <ksRg41w164w@zwaaney> tim@zwaaney.UUCP (Timothy De Zwaan) writes:
>There have been a number of requests in alt.food.cooking for ftp sources
>for popular cooking database programs.  Although Meal Master is available
>on SIMTEL20, some of the other popular programs are not.
>
>I have uploaded to SIMTEL20:
>
>pd1:<msdos.database>
>QBOOK096.ZIP    QuikBook v0.96a: Free-form recipe database pgm
>

I have been unable to use  QuikBook on my 386-based system running MSDOS 3.3.
As soon as QuikBook starts, it  kills  the cursor.  I find it very difficult
to edit a recipe with no cursor.

In fact, when I remove the prompt statement from my autoexec.bat file,
QuikBook not only kills the  cursor, it blanks the screen entirely.  I can
restore the screen with the command mode co80.  All of this occurs with the
ansi.sys driver installed; I have not tried QuikBook without this driver.

Has anyone else had any experience with this?

Don

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Donald E. Ekman, Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, CA  ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com