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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: Are There Useful Programs for CPM ?
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 14:55:37 EST
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In article <864@houxa.UUCP> mel1@houxa.UUCP (M.HAAS) writes:
>
>                 ... Can anyone here point me in the direction of
>one or more programs that I can use to:
>1) Record and handle my personal checkbook.  One that is as easier
>   to use than the regular manual methods, not harder and slower.
>   I am not particularly interested in summary reports or graphs.

I don't think there's such an animal on any system.  Some things just
aren't worth computerizing.

>2) Maintain and printout my mailing and phone list.  I would like to
>   be able to printout just the phone numbers periodically as a
>   useful thing to have by each phone, and printout the addresses
>   around Christmas to serve as mailing labels.

I maintain my Christmas list with WordStar and use a short BASIC program to
print  out  labels.  A  minor  mod to the BASIC program would let it handle
phone numbers as you want. (The whole thing took  under  half  an  hour  to
write and debug).

>3) A typing tutor program for my kids.  One just like the one for the
>   VIC-20 that presents exercises and scores the results and advances
>   in difficulty in an intelligent manner (finger group by finger group).
>4) Educational programs that drill in reading, spelling, arithmetic,
>   geography, science, etc. for ages 6 and up.

I can't point to a specific program, but you might  try  _The  Whole  Earth
Software  Catalog_.  I'd expect them to have some information on stuff like
this.

>5) For my hacking self: an emacs that is emacs (or mods to MINCE that make
>   it look more like emacs), a roff that works (nothing fancy), a yearly
>   budget planner that has the categories already worked out, a desk
>   calculator that can be brought up quickly and is easy to use.

I've implemented my budget planner with SuperCalc.  It's a trivial
application that's served me well for years.

>                                                    I have SuperCalc,
>dBase II, BDS C, PILOT, various BASICS and assemblers, and know how
>to use them (but don't want to).  We have WordStar and that is fine
>for letters, reports, and such - the only useful program I have on
>the machine.

Sounds like you've already got much of what  you  need.  There  are  budget
planners and mailing list programs out there if you insist (again, see _The
Whole Earth ..etc._), but it's unlikely any  will  be  _exactly_  what  you
want.  Most will take just as long to set up and customize as it would take
to implement them with SuperCalc or BASIC.

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