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From: neighbor@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Alan Ding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:       Davex
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Date: 17 May 88 01:59:41 GMT
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In article <8805152033.aa27615@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> CLAP100@BGUNOS.BITNET (Eran Lachs) writes:
>SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX writes :
>  I downloaded the update of Davex, and discovered a slight problem.  Has
>anyone gotten the help file to work?  I can read text in the first half, but
>I can't get any later commands.  Has anyone else had this problem?  By the way,
>this is the one off of apple2-l.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>--
>  I too encountered the very same problem.
>  Could Jeffrey Alan Ding post the two help files, this time in working
>condition? The rest of Davex is realy excellent.
>
>Eran Lachs, Ben Gurion University, Israel.


I have downloaded all the files from both comp.binaries.apple2 and apple2-l.
I have had absolutely no problems with the help files.

Check your file.  It should 102 blocks long.  If it isn't, it didn't save
properly.  What you have to do is exec the FIRST file FIRST and the SECOND
file SECOND.  If you do it the other way, the help file will not be created.
The help file originally was too large for executioner and would not
compress using BLU (turned out to be 100%.)  There are Prodos commands at the
end of the SECOND help file.  These commands combine the two files into
one.

I have heard from one person that the old version of basic (BASIC.SYSTEM 1.0)
has a bug and the B parameter doesn't work properly (the b parameter stands
for BYTE and I do use it.)  Try to get the new version of basic if you
are using the old one.

Also don't have any external commands tacked onto Basic.  I got a
no buffers available error when I exec-ed the file.  (It might have just
been my external command.)

neighbor@csd4.milw.wisc.edu


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