The collection comes with a text which describes it as an initial word processor's file. The transcription of its contents follows.
PLUG LIBRARY --- Disk PH Copyright 1986 by The Plus/4 Users' Group ************************* ** NOTE: Make a backup ** ** copy . . . NOW! ** ************************* PLUG strongly believes in preser- ving software copyrights. If you find anything here that shouldn't be, please notify PLUG, the Plus/4 Users' Group, Box 1001, Monterey, CA 93942. --- There are amazing programs here. The quality keeps improving as more and more of you explore the capabil- ities of the Plus/4 -- and your own abilities, too. By now, you should know what to do to use all the programs on this disk. Briefly, though, just pick a program that you want to try, DLOAD it, and RUN it. Some notes: *P/4 UTILITY is a magical thing written by Dennis Larson. It takes a file created by the Plus/4's built-in word processor (a file like this one) and duplicates it as a standard SEQ file that you can read with SEE SEQFILE or any other SEQ file reader. Try it! For one thing, you'll discover that the new SEQ file is about half the size of the old one. P/4 UTILITY can be useful if you want to upload text files over a modem. *Michael Kaszubski and his crew have created two new fonts for the Plus/4 -- FUTURISTIC FONT (just DLOAD it and RUN it) and SCREEN 53 (DLOAD 'SCREEN 53.PRG'). You won't believe these at first. Press the RESET button after you're through with these. *Use COLOR KEY BOOT to run COLOR KEY.ML. The 'ML' means 'machine language' -- you can't just DLOAD an ML program. (LIST the 'boot' pro- gram to find out how ML programs are LOADed.) *Some of the UTILITY programs re- quire some experimenting to show what they do. Practice on a disk that you don't mind trashing. BYTE SIZE is interesting -- it will show you the wide differences in the ac- tual size of files. A 1 block file can contain a lot, or just about nothing. *Use SEE SEQFILE to read EARLY ÄAYS OF +4, an interesting press release from 1984. *Finally, there's a whole section on this disk prepared by Raymond J. Eicholz. All the programs under the heading 'EICHOLZ CORNER' go together and can be accessed by DLOADing the first file in the group, RUN THIS! From there, a re-loading menu will lead you back and forth. Most of the files contain information on con- verting specific magazine programs to run on the Plus/4, but some more of Raymond's outstanding graphics are in this section also. Keep those programs coming in! And -- keep on PLUG-ing! Calvin Demmon Dec. 1986 Note from ICPUG, December 1987:- This disk, and notices above is received in good faith that the programs herreon are public domain. If that is not so please contact the Plus 4 librarian. Richard G Hunt
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