Questions, Questions!
Copyright (c) 1990 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
Q: Gladys Lane wrote requesting some information on the type of educational disks that are available from the club library suitable for primary school use.
A: The club library contains a large range of educational public domain software. The software is written in Integer, Applesoft, Pascal and CP/M formats. Specifically for the primary school group we have programs which deal with mainstream subjects such as basic mathematics and the alphabet, and diverse topics such as astronomy and nursery rhymes.
Being public domain software, the quality of the programs also varies. Some programs are incomplete, others adequate and some are brilliant.
A complete listing of all the clubs library software will be contained in the New Members Handbook which will be released with the August magazine. Alternatively, you are welcome to browse the listing folders at the bulk purchase tables at the meetings.
Q: Ray Ashton writes: My Kanematsu 3080 printer will not properly respond to PrintShop run on an Apple //e. Even though all printer and interface options have been attempted, the best result obtainable still has a portion of the left overwritten with a part which should appear on the right margin and a line space occurs every other line. Help!
A: I suggested to Ray that the line spacing could be due to the computer, interface card or printer outputting an extra line feed at the end of each line. Check the DIP settings on your printer, the default settings on your interface card and the software settings on the program to make sure that only one of them outputs a linefeed when a carriage return is encountered.
I had an idea that the transposition could be due to the interface card outputting an extra carriage return when it has sent out 80 characters. Try sending CTRL-I 0N to the interface card which will tell the card to ignore the amount of characters being transmitted. Ray didn't mention whether his interface card was serial or parallel.
If anyone has a solution to this problem then I'm sure he'd appreciate a call on (02)413-6795 BH, (02)484-6784 AH.

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