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   >   >Did your 3.3 ITT books come with the same color covers?   
      
   > No, they were white and came as 3 or 4 fairly thick soft cover   
   > books in a sleeve that held them all - Plus 3 or 4 5.25" disks.   
      
   >   >The builder included DOS5.0 and WIN 3.1 FLOPPY DISKS when it was   
   >   >delivered to me   
      
   > I never bought books again after that time, mostly finding docs   
   > online or what came with any computers I bought.   
      
   > On my early computers, not only did I not get books because I   
   > was building the computers myself, but there was no 'online'   
   > to get document copies there..   The good old days..   B)   
      
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   >  * SLMR Rob  * A nudist wedding makes the best man easy to identify.   
      
      
   I started using computers later than you did, it was 1984 for me.   
      
   In an earlier message of yoursyou wrote about writing software at a Company.   
   While reading , it made me think of oneof my suscesses at work.   
      
   A programmer from the Main Office wrote a Menu to help everyone use the   
   computer to do things like Sendinf Reports,. Getting Daily Reports, using Word   
   Processor etc.   
      
   There was a Afternoon report we had been printing every day that had River   
   Forecast for the entire Ohio River.   
   A few lines in the middle  of it showed the prediction for our area.   
      
   I added a entry to the Menu file that would Save the file as a temporiary file,   
   then using the FIND command find the info pertainingto our place and PRINT#4   
   onlu those lines to our Dot Matrix Printer.   
      
   Instead of many pages being printed as the data came in (and the noise), the   
   printer printed a few lines quickly. TADA!   
      
   I didn't remove the Menu Option to get the Report, I just added another entry   
   to the menu.   
   At that time I was using a DOS pc at home and had learned enuf to be DANGEROUS.   
   Ed   
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