
How to Find and Run the Programs
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   Many of our articles offer batch files and QBASIC or GW-BASIC programs 
readers can type in and run. Of course, you don't need to type in the 
listings: we've made the .BAS and .BAT programs available to you. In every 
issue these files will be available for downloading as a .ZIP file. 
Contact your SysOp for the location of these files if he/she hasn't 
already given this information to you.

   PCM Online's files use this naming convention:

            PCMOxxxx.ZIP

where xxxx represents the year and month by number. For example, the files 
for our November 1994 issue can be found in the file PCMO9411.ZIP.

   We may opt not to include very short batch files in the .ZIP file. To 
use those files, you need merely to cut and paste. Most terminal packages 
(the good ones, that is!<G>) include the ability to "capture" screen 
output. What this means is that you press a key combination and your 
terminal program then asks for a filename. You give it a filename, and the 
program begins to write the contents of the data stream to disk. When 
you're finished capturing, you press the key combination again, and the 
file closes down: now you have a "captured" text file on disk of 
everything you've seen online. Just go in with a text editor, clean it up, 
and run it immediately.

   In Telix (great shareware terminal package!) the "capture" key 
combination is ALT-L. In Procomm Plus, it's ALT-F1. Please refer to your 
manual or doc files if you are using something different. We hope you 
enjoy what you find here in PCM Online and that the code we distribute is 
useful to you.

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