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Volume 2 -- Issue 7                      April, 1982


In This Issue...

Adding Auto-SAVE to S-C Macro Assembler  . . . . . . . . .  2
Review of AED ][  (A new Applesoft Editor) . . . . . . . . 10
Ashby's Easy Shift-Key Modifier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Potential Trouble in TYMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using Macros and Nested Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Recursive Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Controlling Software Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Funny Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27


Another New Book:  Bag of Tricks

The authors of Beneath Apple DOS (Don Worth and Pieter Lechner) have done it again!  This time you get a diskette with four powerful disk utilities on it, and a book expaining their use.  The retail price is $39.95, but I will have them for only $36.

The utilities are TRAX, INIT, ZAP, and FIXCAT.  TRAX examines any track on a disk, reading it in as pure nibbles and displaying in a partially analyzed form.  INIT reformats any track or tracks, optionally retaining existing data in whatever readable sectors are in the track.  You can reorder the sectors, change the volume number, and more.  ZAP is a general purpose disk utility: sectors may be read, written, displayed, modified with a powerful assortment of over 50 commands.  It works with 13- and 16-sector DOS, as well as Pascal and CP/M diskettes.  You can even "program" in ZAP, with labels, loops, and macro-commands.  FIXCAT can automatically repair or reconstruct a catalog track by analyzing the rest of the disk.

Beyond the utilities themselves, there is about 40 pages of advanced tutorial material which starts where "Beneath Apple DOS" ends.

Unless you are fully satisfied with your present collection of disk utilities, you ought to get this set.

