San Diego Osborne Users Group BDOS * WORD STAR 2.26 and 3.0 PATCH POINTS by Bob Van Cleef with comments by Jim Spring The following addresses can be used to customize your WordStar diskette to work the way that YOU want it to work. If you follow the patching instructions given Appendix 1 of the Osborne Users Guide, you should be able to make use of these to make your computer do the setting up for you. I've given the original values followed by the settings that I am using at this time. The nice thing is that any time that I decide that I do not like one configuration, I just run INSTALL and change it. This is not an all inclusive list, as there are some of the patch points that I have missed or over looked. If you know of any that you feel should be included in the master listing, let me know, and I'll update my file. The first thing you'll notice on start up is that WordStar clears the screen cleanly instead of scrolling it up. (TRMINI:) Then when you enter edit mode, you'll notice more changes. First, you won't have the Help menu at the top of the page (ITHELP:) and you'll notice that the right margin is already set to 50 columns (INITRM:). As you continue on, you'll find out that I've turned OFF the Hyphen-Help (0389), justification (0386), and Insert (ITITOG:). Some of these addresses you will not want to mess with, but I have included them so that IF a need develops, you will know where they are located. I have tried to note the places where you have the option of using dot commands or control characters to change the settings. However, since this is the first distribution of this file, I may have over looked something. If so, please contact me, so that I can update the master file. REMEMBER !! THE VALUES SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING TABLES ARE IN HEXIDECIMAL. *BDOS - Best Darned Osborne Society San Diego Osborne Users Group Table I Mnemonic Address Value Description old new DEL3: 02D1 19 23 Lengthen the menu delay (allows more time to enter selection before menu appears) DOTSON: 0396 FF FF If set to 00, disables all of the Dot Commands during editing (change is not recommended) 0397 for WordStar 3.0 INITLM: 037F 00 00 Initial left margin -1 (margin = 1) INITRM: 0380 40 31 Right margin -1, set for 50 (set to 40 for 65 or 31 for 50) ITBIP: 03D5 FF FF .BP - 00 turns off bidirectional print- ing (use only for special circumstances) ITDSDR: 0363 FF FF 00 to start with the directory turned off. It can be turned back on with F at the "no file menu" or ^OF during edit. (00 is great if you have a lot of .COM files that you don't want to list and don't want to code them as system files, and you know what files are on the disk without looking at the list.) ITHELP: 0360 03 02 Initial Help level to 2 from 3 (01 to set to level 1 or 00 for no help) ITITOG: 0362 FF 00 Start with INSERT off (great for preventing accidents) ITMIJ: 03D4 FF FF .UJ - 00 to supress microjustification (leave it alone and let WordStar do it's thing) ITPOPN: 03D3 00 FF Omit page numbers, FF turns them off (.OP) (GREAT !!! .PNn turns page numbering back on but, why have to turn off page numbering overtly when so many times only one page is typed) NITHLF: 0361 FF FF 00 turns on the HELP message during the first edit NONDOC: 0391 00 FF Set to FF to enter in NON-DOCUMENT mode if WS is run with a file name (best one yet for programmers) 0392 for WorStar 3.0 TRMINI: 0292 00 01 Clear screen on start-up TRMINI:+1 0293 00 1A (this I like, looks like WS on a $15,000 system) TRMUNI: 029B 00 01 Clear screen on exit TRMUNI:+1 029C 00 1A (see the TRMINI coment) WID: 0249 50 79 121 column screen width. (Column number 121 is where the flag characters are displayed. (120 usable columns) (128 is max, that would be 80 hex) San Diego Osborne Users Group Table II Page initialization addresses address value description 0366 08 Line height, 1/48 inches 0367 42 .PL default 66 lines 0368 0210 Paper length, 66*8 1/48's 036A 08 Line height, repeated 036B 03 .MT default 3 lines 036C 0018 Top margin, 3*8 1/48's 036E 08 Line Height, repeated 036F 02 .HM default, 2 lines 0370 0010 Heading margin, 2*8 1/48's 0372 08 Line height, repeated 0373 08 .MB default, 8 lines 0374 0040 Bottom margin, 8*8 1/48's 0376 08 Line height, repeated 0377 02 .FM default, 2 lines 0378 0010 Footing margin, 2*8 1/48's 037A 08 Line height, repeated 037B 00 00 for standard character width 037C 0C std chr width, 1/120's => 1/10 inch 037D 0A alt chr width, 1/120's => 1/12 inch Table III Initial editing flags (ON/OFF TOGGLES, Except line spacing) (FF is ON, 00 is OFF) address value description old new 0385 FF FF ^OW - WORD WRAP 0386 FF 00 ^OJ - JUSTIFICATION 0387 FF FF ^OV - VARIABLE TABS 0388 00 00 ^OE - SOFT HYPHEN ENTRY 0389 FF 00 ^OH - HYPHEN HELP 038A FF FF ^OD - PRINT CONTROL & SOFT HYPHEN DISPLAY 038B FF FF ^OT - DISPLAY RULER 038C FF FF n/a - DYNAMIC PAGE BREAK 038D FF FF ^OP - PAGE BREAK DISPLAY 038E 01 01 ^OS - LINE SPACING ..end of file  BREAK 038D FF FF ^OP - PAGE BREAK DISPLAY 038E 01