		HELP! HELP! FOR USING KUGIG DISKS

   Let's be blunt.  CP/M is difficult.  But until you learn to get around in
the system on your computer you can't do much with your computer or KUGIG
disks.  Learning to use CP/M takes time, patience (with yourself and
machine) and a reference book doesn't hurt.  Study the manual that came with
your computer.  Try to find a kindred soul in your area that you can call
with questions; your dealer or someone from local KUG group.  I used two
books to learn CP/M: "The CP/M Handbook" by Rodnay Zaks (Sybex) and "Osborne
CP/M User Guide" by Thom Hogan (Osborne/McGraw-Hill).  Using two allowed me
to look up a puzzle in both and usually I could understand one of them.  If
I had had "Using CP/M on Your Kaypro 10" when I was learning that machine I
would have progressed more quickly with less trauma.  The documentation with
the KP10 is terrible.  Without having learned CP/M on a KPII and not having
book mentioned above I could never have gotten the beast working.  There are
other good books, but I know and can recommend these.

   Until you learn DIR, ERA, REN, TYPE, SAVE, USER (especially on KP10) and
PIP you are in no man's land.  It is just a process of learning, and it must
be done and that's that.  

TEXT FILES:

   TYPE command is one of first to learn for using KUGIG disks because it
allows you to scroll on your screen (and to your printer) any ASCII
(pronounced "ask-key") text file.  This is a file stored as alphabetic
characters, other files being stored as 0's and 1's and called binary
files.  That's all I know.

   Every file has a name of up to 8 letters a "." and a three letter
extension.  Extension that indicate text files include: .TXT (text), .DOC
(documentation), .HLP (help), .INF (information), RVW (review), BOK (book),
TUT (tutorial) and LST (list of things or at other times means formatted
ready to go to LST device, which means your printer).  So when you see files
with these extension you can check to see if they are text files by
executing the TYPE command which you do in the following way:

	A>TYPE FILENAME.EXT <CR>

   That means at the A> prompt (or A0 on KP10) you key in "TYPE" and then
the name of the file and it's extension and press the return key.  The file
will scroll on your screen if it is a text file.  You can stop scroll with
pressing CTRL-S. which mean push CTRL key and S key at same time.  You can
restart by pushing any key.  But on the KP's it scrolls much to fast to read
and it gets hairy to stop it where you want to.  For reading a file I
suggest the program "BISHOW.COM" found on this disk.  Back to this later.

   If you want to print the text file you turn on your printer, have paper
set and insert a CTRL-P before the TYPE or before the <CR>.  I prefer the
former because then I have printed out the name of the file I just
sent to the printer.  

  You can also print a file by using PIP:

	A>PIP LST:=FILENAME.EXT <CR>  

which says PIP old boy send to LST (my printer) the following file.  Of
course if you don't have your printer turned on ole PIP will just sit there
being a dummy. 

   There is a great little public domain program called LISTT.COM which I
hope to include on this disk, if I don't run out of room, that allows you to
send files to printer and will prompt you for page headings, etc.  You
execute it by:

	A>LISTT FILENAME.EXT <CR>


COMMAND FILES:

   Any file with extension of .COM is a command file and if you try to TYPE
it you will get a bunch of garbage on your screen.  Command files are "run"
by just keying in the filename (and not the extension) at the prompt:
	
	A>FILENAME <CR> 

for a program named FILENAME.COM.

	B U T

if it is a command file like LISTT.COM, or BISHOW.COM then you have to add
the file name you want to LISTT or BISHOW, i.e.:

	A>LISTT FEB85NL.TXT <CR> or

	A>BISHOW FEB85NL.TXT <CR>


WHERE IS CP/M?  WHAT IS IT?

  CP/M is your operating system.  It is what tells your computer to "go do"
this and that.  It is found on the first track or two on your disks (that's
its only beauty, it takes up little room on disk or memory; just a few K's,
whereas some disk operating systems take up to 24 K of the systems 64 K of
memory).  There are now many different CP/M's on the Kaypro's and SOME are
not interchangeable.  All are version 2.2 but then they have letters from
?-H or higher.  You put CP/M on your disk by using SYSGEN program.  For a
time I left CP/M off disks when I ran into problem of incompatible CP/M's. 
I now put a CP/M on disks but you may have to change it in order for disk to
"Boot" on your machine.  To boot means that when you put disk into computer
drive A and turn it on that it reads the first few tracks, gives your sign
on message and then the A>prompt.  To sysgen a disk read your manual.  If
the CP/M I have put on your machine works on your machine then when you
place in computer you will get a file up on the screen via BISHOW program
called "READ-1ST.TXT".

OTHER KINDS OF FILES:

   So you understand about text files, and command files.  But there are
scores of other extension, like PAS (pascal), BAS (basic), FOR (fortran),
and those used to run program like OVL (overlay), SAV (salvage? or save)
etc.  Try your best to ignore these, I mean keep them there on disk but
don't worry about them.  Only the software program can use them, you can't
look at them, unless you like to look at garbage on your screen.  Just think
of them like that part of your family that has to be there to have a
complete genealogy but you generally ignore.  


KP10 HELP, I HOPE:  

   To read KUGIG disks you must first get out of Master Menu.  See manual;
on mine you press escape twice and then you get an A0> prompt.  Now put
KUGIG disk in C: and do a warm boot (Ctrl-C).  Now type this:

	A0>DIR C: <CR>   or

	A0>D C: <CR>

You should now have a directory of disk in C:  To read Feb News Letter type:

	A0>TYPE C:FEB85NL.TXT <CR>

   The file will start scrolling and this can be stop with a CTRL-S.  Hit a
key and it will start again.  To print out file have printer ready and after
typing in file name and before carriage return in TYPE command send a Ctrl-P
and then the carriage return.  All text files can be read by this procedure. 
Read above about text files.

   There are 4 different sysgen's for KP10's.  No disk I send will boot onto
the floppy on a KP10.  Most of us boot onto the hard disk and then go to C,
the floppy drive.  

   To read first file of this disk on KP10:

	A0>C:BISHOW READ-1ST.TXT <CR>
	
   When you learn to use the KP10 you are going to love it for genealogy. 
But it is going to take longer to learn, but you will save that time many
times over in flipping floppies.  So take your time now and realize you will
save it latter.  Do get book "USING CP/M on YOUR KP10" by The Human
Connection (TAB).  

   Disk KUGIG 300 is a set of utilities for KP10, they really are helpful. 
I use the U.COM program after configuring my keypad (with CONFIG.COM
program) to 1=U 1<CR>, etc up to 9, I have "-" configured as A:<CR>, "," as
B:<CR>, "." as C:<CR> and ENTER = D<CR>.  With this I can zip around user
areas 0-9 and onto different drives like a speed demon!  You may like it
too.  Another program allows you to make a copy of any floppy, or many
copies and then erases the files from hard disk.  Much quicker and easier
than PIP.

   Some disks, particularly if they are thin, and when drives are new will
balk at being read by KP10, after a breaking in time this may disappear. If
you have trouble getting any of your disks to come up try warm booting,
reinserting, blowing in it's ear and if none of this works then have
alignment of floppy drive checked.  I have double checked KUGIG disks and
they worked in KP10 at time of mailing.  I'll send a replacement if you get
a disk that won't work.  You can also run into problem of trying to read a
disk that has been formatted to double sided and then reformatted to single
side.  This confuses the dickens out of the floppy drive.  The only solution
I have heard is to format it over to a single density double sided format
and then reformatt, i.e. Xerox, on MFdisk program.

  Of course all this attempt at being helpful won't help if not read.  If you
read to this point and reread, tried everything, took a shower or bath (I
nearly flaked my skin off taking showers when I first got computer, it
seemed when stuck if I just stopped and took a shower the answer would come
to me) slept on it and still are stuck then give me a call at: five one
five, two three two, eight two seven six.  (My trick to make sure you read
the file).  All KUGIG members are entitled to at least one free phone help
session.  Not after nine pm Central, please, I poop out early. 

				-Alice Petersenof mailing.  I'll send a