Re: Janus Ada 1.5 Ada cp/m manuals

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
news:878s10jvdc.fsf@nightsong.com...
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>> I've offered to others to scan it to PDFs (one per page, that's all I can
>> figure out how to do on our cheap multifunction machine here)
>
> Do you think you could scan and post one page, maybe from the middle, so
> we would know what we are dealing with?

That I can do. See

http://www.rrsoftware.com/archives/CPM-doc-sample.zip

There are three pages in here, one from the 3.3 upgrade text, and two from 
the regular 3.2 printed manual. (I don't think there ever was a consolidated 
version.)

Looking at this in more detail, it looks like the original documentation was 
printed on the NEC Spinwriter with a special font and ribbon. The formatting 
program was something we built, it was related to the typesetter version but 
that might have been a bit later.

The 3.3 update seems to have been printed on a lousy dot matrix printer, 
probably whatever we were using at the time. That's why I scanned a sample 
of each. The 3.3 update seems to be an MS-DOS version, unfortunately (it 
talks about 8087 at one point); for the most part those were the same but 
there is probably some CP/M specific stuff that's missing.

I haven't been able to get the HP scanning software to work reliably on our 
network, so I have to scan each page individually and e-mail it to myself. 
That works fine for things that are just a single page (like invoices) but 
gets real old for a large document. (There are about eight steps on the tiny 
touch screen of the printer for each page.) Not sure that it would be much 
easier even with the software, because I'd still have to go into the other 
room and change each page to be scanned (no feeder on this scanner).

                                      Randy.