Re: Crossword puzzle generator?

[ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)]

joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:

>The name of the program that David Kilzer mentioned is CrossWord
>Generator by Ed Oest. For some reason, the program just won't print out
>crossword puzzles on a IIc. It works great on a IIe or a IIGS.

Is the program still in beta version (v0.xx), or has it been updated?  I
figured out why it won't work ont the //c--the programmer messed up the
check for the Apple // ID bytes, which won't let the program run on a
//c.  I fixed it on my version at home, but I won't have access to that
for another couple weeks.  You just have to look at one of the Tech
Notes for ID bytes and the Apple // family and then change one of the
BASIC programs on the disk.

>As the librarian for Big Red at the time, I placed it in their library.
>If I remember correctly, it is freeware. And, it produces lovely print
>outs on an ImageWriter.
>
>Whoops. It's called Crossword Assistant. And, it only requires 64K.
>
>I'm kind of upset with Big Red at the moment, so if someone can provide
>me with some instructions on how to upload it to cco.caltech, I'd be
>more than happy to. Maybe a better question is: After running the disk
>through ShrinkIt and then BinScii, how to I make one single BSQ file
>from the smaller segments that BinScii creates?  Then, once I do that,
>how do I get it to cco.caltech. I'm guessing that I upload it to my home
>directory, and then PUT it on ccco.caltech? As is obvious, I've never
>uploaded via FTP.

After you make the binscii segments, transfer them to your account and
concatenate (cat) them together like so (assuming you're using UNIX):

cat file1.1 file1.2 file1.3 file1.4 > outfile.bsq

Then you ftp to cco.caltech.edu:

ftp cco.caltech.edu
login: anonymous
passwd: user@address

Then you change to the upload directory (you shouldn't be able to upload
files to any other directory), and then

put outfile.bsq

Then just quit.  If you aren't using a type of UNIX, you'll have to find
a way to paste the files together besides using the 'cat' command.

Hope this helps!

Dave
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