ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIMA NEWSLETTER JANUARY 1990
 
     ^^^ THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FUNNELWEB PROGRAM LOADER #1  
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^by Charles Good 
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Lima Ohio User Group 
      
     When booting assembly language PROGRAM software from
Funnelweb you usually use #2 or failing that #3 from the
LOADERS or DISK REVIEW menus.  Loader #2  is basically
identical to #5 from the EA module and boots the character
set that is in the console GROMs.  This is the character set
that has those horrible lower case letters that look like
small upper case letters and does not have any screen
display for ASCII 1-31 (the TI Writer CTRL/U control
characters).   
      
     Loader #1 is almost identical to #2 except that with
loader #1 the first Funnelweb character set is loaded in
memory (file C1 in Funnelweb v4.2, file CHARA1 in earlier
versions).  This is a much better looking character set.
Any assembly PROGRAM that can be loaded from Loader #2 will
also probably work with Loader #1.  Using Loader #1 gives
much better looking text with software that does not have
its own built in character set. 
      
     Try this to see the difference between Loaders #1 and
#2.  Examine the text that is displayed within DM1000 as it
comes already configured in Funnelweb.  Then run CONFIGURE
and reconfigure DM1000 in the TI Writer side MENU.  Change
DM1000 from a #2 (GPL Pgm) to a #1 (TIW Pgm) load.  Reboot
Funnelweb, bring up DM1000, and notice the difference in the
appearance of the text.  On my system the DM1000 screen
colors are also changed, but I like the new screen colors. 
      
     Sometimes there is an advantage in not having ASCII
1-31 visible on the screen.  The visible control characters
create lots of screen clutter.  DISK REVIEW of Funnelweb
v4.2, both 40 and 80 column versions, comes preconfigured as
a loader #1, and you can't change this with CONFIGURE.  If
you want to get rid of control characters in text VIEWed
with DISK REVIEW, you can use CONFIGURE to configure DISK
REVIEW (file DR) into a second place in the central menus as
a Loader #2 (GPL Pgm) option.  Text VIEWed from this
alternate DISK REVIEW central menu selection will be free of
control characters. 
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