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Bingo Editor

Version 4.00 · Chris Schank

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Description

The HP Palmtop Paper Bingo has nothing to do the game of bingo. It's a full-featured editor with customizable menus, syntax highlighting and lots of bells and whistles. This one is favored by many DOS programmers. Shareware.

Technical details

File
be400.zip
Size
278.2 KB
Format
.zip
Year
1998
Added to S.U.P.E.R.
1998-12-20
Files inside
37
Author
Chris Schank
Path
anonftp/pub/be400.zip

How to install it

What to send to the palmtop saves 515.4 KB

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

  • B400_REC.DAT → A:\_DAT configuración 5.3 KB
  • BREG.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 12.0 KB
  • BE.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 104.7 KB
  • BOPTS.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 12.5 KB
  • UICFG.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 56.7 KB
  • BINGO.INI → A:\_DAT configuración 12.3 KB

No need to put UI.SET, BINGOKEY.HLP, DEMO.C, DEMO.CHS, README.DOC, CLASSIC.UI, CUA.UI, DEFAULT.UI and 23 more: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 515.4 KB on a 1 MB disk.

Steps
  1. Copy BREG.COM, BE.EXE, BOPTS.EXE, UICFG.EXE to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.
  2. Copy B400_REC.DAT, BINGO.INI to A:\_DAT, where the 200LX looks for configuration. Open it with Memo and adjust it before use.
  3. If you edit a configuration file on the palmtop, make sure you leave a newline at the end: some programs swallow the last line without saying a word.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

The author's instructions
Getting started with Bingo is very easy.  Type:
     be <filename>
to start Bingo editing the file <filename>.
     Once in Bingo, there are a couple of keys which are important to
remember.  In particular, the Escape key will bring up the main
menu (kinda important!) and the F1 key will pop up the help file.
The help file will list most basic commands, but navigation will
work as you might expect, with the arrow keys and PgUp & PgDn
moving the cursor.
     Have fun!

Comments & Notes
     Version 4.00 of Bingo is most capable, sophisticated version of
Bingo ever shipped.  It went through a tremendous beta cycle and was
over a year in the making.  I hope you enjoy it!  Please feel free to
contact Sunderland Software with any questions, comments, or
suggestions.

Getting the Latest Version

Compuserve:
     A good source for aquiring new versions of Bingo is through
Compuserve.  You can always find the latest version of Bingo as
BE<vers>.ZIP in the IBMAPP forum, Text Editor Section (1).

Anonymous FTP:
     For those with Internet FTP access, you can retrieve the latest
copy of Bingo as well as look at any other Sunderland Software
information by ftp'ing to:
     Host: ftp.digex.net
     Dir: /pub/access/cschanck/ss
In the near future (1Q95), Sunderland Software will have a World Wide
Web page availabe as well; information about this will be posted in
the ftp directory.

Literal excerpt from README.DOC, exactly as it came in the package.

Send to my palmtop

The palmtop must be waiting before you press the button, or the transfer will fail. It is the palmtop that announces it is ready, not the other way round.

First time? How to connect the palmtop, step by step →