Á ÆEW ÕSEFUL ÔHINGS TO ËNOW ÁBOUT ÐOWER Ã

É'VE BEEN WORKING WITH ÐOWER Ã FOR A WHILE NOW, AND É'VE LEARNED A 
FEW TRICKS É'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH OTHERS.  ÈOPEFULLY WE CAN HELP
EACH OTHER LEARN THIS FASCINATING NEW LANGUAGE.

1. ÔHE DISK-SWAPPING DISCUSSED IN THE DOCUMENTATION FOR THOSE OF US
   WITH ONE DRIVE REALLY ISN'T NECESSARY; JUST MOVE THE FIRST SEVEN
   FILES (SHELL-TRANSLATOR), PLUS STDIO.H AND DIR.H FROM THE ÅDITOR/
   ÃOMPILER DISK TO YOUR WORK DISK.  ÔHE NEW PROCEDURE IS THEN TO
   ALWAYS HAVE THE WORK DISK IN THE DRIVE, EXCEPT WHEN LINKING IN 
   THE FUNCTION LIBRARIES.  ×HEN YOU COMPILE, USE THE SYNTAX:

        CC -P FILENAME

   ÔHIS WILL GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE COMPILATION PROCESS WITHOUT 
   ASKING YOU TO CHANGE DISKS.

2. ÔHE "TRIM" PROGRAM WILL TRIM FURTHER AN ALREADY TRIMMED FILE, BUT
   THE RESULTING CODE DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK!  ÏNLY TRIM YOUR OBJECT
   FILES ONCE!

3. ×HEN PASSING A VARIABLE ADDRESS TO A FUNCTION (WITH THE INTENT OF
   MODIFYING THE VALUE OF THE ORIGINAL VARIABLE DIRECTLY), DECLARE
   THE ORIGINAL VARIABLE AS "STATIC".  ÐOWER Ã MOVES THE FIRST 32 
   BYTES OF VARIABLES TO BE PASSED (UNLESS DECLARED STATIC) INTO ZERO
   PAGE, SO AN "AUTO" VARIABLE WON'T REALLY BE AT THE ADDRESS WHICH
   WAS PASSED.

4. ÁS YOU WRITE YOUR OWN FUNCTIONS WHICH CAN BE USED IN MULTIPLE
   PROGRAMS, BUILD YOUR OWN FUNCTION LIBRARIES.  ÃOMPILE AND LINK
   THE PROGRAM "LIB.C" ON THE ÐOWER Ã WORK DISK, THEN RUN IT.
   ÌIBRARY FILES MUST END WITH ".L".  ÏNCE YOU HAVE A LIBRARY FILE
   YOU CAN GIVE THE LINKER THE NAME OF THE LIBRARY FILE INSTEAD OF 
   THE NAMES OF INDIVIDUAL OBJECT MODULES.

5. ÔHE SPEED OF THE STANDARD 1541 DISK DRIVE IS HORRIBLE FOR SUCH A
   DISK-BASED APPLICATION; É RAN OUT AND BOUGHT ÂETTER×ORKING'S ÔURBO
   ÌOAD AND ÓAVE CARTRIDGE AS RECOMMENDED IN THE DOCUMENTATION; IT 
   WORKS VERY WELL AS CLAIMED.

6. ÆOR THOSE OF US WHO NEED A GOOD BOOK TO GET US STARTED, É CAN
   HEARTILY RECOMMEND "Ã ÐRIMER ÐLUS", BY ×AITE, ÐRATA, AND ÍARTIN,
   PUBLISHED BY ÈOWARD ×. ÓAMS & ÃOMPANY.  ÉT'S MORE EXPENSIVE THAN
   MOST, BUT WELL WORTH IT (IT'S 558 PAGES!).

   ÇOOD LUCK,

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