

        Using WordStar 5.5 with the Toshiba T1000 Laptop

               Copyright 1989 by Robert J. Sawyer 

                     CompuServe:  76702,747

                        21 November 1989



I use a Toshiba T1000 laptop with WordStar 5.5.  I just have the standard
configuration, which is 512K of RAM and one 720K 3.5" disk drive.  
I don't have the 768K hard ram card -- I don't consider it necessary.

I use this batch file to make WordStar 5.5 Rev. C program disks on my 
desktop's 3.5" drive (which is drive b:) for use in my laptop:
 
b:                             
md\ws5                         
cd\ws5                         
copy d:\ws5\splmn001.dct b:      <- for spelling (optional)
copy d:\ws5\wsmsgs.ovr b:      
copy d:\ws5\laptop.exe b:ws.exe  <- WS.EXE, customized for laptop use
copy d:\ws5\wsspl001.ovr b:      <- for spelling (optional)
copy d:\ws5\drivern.ovr b:     
copy d:\ws5\laserjet.pdf b:    
copy c:\norton\qu.exe b:     <- The Norton Utilities' Quick Unerase (optional)
copy d:\lap\bw.com b:        <- Traveling Software's Battery Watch (optional)
copy d:\lap\a.bat b:\        <- my "autoexec" batch file (see below)
copy d:\ws5\wsshort.ovr b:     
copy d:\ws5\wsstyle.ovr b:     
copy d:\ws5\personal.dct b:    
 
(This batch file puts WordStar files in a sub-directory.  That makes it a 
lot easier to back up your documents from your laptop to your desktop with 
a simple COPY A:\*.* C:).

With this setup, the program files take up 458K, leaving almost 263K for
documents.  If you don't need the speller on the laptop, you can
remove SPLMN001.DCT and WSSPL001.OVR, freeing up another 161K, giving
you 424 bytes free for documents, which is more than you would have if you 
were using a dual-360K-floppy desktop system.  

To set-up WordStar 5.5 for use on the Toshiba T1000, I use the auto-patcher 
file below.  It sets appropriate colors, file locations, cursor sizes,
legal disk drives, and so on.

To make the patches, write out all the lines below until the first 
blank line to a WordStar non-document file called LAP.PAT (the file should 
have a "<" at the end of every line in the WordStar flag column).  Issue 
these DOS commands in your WS5 directory:

C>COPY WS.EXE LAPTOP.EXE
C>WINSTALL LAPTOP.EXE /C

This will boot up WSCHANGE on LAPTOP.EXE.  Go to WSCHANGE menu E, then A.
Specify LAP.PAT as the file to read in.  Exit WSCHANGE with X, ^X, and Y.

Here's the LAP.PAT file:
 
MPMFLG=30
MEMFLG=06
HITE=19
WIDE=50
DIRSIZ=0C,00,00,00,00,00,00
CRTID=54,6F,73,68,69,62,61,20,54,31,30,30,30,20,4C,61,70,74,6F,70,0D,0A
=00,69,6E,67,20,4D,61,63,68,69,6E,65,0D,0A,00,47,41,29,0D,0A,00
VCOLOR=00,07,88,70,FF,00,FF,00,F8,07,88,70,88,70,FF,08
=FF,08,07,0F,07,0F,70,07,70,70,0F,07,00,00
BRITE=00
DLONG=00,00
INITID=00,20,63,61,73,74,20,61
=20,73,68,61,64,6F,77,20,69,6E,20,79,6F,75,72,20,70,72,65,73,65,6E,63
=65,2E,0D,0A,00,20,20,20
=20
LGLDRV=41,42,44,00,00
HPFILE=01,01
MSFILE=01,01
PVFILE=01,01
PVWFILE=01,01
FNFILE=01,01
IXFILE=01,01
SVFILE=01,01
SPFILE=01,01
IDFILE=01,01
MDFILE=01,01
THFILE=01,01
TDFILE=01,01
UDFILE=01,01
DDFILE=01,01
HYFILE=01,01
HDFILE=01,01
HIFILE=01,01
PDFFILE=01,01
PRFILE=01,01
CFFILE=01,01
KBFILE=01,01
ISFILE=01,01
STFILE=01,01
TMFILE=01,01
MLFILE=01,01
DEFPTH=04,5C,57,53,35
INILOG=03,41,3A,5C
COLDEF=01,C2,01
STFILL=5F
SPFLAG=00
SPLMEM=47,00
CURSIZ=07,00,07,04,07,00
 
If you don't have the 768K ram card, the Toshiba T1000 boots from MS-DOS 2.2 
in ROM.  It has a small amount of non-volatile memory for storing a custom 
CONFIG.SYS file, but no provision for automatically running an AUTOEXEC.BAT 
file.  Therefore, at the beginning of each session I run this little batch 
file, which I call A.BAT (short for AUTOEXEC.BAT):

a:\ws5\bw al=15            <- sets up Battery Watch
prompt=$p$g                <- sets A:\> prompt
path=a:\ws5;c:\;a:\        <- sets PATH (important!)
a:\ws5\ws %1 %2 %3         <- boots WordStar, with an optional filename,
                              optional edit mode switch (e.g., /N), and
                              an optional Shorthand macro to run
                              (e.g., /En)


To back up your document files to another disk, do a 

                         copy a:\*.* b: 

from the DOS prompt (the Toshiba will take turns pretending its single
drive is A: and B:, prompting you to swap disks as appropriate).

I'm pleased with the T1000, although I use it only occasionally.  Hope
these notes have been of some help.

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