SLINE DOCUMENTATION - T. R. Keith, Jr.                          (WA5EQP) THE KAYPRO 10 STATUS LINE - (The 25th line on your big 9" screen) THE 25th LINE, "STATUS LINE" on your screen usually is not used for much ¨ more than to let you know who's on your RCPM if you have one, or to  let ¨ you know that you've been on someone's RCPM that uses the status line. It was troublesome, sometimes, to check into an RCPM and have them  send ¨ the  signal to your machine that turned on your status line. They  never ¨ bothered  to turn it off when you left, did they?  Did you have to do  a ¨ reset to get rid of it? How  'bout when you unerased a file only to get the old 'STATUS  02'  on ¨ the bottom of your screen? If you used Mark Motley's (Sysop of the fine Downey (CA) RCPM)  assembly ¨ language program, it got rid of it. Or most of it anyway. Mark wrote  it ¨ to  get rid of the status line on his machine. Always worked for  me  on ¨ short  lines,  but  when I used it to get rid of a long  line,  it  only ¨ removed part of it. Anyway,  Kaypro owners have, or have access to, the SBASIC compiler.  Do ¨ you  remember  SBASIC? It was given free with Kaypro  Computers  when  I ¨ bought my first three. I don't know if they still give it away, but it's ¨ a good language. Well, the language is good, the documentation is bad. The two .BAS files in this library are the commented source for two .COM ¨ files. One will turn off the status line, but the other will turn it on, ¨ and have it say anything you want to (as long as you don't use more than ¨ 80 characters). It also BLINKS! Shades of the Apple II. SLINEON.BAS can be changed (using WordStar, VDO or other editor) to  put ¨ your message in the source file. SLINEOFF is okay like it is, but go  on ¨ and  look at it. It's just simple KAYPRO video commands. You can  remove ¨ the REMs but it won't take up less space on your harddisk. To compile, just put the two source programs on a disk with your  SBASIC ¨ files and type 'SBASIC SLINEON'. After the first one compiles, you  then ¨ type 'SBASIC SLINEOFF'. You'll end up with two .COM files. They take  up ¨ 4K on your hard disk, but no matter how small they are they will  always ¨ take up 4K. If  you use standard CPM, you can get the computer to run  SLINEON  when ¨ it's  turned  on, by renaming SLINEON to MASMENU. There are  many  other ¨ ways, but this isn't a computer class. I use ZCPR3 and it  automatically ¨ runs  it  through  the STARTUP.COM alias. My message  says  the  machine ¨ belongs  to me and is not for sale. If someone steals your  machine  and ¨ trys to sell it, the line will come up everytime it's turned on with the ¨ program accessible. To get rid of it, run the SLINEOFF file. You can keep this one in an odd ¨ user  area, under a strange name and set it's attribute to system  using ¨ NSWP or STAT. Also, it's handy to have when you get the dreaded  'STATUS ¨ 02' message after unerasing a file.