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...watching. Says Dr. William Dietz, chairman of the subcommittee on children and television for the American Academy of Pediatrics: "The TV will now play with the toy for the child. There is absolutely nothing left for the child's imagination." In their defense, toymakers contend that the new devices prompt children to dream up creative strategies. One thing is for sure: the new toys should provide more than enough stimulation for parents as they listen to the vivid sound effects of junior blasting away at Lord Dread...
...from over. John Paulus, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, predicts a further drop in interest rates on Government securities of almost one percentage point in 1987, sending the return on a 90-day Treasury bill, for example, from the current 5.5% to 4.5%. Such a decline would probably prompt a further move into equities...
...principle behind batch files is fairly simple. Instead of typing in several commands from DOS, a user can instruct the computer to take its commands from a pre-arranged file. For example, when the Happy Hacker wants to use DBASE, he simply types in db at the A prompt. This instructs the computer to execute all of the commands in the file DB.BAT stored on disk. Upon looking at the Hacker's DB.BAT file, the IBM compatible then knows to do the following things. Load in Sidekick (a handy calculator/notepad utility), create a ramdisk, activate a print spooling utility, switch...
When the computer is first turned on, or when it is reset, it will always look for a file called autoexec.bat. This is an ASCII file (constructed like any other batch file) which tells a computer what to do before leaving the user at the A prompt. For users without a hard disk, the autoexec.bat file can be used to start up specific applications. For example, the Happy Hacker has a wordprocessing disk that will always load a spelling checker program and then start the word processor anytime the computer is reset with the disk in drive...
...ramdisk and copying certain files to it, installing a utility which blanks the screen after five minutes of non-use, and finally printing a quote of the day (drawn from a very large database), the Happy Hacker finally has control and is given his reassuring friend, the C prompt (C is the drive name of the Happy Hacker's hard disk...