ƒ'CombinerV1.1.doc' + PRG formatted GEOS file V1.0 ŕCƒCStar SG-10/15  Ö‡Ö‡Č˜e…ć`        ' !ƒ9CombinerV1.1    9(BLASTER'S CONVERTER V2.5 %'Text Scrap     ' +ƒ: CONVERT 2.5     :Yż˙˙˙€˙ˆ‹˙ÁŠAŠ˙ńŠ€ŠŽŠ€Šż‘Š€ŠŸŠ€Šż‘Ž€‚ż‘ƒ€€€€˙ń˙˙˙ƒ˙˙Write Image V2.0geoWrite V2.1đ  ˇÁŽ.ż.Š.Šż… Ŕ( é> 1 €9ŠĐ  Œ§. ŒŚ.  e9 (= â<`Š€ Šˆ Ž§.Ęđ Šr Š‡ `Œf@˘É1đʎŘAŠ$˘: &ĽÉА˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙000000000 Combiner is a great geoWrite utility written by Nicholas J. Vrtis in 1989 and there are a number of different versions floating around on disk collections and web sites. As far as I can ascertain, despite their names (COMBINER, Combiner, COMBINER v1.1), they are all the same version: V1.0 dated 3/4/89 4:03 PM in the file info box. All of these differing versions also display V1.0 in the title box at the bottom of the screen in the program, and the geos menu / info box says the program is user supported and asks for $5. There is one version of Combiner that is a true V1.1 but it hasn't been available other than in printed form up to now, to the best of my knowledge. The August 1989 Volume 9, Issue 6 of Transactor magazine contains an explanatory article by Nicholas on challenges when creating Combiner and the listings to create  @Combiner V1.1 with geoProgrammer - a GEOS Header file, an Include file, two program Source files, and a Linker file. Sadly, and like V9#5, Transactor did not produce a disk to accompany V9#6. I scanned and OCR'd the pages from Transactor and converted them to geoWrite format, did some cleanup, and used Paul B. Murdaugh's geoProgrammer 2.1 to build the program. I also modified the program icon to include 1.1 in it. I don't know what changes may exist in the operation of the program but the geos menu / info box no longer asks for $5 - possibly this version was sold to Transactor. The Info box of any geoWrite files created by Combiner V1.1 now shows: Author: by: Combiner V1.1 instead of Author: by: Combiner V1.0 as with previous versions. enGEOy! Bruce Thomas July 24, 2024