The Ultimate Graphics File Convertor (ANALOG Computing, May '89) listing was printed incorrectly. When I unscrambled the listing and typed it in, the program got confused when trying to load Newsroom files and also when going from Graphics 8 to Newsroom. Please talk to Dr. Brilliant and have this program corrected, since it seems to be a very useful utility.
-Dave Faxon
Kingston, NH

    Yes, indeed, there are problems with UGFC. The problem arose because I had a disk failure just before I finished the program. I thought I had reconstructed the program, but in fact I had used an earlier version, which was written to be used only with a specific Newsroom picture file. The lines below correct the problems. Load the original UGFC program and delete lines 5050 to 5130 and line 6015. Then enter the lines below and resave the program.

631 IF T0=4 AND COLR-COLL>247 THEN COL
R=COLR-1
632 RETURN
681 IF T0=4 AND COLR-COLL>247 THEN COL
L=COLL+1
682 RETURN
5050 COUNT=(N-1)/32:GOSUB 100:GOSUB 13
020:? #6;CHR$(125)
5060 DIR$(1)="":DIRS(7680)="":DIR$(2
)=DIR$:GOSUB 10000
5970 GOSUB 180:IF X=255 THEN 5200
5080 LO=X:GOSUB 180:HI=X:GOSUS 180:OFF
=X
5090 SECT2=SECT:BYTE2=BYTE:SECT=LO+256
*HI:BYTE=OFF+1:IF BYTE>128 THEN BYTE=1
:SECT=SECT+1
5100 GOSUB 10000:GOSUB 180:ROWT=X:GOSU
B 180:ROWB=X;GOSUB 180:COLL=X:GOSUB 18
0:COLR=X
5110 C=INT((COLR-COLL)/8)+1:R=ROWB-ROW
T+1:AD=ADR(DIR$):SIZE=C*R:COUNT=0:RCOU
NT=0:OFF=40*(ROWT-1)+INT(COLL/8)
5115 OFF1=OFF
5120 START=AD+OFF:TERMINATE=0:GOSUB 30
0:SHIFT=COLL-INT(COLL/8)*8:IF SHIFT=0
THEN 5125
5122 FOR N=1 TO 5HIFT:A=USR(ADR(ROR$),
ADR(DIR$),7680):NEXT N
5125 A=USR(ADR(ORA$),ADR(DIR$),PEEK(88
)+256*PEEK(89),7680)
5130 SECT=SECT2:BYTE=BYTE2:GOTO 5060
5200 IF BUF$(BYTE,BYTE)<>CHR$(255) THE
N 5080
9005 A=USR(ADR(MOVE$),ADR(CURSOR$),153
6,LEN(CURSORS)):A=USR(1560,0,8,191,247
)
9010 D=4:FLAG=0:COLL=8:ROWT=0:COLR=247
:ROWB=191:POKE 764,33:GOSUB 500
9142 D=COLL-8:IF D<0 THEN COLR=COLR-D:
COLL=8