Want to thank Bruce Thomas for sending over this update to a great GEOS utility by Nick Vrtis for combining multiple geoWrite documents.  The following is information Bruce supplied in a text file that is included in the archive:

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