Note from transcriber: this manual often gives example of specific printer control commands. As this is HTML, you won't necessarily see the right effect when e.g., double width or condensed text is demonstrated.
Welcome to Electronic Author
Written by: Wayne J. Smithson
(C) 1985 Smithson Computing
<HELLO>
Before you load in the program, see the chapter on printer formatting to initialise the printer commands.
To load ELECTRONIC AUTHOR from cassette type: CLEAR20 <enter> CLOADM <enter>
If the cursor in the corner of the screen stops flashing (after the screen starts to load) then you have a loading error, so rewind the cassette. Change the volume level on your cassette recorder and then have another go at loading. If you still experience difficulty in loading the program then please return the whole package to the following address and we shall send you a replacement.
The address is:
Smithson Computing,If the screen goes blank, starts scrolling and smoke emerges from the back of your computer then it probably hasn't loaded properly either so try again. This cassette has a lifetime guarantee so any cassette that dies on you after a period of 3 months will be replaced if you send just the cassette without case and inlay card, quote your unit number and include an S.A.E. Happy Loading!
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD NOT LOAD THIS PROGRAM WITH A DISK DRIVE OR CARTRIDGE PLUGGED IN
Unauthorised copying strictly prohibited
Anyone with a copy in their possession will be prosecuted
(C) 1985 SMITHSON COMPUTING
When the program stops loading, the screen will clear and you should see the following:
ELECTRONIC AUTHOR (C) 1985 SMITHSON COMPUTING FILE: ******************** SPACE >19000 WORDS >0 PRESS A KEY
If you don't see this then the program has not loaded properly so switch off the machine and have another attempt at loading.
The next step is to press any key (complicated isn't it?), the screen should then change to a high resolution display with a flashing cursor in the top left-hand corner of the screen and a command window at the bottom, the use of which will be explained later. Type a few characters in (about 3 lines full), you will notice that they are in lower-case. Press SHIFT and the letter to get upper-case or alternatively press SHIFT and 0 to toggle in and out of upper/lower case. Type in a character then press the CLEAR key, amazing!
When the printer has finished you will have a printout of your paragraphs from the book. Please don't throw ELECTRONIC AUTHOR under a bus, I know it looks terrible but we are going to change that quite easily in the next chapter.
You should have found that the CLEAR key is used as a REPEAT key. Now press the arrow keys, you should see the cursor move in the direction of the arrow key, providing that there is any text there of course. When you are typing in text, pressing <ENTER> will put you on the next line. Usually there is no need to use <ENTER> because there is a command to send any number of <ENTER>'s to the printer.
The <ENTER> facility is included for those users who only want to store information and retrieve it to scan through and change easily and don't really want it printed (although you can). Using the <ENTER> key slows down ELECTRONIC AUTHOR slightly because there is more working out to do. Having said that IT IS NECCESSARY TO END YOUR TEXT FILE WITH AN <ENTER>. The computer uses it as a marker when printing the file. If you forget, the last line may be wrongly printed.
Anyway, back to the arrow keys. When the cursor is on top of a character, typing in something will overwrite the character already there (try it and see). That's all very nice but what happens if you want to insert something between two characters?
The answer is to insert some spaces then type over them, to do this use SHIFT and <RIGHT ARROW>. If you are at the top of the screen and you have a fair sized text file then inserting can take quite a while because there is an awful lot of screen updating to do. Therefore a quicker way to insert a lot of spaces is described later. If you insert too many spaces or just want to delete characters then you use SHIFT-<LEFT ARROW>; again a quicker way to delete a lot is described later. Two more direct commands remain:
SHIFT-<UP ARROW>- inserts a line of blank spaces (51 or 64 depending on the mode you are in).
SHIFT-<DOWN ARROW>- deletes the character under the cursor and everything to the right of it on the same line.
The next step is to show you how to use these commands to achieve certain displays on the screen. First of all, we need to remove any text already there. To do this, press <BREAK>; the cursor is in the command window at the bottom. The command window is like an INPUT statement in BASIC. Use the LEFT-ARROW to delete and SHIFT-LEFT-ARROW to delete the line. Type NEW <enter>. The <enter> means press the <enter> key not type it in but you knew that didn't you?
You will be asked if you are sure, type 'Y'. The screen will clear and the cursor will return to the "HOME" position at the top-left of the screen. Now we can begin....
Type in your name followed by <enter> then underline it with "=" signs followed by <enter>. The screen should show:
Your Name =========
First of all, let us see how to delete an <enter>. Press the <up arrow> key then the <left arrow> key. You will have noticed that the cursor does not position itself over the <enter> so you have to get on the line below then delete it so press <down arrow> followed by shift-<left arrow>. The screen should look:
Your Name=========
To get back to what it was, press <enter>, you don't need to insert a space for it. Now go to the end of text, find a book and type in three or four paragraphs of text (try to type more than a screenful of text). Don't press <enter> until you reach the end of a paragraph and don't worry about typing over the edge of the screen, the program will tidy everything up eventually, when you come to print it out.
I always think that text looks neater if you put a space after a comma, full-stop etc. If you typed enough in you will have noticed that the screen scrolls upwards when you reach the end of the bottom line. The text that was scrolled off at the top is still there and you can see this by pressing the <up arrow> key (use the repeat <clear> key) until the screen starts scrolling down. Your "lost" text will appear line by line. Pressing the <down arrow> key now will start to reveal the lines you have just scrolled off the bottom. Good innit?
Now that you have typed it in, you may as well print it and to do that, you have to get into the command window at the bottom. The <BREAK> key is used to do this. You also use <break> to return to the text if the command you type in doesn't automatically return for you. When you are in command mode, type:
P <enter>
You will be asked if you are sure again. Wind the printer on to the start of a page (usually when the print head is just over halfway between 2 sheets of paper) then type 'Y' to go ahead or 'N' to abort. Please note that if your printer is not attached the computer will "hang".
When the printer has finished you will have a printout of your paragraphs from the book. Please don't throw ELECTRONIC AUTHOR under a bus, I know it looks terrible but we are going to change that quite easily in the next chapter.
LEFT ARROW: move cursor left
RIGHT ARROW: move cursor right
UP ARROW: move cursor up
DOWN ARROW: move cursor down
SHIFT-LEFT: delete character
SHIFT-RIGHT: insert space
SHIFT-UP: insert blank line
SHIFT-DOWN: delete from cursor pos. to end of line
ENTER KEY: puts you on next line and EOF MARKER
CLEAR KEY: Repeat last key pressed
BREAK KEY: enter in and out of command mode.
If you are not already in command mode then do so by pressing <BREAK>. Type in:
HOME
You should be at the top of the screen and start of text, now insert a line of spaces (shift up arrow) and we have plenty of room for format commands.
Usually at the top and bottom of a page in a book there are spaces where nothing is printed. These are known as the topspace and bottomspace. It isn't on the printout you notice. That's because a spacing of 0 is the default value (so it's not default of de program!). The values can be changed with a control command and it is usual to make them both equal. A control command is in the form:
control character control code (number if required)
The default control character is a "HASH(#)" but it can be changed with the #CTz command where z is the character to change it to. To change top and bottom space then type
#TSn
#BSn where n is a number between 1 & 255.
I reckon that 4 is about right so if you want to change it you may do so by typing the following:
#TS4#BS4 over the first few spaces you inserted.
Once you have changed TS and BS, don't change them again in the same listing. The next thing we could do with is a margin down either side of the paper, to do this we need another 2 control commands:
#LMn - Left Margin where n is a number between 1 & 255
#LLn - Line Length where n is a number between 1 & 255. If n is omitted, the default values will be used.
The line length default value is 80 and 0 for left margin. For a margin of 10 on an 80 column printer we want a left margin of 10 and a line length of 60 (10+60+10=80). Type in
#LM10#LL60
Now delete any unused spaces by pressing shift-down, set up the printer and obtain another printout. It is improved but could still be better, note how the page has 'shrunk'.
In justified text the spacing between the words is adjusted so that the words per line fit across the page exactly thus giving a much neater image. This could be done by hand but is very time consuming and tedious so why not let the old Dragon do it for you? You can, of course, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it! To do it you can use
#FJ - Fill and Justify text.
This is probably the most important command there is and to see the effect of it, put it into your text after the other commands you typed in then get another printout: greatly improved. If you should want to get out of justified printing (which is sometimes called for) you use
#LI - LIteral print
The next thing to do is put in proper paragraphs so take out all the <ENTER>s (except the end of file (EOF) <enter> marker) which you should know how to do 'cos I explained it earlier (ner ner na ner ner). Insert the paragraph command where paragraphs start, the command is
#P - Paragraph
There now follows a short break- no, that was a joke, actually there now follows a few extra commands that may explain why, if at all, you don't get the result you expected, of if you want to enhance your printout slightly.
Finally, a note on using control commands (B flat), and now another note: SOMETIMES YOU WILL HAVE TO PUT A SPACE BETWEEN THE COMMAND AND THE TEXT FOLLOWING for example if I typed
#BSmithson Computing, the computer would see
#BS mithson Computing (BS is BottomSpace remember?) so the correct version would be
#B Smithson Computing
This can also occur when you use numbers after a control command for instance #b24 Coal Hill Green would insert 24 blank lines when I wanted it to print my address.
Another note (F sharp) is that commands can be type in lower, upper, or a-combination-of-both case, so #BS, #bs, #Bs, #bS are all valid codes.
Page numbering is automatic and usually starts from 1. Electronic Author will print page numbers up to 65535 if you are writing a book on Terry Wogan's TV appearences, but you may not want page numbers on some or all pages, and what's more, you might not want it to start at one. Off we go then, first of all:
#OP - Omit Page numbers
This will stop the printing of page numbers, but the page number will still be incremented so that if you turn them back on again later, you don't have to work out what page you're on. To turn them back on again type:
#PN - Page Number on
If you want to start numbering from a different number you use the page number command with a number after it. (There are quite a number of numbers in that last bit!). For example, #PN255 will number the next page 255 then carry on from there at 256, 257 etc. There is an itsy-bitsy snaggy-waggy however, if you want to start numbering above 255, then you have to do a bit of maffs (all good practice). The way to do it is as follows, we shall use the number 49200:
1> Divide the number by 256=> 49200/256 = 192 r48
2> Get the remainder=> 48
3> Use the #PN command again=> #PN192,48 and that's it.
If the remainder is zero (eg. for 49152) then type #PN192, with no number after the comma. You can all stop complaining as well, it's not my fault you don't know your 256 times table is it?
#P - Paragraph
#BP - Begin Page
#FJ - Fill and Justify text
#LI - LIteral print (cancel FJ)
#TSn - TopSpace setting
#BSn - BottomSpace setting
#LMn - Left Margin
#LLn - Line Length
#CTz - change ConTrol character
#Bn - finish current line and insert Blank lines
#WPn - Width of Paper
#8L - 8 Lines/inch spacing
#6L - 6 Lines/inch spacing
#DS - set Double Spacing mode
#SS - set Single Spacing mode (cancel DS)
#On - Offset character by n. If n is omitted, offset is turned off.
#OP - Omit Page numbers
#PN - Page number on
#PNn - Page number on starting from n
#PNn1,n2 - Page number on starting from n1*256+n2
Printer commands vary from printer to printer. General ones are double width; emphasised print; condensed print; and normal print. You can of course combine some of them to get say, emphasised double width print. Some printers have an underline feature and/or double strike print. Big printers have italics, numerous print styles, the list goes on. The commands I have catered for directly are as follows:
#DW - Double Width
#CD - Cancel Double width
#C+ - Condensed print on
#C- - Condensed print off
#E+ - Emphasised print on
#E- - Emphasised print off
#U+ - Underline on
#U- - Underline off
#DP - Double strike Print
#SP - Single strike Print
Refer to printer formatting to set the above codes.
For those people with big printers, an extra command is included to allow ANYTHING to be sent to the printer, it is:#PCn1,n2,n3,.....
This stands for Printer Command and n1,n2 etc are the codes to be sent. That didn't take long to explain, so what was all the fuss about earlier? Well you're about to find out because here come the explanations of how and when to use them.....
I will explain about using the double width command first because this is treated differently to all the others. The reason for that is to do with a lot of printers. A lot of printers won't let you use 2 types of print on the same line because the print head can't move at 2 different speeds on the same line, (emphasised, normal, condensed etc are printed at different speeds). That is, except double width and normal, they move at the same speed, don't mix it up with character/second speed, it's the print head speed I'm talking about. Because of this, you don't need to alter the margin, Electronic Author switches it out of double width for the margin then switches it back on again for the text. The procedure then for double width text is:
...begin #dwdouble #cdend... - this would give:
...begin double end...
This is normally the procedure for the rest of them as well, but if your printer won't allow that (the MX-80 I'm using won't) then you are going to have to use the next method. Before that, I must explain that a few printers won't allow ANY 2 character types on the same line, including double width. One such printer is the Microline 80, in which case you'll have to alter the margin and use the next method as well.
The first thing that has to be said about this method is that you will not get 2 types of print on the same line, but you can have all the types available on separate lines. If you used the other way, then you would turn the types of print on, then straight back off again; thus doing absolutely nothing! The way to get round that then is to turn on the print type, print the line then turn it off again. For example:
#E+emphasised#B#E- normal.. - would give:
emphasised
normal..
Another thing to note is when using a paragraph as well, the order is #E+#P, not #P#E+, this is so with any other command when used in conjunction with the paragraph command. To get the display for the summary below, use this method of emphasise on, print, emphasise off, paragraph:
#b2#e+ Summary printer commands#b========================#B#e-#p Refer to...
N.B. When you see a #B on its own, no number, it is the same as an <ENTER>, you may prefer to use <enter> if it is clearer but don't forget the speed is affected slightly.
Refer to the text above to find out how to get this emphasised sub heading followed by paragraph.
#DW - Double Width
#CD - Cancel Double width
#C+ - Condensed print on
#C- - Condensed print off
#E+ - Emphasised print on
#E- - Emphasised print off
#U+ - Underline on
#U- - Underline off
#DP - Double strike Print
#SP - Single strike Print
#PCn1,n1,.. - Printer Command: send n1,n2 etc to printer
Centering is a very important aspect of a word processor if you want something to be put into the middle of a line. (I don't believe I just wrote that!) Anyway, the centre command is a format command but I decided that it needed a section of its own. The command is:
#CEn - CEntre the next n lines
If you want different print sizes as well to be centered then you will have to change the line length and margin first then turn the print size on then centre it. That is unless you are using double width, in which case everything is taken care of by the computer (with the exception of printers like the Microline 80 for the reason mentioned earlier). The way to centre then is as follows:
#E+#DW#CE Hello Mum##E-#CD - would give:
Hello Mum
Notice the extra # before the #E-, this is used to denote the end of the line to be centered (an <enter> would do as well) so if you centered 2 or more lines, you would do:
#E+#CE2 Get down and boogy#Lay on five!##E- to give:
Get down and boogy
Lay on five!
To centre a line of condensed text, the easiest way would be to do this:
#LM#LL132#C+#CE This is condended print.##C-#LM10#LL60
This is condended print.
This may look complicated, that's because it is! Actually it isn't difficult when you get used to it. Also note that the #LM command above has no number after it, that means that the default value of 0 will be used.
Oh dear, I've missed another command out, the #Tn command. This works only in literal mode, i.e. (the apache said* non justified text. It is a tab command and prints n spaces.
* Quote from Monsoir La Cook, my CS "teacher" (ahar-ar-ar!)
Editing commands are done directly, unlike format commands that are processed when printed. You have already met a couple of edit commands (if you've bothered to read it all that is), and all edit commands are entered in the command window at the bottom of the screen. You have met the NEW command (abbriated, abrivated, shortened to N) and the HOME (H) command and also the P (P) command. I will now go through the other two (only kidding), the others in alphabetical order starting with 'A' (that figures)!
1> F/string/
This is the find command, Electronic Author will go through the text looking for all occurences of "string". When it is found, it will be displayed at which point you must press 'N' if it isn't the one you're after or 'X' to exit the find routine. If you press 'X' then the string will be on the top line on your screen. If your string isn't found, you will be returned to the HOME position.
NB to get lower case in command mode press shift0
2> F/string1/string2/
This is the change command. Again, Electronic Author will go through the text looking for string1 and when it finds string1, it will be displayed. This time the keys are 'Y' to change it to string2 or 'N' to go on to the next one without changing it or 'X' to exit the routine in which case string1 will be on the top line.
3> F/string//
This is the word or phrase delete command. This is operated as for the change command, 'Y' to delete, 'N' to go on, 'X' to exit.
4> F/string1/string2/A (F/string//a)
As for 2 (and 3) but there is no need for keypresses, EVERY occurence will be changed or deleted. The 'A' or 'a' stands for ALL. NB2 The '/' in all the above can actually be any character as long as they are all the same, eg. F*string1*string2*a will do as well.
A - Append file
B - set Begin block
C - Copy block
D - Delete block
E - set End block
F - Find/change/word delete
Gn - Gap delay for repeat key
H - return to Home position
In - Insert n spaces
L - Load text
LF - Load Format codes
MN (MF) - Motor oN (ofF)
N - New text
O - Old text
Pn - Print text
PLn - Print literal file
R - Reverse text
RB - Reverse text in block
S"NAME" - Save to tape
T51 (T64) - Text mode 51 (64)
U - Unblock markers
V - Verify file on tape
W - display Workspace etc
Z - go to end of text
#CEn - CEntre next n lines
#Tn - Tab, prints n spaces (only in LI mode).
This section refers to the program on side B of the cassette. Load in the program by typing CLOADM followed by <enter>, when the loading stops, the screen should fill up with the available printer types and their default values. The 2 at the bottom (underline ones) have no numbers printed. This is because the printer Electronic Author is geared for (MX-80) does not have such features. YOU MUST TURN OFF COMMANDS THAT YOUR PRINTER HAS NOT GOT. To change the values, select the number (1-14) and press <enter>. You will then be asked:
NO. OF CODES (MAX 3)?
Type in the number of codes there are for that feature. To turn that feature off, just press <enter> on its own. Next input the codes as you are told (unless you turned it off in which case you will be returned to the menu), if you are entering hexadecimal values, put '&H' in front of the number. When you have done all 14 commands, type 15 in for the load/save routines. Insert a blank tape in the recorder and save the new codes. If you want to change them again later on, (or if you want to load in the example file for the Microline 80 straight after the configure program), use the load command (gerraway!). If you want to load the next one on tape and you don't know its name then just press <enter> when you are asked for a name.
The control codes for all the features listed should be in your printer operators manual. The codes must be loaded into Electronic Author before you start to print. If you are using an MX-80 printer, then you don't have to configure any commands as they are already built into the program.
There now follows lists of all commands, a trouble shooting guide and error messages. If either of you people who bought this program have any problems with it then contact me at SMITHSON COMPUTING and I will do my best to help. By the way, I know appendixes is incorrect, but I can't spell appendices you see.
REMEMBER, the best way to find out about new commands is to try them out in different ways and see what they do!
A - Append file
B - set Begin block
C - Copy block
D - Delete block
E - set End block
F - Find/change/word delete
Gn - Gap delay for repeat key
H - return to Home position
In - Insert n spaces
L - Load text
LF - Load Format codes
MN (MF) - Motor oN (ofF)
N - New text
O - Old text
Pn - Print text
PLn - Print literal file
R - Reverse text
RB - Reverse text in block
S"NAME" - Save to tape
T51 (T64) - Text mode 51 (64)
U - Unblock markers
V - Verify file on tape
W - display Workspace etc
Z - go to end of text
Wherever there is an 'n' after the command, it means a number can be placed after it, 'n' is always in the range 1-255
#P - Paragraph
#BP - Begin Page
#FJ - Fill and Justify text
#LI - LIteral print (cancel FJ)
#TSn - TopSpace setting
#BSn - BottomSpace setting
#LMn - Left Margin
#LLn - Line Length
#CTz - change ConTrol character
#Bn - finish current line and insert Blank lines
#WPn - Width of Paper
#8L - 8 Lines/inch spacing
#6L - 6 Lines/inch spacing
#DS - set Double Spacing mode
#SS - set Single Spacing mode (cancel DS)
#DW - Double Width
#CD - Cancel Double width
#C+ - Condensed print on
#C- - Condensed print off
#E+ - Emphasised print on
#E- - Emphasised print off
#U+ - Underline on
#U- - Underline off
#DP - Double strike Print
#SP - Single strike Print
#PCn1,n2,n3,.. - Printer Command: send n1,n2 etc to printer
#CEn - CEntre next n lines
#Tn - Tab, prints n spaces (only in LI mode)
#OP - Omit Page numbers
#PN - Page number back on
#PNn - Page numbering on starting from n
#PNn1,n2 - Page numbering on starting from n1*256+n2
#On - Offset character printed by n
#O - turn offset off
LEFT ARROW: move cursor left
RIGHT ARROW: move cursor right
UP ARROW: move cursor up
DOWN ARROW: move cursor down
SHIFT-LEFT: delete character
SHIFT-RIGHT: insert space
SHIFT-UP: insert blank line
SHIFT-DOWN: delete from cursor pos. to end of line
ENTER KEY: puts you on next line and EOF MARKER
CLEAR KEY: Repeat last key pressed
BREAK KEY: enter in and out of command mode.
?Error - A bad command has been entered when in command mode or <enter> has been pressed on its own
?Mark! - Mark is already set or in wrong place, use 'U' to unblock or move cursor to a different position. Also note if you try to set end marker before begin marker, you will get this message.
?Block - If you try to copy, delete or reverse a block when it doesn't exist you will get this.
FULL - When loading or appending you will get this message if you run out of memory. Do not use copy command when memory is nearly full.
First of all make sure the computer has just been turned on before loading so that other programs don't affect the working of this one.
Put a space after format commands except for the batch at the very beginning of text (the ones that set page length etc).
Put a space after full-stops. commas, exclamation marks! etc.
Always save text before you print if you have just spent 3 hours typing it in, just in case you kick the *!#$&'$@* plug! (guess what I did)!
If you want a pound sign on the printer either use the PC command with the code for a pound, or change the control command (#) to something else (try @) and set the dip-switch on the printer to print a hash as a pound if it doesn't already. You may not even have to change the control command from a # as a # with a number after it will be printed because it isn't a control command. (If you didn't understand that then just try it and see)!
Lucky Lad in the 3.30 at Doncaster. That's the last tip you're going to get for now, carry on keyboard bashing!
************************************************************** * PROBLEM * POSSIBLE CAUSE * ************************************************************** * Load or Save routine * You CLEARed less than 20 before * * crashes. * loading Electronic Author in. * *=======================*====================================* * Printer doesn't print * Printer is off line or disconected * * when using P command * or invalid code sent. * *=======================*====================================* * '0' appears for no * A format command has a 0 for a no. * * apparent reason on * there is no need to put 0's & most * * printout. * of them don't allow 0 anyway. * *=======================*====================================* * First line of a * Don't use a control command until * * paragraph stops short * the first line has been printed. * *=======================*====================================* * TV screen goes blank, * You probably kicked the 4-way * * computer clicks and * adapter that holds all the plugs * * copyright message * for your computer, printer and the * * appears on screen. * television! * *=======================*====================================* * Last line of text is * EITHER you have missed the end of * * not printed. * file (EOF) <enter> marker off, OR * * * you finished with a format command * * * in which case you should add * * * another <enter> at the end. * **************************************************************
By the way, if you want to get a display like the one above, do it in literal mode, fill the screen full of spaces (use repeat key) and switch into 64 column mode. Then all you have to do is cursor along, typing over the spaces!
Printed below is this page and the last dumped using the PL command. I printed this, rewound the paper and dumped this under the paragraph!
ts4#bs4#pn21#lm10#ll60#dw#e+#ce2 Trouble Shooting#============= ===##b3#cd#e-#ll64#lm9 ************************************************************** * PROBLEM * POSSIBLE CAUSE * ************************************************************** * Load or Save routine * You CLEARed less than 20 before * * crashes. * loading Electronic Author in. * *=======================*====================================* * Printer doesn't print * Printer is off line or disconected * * when using P command * or invalid code sent. * *=======================*====================================* * '0' appears for no * A format command has a 0 for a no. * * apparent reason on * there is no need to put 0's & most * * printout. * of them don't allow 0 anyway. * *=======================*====================================* * First line of a * Don't use a control command until * * paragraph stops short * the first line has been printed. * *=======================*====================================* * TV screen goes blank, * You probably kicked the 4-way * * computer clicks and * adapter that holds all the plugs * * copyright message * for your computer, printer and the * * appears on screen. * television! * *=======================*====================================* * Last line of text is * EITHER you have missed the end of * * not printed. * file (EOF) <enter> marker off, OR * * * you finished with a format command * * * in which case you should add * * * another <enter> at the end. * **************************************************************#b 2#ll60#lm10#fj#p By the way, if you want to get a display like t he one above, do it in literal mode, fill the screen full of spa ces (use repeat key) and switch into 64 column mode. Then all yo u have to do is cursor along, typing over the spaces!#bp#dw#e+#c e2 Example Dump (PL)#=================##cd#e-#p Printed below is this page and the last dumped using the PL command. I printed t his, rewound the paper and dumped this under the paragraph!
SMITHSON COMPUTING
prop: W. Smithson
Tel: 0532-551631
Mr. A. Name,
99 Address Lane,
Town or City,
Postcode.
24 Coal Hill Green
Bramley,
Leeds,
LS 13 1DR.
15/04/85
Dear Buyer,
As you can see, below is the file that printed this letter. The first part was done in literal mode, the letter contents in justify mode. Once you have this on tape, you can load it in and simply change the address your sending it to (by typing over the spaces) and the contents of the letter.
Yours Sincerely
(Wayne Smithson)
#TS4#BS4#OP#LM10#ll60#E+#DW#CE3 SMITHSON COMPUTING# prop: W. Smithson#Tel: 0532-551631##b2#cdMr. A. Na me, 24 Coal Hill Green 99 Address Lane, Bramley,# bTown or City, Leeds,#b Postcode. LS 13 1D R.#b2 15/ 04/85#b2Dear Buyer,#FJ#p As you can see, below is t he file that printed this letter. The first part wa s done in literal mode, the letter contents in just ify mode. Once you have this on tape, you can load it in and simply change the address your sending it to (by typing over the spaces) and the contents of the letter.#b2#ceYours Sincerely##b3#ce(Wayne Smit hson)
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