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- This is Turbo Script, a word processor developed originally by Kevin
- Menningen. This processor was initially developed on an 128k IBM PCjr, and for
- this reason, it may not work of 64k systems. The following keyboard functions
- and their applications are listed below:
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- Tab - Moves cursor to next tab position
- Shift Tab(BackTab) - Moves cursor to previous tab position
- Cursor Up, Down, Right, Left - Moves cursor to desired position
- Backspace - Deletes character to the left of cursor
- Del - Deletes character under cursor
- Ins - Toggles Insert Mode on/off
- Fn/Home - Moves cursor to beginning of line
- Fn/End - Moves cursor to end of line
- Ctrl-Fn/Home - Erases memory and resets processor
- Ctrl-Fn/End - Erases from cursor to the end of the line
- Fn/PgUp - Pages to previous page
- Fn/PgDn - Pages to next page
- Ctrl-PgUp - Moves cursor to previous word
- Ctrl-PgDn - Moves cursor to next word
- Esc-Esc - Erases the current line
- Ctrl-Fn/PgUp - Moves to beginning of file
- Ctrl-Fn/PgDn - Moves to end of file
-
- The following list describes the usage of the ten function keys:
-
- F1 - Help. Displays a list of all the commands and editing keywords
- that apply to the processor.
-
- F2 - Search / Replace. Allows you to search and/or replace any string
- embedded within the text. It is menu driven, and basically self-
- explanatory. It should be noted, though, that pressing Esc at any
- time during this function will end the search or replace session.
-
- F3 - Tab Menu. Allows you to set, clear or purge (Clear all tabs) the
- tab settings. If you choose set, a tab will be set at the position
- of the cursor at the time you pressed F3. If you choose clear, the
- tab position(if any) at the cursor when you pressed F3 will be
- cleared. Purge will clear all tab stops.
-
- F4 - Title. Marks that line so that when the file is printed, you will
- be prompted for a title, and it will be made boldface and double
- width. You must erase this function if you have a daisy wheel or
- other type of letter quality printer.
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- F5 - DOS menu. Allows you to print a directory of the disk, delete files,
- rename files, copy files, and exit to DOS.
-
- F6 - InsLine. Just like its Turbo counterpart, this will insert a single
- line at the cursor position. All the lines below it on the screen
- will be scrolled downward.
-
- F7 - DelLine. Like its Turbo counterpart, too, this will delete the line
- at the cursor position. All the lines below that line will be
- scrolled up on line.
-
- F8 - Print. Prints the current file on the LST: device. Is menu driven
- and you may set the top, left and right margins. Any command code
- that does not work on your printer you may delete or change to your
- needs.
-
- F9 - Load. Loads the file under the name given. The name is entered by
- a unique subroutine that works in a way different from normal input.
- It gives you eight dashes, a period, and three more dashes. When
- you press any key, the character that was entered fills one of the
- dashes, in succession. If you press the space bar, the cursor is
- moved to the beginning of the extension part, and all spaces between
- are deleted. If you press enter without specifying an extension, a
- default extension of '.FIL' is added. Avoid using an '-' within
- your filename, as it tells the subroutine to delete spaces in your
- filename. The current file is erased and replaced by the new one.
-
- F10 - Save. Saves the current file under the name given. The name is
- entered by the same method as Load.
-
- Alt-A - Enter ASCII character. This subprogram will ask you for an ASCII
- number and the number of times to repeat that character. The string
- is then printed.
-
- A few words on Turbo Script. This processor has a maximum capacity of
- 500 lines of text. Do not exceed this, or the system will probably crash.
- This shouldn't be difficult, since 500 lines of text translates to 40,000
- bytes of memory that is free. There are also some embedded text commands
- that you may find useful. These commands and their meanings follow:
-
- '\' - Starts or stops underlining. This or any other symbol does not
- take up any space on the printed line, so that you can underline
- portions of words.
-
- '~' - Starts superscript mode. All numbers following immediately after
- this symbol are printed in a superscript mode.
-
- '|' - Starts subscript mode. Same as superscript, except that all
- numbers following the symbol are printed in subscript mode.
-
- Alt-I - Starts italic printing. Works just like other commands. The first
- press starts italic, the next one stops. To provide tangible
- evidence that you did press Alt-I, a '«' will be printed at the
- location where started italic mode and a '»' will be printed where
- italic mode was ended.
-
- Alt-B - Starts boldface printing. Just like italic printing except the
- symbol that will be printed is a '▐' to start printing and a '▌' to
- stop printing in boldface. Of course, this will not work if you
- select the Boldface option on the Print Menu (F8).
-
- Examples:
-
- This word will be \underlined\.
- The number '2' will be superscripted~2.
- The number '125' will be subscripted~125.
- This word will be printed in «italic».
- This word will be printed in ▐boldface▌.
-
- Any other functions are rather self-explanatory. Please retain my name
- at the beginning of this file. Happy word processing.
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