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- IE : The IMAGEPRINT EDITOR
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- WHAT IS IE?
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- IE is a text editor that can create plain vanilla "ASCII" text
- files that are suitable for printing by IMAGEPRINT.
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- In addition to rudimentary editing functions, IE has several
- functions that make it easy to use with IMAGEPRINT:
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- - Text files can be 'cleaned' of all non-printing characters.
- - IMAGEPRINT's screen preview mode can be directly invoked
- from within IE.
- - IMAGEPRINT can be run from within IE.
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- There are only two IE files:
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- IE.EXE The executable program
- IE.DOC This documentation file
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- RUNNING IE
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- The syntax for running IE is:
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- IE [text_file_name] [-S]
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- All bracketed items following IE are optional.
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- "text_file_name" is the name of the file you want to edit. You
- can create and edit a new text file if you just type "IE" by
- itself. The text file must be less than 64K in size.
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- The "-S" option is useful only if you have a CGA video system.
- This option causes IE to write to the screen without waiting for
- the video system to be idle, which can speed up screen writing.
- If you have a CGA system and experience "snow," don't use the
- "-S" option.
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- USING IE
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- When IE is first run, it is in full-screen display mode. The
- bottom line of the screen displays the current file name, the
- state of the "Caps Lock" key and the state of the "Ins" key. The
- "Ins" key toggles between overwrite mode and push-right mode
- when typing in text. The area where the file name is displayed
- is also temporarily used to prompt you for information or to
- display messages.
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- If you press F1, then a help window opens at the bottom of the
- screen. The first window displays many of the text editing and
- cursor movement commands (cut, paste, search, replace, etc.) If
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- you press F1 again, the second window displays the file
- manipulation commands (save, read, etc.) Pressing F1 again
- takes you back to full-screen display mode.
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- The editing and movement commands are:
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- Key Action
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- F2 The start of any marked text will be at the
- cursor location.
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- F3 The end of the marked text will be at the cursor
- location.
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- F4 Delete the marked text to a hold area. The cursor
- will be moved to the character just to the left
- of the deleted text.
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- F5 Insert the text from the hold area just to the
- right of the cursor.
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- F6 Unmark any text that is marked.
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- F7 Search, with optional replace, from the current
- cursor position downward. You can abort the search
- if you press the <ESC> key when you are prompted
- for the search or replace strings. You will first
- be prompted for the text string to search for.
- Upper or lower case isn't important. You are then
- prompted for the replace string. If you are only
- interested in searching, you can leave this blank.
- IE then starts the search. When IE finds a match,
- you have three options. You can quit the search,
- leaving the cursor at the matched string or
- replace the matched string with the replacement
- text or you can move the the next match. If no
- more matches are found, IE leaves search mode.
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- F8 Go to a line number in the text. You are prompted
- for the line number to go to. If the line number
- is beyond the end of the text, the cursor will go
- to the last line.
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- F10 If you have a color video system, this key will
- toggle color on and off. Turning color off can
- make text more readable if you have a color video
- card used with a monochrome monitor.
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- Ins The "Ins" key toggles between overwrite mode and
- push-right mode when you are typing in text.
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- Del The delete key deletes the character at the
- cursor position.
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- Backspace The backspace key deletes the character to the
- left of the cursor.
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- Ctrl+Y Pressing the "Ctrl" key at the same time as the
- "Y" key deletes the line the cursor is on.
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- Grey - Pressing the grey minus key that is to the right of
- the numeric keypad moves you to the top of the text.
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- Grey + Pressing the grey plus key that is to the right of
- the numeric keypad moves you to the bottom of the
- text.
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- Shft+PgUp Pressing the "Shift" key at the same time as the
- "PgUp" key moves you up one screen in the text.
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- Shft+PgDn Pressing the "Shift" key at the same time as the
- "PgDn" key moves you down one screen in the text.
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- PgUp Pressing the "PgUp" key scrolls the screen down
- one line. The cursor isn't moved, unless it is
- at the bottom of the screen.
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- PgDn Pressing the "PgDn" key scrolls the screen up
- one line. The cursor isn't moved, unless it is
- at the top of the screen.
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- Up Arrow The up arrow moves the cursor up one line.
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- Down Arrow The down arrow moves the cursor down one line.
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- Left Arrow The left arrow moves the cursor left character.
- If the cursor is at the beginning of a line,
- it will move up to the previous line's end.
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- Rt Arrow The right arrow moves the cursor right one
- character. If the cursor is at the right edge of
- the screen, then the screen will scroll to the
- left.
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- Home Pressing the "Home" key moves the cursor to the
- beginning of the line.
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- End Pressing the "End" key moves the cursor to the
- end of the line. If the line's end is beyond the
- right edge of the screen, the screen will scroll
- to the left to make the end of the line visible.
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- The file manipulation commands are all accessed by pressing the
- "Ctrl" key with one of the function keys. You can use the
- "Shift" or "Alt" key instead of the "Ctrl" key.
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- The commands are:
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- Ctrl+F2 Load a file at the cursor position. You are
- prompted for the name of the file to load.
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- Ctrl+F3 Remove any non-printing characters from the edit
- buffer. This command can be used to clean up a
- text file that has some word processor data in it.
- All non-printing control characters and all
- characters from the extended character set (above
- ASCII 127) will be changed to spaces.
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- Ctrl+F4 Write the contents of the editor to a disk file.
- You will be prompted for the file name to save
- to. No backup copy of the file is created.
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- Ctrl+F5 Write the contents of the editor to a disk file and
- then exit to DOS. You will be prompted for the file
- name. No backup copy of the file is created.
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- Ctrl+F6 Exit IE and return to DOS without saving the
- contents of the editor.
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- Ctrl+F7 Clear out the contents of the editor without saving
- You can switch between files by saving the first file
- with "Ctrl"+F4, clearing the editor with "Ctrl"+F7
- and then loading the new file with "Ctrl"+F2.
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- Ctrl+F8 Write the marked text to a file. You are prompted
- for the name of the file to write to. The text
- must have already been marked with the F2 and F3
- keys. You can print the marked text by selecting
- "PRN" as the file you wish to save to (assuming your
- printer is connected to the first parallel port.)
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- Ctrl+F9 Preview using IMAGEPRINT. First the contents of
- the editor are saved to disk so IMAGEPRINT can
- read it. Then IMAGEPRINT is run with the "-P" option.
- If you haven't already given a file name to the
- text in the editor, you will have to so IE knows
- what file name to use when saving.
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- Ctrl+F10 Print using IMAGEPRINT. First the contents of the
- editor are saved to disk so IMAGEPRINT can read it.
- Then IMAGEPRINT is run. If you haven't already given
- a file name to the text in the editor, you will have
- to so IE knows what file name to use when saving.
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