[.PO]--ÓTANDS FOR "PAGE ORDER" AND MUST BE FOLLOWED BY THREE NUMBERS, SEPARATED BY COMMAS. ÉN THE EXAMPLE .PO1,2,1, THE FIRST PARAMETER SENDS THE FIRST PAGE TO THE PRINTER OR DISK; THE SECOND PARAMETER SPECIFIES THAT EVERY SECOND PAGE AFTER THAT WILL ALSO GO TO THE PRINTER OR DISK. ÔHE LAST PARAMETER INDICATES HOW MANY PAGES WILL BE OUTPUT BEFORE THE PAGE NUMBER IS INCREMENTED. ÉT SHOULD EQUAL THE NUMBER OF COLUMNS ACROSS THE PAGE. ÙOU CAN PRINT ON BOTH SIDES OF A PAGE OR IN A NUMBER OF COLUMNS.

[.FF]--ÓTANDS FOR "FORM FEED" AND MUST BE FOLLOWED BY 0 OR 1. ÉF YOU SELECT 1, THE BOTTOM MARGIN WILL BE PRINTED BY SENDING THE FORM-FEED CHARACTER TO THE PRINTER. ÔHE DEFAULT, .FF0, ADVANCES TO THE BOTTOM MARGIN WITH CARRIAGE RETURNS.

[.FC]--ÓTANDS FOR "FORCE CONDITIONALLY" AND MUST BE FOLLOWED BY A NUMBER FROM 0 TO 255. ÉF LESS THAN THE SPECIFIED NUMBER OF LINES REMAIN ON A PAGE WHEN .FC IS EXECUTED, NO MORE TEXT WILL BE PRINTED ON THAT PAGE. ÉNSTEAD, A FORCE PAGE WILL BE EXECUTED, PRINTING THE FOOTER (IF ANY) AND BOTTOM MARGIN IMMEDIATELY AND RESUMING TEXT ON THE NEXT PAGE.

[.DG]--ÓTANDS FOR "DEFINE GRAPHICS CHARACTER" AND LETS YOU CHANGE ANY CHARACTER, IN ANY PRINT SET OR THE SCREEN CHARACTER SET, WITHOUT USING A CHARACTER-SET EDITOR. ÔHE COMMAND MUST BE FOLLOWED BY TEN BYTE NUMBERS, SEPARATED BY COMMAS. ÔHE FIRST BYTE NUMBER SPECIFIES THE SET IN WHICH THE CHARACTER TO BE CHANGED IS SITUATED. ÁS ALWAYS, 0 SPECIFIES THE SCREEN CHARACTER SET, 1-9 SPECIFY A PRINT CHARACTER SET. ÔHE SECOND BYTE IS THE SCREEN-CODE VALUE OF THE CHARACTER TO BE CHANGED. ÔHE LAST EIGHT BYTES DEFINE THE CHARACTER ITSELF.

[.GC]--ÓTANDS FOR "GRAPHICS CHARACTERS" AND IS FOLLOWED BY TWO PARAMETERS, SEPARATED BY A COMMA. ÔHE PARAMETER SETTINGS ARE SAVED WITHIN ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS, AND ARE PERMANENT UNTIL YOU TURN OFF THE COMPUTER OR EXECUTE ANOTHER .GC COMMAND.

[.GB]--ÓTANDS FOR "GRAPHICS BEGIN" AND DEFINES THE STRING OF BYTES THAT IS SENT TO THE PRINTER TO ACTIVATE ÇRAPHICS MODE. ÔHE STRING IS SENT BEFORE EACH CHARACTER IS PRINTED IN ÄOT ÇRAPHICS MODE. ÔHE ÍÐÓ-803 AND ITS COMPATIBLES REQUIRE JUST ONE CHARACTER, ÃÈÒ$(8), TO ACTIVATE GRAPHICS MODE, UNTIL IT RECEIVES A BYTE VALUE OF LESS THAN 128, AT WHICH POINT IT WILL RETURN TO NORMAL ÔEXT MODE.

[.GE]--ÓTANDS FOR "GRAPHICS END." ÔHE STRING OF BYTES FOLLOWING THE .GE COMMAND WILL BE SENT TO THE PRINTER AFTER EACH DOT-GRAPHICS CHARACTER. ÓOME PRINTERS REQUIRE THIS COMMAND IN ORDER TO RETURN TO ÔEXT MODE.

ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS EXPECTS A ÃOMMODORE PRINTER CONNECTED TO THE SERIAL BUS. Á COMBINATION OF A NON-ÃOMMODORE PRINTER AND AN INTERFACE THAT EMULATES A ÃOMMODORE PRINTER WILL ALSO WORK. ÉF YOUR SYSTEM INCLUDES NEITHER OF THESE, YOU CAN STILL USE ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS BY PUTTING THE PRINTER INTERFACE INTO ÌOCK MODE AND USING THE ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS Æ1,T FUNCTION TO OUTPUT TRUE ÁÓÃÉÉ. ÁNOTHER METHOD IS TO USE THE ÄEFINE ÍACROS PROGRAM (SEE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION) TO CREATE A CUSTOMIZED SET OF MACROS THAT ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS CAN USE TO CONTROL YOUR PRINTER. ÎOTE THAT YOU CANNOT USE AN ÒÓ-232 PRINTER WITH ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS. ÉF YOU HAVE SUCH A PRINTER, YOU MUST OUTPUT YOUR TEXT TO DISK AND THEN USE A ÂASIC PROGRAM TO PRINT IT.

^ (UP-ARROW)--Æ1,^ SAVES YOUR TEXT TWICE, FIRST TO DEVICE 8, FOR PERMANENT STORAGE, AND THEN TO DEVICE 9, WHICH IS NORMALLY THE DEVICE NUMBER OF A ÒÁÍ EXPANDER WHEN USED AS A ÒÁÍ DISK. ÁFTER YOUR TEXT IS SAVED TO THE ÒÁÍ DISK, IT CAN BE LOADED IN ABOUT ONE SECOND OR LESS. ÔO USE ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS WITH ÃOMMODORE'S 1764 ÒÁÍ EXPANDER EMPLOYED AS A ÒÁÍ DISK, FIRST RUN THE ÒÁÍ-DISK INITIALIZATION PROGRAM, PRESSING RETURN AT EACH PROMPT. ÔHEN LOAD AND RUN ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT.

$--Æ1, THEN $ TWICE TO LOAD A DIRECTORY FROM DISK INTO MEMORY. ÔHE DIRECTORY IS DISPLAYED AS IT LOADS IN. ÐRESS THE RUN-STOP KEY TO TERMINATE THE LOAD WHEN THE DESIRED FILENAME APPEARS. ÔO PERFORM THE ACTION YOU WANT, POSITION THE CURSOR OVER THE FILENAME AND PRESS THE APPROPRIATE COMMAND KEY. ÁFTER YOU ENTER A COMMAND LETTER, A PROMPT APPEARS. ÐRESSING THE Æ3 KEY READS THE SELECTED FILENAME FROM THE SCREEN DIRECTLY INTO THE INPUT LINE. ÁLWAYS EXIT THE ÄIRECTORY MODE BY PRESSING THE ÃOMMODORE AND CONTROL KEYS SIMULTANEOUSLY, THUS ERASING THE DIRECTORY. ÐRESSING THE RESTORE KEY LEAVES THE DIRECTORY EMBEDDED IN YOUR DOCUMENT.

Ñ--Æ1,Ñ ACCESSES THE SPELL CHECKER.

[.LB]--ÁCTIVATES THE LABEL PRINTER TO GENERATE MAILING LABELS. ÙOU MUST ENTER THE LABELS INTO THE ÒÕÎ ÓCRIPT ÐLUS TEXT AREA, PRESSING RETURN AT THE END OF EACH LINE AND TWO RETURNS AT THE END OF THE LAST LINE OF EACH LABEL. ×HEN THE PROGRAM ENCOUNTERS THE .LB DOT COMMAND IN THE TEXT IT ACTIVATES A SPECIAL PRINTING ROUTE THAT RECOGNIZES THESE THREE DOT COMMANDS: .PL, .PW AND .LB.