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- TYPEWRIT Documentation
- Copyright (C) 1986
- by F.P. Nagle
-
-
- Introduction
-
- In order to understand how to use TYPEWRIT.ACC from
- RUBICON SOFTWARE, it is necessary to know a little
- about the GEM environment on the 520/1040 ST. Certain
- programs can be loaded at inital startup (BOOT UP),
- and these programs remain resident in memory until you
- turn the system off or RE-BOOT the system. TOS looks
- for programs ending in .ACC for these ACCessories.
- When Atari first released the ST line, TOS was on
- disk, and all ACCessories had to be named DESK1.ACC,
- DESK2.ACC etc. When TOS was placed in Read Only Memory
- (ROM) chips, this convention was changed to allow any
- main name with an ACC extender, so instead of
- DESK1.ACC you could actually say TYPEWRIT.ACC. The
- accessory on this disk is named TYPEWRIT.ACC. If you
- still have TOS on disk and NOT in ROM, then rename
- this ACCessory to DESKN.ACC, where N is some number
- not currently being used on your BOOT disk.
-
- How To Use The Typewriter
-
- Place this accessory on your BOOT disk, or TOS disk if
- still on disk, and turn on the computer. When the
- start-up is completed you will see the normal Menu
- items at the top of your screen. If you point to the
- Desk menu, you will now see another accessory called
- TYPEWRIT. Just select this item by pointing to it and
- double clicking the left mouse button. (Double
- clicking refers to TWO QUICK clicks in a row.) This
- will give you a clear screen with two cursor marks.
- One in the upper left corner, and one positioned in
- the approximate middle of the screen. These are only a
- convienience for addressing envelopes. They mark the
- Return address area and the Mailing address area for
- legal size envelopes.
-
- Just start typing your line of text. As you type the
- letters appear on the screen, and you can back space
- for corrections until you reach the end of the line or
- you press the Return key. Once you press the return
- key, the line of text is typed to your printer, and a
- line feed is issued to begin the next line of text.
-
- The TYPEWRIT ACCessory can be used for correspondence,
- short memos, addressing envelopes, just about anything
- an ordinary typewriter can be used for.
-
- There is one added feature that typewriters don't
- necessarily have, if your printer can display other
- type fonts (Elite, compressed, etc.) you can send the
- special characters to turn these functions on and off.
- My Epson (tm) can print compressed if it receives
- Control-O, (Press and hold the Control key, then press
- the O key). By entering this in the TYPEWRIT I can
- turn on the compressed mode so my return address is in
- a smaller mode than the Mailing address. To turn off
- this mode, I merely type Control-R (Press and hold the
- Control key, then press the R key). The same thing is
- true for all Control-X characters. You can also send
- an ESCape sequence to the printer, just press the Esc
- key (upper left of the keyboard), and the series of
- letters/numbers needed for the complete sequence. Just
- remember, to EXIT the ESCape mode, you need to press
- Esc at the end. If you fail to press Esc a second
- time, each character as you type it is sent to the
- printer and you could wind up with some strange output
- on your printer.
-
- How To End Using The ACCessory
-
- This is easy, just click on the upper left corner of
- the TYPEWRIT window. There is an oval there with an X
- through it. Just point and double click. The accessory
- window will close, and you will be back to either the
- Desk Top, or the program you were running before
- activating the typewriter accessory.
-
- COMPLETE SOURCE:
-
- To receive complete source (Personal Pascal) send
- $15.00 to:
-
- Frank P. Nagle
- 559 Bobolink Circle
- Sunnyvale, CA 94087-3309
-
- Hope you find this accessory just a little useful.
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