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1989-06-27
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Move the cursor to the X below and type in this paragraph. Don't press
the Enter key, just keep typing. The object is to see how the normal
typing works.
X
Now move the cursor to this X and press Ctrl \. This command splits a
line. Now press Ctrl J. The line has been rejoined. Split the line
again, but this time press the Del key. The Del key will reorganize
the paragraph.
NOTE: As you progress through this file, press the PgDn key when you
to see more text.
Move the cursor to this X, press the Ins key, and then press the period
10 times. Now press the Backspace key 10 times. Notice how the
paragraph moves with these actions. Turn of the Insert mode by
pressing the Ins key again. Notice that the "I" disappears from the
status area at the top of your screen.
REFORMATTING A PARAGRAPH
This paragraph has purposely been messed up
so that you may
see the effects of using Ctrl R, the reformat
command.
Move the cursor anywhere
within this paragraph and press
Ctrl R.
Notice that after reformatting a paragraph, the cursor moves to the
beginning of the next paragraph in case you should want to reformat
that paragraph as well.
ERASING and DELETING LINES - "Whoops"
Move the cursor to the X on the line below and then press F6. This
action erases text below and X xxx yyy zzz www fffff gggg hhhh kkkk
to the right of the cursor. Now press Ctrl W to bring back the line.
Now press F5 to delete the modified line.
HIGHLIGHTING - COPYING and MOVING
The other basics of editing a file are copying and moving. PC-Type has
a very wide assortment of these options, but only the most basic ones
will be shown here.
Move the cursor to the X below and press Ctrl L. Then move the cursor
-W- to the Y below and press Ctrl L again. You have now "highlighted"
-X- area of text with the simplest highlight type. This area is now
-Y- marked for further action. First we will try to copy. Move the
cursor to the Z below and then press Ctrl C. Next press Ctrl D
(delete the highlight).
-Z-
Now try a move. Highlight the X and Y lines again with Ctrl L's, move
the cursor to the W line above, and press Ctrl M. Things should now be
where they were at the beginning.
These are the simplest moves and copies. Of course you can move words,
sentences, and even blocks of text.
PRINTING
Now let's attempt to print this file. Position the file so the line
below is at the top of your screen.
Press F2 - select (P)rint.
Press Enter to activate the
output field. Press F6 and
then type JUNK and press
Enter.
Move the highlight to the
"Amount to print:" line and
press Enter until the
selection "ALL" appears.
(Arrow keys move highlight)
You are now ready to print
this file to the disk file
JUNK. (Normally you would
print to LPT1, the parallel
printer port.
Press F10 and begin the
print. Press PgDn.
QUITTING / SAVING
You have by now become adept at quitting a file. Press F4 again, but
this time when asked "Are you sure?" press the N key. You are brought
back to here.
Now let's save this file under a different name - JUNK.PCT.
Press F9 to save the file. The cursor will move to the Command Line
and the filespec will be displayed. Erase the line with F6, type
JUNK.PCT and press the Enter key. Since the .PCT extension implies
that this will be a document type file, you are asked to enter a file
reminder. Type "junk file made from SAMPLE.TXT" and press Enter.