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subject: CONFIGURATION MENU
discussion: The Configuration Menu shown below, is reached by
selecting the "(C)onfigure" option from the Main
PC-Type II Menu.
To set or change a configuration parameter, make your
selection by moving the highlight bar to the desired
option and pressing Enter, or by pressing the letter or
number indicated within the parentheses.
After setting an option you will be returned to this
menu. When finished, press Esc or X to return to
PC-Type II. If any option has been changed, you will
be asked if you want to save the new configuration
settings to disk.
The page number in the manual is given below for each
of the options in the menu.
┌──────────────────────────┐
│CONFIGURATION settings: │ page
╞══════════════════════════╪═══════
│ (B)ox characters │ 112
│ (C)olors │ 113
│ (D)ate options │ 115
│ (E)scape codes │ 116
│ (F)ile handling │ 118
│ (G)raphics port │ 119
│ (H)eader/Footer │ 120
│ (I)mport default │ 125
│ (M)odify default tabs │ 131
│ (O)rder of chars for sort│ 133
│ (P)rint │ 135
│ (1) printer translation │ 139
│ (R)eset special chars │ 141
│ (S)witches │ 142
│ (T)ime options │ 152
│ (U)pper/lower case │ 153
│ e(X)it │<--Exit Configuration
└──────────────────────────┘
Configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
subject: CONFIGURE OVERVIEW
purpose: The configuration of PC-Type II permits many of the
features of the program to be set to those options you
feel most comfortable with or which best fit the
purposes for which you are currently using PC-Type II.
format: The configuration options you select are saved in a
file with the extension .PRO. The .PRO files you
create are ASCII files which you may edit. We
recommend, however, that you modify your configuration
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options by using the Configuration Menu obtained by
pressing C from the main PC-Type II menu (F2).
The .PRO files do not contain all the configuration
data. Some of the data exists in other files which are
referenced in the .PRO files. These other types of files
are shown below with their file extensions.
.PRN - ASCII files containing printer escape codes.
.IMP - non-ASCII data import definition files.
.MAC - ASCII keystroke macro files.
Data is kept separately in these files so that you may
readily load other alternatives. For example, you may
have two printers. The escape codes for each printer
would be in different .PRN files. The data in the .PRN
file referenced in the .PRO configuration file would be
automatically loaded when PC-Type II begins. However,
should you want to print on your other printer, then
its .PRN data file could be quickly loaded through the
"(F)ile handling" option of the Configuration Menu.
When PC-Type II begins, the configuration data from a .PRO
file is read, as is the data from the other files the
.PRO file references. Your options are then in place.
You may load different configuration data from
different .PRO files and thus easily switch from one
use of PC-Type II, e.g., letter writing, to another, e.g.,
preparing a document.
░ ┌────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─┐
░ │escape codes│ │ │ │P│
░ │ eee.PRN-----------> │ │C│
░ └────────────┘ │configuration│ │ │
░ ┌────────────────┐ │data │ │T│
░ │keystroke macros│ │ ccc.PRO│ │y│
░ │ kkk.MAC-----------> │ │p│
░ └────────────────┘ │ │ │e│
░┌──────────────────┐ │ │ │ │
░│import definitions│ │ ---->│
░│ iii.IMP-----------> │ │ │
░└──────────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─┘
subject: SETTING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
discussion: There are numerous configuration options which can be
set and saved within PC-Type II. This is primarily done
via the Configuration Menu within PC-Type II itself.
After describing how to save and load configuration
data, each configuration setting will be discussed in
the pages which follow. Along with these discussions,
the format of each option within the .PRO file will
also be presented.
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If a configuration option can be changed outside the
Configuration Menu umbrella, this also will be
mentioned. (For example, the operation of the Enter
key which is set via the configuration option
"(S)witches", can also be changed with Ctrl X while you
are in the middle of typing a document.)
setup: The Configuration Menu shown below, is reached by first
┌──────────────────────────┐ pressing F2 (the Main
│CONFIGURATION settings: │ PC-Type II Menu), and
╞══════════════════════════╡ then pressing C, (the
│ (B)ox characters │ (C)onfigure option).
│ (C)olors │
│ (D)ate options │ To set or change
│ (E)scape codes │ options, press the
│ (F)ile handling │ letter corresponding
│ (G)raphics port │ to the options you
│ (H)eader/Footer │ wish to set.
│ (I)mport default │
│ (M)odify default tabs │ After setting an option
│ (O)rder of chars for sort│ you will return to
│ (P)rint │ this menu. Press
│ (1) printer translation │ Esc or X to return
│ (R)eset special chars │ to PC-Type II. If any
│ (S)witches │ options have changed,
│ (T)ime options │ you will be asked if
│ (U)pper/lower case │ you want to save the
│ e(X)it │ new configuration
└──────────────────────────┘ settings to disk.
When you select an option from the Configuration Menu,
you will be presented with a window pertaining to your
selection. If you exit that window with the Esc key,
then no changes to the configuration will be registered.
If you exit the window with the F10 key, then your
changes become effective immediately. For example, if
you changed the screen colors, your new color choices
would appear when you return to the Configuration Menu
after pressing F10.
If you do not save your newly set options to a .PRO
file, then the settings will only be remembered for the
current PC-Type II session.
subject: SAVING CONFIGURATION DATA to DISK
purpose: By saving the modified configuration settings to disk,
you can recall them at any time. In this manner, you
can quickly change PC-Type II's behavior as your needs change.
discussion: When you leave the Configuration Menu by pressing Esc
or the X key, if you have made modifications you will
be asked the following questions:
Save data to .PRO file?
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If you press Y for yes, the process of saving your
configuration data will continue.
If you defined or modified any new macros (with the
exception of AltY itself), and you have not saved the
macros to disk, you will be asked if you want to do so
now:
Save Macros to .MAC file?
If you press Y for yes, the filespec of the .MAC file
will be referenced in the .PRO file being created.
If you defined or modified any printer escape codes
and you have not saved the data to disk, you will be
asked:
Save Escape Codes to .PRN file?
If you press Y for yes, the filespec of the .PRN file
will be referenced in the .PRO file being created.
If you defined or modified any import definitions and
you have not saved the data to disk, you will be
asked:
Save Import data to .IMP file?
If you press Y for yes, the filespec of the .IMP file
will be referenced in the .PRO file being created.
Finally you will be asked for the path where the .PRO
file you are creating should be saved. (A blank entry
implies the default directory.) Then you will be
asked for the filename of the new .PRO file. After
supplying this information, the .PRO file will be
created on the directory you requested with the
filename you supplied and an extension of .PRO. The
message:
Profile file successfully written.
is displayed to confirm the process.
NOTE: The file PCTYPE.PRO is searched for automatically
by PC-Type II when it first begins, so usually you will
provide the name PCTYPE when saving a .PRO file.
If you have DOS 3.0 or later, PC-Type II will look for
PCTYPE.PRO in the same directory where PCT.EXE
exists. This directory would be the best path to
supply if you use DOS 3.0+.
subject: LOADING CONFIGURATION DATA from .PRO FILES
discussion: When PC-Type II begins, it looks for the file PCTYPE.PRO
on the current default directory. If PCTYPE.PRO is
not be found there and you are using DOS version 3.0
or later, PC-Type II will next look for the PCTYPE.PRO
file in the same directory where PCT.EXE exists. If
it still cannot be found, then each directory in your
PATH is searched. If none of these searches are
successful, then the internal defaults of PC-Type II will
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be used.
You may override the search for PCTYPE.PRO by
referencing another .PRO file as a command line
parameter. (See DOS Command Line Parameters.) This
is useful if you have different defaults set up for
different uses of PC-Type II, e.g., one for letters, one
for editing code, etc.
You may also force the loading of specific .IMP, .MAC
or .PRN files by using DOS Command Line Parameters.
Any specific entries on the DOS Command Line will
override any references to such files within the
active .PRO file.
Alternatively, you may load any previously saved .PRO,
.IMP, .MAC or .PRN file from inside PC-Type II itself.
This is done by using the "(F)ile handling" option
from the Configuration Menu.
examples: The following examples demonstrate the use of the DOS
command line parameters.
C>pct myfile
PCTYPE.PRO will be loaded along with any .IMP, .MAC or
.PRN files referenced inside it when PCT.EXE begins
editing the file MYFILE.
C>pct myfile /X=c:\util\BROTHER
PCTYPE.PRO will be loaded along with any .IMP or .MAC
files referenced inside it when PCT.EXE begins editing
the file MYFILE. However, the escape code file
BROTHER.PRN in directory C:\UTIL will be loaded
instead of any .PRN files referenced in PCTYPE.PRO.
C>pct myfile /P=c:\pctdir\LETTER
LETTER.PRO from directory C:\PCTDIR will be loaded
along with any .IMP, .MAC or .PRN files it references.
subject: BOX CHARACTERS (Definition)
purpose: PC-Type II can draw boxes around Ctrl B highlighting. It
is necessary, however, to know which characters should
be used to define the box border. This portion of the
Configuration process permits you to define the
"default" box characters.
discussion: When you press B for "(B)ox characters" in the
Configuration Menu, the window shown below will
appear. The cursor can be moved with the arrow keys
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in the upper-right hand box area.
┌────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ 7 8 9 │ │║ ─ ═ ├╞╟╠ ┤╡╢╣ │
│ \ / │ │
│ ┌─┐ │ ┬╥╤╦ ┴╨╧╩ ┼╪╫╬ │
│ 4->│ │<-6 │ │
│ └─┘ │ ┌╒╓╔ ┘╛╜╝ └╘╙╚ ┐╕╖╗ │
│ / \ │ │
│ 1 2 3 │ █▄▀▌▐ :|.+-_= │
├────────────┴──────────────────────┤
│ Move cursor to desired character. │
│ Press Shift+key on number pad │
│ (or the regular keyboard number) │
│ which matches desired position. │
├───────────────────────────────────┤
│ (7) and (3) enough for most boxes.│
├───────────────────────────────────┤
│ F10/Enter when done - (Esc=Exit) │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
Move the cursor to the character of your choice and
press the number corresponding to the position on the
box where you want that character to be placed. For
example, with the cursor on the ╒ character, you can
press the 7 on the number keys above the letter keys
on your keyboard, or press Shift 7 on the number pad.
When you do so, the character will appear in the upper
left corner of the little box in the top left area of
the window.
Actually, the left and top lines of the box will be
filled in automatically, since this character denotes
a double horizontal line and a single vertical line.
Hence, for most boxes you only need to define
characters for the two extreme corner positions, i.e.,
positions 7 and 3 or positions 9 and 1.
When you have defined the box you desire, press F10
and the new definition will be accepted. You can also
press Esc in which case any modifications you made
will be ignored.
.PRO format: The 8 characters must be in the order upper-left, top,
upper-right, right, lower-right, bottom, lower-left,
and left. The format is shown below.
Box_Chars : ┌─┐│┘─└│
subject: COLORS (Setting screen colors)
purpose: Modify the colors assigned to different areas of your
PC-Type II screen.
discussion: NOTE: The word "number" used below can be any of the
hexadecimal values, 0,1,...,9,A,B,C,D,E or F.
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After pressing C from the Configuration Menu, the
window shown below will be active. The arrow keys
will move the cursor from number to number in the two
rows pointed to as "Background" and "Foreground".
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ SCREEN ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION █████████████████████ ║
║ ██╔═════╡███╞═════╗██ ║
║ ██║ ╔═════╗║██ ║
║ Screen Attribute 1F ██║ ║ Menu║║██ ║
║ Menu Attribute 0E ██║ Hi- ║ ║║██ ║
║ Field Attribute 60 ██║ Lite ║Field║║██ ║
║ Command Line 47 ██║ ╚═════╝║██ ║
║ Border Attribute 0 ██║ Text Area ║██ ║
║ ^^ ██║Command Line ║██ ║
║ Background────┘│ ██║ Message Line ║██ ║
║ Foreground─────┘ ██╙L...^....1....R╜██ ║
║ █████████████████████ ║
║ ║
║ Note: Only the Foreground has any effect on the Border. ║
║ EGA and VGA screens will not display border. ║
║ ║
║ Move field with arrow keys - change options with Enter. ║
║ Press F10 when finished, or Esc to cancel selection. ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
To change the color of a specific PC-Type II display
area, move the cursor to either the foreground or
background number associated with that area and press
the Enter key. As you press the Enter key, you will
see the number under the cursor increase (or wrap
around to zero), and the associated area in the screen
model change color.
If a foreground number is under the cursor, then only
the foreground color will change. There are 16
foreground colors available.
If a background number is under the cursor, then only
the background color will change. There are 8
background colors.
After modifying the color selection, press F10 to
accept the changes and return to the Configuration
Menu, or press Esc to ignore the changes and return.
.PRO format: When you save the configuration settings for the
screen colors, the final numbers selected for each
screen area are converted to the following names:
(0) BLACK (8) GRAY
(1) BLUE (9) LIGHTBLUE
(2) GREEN (A) LIGHTGREEN
(3) CYAN (B) LIGHTCYAN
(4) RED (C) LIGHTRED
(5) MAGENTA (D) LIGHTMAGENTA
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(6) BROWN (E) YELLOW
(7) WHITE (F) BRIGHTWHITE
The background colors may be set to values 0-7 while
the foreground colors may be set to values 0-F.
The five screen areas whose colors are described are
saved to the .PRO configuration file in the following
format:
Scr_Fg : BRIGHTWHITE
Scr_Bg : BLUE
Menu_Fg : YELLOW
Menu_Bg : BLACK
Field_Fg : BLACK
Field_Bg : BROWN
Cmnd_Fg : WHITE
Cmnd_Bg : RED
Border : BLACK
"Fg" implies foreground and "Bg" background.
"Scr" refers to the text area of your PC-Type II screen.
"Menu" refers to the menus, help screens, and window
prompts.
"Field" refers to the selection bar in the menus.
"Cmnd" refers to the "Command Line attribute". This
sets the color of the Command Line as well as the
special windows such as setting box characters.
Finally, "Border" refers to that area around the
standard screen area. (This area is inactive and will
appear black on EGA and VGA monitors.)
NOTE: Upper or lower case letters are accepted, but
the names must be spelled as shown and the colon
is required. Only one color per line.
subject: DATE OPTIONS (Select)
purpose: PC-Type II provides automatic DATE capabilities in a
number of places:
(1) In headers and footers.
(2) In the text area as a DATE Stamp.
(3) In Mail-Merge.
This portion of the Configuration process permits you
to select the DATE format.
how to set: As you move the selection bar with the up or down
arrow keys, an example of each format is displayed on
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the Message Line. When you press letter A-N or Enter,
your selection is completed and you will be returned to
the Configuration Menu. Press X or Esc to return with
no action.
┌─────────────────────────┐
│Date options: │
╞═════════════════════════╡
│ (A) wkdy month day, yr │
│ (B) month day, yr │
│ (C) wkdy mo dy, yr (abr)│
│ (D) mo dy, yr (abr) │
│ (E) mo/dy/yr │
│ (F) wkdy day month yr │
│ (G) day month yr │
│ (H) wkdy dy mo yr (abr) │
│ (I) dy mo yr (abr) │
│ (J) dy/mo/yr │
│ (K) month │
│ (L) mo (abr) │
│ (M) weekday │
│ (N) wkdy (abr) │
│ e(X)it │
└─────────────────────────┘
.PRO format: The default format is B. The letter appearing after
the colon corresponds to your selection from the DATE
Menu.
Date_Code : B
subject: ESCAPE CODES (Definition)
purpose: You may place print markers in your text to cause an
area to be underlined, made bold, etc., depending
upon which functions your printer supports. These
markers contain no information except a number. When
PC-Type II sends information to your printer and it
encounters a print marker, it must know what to do
with it. The escape code table defined here supplies
that information.
discussion: When you press E in the Configuration Menu, the window
shown below will appear on your screen. Each line
represents a different printer option. For example,
the second line is for underlining. The printer
escape codes for turning underlining ON are entered in
the left column, and for turning underlining back OFF
in the right column.
Under the columns "Bg" and "Fg" you may set the
background and foreground screen colors the print
markers should have when you place them in your text.
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════╗
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║ Escape Code Definition ║
║ ║
║Escape Seq Bg Fg Fn Name Escape Seq║
║---------- \ / ------------ ----------║
║ SNG 01 GLOBAL_(Beg) ║
║{27}U ON 52 Underline OFF {27}X ║
║{27}B ON 21 bold OFF {27}N ║
║ ON 01 OFF ║
║ ON 01 OFF ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════╝
Under the column "Fn Name", i.e., function name, you
may enter the name of the printer function for the
line.
On the first line, "GLOBAL_(Beg)" you may enter a
printer escape code in the left column. This is a
special escape code. It will be issued at the start
of any print request. This permits you to initialize
your printer to your requirements. It is not
available as a print marker and is optional.
The name "Underline" in the second line is fixed. You
will not be able to change it. This is because some
printers underline all blanks as well as letters and
to keep from underlining in the margins, PC-Type II must
know where the underline escape codes are located.
You may name any of the other lines as you wish.
You may move from field to field in the window by
using the arrow keys on the number pad.
subject: SETTING ESCAPE CODE DEFINITIONS
color: Move the highlight to the "Fg" or "Bg" column and
press the Enter key. As you do, the foreground or
background number will be incremented by 1 and the
"Escape Sequence" fields on the line will show the new
color. When you put a print marker in your text, the
text will become this color to indicate, for example,
that underlining is active in that text area.
name: Move the highlight to the column under "Fn. Name" and
press the Enter key. This activates the field and
allows you to enter or modify the name. When done,
press Enter and move to the next field. If you press
Esc, changes in the field will be ignored. (You cannot
change the two names "GLOBAL_(Beg)" and "Underline".)
escape code: Move the highlight to the far left or right and press
Enter to activate the field. You may now modify the
contents of the field as with "name" above. Up to 100
characters may be entered. The field will scroll to
the left or right as the boundary is exceeded.
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When entering an escape code, decimal values may be
entered by placing the number between curly brackets.
For example, the Esc character is decimal value 27 and
could be entered as {27}. (Decimal values may also be
entered by holding down the Alt key and typing the
number on the number pad, and then releasing the Alt
key. The curly brackets are preferable since it is
easier to read your entries.) Character values in the
escape code may be entered as characters, e.g., A, B.
As an example, suppose your printer manual displays
the escape code format as:
ESC "B" n
CHR$(27)CHR$(66)CHR$(n)
You would enter this as: {27}B{n} or {27}{66}{n}
where n is a decimal value.
.PRN format: With the sample Escape Code screen above, the data
would be saved to a text .PRN file as shown below:
░PC-Type II Escape codes 5
░(1) GLOBAL_(Beg) SNG 01
░(3) Underline ON 52 {27}U
░(4) Underline OFF 52 {27}X
░(5) bold ON 21 {27}B
░(6) bold OFF 21 {27}N
.PRO format: A .PRO file references a .PRN file. Codes in the file
BROTHER.PRN in directory C:\PCTYPE are referenced as:
Esc_Cd_file : C:\PCTYPE\BROTHER.PRN
subject: FILE HANDLING (Saving and Loading)
purpose: To save or load PC-Type II support files and to define
the location of the Fault Finder dictionary.
discussion: When you press F from the Configuration Menu, the menu
shown below will appear. You may then save or load
new .PRO, .PRN, .IMP, .MAC files as desired. If you
load one of these files, it will replace any such
file already loaded.
┌───────────────────────────┐
│CONFIGURATION files: │
╞═══════════════════════════╡
│ (1) Escape codes to disk │
│ (2) Escape codes from disk│
│ (3) Macro file to disk │
│ (4) Macro file from disk │
│ (5) Profile file to disk │
│ (6) Profile file from disk│
│ (7) Fault_Finder │
│ (8) Import data to disk │
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│ (9) Import data from disk │
│ e(X)it │
└───────────────────────────┘
For example, if your active .PRN file was for an EPSON
printer, you could replace it with another .PRN file
by pressing 2.
Alternatively suppose you have made some modifications
to the current escape codes. You could then save them
to a different .PRN file by pressing 1.
dictionary: The Fault Finder must know where its dictionary is
located in order to check the spelling of your text
files. Provide PC-Type II with this information by
pressing 7 in the Configuration Files menu. You will
then be asked for the directory in which the
dictionary is located. You will then be asked to
identify the file.
.PRO format: If you save or load a file with the menu above, then
that file will be saved in your .PRO file the next
time the .PRO file is saved. The .PRO formats for
these files are:
Fault_Finder : c:\util\pctdict\PCTYPE.DIC
Macros : d:\PCTYPE\LETTER.MAC
Import : d:\PCTYPE\LETTER.IMP
Esc_Cd_file : d:\PCTYPE\LETTER.PRN
subject: GRAPHICS PORT (PCG2 output definition)
purpose: Normally, PCG2 will send its output data to the
standard parallel port, LPT1. If your graphics
printer is connected to a different port, e.g., COM1,
this configuration option allows you to redefine the
port to be used.
discussion: When you press G from the Configuration Menu, a field
will be presented on the Command Line in which you can
enter the desired graphics port. Type in the required
port name (this may also be a filename), and press the
Enter key.
If you define a non-blank graphics port, a
"PORT:filespec" record will be added to the GRAPH.ME
files created by PC-Type II. (See Creating Graphs on
page 161.) The "filespec" will be the
same as the port name just entered.
.PRO format: If you entered a non-blank graphics port, the record:
GR_PORT : filespec
will be added to your .PRO file. If the port name is
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blank, (which is normal), then this record will not
appear when you save a new .PRO file.
subject: HEADER/FOOTER (Definition)
purpose: When you send a file to the printer, the top and
bottom margin must be defined as well as any
information (usually of a repetitive nature) which you
want to appear in this area. These are called headers
and footers. The Header and Footer data saved in a
.PRO file becomes the default header and footer
information for any file printed when that .PRO file
is loaded. (Of course this data may be overridden
within the text of a file itself.)
discussion: In the Print window, (discussed in the next section),
you specify the number of lines per printed page. If
you consider a Header as a top margin, and a Footer as
a bottom margin, then the number of lines remaining on
a printed page for your text (called body lines) is:
lines per page - (lines in header + lines in footer)
Represented visually:
Sample printed page
░┌──────────────────┐ ────
░│ │
░│ lines in header │ │
░│──────────────────│ │
░│ │ │
░│ lines left for │ │
░│ text │ │
░│ │ lines per page
░│ (body lines) │ │
░│ │ │
░│ │ │
░│ │ │
░│──────────────────│ │
░│ lines in footer │ │
░│ │
░└──────────────────┘ ────
Keep this picture in mind when defining your headers
and footers. The larger you make them, the less room
is available for text on a page.
default: When you press H from the Configuration Menu, you will
be able to modify the default headers and footers
associated with the current .PRO file. This
modification is an editing process, and you will be
presented with the current default header and footer
definitions to modify.
subject: HEADER AND FOOTER EDITING
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discussion: The figure below depicts your screen when you are in
the Header/Footer mode of the configuration process.
╔═════════════╡Headers/Footers╞═══════════╗
║├──Start──┤ ║
║├────────── Begin Header Def. ──────────┤║
║\\\\ ║
║\\\\ ║
║\\\\ ║
║├─────────── End Header Def. ───────────┤║
║├────────── Begin Footer Def. ──────────┤║
║\\-%-\\ ║
║\\\\ ║
║\\\\ ║
║├─────────── End Footer Def. ───────────┤║
║├── End ──┤ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝
While it looks like a normal text screen, you are
actually in a different mode of operation, and not all
keystrokes are available. You are told this before
the screen appears with the message:
Restricted keystrokes during Header/Footer editing.
The most important difference in the keystrokes is
that the Command Line is not available and the Esc key
acts like F4 (or quit).
Other keystroke differences are the elimination of the
following:
Shift F1 (toggle active files)
Ctrl F1 (toggle active files)
F2 (Main menu)
F3 (print markers)
Ctrl F9 (save highlighted portion)
F10 (perform Command Line function)
Ctrl E (toggle EGA/VGA)
Ctrl N (next window)
Ctrl P (page marker)
Ctrl R (reformat)
Ctrl S (sentence highlighting)
Ctrl T (where are we)
Tab
Shift Tab
Ctrl _ (math insert)
Otherwise, edit the configuration header/footers as if
they were a normal file. Press F4 or Esc to exit
without saving or press F9 or Shift F9 to save the new
definition. You will return to the Configuration
Menu.
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subject: HEADER/FOOTER LINES
format: A header must appear between the two Special Lines
"Begin Header Def." and "End Header Def." just as a
footer must appear between its Special Lines. The
number of lines between each pair of Special Lines
determines the size of the header and footer.
(Redefined headers and footers in your text do not
have to agree in length with the Configuration
default).
{option}\left text\central text\right text\
discussion: Each header or footer line is split into three parts,
a left, a central, and a right part. These parts are
delimited with the \ character, and there should be
4 of these characters per line.
Text appearing between the first two \ characters will be
left-justified to the file's left-most default margin
(either left margin or hanging indent). Text
appearing in the center section will be centered in
that area when printed. Text appearing in the right
section will be right-justified to the right margin of
the file's default tab setting when printed.
options: Option is an optional command preceding the header/footer
definition. It applies only to the line which it
precedes. These commands are:
SWAP - This command will cause the left and right
sections of the header/footer line to be
switched on odd and even pages. It is assumed
you set the line to the desired ODD page
configuration.
EVEN - These commands should appear in pairs. They
ODD indicate that the definition on the line to the
right applies only to "ODD" or "EVEN" pages as
the command indicates. It takes two such lines
to constitute one header or footer line.
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subject: HEADER / FOOTER INSERTS
options: Standard text may be placed in any of the sections of
a header or footer line. In addition, PC-Type II
provides a few extra coded options.
.<DATE*> The system date will replace this option if
it appears in a header or footer line. The
format of the date will agree with that
selected in the configuration DATE option.
.<TIME*> The system time will replace this option if
it appears in a header or footer line. The
format of the time will agree with that
selected in the configuration TIME option.
.<x> This option assumes you want to repeat the
character 'x' until it bumps into a margin
or data from another section of the line.
% If the percent sign is found in a header or
footer line, then the page number of the current
page being printed is substituted in its place.
example: In the example below, the header and footer are set to
look different on odd and even pages.
░├─────────── Begin Header Def. ────────────┤
░\\\\
░swap\User's Manual\\Page %\
░\.<->\\.<DATE*>\
░├──────────── End Header Def. ─────────────┤
░├─────────── Begin Footer Def. ────────────┤
░\\.<->\\
░odd\\\Headers/Footers\
░even\CONFIGURATION\\\
░\\\\
░├──────────── End Footer Def. ─────────────┤
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The example on the previous page will cause each printed
page to contain 3 header lines and 3 footer lines. The result
might look like:
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ User's Manual Page 9 │
│ -------------------- 10/1/88 │
│ . │
│ . │
│ . │
│ . │
│ ---------------------------- │
│ Headers/Footers │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Page 10 User's Manual │
│ 10/1/88 -------------------- │
│ . │
│ . │
│ . │
│ . │
│ ----------------------------- │
│ CONFIGURATION │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
.PRO format: The header and footer for the sample above would
be saved in a .PRO file as shown below. Each colon is
required and the two _End lines must be present.
░Header : \\\\
░ : swap\User's Manual\\Page %\
░ : \.<->\\.<DATE*>\
░Header_End :
░Footer : \\.<->\\
░ : odd\\\Headers/Footers\
░ : even\CONFIGURATION\\\
░ : \\\\
░Footer_End :
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subject: IMPORT DEFAULT (Definition)
purpose: In Import Definition, you define the database source
file, the record selection criteria for that source
file, and those fields you wish to import into a
PC-Type II file. You may import data directly into your
text file with the (I)mport option of the Main Menu or
during the Mail-Merge process.
source: When you press I from the Configuration Menu, the
Import source definition menu shown below will appear.
Select the external database source type by pressing
0, 1, ... or 5. When you do so, you will be asked to
enter the directory in which the source file exists.
Type the directory, e.g., c:\pcf, and press Enter.
┌────────────────┐
│IMPORT options: │
╞════════════════╡
│ (0) PC-File+ │
│ (1) PC-File:dB │
│ (2) PC-Calc+ │
│ (3) Mail │
│ (4) ASCII-L │
│ (5) ASCII-C │
│ e(X)it │
└────────────────┘
PC-File+: After pressing 0, a menu displaying all the .HDR files
which exist on the specified directory will be shown.
Select the PC-File+ source you desire and press Enter.
(Esc will exit the Import definition process.)
PC-File:dB: After pressing 1, a menu displaying all the .HDB files
which exist on the specified directory will be shown.
Select the PC-File:dB source you desire and press
Enter. (Esc will exit the Import definition process.)
If multiple index files exist for your selection, you
will be presented with another menu of the index files
available for the selected .HDB file. Move the
highlight to the desired index file and press Enter.
PC-Calc+: After pressing 2, a menu displaying all the .PCC files
which exist on the specified directory will be shown.
Select the PC-Calc+ source file you desire and press
Enter. (Esc will exit the Import definition process.)
You will next be asked to define the range of data
within PC-Calc+ which you wish to import. You may
respond with "ALL", or with a row/column definition.
(Range names will not be accepted.) An example range
might be B5:H25. Data imported from PC-Calc+ is
brought in by row. Each column in the row for the
range you define is considered a field.
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Mail: After pressing 3, you will be asked to enter the file
extension for the comma-delimited file you wish to
load. Type in the extension and press Enter. A menu
will then be displayed showing all the files with that
extension on the directory you provided. Select the
comma-delimited file you desire and press Enter. (Esc
will exit the Import definition process.)
ASCII-L: After pressing 4, you will be asked the same questions
as with the Mail (option 3) above.
An ASCII-L file is an ASCII file where your fields of
data are lined up by column. Each line in the file
represents a new record.
example: name1-- address1 city1 state1 zip1
name2--- address2 city2 state2 zip2
name3 address3 city3 state3 zip3
Having located the source file, you must show how the
columns are defined. Do this by placing strings of
the same character above each column as illustrated
below.
┌────────────────┤ LINE: 1 ├───────────────┐
│aaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbcccccccccccddddd│
│Cat~Garfield Fat Cat President Garfi│
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
You can move up and down within the source file with
the up and down arrow keys. The data line will scroll
left and right as you exceed its boundaries.
NOTE: If certain columns are of no interest, simply
leave them blank and they will be ignored.
ASCII-C: After pressing 5, you will be asked the same questions
as with the Mail (option 3) above.
An ASCII-C file is an ASCII file where each line of
data represents a field. A record is comprised of a
group of non-blank lines. A blank line denotes the
end of a record.
example: name1
address1
city1, state1 zip1
name2
address2
city2, state2 zip2
NOTE: This is the format in which .LABEL / .ELABEL
address data in Mail-Merge is saved.
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subject: IMPORT RECORD SELECTION DEFINITION
purpose: The Import Record Selection Definition provides three
methods for determining which records of the external
data source should be considered for import.
discussion: After defining the data source, you will asked to
choose the record selection methodology to impose on
that data source with the menu shown below.
┌──────────────────┐
│Record Selection: │
╞══════════════════╡
│ (A)ll │
│ (S)imple │
│ (C)omplex │
│ e(X)it │
└──────────────────┘
ALL: If you select the ALL option, each database record
will be considered to be a valid candidate for import.
SIMPLE: Enter the data you want specific fields of your source
data to match for a record to be selected as an import
candidate. A window will be displayed listing all the
fields defined in the data source. To enter data to
the right of these field names, move the highlight to
the desired line, press Enter to activate the field,
type in the data you want matched, and press Enter.
When finished, press F10 to register the information.
NOTE: If there are too many fields to fit in the
window, the window will scroll up and down as
you reach its top and bottom extremities.
example: NAME smith
TITLE
COMPANY
STREET
SUITE
CITY redmond
STATE
ZIP
COUNTRY
B_PHONE
In the example above, all records with a name of
"smith" and a city of "redmond" will be considered as
import candidates.
The above example is what you would expect with a
PC-File+ or PC-File:dB data source type. Since the
other data sources may not contain field names, the
contents of the fields in the first record are
displayed in place of field names. You may refer to
these fields later, as in Mail-Merge, as Field1,
Field2, ... Fieldn.
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COMPLEX: Selecting this option requires that you define a
formula to be used in the search for appropriate
records.
With PC-File+ and PC-File:dB data sources, the field
names defined in the HDR and HDB files will be
displayed on your screen.
Other data sources will display the contents of the
defined fields of the first record preceded by a
number. Use that number with "Field" to reference the
desired field, e.g., if the fourth field was displayed
as:
░ 4- 1234 South ADDISON
you would reference it as FIELD4.
Next you must define the formula for the search. Here
is a sample search formula:
(Name="smith"|name="jones) & (city="boston")
Translated into English, this says "NAME equal to
SMITH or JONES and city equal to BOSTON".
The search command has four components:
(1) Parentheses () to group things logically. For
every left parenthesis, you must have a right
parenthesis.
(2) Logical operators | meaning OR and & meaning AND.
The OR symbol "|" usually appears on the same key
on your keyboard as the backslash. Some people
call it the "double vertical bar" or "pipe"
character.
(3) Comparison operators are:
= equal to
!= not equal to
> greater than
>= greater than or equal to
< less than
<= less than or equal to
(4) Data identifiers. Data identifiers are either
field names or constants.
CONSTANTS always have one of the following special
characters surrounding them:
" Generic (begins with) search data
such as "smith"
~ Scan across search data such as ~ith~
? Sounds-like search data such as ?smith?
Spaces between components are not necessary but can
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be used to enhance readability of the command.
You can include up to 17 different comparisons for
each complex search.
example: Find any name in Utah that doesn't sound like "SMITH"
and doesn't sound like "YOUNG".
state="UT" & name != ?SMITH? & name != ?YOUNG?
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subject: DATABASE FIELDS TO IMPORT
purpose: Once a record has been identified and accepted as a
record to be imported, those fields to import into
your PC-Type II Text Area must be defined.
discussion: After defining the search methodology, you are
presented with a list of all the fields in a record.
Initially, they will all have the word NO to their
right.
If you want all the fields in a selected record
brought in, leave all the YES/NO toggles as NO and
press F10.
If you want only some of the fields brought in, then
move the highlight to those NOs which should be YESes
and press the Enter key.
(Pressing the Enter key when the highlight is over YES
will toggle the field to NO).
NOTE: This information is not required for Mail-Merge
since you define the data to be brought into
your letter via special field name codes.
example: NAME YES
TITLE YES
COMPANY NO
STREET NO
SUITE NO
CITY NO
STATE NO
ZIP NO
COUNTRY NO
B_PHONE NO
.PRO format: The line below illustrates how your import definition
file is referenced in a .PRO file. After defining all
the information noted above, you will be asked if you
want to save it to a file. For the example below, the
answer was YES and it was saved to the file LETTER in
directory PCTYPE on drive D.
Import : D:\PCTYPE\LETTER.IMP
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subject: MODIFY DEFAULT TABS
purpose: Default configuration file tabs are used to initialize
the tab settings and margins of all non-document
PC-Type II files (files which do not have a .PCT
extension) and all new .PCT files. This configuration
option permits you to set them to suit your purposes.
discussion: When you press M in the Configuration Menu, the
Command Line changes in a tab and margin definition
line which you can edit. The current setting is
displayed. Ctrl Right and Ctrl Left arrows will move
the cursor quickly to the next or previous tab
setting, and F6 will erase all settings under and to
the right of the cursor.
When the tabs and margins are set to your taste, press
Enter to continue with the definition. If you press
Esc you will immediately return to the Configuration
Menu, and all changes to the settings will be ignored.
If your tabs and margins exceed the right edge of the
screen, the tab line as well as the screen will shift
to the right as you cursor beyond the right edge.
rules: When defining a tab line, you must include an 'L' for
the left margin and an 'R' for the right margin. You
may optionally include an 'I' to denote an indent
location. The indent may be either to the right or to
the left of the left margin, but no tab markers may be
in between the two. The right margin must be the
right-most marker on the tab line.
Tab markers are defined with 'T's.
The indent marker defines the location of the first
character of the first line of a paragraph and is
primarily used when reformatting paragraphs.
example: ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ I L T T T R │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
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subject: TAB TOGGLES
purpose: Three toggles may be set for every tab line, and the
default configuration tab line is no exception. These
toggles define whether:
(1) the text is to be single, double, or triple
spaced.
(2) if a tab character should be inserted in the text
when the Tab key is pressed.
(3) if the text on lower lines in a paragraph should
automatically be adjusted when characters are
inserted or deleted in a line.
discussion: After pressing the Enter key indicating you are
finished with the tab line definition, the menu shown
below will appear. (This assumes that the QUICKTABS
toggle is turned off. See the configuration
discussion SWITCHES.)
┌────────────────────────┐ Pressing S toggles the
│TAB toggle options: │ (S)pacing line between:
╞════════════════════════╡ SNG (single spacing)
│ (S)pacing (SNG)│ DBL (double spacing)
│ (T)ab char insert ( ON)│ TRP (triple spacing).
│ (W)rap paragraph ( ON)│
│ e(X)it │ Pressing T will toggle
└────────────────────────┘ the (T)ab char insert
line from ( ON) to (OFF). When this toggle is ON, a
tab character is inserted in the text when the Tab
key is pressed (unless you are using a hanging indent
and the cursor is to the left of the left margin).
Pressing W will toggle the (W)rap paragraph line from
( ON) to (OFF). When this toggle is ON, text within a
paragraph will be automatically adjusted as characters
are inserted or deleted from a line.
.PRO format: Tabs : sp,{tc,}{wr,},L=#,R=#,{I=#,}T=(#,#,#,#)
ⁿElements within {} are optional.
sp = spacing: May be SINGLE, DOUBLE, or TRIPLE
tc = tab char: May be INACTIVE, i.e. OFF.
If omitted, ON is assumed.
wr = wrap: May be NOWRAP, i.e., OFF.
If omitted, ON is assumed.
L,R, and I: Left, right and indent margins.
T: Tab markers.
#: Column number.
There is an optional format for tab markers - T=(X#)
which implies starting at the left margin, insert a
tab marker every # columns.
examples: Tabs : Single,Inactive,L=5,R=75,T=(10,25,50)
Tabs : Double,Nowrap,I=5,L=10,R=70,T=(X5)
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subject: ORDER OF CHARACTERS FOR SORT (Definition)
purpose: When you request to sort fields of data, PC-Type II must
know the relationship between characters to determine
the new order of the fields. This configuration
option allows you to redefine the default sorting
order.
discussion: When you press O in the Configuration Menu, the window
shown below will appear on your screen. The full set
of valid PC-Type II characters will appear on the top
line. As you move the cursor beyond the limits of the
window, the two lines of data will scroll.
╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ DEFINE CHARACTER SORT ORDER ║
╟─────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ !"#$%&'()*+,-../0123456789:;<=>?@ABCD║
║ AA BB ║
╟─────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Select character and press CtrlB. ║
║ Move to new position and press CtrlM. ║
║ If two characters should be equal, ║
║ duplicate characters on lower line. ║
║ Press F10 when done, or Esc to cancel. ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝
NOTE: The Tab and Shift Tab keys will move 20
characters to the right or left. The Home and
End keys will move you to the beginning and end
of the line.
To define your specific sort order, should the default
not be correct for your needs, define the first line
of characters in the desired ascending sequence. This
is accomplished by moving to a specific character,
pressing Ctrl B, moving to the new desired location,
and pressing Ctrl M. Only one character can be moved
at a time.
The second line is only required to define characters
which you want to be considered as equivalent. For
example, if you were sorting lists of numbers you
might want the space, + and - characters to be
considered equivalent so that only the digits
themselves would be considered in the sort. If this
were the case, you would move space, + and minus
together on the top line, and enter the same character
on the line underneath them. Any character is fine as
long as it is the same character. In the example
below we used the letter A.
░line 1 ....+ -0123456789....
░line 2 AAA
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When you have defined the order you want, press F10.
You will be returned to the Configuration Menu and
your changes will be recognized. If you press Esc,
then any changes you made in this window will be
ignored.
.PRO format: If you use the default sort order, no order data will
be saved in .PRO files. If you do not use the
default order, 256 numbers will be saved to a .PRO
file when it is saved.
Each number represents the relative sort hierarchy
of an ASCII character. If the same number exists in
more than one position, then those characters are
at the same sort level.
NOTE: Invalid PC-Type II characters must have the value
255.
In the example below, character 1 is sorted before
character 2, and characters 3, 4 and 5 are equivalent.
Character 0 is an invalid PC-Type II character. The
colon only appears on the first line.
Sort_Order : 255, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 6, 25,..
...
...
236,237,238,239, ...
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subject: PRINT (Definition)
purpose: Define the printer options most commonly used.
discussion: When you press P from the Configuration Menu, the
window shown below will appear. This is the same
window which will appear whenever you begin to print.
By setting your defaults here, you will not have to
change these options every time you print. Of course
you can modify them before beginning your printing.
╔══════════════════════════════╗
║ PRINT OPTIONS ║
║ Output target file: ║
║ LPT1 ║
║ Amount to print: ALL ║
║ ║
║ ║
║ Number of Copies: 1 ║
║ Extra Spaces at Left: 0 ║
║ Lines per page: 66 ║
║ Pause at end of page: NO ║
║ Formfeed at page end: NO ║
║ Formfeed when done: NO ║
║ Headers/Footers: ON ║
║ Printer Escape codes: ON ║
║ Mail-Merge: OFF ║
║ Disk with workspace: C ║
╚══════════════════════════════╝
When setting this window from the Configuration Menu,
define the fields to your requirements. When you are
finished press F10 and your settings will be
acknowledged. Press Esc and your settings will be
ignored. In both instances, you will be returned to
the Configuration Menu.
If you modify this window during a PRINT operation,
your modifications will be remembered. They cannot be
saved to a .PRO file, however, without first
reentering the window through the Configuration Menu.
target file: To activate this field, move the highlight to the
"Output target file" field and press Enter. You may
now specify the target location for your printed
output. Most of the time, this will be LPT1, your
primary parallel port. You may alternatively specify
LPT2, COM1, etc., or provide a filespec such as
c:\printdir\report.one. Your entry will be saved to a
.PRO file with the format shown below.
Pr_Target : LPT1
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subject: DEFINING THE PRINT SOURCE
rint source: Move the highlight to the field "Amount to print".
As you press the Enter key, the field will toggle
between "ALL" and "PART". With the "ALL" option, the
next three lines of the window will disappear and the
highlight will ignore them as you move the arrow keys.
With the "PART" option, these three lines will be
available for modification. They are:
╔══════════════════════════════╗
║ Amount to print: PART ║
║ Select by: PAGE ║
║ First page: 1 ║
║ No. of pages: 3 ║
╚══════════════════════════════╝
The "Select by" field is also a toggle. With the
highlight on this field pressing Enter will switch the
options among "PAGE", "LINE", and "HILI".
"PAGE" implies you will be printing part of your
source text, and you will define which part by
specifying the first page number to print and the
number of pages to print in the next two fields.
"LINE" implies you will be printing part of your
source text and you will define which part by
specifying the first line number to print and the
number of lines to print in the next two fields.
"HILI" implies you will only print that portion of
your source text which is currently highlighted. (The
next two fields are meaningless in this mode.)
To set the next two fields, move the highlight to each
of them and press Enter. Then enter the your numbers
and press Enter. If "First page" (or line) is blank,
the entire file will be printed. If "No. of pages"
(or lines) is blank, the file will be printed from
"First page" (or line) to the end.
The .PRO format for the print source definition is:
Print : PART
Pr_Beg_by : PAGE
Pr_Start : 2
Pr_Count : 3
"Print" may be "ALL" or "PART". If it is "ALL" then
the next three parameters are ignored.
"Pr_Beg_by" may be "PAGE", "LINE" "HILITE".
"Pr_Start" and "Pr_Count" may be blank or numbers.
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subject: MISCELLANEOUS PRINT OPTIONS
copies: With the highlight on "Number of Copies", press Enter,
type the desired number of copies, and press Enter
again. When you print, your document will be sent to
the output device the specified number of times.
The .PRO format for this option is: Pr_Copies : 1
left margin: With the highlight on "Extra Spaces at Left", press
Enter, type the desired number of spaces, and press
Enter again. When you print, the number you specify
here will be added to your left margin. For example,
if you normally edit with the left margin set at 1, if
you enter 10 in this field, PC-Type II will send 10
spaces to the output device at the start of each line.
The .PRO format for this option is: Pr_Spaces : 0
lines per page: With the highlight on "Lines per page", press Enter,
type the desired number of lines per page, and press
Enter again. This defines the number of printed lines
which will fit on a sheet (normally 66). If you
change your spacing, go to a smaller type size, or if
you are printing on paper other than 11 inches long,
then you will want to change this value accordingly.
To determine the number of lines of text which can be
printed per page, PC-Type II subtracts the number of
lines in the header and footer from the lines per page
value. For example, if lines per page is 66, and your
header has 6 lines and your footer 5 lines, then 55
lines of text can be printed per page. This value,
55, is the value used to determine the line and page
number when you press Ctrl T.
The .PRO format for this option is: Lines_Page : 66
pause: With the highlight on "Pause at end of page", press
Enter to toggle the field between YES and NO. If the
field is set to YES, PC-Type II will stop after each page
has been printed. This gives you time to load another
sheet of paper, make some adjustments, etc. before
continuing. With fanfold paper, you would normally
set this toggle to NO.
The .PRO format for this option is: Pause_Pg : NO
formfeed/page: With the highlight on "Formfeed at page end", press
Enter to toggle the field between YES and NO.
Normally you will set this field to NO. Some laser
printers, however, expect a formfeed character to be
sent before they will eject a page and continue.
The .PRO format for this option is: Ff_Page : NO
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subject: MISCELLANEOUS PRINT OPTIONS (continued)
formfeed/file: With the highlight on "Formfeed when done", press
Enter to toggle the field between YES and NO. With
this option set to YES, an extra sheet will be ejected
from your printer when the print is complete. This
makes it easier to remove your printed document when
using fanfold paper, but it also wastes a sheet.
The .PRO format for this option is: Ff_Done : NO
headings: With the highlight on "Headers/Footers", press Enter
to toggle the field between ON and OFF. With this
option set to ON, headers and footers will be printed
as defined. With the option set to OFF, the header
and footer text will be suppressed.
NOTE: The lines in each header and footer will still
be sent to your output device even though this
setting is OFF, but they will be blank.
The .PRO format for this option is: Hdr_Ftr : ON
escape codes: With the highlight on "Printer Escape codes", press
Enter to toggle the field between ON and OFF. With
this option set to OFF, no escape codes will be sent
to the specified output device, even though you may
have print markers in your text. This is useful if
you print a file to a disk file which you may want to
edit, for the escape codes will look strange in a text
file.
The .PRO format for this option is: Esc_Codes : ON
mail-merge: With the highlight on "Mail-Merge", press Enter to
toggle the field between ON and OFF. Unless you are
actually performing a Mail-Merge operation, this
toggle should be OFF. If it is ON, when you begin
printing, the Mail-Merge special lines and data must
be in your source file.
The .PRO format for this option is: Mail_M : OFF
workspace: With the highlight on "Disk with workspace", press
Enter to activate the field. Enter the desired disk
drive letter and press Enter again.
Unless you are performing a Mail-Merge operation, no
disk space is required when printing a file. With
Mail-Merge, however, space is required on a disk drive
to save a copy of the original file being processed so
that it may be reloaded to process the next record.
The .PRO format for this option is: Work_Space : C
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subject: PRINTER TRANSLATION (Definition)
purpose: When information is printed, the translation table
defined in this configuration option takes effect.
If a character has been flagged as a translation
character, then the substitute character is output
to the print file instead of the actual character.
discussion: Assume you draw a number of tables in your document
with the graphics box and line features of PC-Type II.
If you use, for example, the double line box
characters, your printer may not be able to support
those characters. If so, you could define substitute
characters such as , -|:+=, etc. for the graphic type
characters. Then your tables would look nice and
clean on the screen, and would print as understandable
characters as well.
When you press 1 in the Configuration Menu, the window
shown below will appear on your screen. The full set
of valid PC-Type II characters will appear on the top
line. As you move the cursor beyond the limits of the
window, the two lines of data will scroll.
╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ PRINTER TRANSLATION CHARACTERS ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ !"#$%&'()*+,-../0123456789:;<=>?@ABCD ║
║ ? ??????????????.?????????????????????? ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Top line contains valid text characters. ║
║ Replace ? on bottom line with character ║
║ to be sent to printer instead. ║
║ Press F10 when done, or Esc to cancel. ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝
NOTE: The Tab and Shift Tab keys will move 20
characters to the right or left. The Home and
End keys will move you to the beginning and end
of the line.
The second line of data consists primarily of a line
of question marks. To define an alternative character
to be sent to a printer file, replace the question
mark with the alternate character. In the example
above, the "hard space" character has been defined to
have the space character as its alternative, and the
"soft period" to have the period character as its
alternative.
After the table has been adjusted, press F10. You
will return to the Configuration Menu and your changes
will be noted. If you press Esc from this window, any
modifications you may have made will be ignored and
you will return to the Configuration Menu.
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.PRO format: Translation table data is saved in a .PRO file as
pairs of numbers. The first number of each pair is
the ASCII value of the character to be translated, and
the second number of a pair is the ASCII value of the
character to be substituted. The colon should only
appear on the first line of the translation table
data.
Xltn_Table : 9,32, 250,46, 254,32, 255,32
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subject: SPECIAL CHARS (Definition)
purpose: Certain characters are used in PC-Type II as delimiters,
symbols, etc. This configuration option allows you to
change these symbols to best fit your needs.
discussion: When you press R in the Configuration Menu, the window
shown below will appear on your screen. Each of these
8 characters is used for a specific purpose:
000 delimiter - Symbol between hundreds and thousands, etc. Used
by CALC command to evaluate text number.
monetary symbol - Symbol defining currency, e.g. '$'. Used by CALC
command to assist in recognizing a valid number.
(-)left bracket - Symbols used by CALC command to recognize negative
(-)right bracket numbers designated as <55> instead of -55.
.00 delimiter - Symbol used to separate whole numbers from
fractional part. Used by CALC command to
recognize valid numbers.
fill char - symbol used when filling an area with text, with the
Drag toggle operating, and with Ctrl ^.
NOTE: A new fill character may be selected at any
time with Ctrl @. It is always displayed in
the top left margin of the screen.
date delimiter - Symbol used to separate months, days and years when
date format of the form 4/14/43 is selected.
time delimiter - Symbol used to separate hours, minutes and seconds
when a time format of the form 14:55:02 is selected.
╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Enter special characters (Esc = cancel) ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 000 delimiter───┐┌───decimal delimiter ║
║ monetary symbol──┐││┌──default fill char ║
║ (-)left bracket─┐││││┌─date delimiter ║
║(-)right bracket┐││││││┌time delimiter ║
╚════════════════││││││││══════════════════╝
┌┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┐
│<>$,. /:│
└────────┘
.PRO format: The special characters format is shown below. Note
that there can be no spaces within these characters,
so if the default fill character is a space, it is
replaced with the character whose decimal value is 22.
Spcl_Chars : <>$,./:
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subject: SWITCHES (Selection)
purpose: There are numerous toggles within PC-Type II. The
SWITCHES option of the Configuration Menu permits you
to set many of them so they will be configured to your
taste when you begin a PC-Type II session.
discussion: When you press S from within the Configuration Menu,
the window shown below will appear on your screen. By
using the arrow keys, you may move from toggle to
toggle. To change the setting of a toggle, press the
Enter key and the toggle will change to the next
option. Note that a brief description of the toggle
under the selection bar will appear in a text window
to the right of the "Toggle Settings" window.
╔═════════════════════╗
║ Toggle Settings ║
║ ║ When all the toggles have
║ BACKUP ASK ║ been set as you desire, press
║ FILE_MSG ON ║ the F10 key. The new toggle
║ TEXT_ENTRY ON ║ positions will be set and you
║ INSERT OFF ║ will return to the
║ QUICKTAB OFF ║ Configuration Menu.
║ BEEP ON ║
║ FILTER OFF ║ If you press the Esc key from
║ ENTER SIMPLE ║ within this window, you will
║ ║ be returned to the
║ SNT_SPACE 2 ║ Configuration Menu, and
║ ║ any toggle modifications
║ ║ made will be ignored.
║Use <- -> F10 Esc ║
╚═════════════════════╝
In the pages which immediately follow, the options for
each toggle will be described and the format of the
associated data in a .PRO file will be given.
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subject: FILE BACKUP TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: The file backup toggle in the SWITCHES menu lets you
set the action to be taken when saving files. If a
file to be saved already exists in the directory
specified, you may simply replace it with the modified
file or create a backup of the existing file before
saving the modified file.
how to set: With the selection bar on the BACKUP field, pressing
the Enter key will change the option from among four
choices:
(1) NO - this option will simply replace an existing
file with the modified file.
(2) YES - this option will automatically create a
backup file of the file on the disk before
saving the modified file.
(3) ASK - this option will let you know that a file
with the same name already exists on the
directory specified and will ask you if you
want to create a backup file or not.
(4) DAY - this option is the same as ASK except that
you will only be asked if you want to make a
backup if a backup does not exist or if the
backup file which does exist has a date
before today. This effectively will only
create one backup per day.
discussion: When a backup file is created, the extension of the
existing file is changed to .BAK. Thus, if you are
saving a file named MYFILE.DOC to a directory where a
file of the same name already exists, and if a backup
file is to be made, then the file already on the
directory will be renamed to MYFILE.BAK before the
modified MYFILE.DOC is saved to disk.
NOTE: During a PC-Type II editing session, a backup file
is only created the first time a file of the
same name is saved. If you perform numerous
saves of a file using Shift F9, the backup will
only be created the first time the file is
saved. In this manner, the original file on the
disk will not be lost with subsequent saves
during the editing session.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the four options to the right of the
colon may be ASK, YES, NO or DAY. Upper or lower case
characters make no difference.
Backup : ASK
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subject: FILE MESSAGE TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: PC-Type II document files, (files with a .PCT extension),
may be saved with a line of descriptive information
which you enter to remind you of the contents of the
file. A report of all the .PCT files on a directory
with their lines of descriptive information may be
generated using the DESC.EXE program provided on your
distribution disk. Also if you begin the edit process
of a .PCT file using a wildcard character, such as:
edit *.pct
then the menu of available files will display the file
message line on the screen Message Line as you move
the selection bar to the next filename in the menu.
how to set: With the selection bar on the FILE_MSG field, pressing
the Enter key will change the option between ON and
OFF.
discussion: Typically, you enter the descriptive information about
the file when the file is saved for the first time.
PC-Type II will recognize the .PCT extension you provide
and if no message line exists, you will be asked for
one. Until a message line has been provided, you will
be asked to enter one each time you save the file.
The File Message toggle allows you to turn the request
for this information off in case you do not want to
take advantage of the feature.
NOTE: The file message may be modified, (or entered)
by going to the "(Q)uit/Save" Main Menu option
and then selecting the option "(R)eminder" by
pressing R.
The file message is not saved to disk if the
file is not saved as a document file (a file
with a .PCT extension).
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be ON or OFF. Upper or lower case characters make
no difference.
File_Msg : ON
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subject: TEXT ENTRY TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: To define whether the cursor should be in the Text
Area or on the Command Line when you begin a PC-Type II
session.
discussion: The principal advantage to having the cursor on the
Command Line when you first enter PC-Type II is that you
can type a command (e.g., a search string or a line
number) while the program is loading.
how to set: With the selection bar on the TEXT_ENTRY field,
pressing the Enter key will change the option between
ON and OFF. ON implies the cursor will initially be
located in the text area. OFF implies the initial
position of the cursor will be on the Command Line.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be ON or OFF. Upper or lower case characters make
no difference.
Text_Entry : ON
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subject: INSERT TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: To define whether you are in Insert mode or in
Overwrite mode in the Text Area when you begin a
PC-Type II session.
discussion: This option is primarily one of taste. Many people
prefer Insert mode most of the time, while others
prefer Overwrite.
NOTE: When in Insert mode the letter 'I' will appear
in the status area and the cursor will appear as
a rectangle instead of a block. You may toggle
between Insert mode and Overwrite mode from
within PC-Type II by pressing the Ins key.
how to set: With the selection bar on the INSERT field, pressing
the Enter key will change the option between ON and
OFF. ON implies Insert Mode will be active upon entry
while OFF implies Overwrite mode will be active.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be ON or OFF. Upper or lower case characters make
no difference.
Insert : OFF
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subject: QUICKTAB TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: When inserting or modifying tab lines in your text,
PC-Type II asks which type of Tab line to modify. After
you change the tab line, PC-Type II next asks you to set
the tab toggles associated with the tab line. Finally
you are asked if you wish to reformat your text based
on the new tab settings.
QUICKTABS makes the assumption that you will only be
using one tab line, the file's default tab line, and
that you will not be changing the tab line toggles.
It thus speeds up tab modification since you will only
be requested to modify the current tab positions.
how to set: With the selection bar on the QUICKTAB field, pressing
the Enter key will change the option between ON and
OFF. ON implies QUICKTABS is active and you will NOT
be asked all the questions. OFF implies QUICKTABS is
inactive, all the questions will be asked.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be ON or OFF. Upper or lower case characters make
no difference.
Quicktab : OFF
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subject: BEEP TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: Activates or deactivates all "beeping" within the
program.
discussion: If you work in an area where occasional beeps will be
annoying to your co-workers or if you don't like
programs to "beep" at you, set this toggle to OFF.
However, we have tried to eliminate all unnecessary
beeping except where we feel it is important that you
take notice.
how to set: With the selection bar on the BEEP field, pressing the
Enter key will change the option between ON and OFF.
ON implies PC-Type II will beep, and OFF will inhibit all
beeping.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be ON or OFF. Upper or lower case characters make
no difference.
Beep : ON
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subject: FILTER TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: Since it is relatively easy to press key combinations
which result in undesired characters being placed in
your text, the Filter Toggle causes any keystroke
whose value is below 32 or above 126 to be ignored.
discussion: The majority of keystrokes you normally place in a
text file are between the values 32 and 126. These
characters are:
(space) ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
: ; < = > ? @
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
[ \ ] ^ _ `
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
{ | } ~
When the Filter Toggle is ON, these are the only
keystrokes accepted as text characters (with the
exception of the hard space and soft period). You may
still enter other characters by pressing Ctrl @ and
selecting a new fill character outside this range of
characters. When you do this, the fill character will
be placed in the text as a normal keystroke with the
Filter Toggle OFF.
how to set: With the selection bar on the FILTER field, pressing
the Enter key will change the option between ON and
OFF. ON implies the filter will be active and OFF
implies the filter will be inactive.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be ON or OFF. Upper or lower case characters make
no difference.
Filter : OFF
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subject: ENTER KEY TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: The Enter key is very important to a word processor,
and depending upon the type of work you are doing, you
often want it to behave in different ways. The Enter
Key Toggle permits you to select from among four
different modes of operation.
discussion: In the description below, "home position" refers to
the left margin or indent margin. The four Enter Key
Toggle modes are:
(1) SIMPLE - the cursor will move to the "home
position" of the next line.
(2) NEWLINE - an empty line will be inserted in the
text below the cursor, and then the
cursor will move to the "home
position" of that new line.
(3) NEWBEG - an empty line is inserted in the text
below the cursor. The cursor then moves
below the left-most character of the
current line. If the current line is
empty or is a special line, the cursor
will move to the "home position" in the
new line.
(4) SPLIT - The current line is split at the cursor.
The text from the cursor to the end of
the line is moved to the left margin of
a new line inserted below. The cursor
is then moved to the left margin of that
new line.
The current mode of the Enter Key Toggle is displayed
in the left side of the top margin of the screen.
Mode (2) will display the character 'X', mode (3)
the character 'x', and mode (4) the character '\'.
(No character is displayed for mode (1).)
NOTE: The Enter Key Toggle may also be changed with
Ctrl X when you are in the Command Line or Text
Area of PC-Type II.
how to set: With the selection bar on the ENTER field, pressing
the Enter key will change the option between SIMPLE,
NEWLINE, NEWBEG, and SPLIT.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be SIMPLE, NEWLINE, NEWBEG, and SPLIT. Upper or
lower case characters make no difference.
Enter : SIMPLE
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subject: SENTENCE SPACE TOGGLE (SWITCHES)
purpose: Defines whether one or two spaces should be inserted
at the end of a sentence when a paragraph is
reformatted.
PC-Type II assumes that an end of a sentence occurs if a
space follows the characters '.', '?' or '!'. It
also assumes the end of a sentence if a space follows
the two character combinations '.)', '?)' or '!)'.
how to set: With the selection bar on the SNT_SPACE field,
pressing the Enter key will change the option between
'1' and '2'. '1' will place one space at the end of a
sentence and '2' will place two spaces at the end of a
sentence.
.PRO format: The format for this toggle is shown below. The colon
is required and the options to the right of the colon
may be 1 or 2. Upper or lower case characters make no
difference.
Snt_Space : 2
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subject: TIME OPTIONS (Select)
purpose: PC-Type II provides automatic TIME capabilities in a
number of places:
(1) In headers and footers.
(2) In the text area as a TIME Stamp.
(3) In Mail-Merge.
This portion of the Configuration process permits you
to select the TIME format.
how to set: As you move the selection bar with the up and down
arrow keys, an example of each format is displayed on
the Message Line. When you press letter A-H or Enter,
your selection is completed and you will be returned to
the Configuration Menu. Press X or Esc to return with
no action.
┌─────────────────────┐
│Time options: │
╞═════════════════════╡
│ (A) Military-HrMnSec│
│ (B) Standard-HrMnSec│
│ (C) Military-HrMn │
│ (D) Standard-HrMn │
│ (E) Military-Dcml │
│ (F) Standard-Dcml │
│ (G) Military-Hour │
│ (H) Standard-Hour │
│ e(X)it │
└─────────────────────┘
.PRO format: The default format is B. The letter appearing after
the colon corresponds to your selection from the TIME
Menu.
Time_Code : B
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subject: UPPER/LOWER CASE (Definition)
purpose: PC-Type II must know which characters to consider as
upper and lower case when doing:
(1) case insensitive sorts.
(2) case insensitive search and/or replace.
(3) changing a highlighted area to upper or lower
case.
(4) spell checking a file and replacing words.
This Configuration option permits you to define which
characters should be considered as upper and lower
case.
discussion: Most of the time you may just want A-Z to have both an
upper and lower case . If you use foreign language
characters available in the extended ASCII character
set, you may want to expand the list. You may define
up to 60 pairs of letters.
When you press U from the Configuration Menu, the
edit window shown below will appear on your screen.
The lower case letters on the top line MUST LINE UP
EXACTLY with their corresponding upper case letters on
the second line.
╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ UPPER/LOWER CASE DEFINITION ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzüñåäæöáâàçéêëè ║
║ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÜÑÅÄÆÖAAACEEEE ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Place lower case letters on upper line ║
║ and the corresponding upper case letters ║
║ onto the lower line. ║
║ Use up/down arrows to move between lines.║
║ Press F10 when done, or Esc to cancel. ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝
When you are satisfied with your changes, press F10.
You will be returned to the Configuration Menu and
your modifications will be saved. Pressing Esc will
also return you to that menu, but any changes you made
will be ignored.
.PRO format: The two lines below illustrate how your upper/lower
case definitions are saved to a .PRO file. The
information to the right of the colon must have the
proper case and there must be the same number of
characters in each list.
░Upper_Case : ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
░Lower_Case : abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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