Lesson 1 - Basics
Steps for building a form:
1.  Design your form on paper.
2.  Enter text onto blank form (Lesson 1)
 You are here  
3.  Add input fields to form (Lesson 2)
4.  Add borders to your form (Lesson 3)
5.  Add special printer control functions (Lesson 4)
You should proceed through these lessons in order.  If you make any mistakes  
just reload the form and begin editing again.
To move the cursor about this form, use the arrow keys.  [Try it].
If you loose your place, press
Home and page down to where you
This form has 116 lines and 133 columns.  You can move the cursor to column
were.
133 by holding down the control key and pressing the right arrow key.
[Try it.]
To get back to column 1, hold down
the control key and press the left
You can also move the cursor right and left 8 columns at a time by using the  
arrow key.  [Try it.]
Tab and Backtab (shift-Tab) keys.  [Try it.]
To see the next 24 lines of this form, press PgDn.
Cursor and Text Entry
To enter text onto your form, move the cursor to where you want to place  
the text, then type.  Note the top line.  It will show you the line and
column where the cursor is on the screen.  It also shows the attribute
of the character where the cursor is (attributes covered in Lesson 2).
Cursor: 24,  1 | 07
row, col| attribute
Try moving the cursor to inside this box and type anything.
You can also move about your form using the following keys:
Move down form 23 lines
Move up form 23 lines
Place cursor at line 1, column 1
Place cursor at last line of form, column 133
The last line of this form is defined on the main menu:  116
To continue with this lesson, press PgDn.
Inserting and Deleting Lines
Move the cursor to the blinking *.  Then press ^N (hold down Ctrl and
press N).  This inserts a blank line before the line containing the
cursor.
Inserting line
Inserting line
Inserting line
Inserting line
Now press ^Y.  This delete the line containing the cursor.
Copying Lines
Move the cursor to the blinking 
.  Then press F5 twice.  This picks the  
line so you can copy it elsewhere.  Now move the cursor down 2 lines and  
press F6 twice.  A copy will be inserted before that line.
Pick this line
Don't pick this line.
Don't pick this line.  Insert here.
To continue with this lesson, press PgDn.
Placing Current Date and Time On Your Form.
Move the cursor to the '
' below and press ^D (hold down Ctrl, press D).  
Move the cursor to the '
' below and press ^T.
Avoid ^C or ^Break as this will abort the program!
DATE:  
TIME:  
This will make the date and time a permanent part of your form.
There is a way to have the date and time update automatically whenever
you execute your form.  This will be covered later in Lesson 4.
 5Practice:  Re-type the contents of the first box below in the second box.
  Name:
  Phone Number:
  Employee Number:
 8Now use the backspace key inside the second box.
 UNote how it erases the preceding character as it backs up.
 KNow press the 'Ins' key and see an 'Ins' appear on the top line.
 EType some more characters and backspaces and notice the change.
 bPress PgDn.
To next lesson:  Press ESC twice.
[Return to Main Menu]
 FPress F5, F10, select 'LESSON2', Enter.
[Load LESSON2]
 FPress F3 twice.
 ![Begin Editing]
To DOS:
Press ESC twice.
[Return to Main Menu]
 FPress ESC twice again.
[Return to DOS]
If you end up way
out here, just press
Home, and then PgDn 
to where you were.