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- Teledit 1.1 3/20/82
- Documentation by Nigel Harrison
-
- [Editor's note: "Teledit" is a cross between the original BDS
- Telnet program, Ward Christensen's MODEM program, its MODEM7
- derivative, a C version called XMODEM, and Nigel's tiny
- screen editor. In fact, this program was used for a while as
- the primary editor on a CDC 110 micro system, until they got
- Mince up. It may not be the LAST modem program you'll ever
- need, but it's gotta have more roots than any other!
- -leor]
-
- [ Converted to HDOS and C/80 by Al Bolduc ]
-
- Teledit is a communications program for transmitting files and
- connecting to other systems or networks as an ASCII terminal. It has a
- simple editor with which one can manipulate lines of text collected
- during a session with a remote system. The file transmission modes
- allow sending/receiving either binary or text files. The modes selected
- from the menu are:
-
- T: Terminal mode - no text collection
-
- Teledit behaves like an ASCII terminal. Eight-bit characters are sent
- and received; no parity bits are checked, inserted or removed. To
- return to the selection menu the SPECIAL character is typed. The
- The SPECIAL character of <ctrl>shift uparrow was chosen because it
- is unlikely to be struck accidentally. To change the SPECIAL character,
- recompile Teledit with the desired #define SPECIAL ...
-
- X: terminal mode with teXt collection
-
- Same as terminal mode above, except that any text characters received
- on the communication link are saved in a text buffer. The tab, newline
- and formfeed characters are also placed into the buffer; any other
- characters are discarded. While in terminal mode, the editor is
- entered by holding down the control key while typing the letter
- "E" (control-E). X mode prompts the user for a filename to be used
- for the gathered text. After 500 lines of text have been collected
- and saved in the text buffer, each additional line collected causes
- the console bell (alarm) to sound. When this happens the user should
- find a convenient time to suspend communication with the remote
- station so that the accumulated text can be saved (flushed) onto
- disk as described below.
-
- G: toGgle echo mode (currently set to echo)
-
- Should not be toggled if the user is communicating in full duplex
- mode and receiving an echo from the remote station, or the user is
- in half duplex mode. Use this option to talk to another person running
- Teledit, typically in between file transfers to inform the person of the
- next file to be transmitted.
-
- E: Edit text collected
-
- Enters the editor from the menu display. This will not work until
- X: terminal mode with teXt collection has been entered and a text
- collection file opened. Editor commands are described below.
-
- F: Flush text collection buffer to text collection file
-
- Flushes the text collection buffer accumulated in text collection
- mode. Does not close the file.
-
- S: Send a file, MODEM protocol
-
- Prompts for the name of the file to send, then waits for the receiver
- (who must be using this program or one which uses the same protocol)
- to "synch up".
-
- Returns to menu after completion, successful or not.
-
- R: Receive a file, MODEM protocol
-
- Prompts for the name of the file to be received, then waits for the
- sender to begin transmission. The sender must be using Teledit or
- a program that employs the same MODEM protocol.
-
- Q: Quit
-
- Quits. If a text file has been accumulated in X mode, the user
- is asked whether or not he/she wants it saved.
-
- SPECIAL: sends SPECIAL character to the communication line,
- should that ever be necessary.
-
-
- Editor
-
- The editor prompts with "*" when entered. The current line usually
- appears directly below the prompt. The editor commands are:
-
- A: Append (Yank in) a file and insert it before the current line.
-
- B: go to the Beginning of the file and display a page. The current line
- becomes the first line of the text file.
-
- F: Find line that contains the pattern following the "F". If found, it
- becomes the current line. Search starts forward and wraps around.
-
- I: enters Insert mode. To leave insert mode, <ctrl>D is struck, followed
- by <cr>. The escape insert mode sequence should only be entered at
- the beginning of a line; lines having an embedded ^D are lost.
-
- K: Kill the current line
-
- nK Kill n lines.
-
- L: Find line that begins with the pattern following the "L".
-
- O: Overwrite lines of text until <ctrl>D is struck. <ctrl>D should
- be struck only at the beginning of a new line.
-
- P: Page forward in text. -P pages backward.
-
- Q: Quit editor.
-
- Sn<cr> Sets screen size to n lines. The default is 22 for 24-line
- displays. S23 should be used for 25-line consoles, and S28
- for the Control Data 110.
-
- Z: Go to Zee end of the file. Convenient, for example, to go to the end
- then -P to view last page.
-
- n<cr> Move forward in the file by n line(s).
-
- <cr> Move forward in the file by one line.
-
- -n<cr> Move backward in the file by n line(s).
-
- Space Bar Move backward in the file by one line.
-
- # print number of text lines in file.
-
-
- << END TELEDIT.DOC>>
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