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- From: gene@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Gene Gardner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: IBM-tip
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 14:47:42 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Summary: hint for text transfer
- Keywords: Big-Blue tip
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- I just purchased BIG-BLUE-READER($35) which came with a 5 1/4" disk for use
- on a 1571. It is supposed to accept SPEEDSCRIPT files directly, which it does
- but I was dismayed to find that it did not provide word-wrap and split words
- apart at the end of 80 columns....hardly a useful program.
- FORTUNATELY, I found an alternate way which is not described in their
- instructions. After loading SPEEDSCRIPT 3.2 I pressed CTRL-3 and a
- lower case a (As described in S.S. instructions to put everything in the
- True ASCII mode) and typed in any text as usual. But do NOT save to Disk with
- the usual F8, but rather use the PRINT option as described in SS instructions.
- i.e. SHIFT-CTRL-P (also CTRL-P is mentioned) and then select the "Disk"
- option. Then after loading BIG-BLUE (version 4.0 .......advertised in
- NOV/DEC "RUN" magazine), choose #1 transfer mode, select "add line feeds",
- "No" to PetASCII-TrueASCII question. Everything turns out properly when read
- on an IBM PC. However, when you read the IBM disk on your commodore, with the
- "none" option, for some reason the upper and lower case are reversed.
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