CD Ware Multimedia 1994 November/Cd Ware (Nro. 2) - Epimundo.iso/DOS/ED/PCKEY.ZIP/EXSIZE2.SCR

Text File | 1993-05-25 | 15.8 KB | 872 lines

:exsize2.scr

if memory 1 ! 9 goto exit
if memory 2 > 0 goto lesson2
goto start_lesson

:repeat_lesson
bkey r
bkey '

:start_lesson
clear 15

cursor 22 19
print 'Press any key to start lesson 11.
wait -
clear 19 19

clear 15
cursor 2 16
print 'Remember what I said about using the CAPS LOCK as this exercise presents a
cursor 0 17
print 'lot of text that is capitalised. That is, instead of pressing a SHIFT key
cursor 0 18
print 'together with another key, press the CAPS LOCK type in the text that is
cursor 0 19
print 'capitalised and press the CAPS LOCK again.

pass 90
if auto ! 0 auto
script - stspeed

script - waitspc
start 2

:again
start 3

clear 15
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print 'Firstly, each file on any disk has a name, or filename,
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print 'which consists of two parts; the name and extension, the
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print 'extension is optional and is separated from the name with
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print 'a dot. Generally, the extension indicates the type of the
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print 'file; program files have the extension '.EXE'
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '(executable,) or '.COM' (command.) If you type DIR
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'followed by the ENTER key all of the filenames in the
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'current directory in the current disk will be listed with
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print 'the size of each file and when it was created.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Directorys are organised like a hierarchy; the ROOT
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print 'directory starts at the top - or bottom depending on how
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print 'you like to think it. From within the ROOT directory
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'follow more directorys or sub-directorys, and from these,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'follow other sub-directorys, and so on. Directorys are
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print 'indicated in the DIR listing as directorys with <DIR>
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print 'instead of the file size.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Each drive has a letter; the floppy drive - the one you
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print 'put disks into - is drive A. If you have another floppy
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print 'drive that is called B and if you have a hard drive, that
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'is called C. Usually the drive letter of the current disk
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'is displayed with the prompt ie. A> When you want to run a
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'program yourself, you simply type its name and press ENTER
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print '- that is, if the program is in the current directory. If
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print 'it is in another directory - you will know this if you get
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print 'the error message 'file not found' - then you will have to
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'specify which directory the program is in by putting a
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print ''PATH' in front of the filename of the program.
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print 'Basically the PATH consists of directory names separated
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print 'by a backslash '\', also a backslash should separate the
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print 'path from any filename.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Say for example you have a fresh blank disk in your drive,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'the current directory will be the ROOT as there will be no
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print 'other sub-directorys. So if you want to keep all of your
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print 'files related to the word processor together then keep
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print 'them in a directory called 'PCWORD' or whatever you want
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print 'to call it. You create that directory by typing MD PCWORD
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print '<ENTER> then type DIR <ENTER> and your directory will show
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print 'up in the directory listing.
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print 'Now if you type CD PCWORD <ENTER> you will make PCWORD the
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'current directory, and when you type DIR, all the files in
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'PCWORD will be displayed. Whenever you want to return to
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'the ROOT directory then type CD \ or CD .. to return to
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print 'the parent directory - the directory of which the current
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print 'directory is in.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'So, in the directory PCWORD you can create other
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print 'directorys like LETTERS or WORK or whatever. You create
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'these directorys in the same way. If the current directory
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'is PCWORD then type MD LETTERS Or alternatively MD
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '\PCWORD\LETTERS doing it this way enables you to create
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print 'your directory even if the current directory is'nt PCWORD.
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print 'The leading backslash '\' indicates that the PATH starts
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print 'from the ROOT directory.
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print 'So to select that directory from anywhere type CD
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print '\PCWORD\LETTERS And likewise if you want to run PcWord and
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'PCWORD.EXE is in \PCWORD then type \PCWORD\PCWORD this
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'will execute PCWORD.EXE that is in the directory PCWORD
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'that leads from the ROOT directory. There are a few DOS
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print '(Disk Operating System) commands to navigate you around
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print 'your disk as well as a wealth of "utilitys" that you can
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print 'buy - shareware or commercial - that help you to organise
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'your files.
enter
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script - sofar
if accuracy 3 < 90 goto again
if key = R goto repeat_lesson
if key = r goto repeat_lesson

memory 2 = 1
goto start_lesson2

:lesson2
if memory 2 > 1 goto lesson3
goto start_lesson2

:repeat_lesson2
bkey r
bkey '

:start_lesson2
clear 15

cursor 26 18
print 'Now for part 2 of lesson 11.

pass 90
if auto ! 0 auto
script - stspeed

script - waitspc
start 2

:again2
start 3

clear 15
cursor 9 16
print 'The rotation of the Earth around its polar axis produces
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print 'day and night. The inclination of the polar axis results
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print 'in the season. The Earth can be likened to a huge
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print 'gyroscope which orients itself at a particular angle even
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print 'though it is hurtling through space in its orbit around
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'the Sun. At the present time, the North Pole points at the
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'star Polaris, but this has not always been so, mainly
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print 'because the axis of the Earth wanders and wobbles.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'The wandering of the Earth's axis was known by the
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print 'Egyptians and later "discovered" by the Greek astronomer
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print 'Hipparchus (born approximately 190 BC.) The wandering
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print 'produces a slow western motion of the equinoctial points
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'through the ecliptic. Since the equinox is defined by the
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print 'moment when day is exactly equal to night and the Sun
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print 'passes the equator along the ecliptic, this equinoctial
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print 'point of 0 degrees Aries was originally assumed to be
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print 'always coincident to the beggining of the constellation
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print 'Aries. The Egyptians found that the orientation of the
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print 'Earth and the Sun was not quite identical at the Vernal
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print 'Equinox each year and discovered after many years of
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print 'observation that this equinoctial point moved backwards
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print 'through the zodiac relative to the constellations. The
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print 'complete revolution through the zodiac takes about 25,500
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'years - a Platonic Year. As the Vernal equinox moves
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'clockwise through the twelve signs, the length of time
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print 'required to traverse each sign is about 2120 years - a
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Platonic Month. The Vernal Equinox pointer, the cusp of
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print 'Aries, only coincides with the constellation Aries once
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'every 25,500 years. Hipparchus fixed the position of the
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print 'Vernal Equinox as 0 degrees Aries independent of the actual
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print 'constellation of the Vernal Equinox occurred in.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'The Vernal Equinox at the present time is on the border
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'between the constellations Pisces and the constellation
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Aquarius. When the pointer enters the sign Aquarius, the
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print '"Age of Aquarius" which has been so anxiously heralded
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print 'will begin. Each precessional sign bestows certain
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print 'characteristics upon the two thousand year period it
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print 'governs. The "Age of the Ram" precceeded the Piscean Age
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print 'of the last two thousand years, and that age was dominated
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print 'by the early civilizations which used the Ram for their
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print 'totem and sacrifical animal. The Age before used the
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print 'Taurean Bull as its prime symbol, and so on.
enter
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print 'This question of precession of the equinoxes has produced
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print 'great criticism of astrology since astrology uses the
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print 'standards set up by Hipparchus, but astronomers still use
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print 'exactly the same frame of reference. Within Astrology
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print 'there has also been controversy about this which has
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print 'culminated in many astrologers using the Sidereal Zodiac
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print '(corrected to the constellations the equinox actually
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print 'falls in.) This means that all astrological and
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print 'astronomical information must be altered back one sign. An
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print 'individual born in the 23rd of March and designated an
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print 'Aries is to the sidereal astrologer actually born in
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print 'Pisces, Etc. The method which Hipparchus instituted and
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print 'which astrologers and astronomers prefer is the use of the
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print 'Tropical Zodiac based upon the time of the Vernal Equinox.
enter
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print 'The resolution of this problem lies in the fact that
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print 'astrology does not attribute effects to the constellation
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print 'themselves, but rather defines the signs as 30 degree
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print 'segments of longitude along the ecliptic. The positions of
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print 'the signs are not related to the constellations but rather
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print 'to symbolic representations based upon the sequence of the
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print 'seasons. The correlation of the signs with the seasons is
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print 'of great and central importance in the horoscope. Births
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print 'in the spring and the quality of "springtime" contain the
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print 'active forces of the sign Aries independent of the real
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print 'astronomical zodion in which the sun stands in at the
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print 'Vernal Equinox.
enter
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script - sofar
if accuracy 3 < 90 goto again2
if key = R goto repeat_lesson2
if key = r goto repeat_lesson2

memory 2 = 0

memory 1 = 10

clear
cursor 51 7
print '11
script save

if key ! C if key ! c goto exit
clear
keyboard

:exit