THE ELECTRIC PENCIL WORD PROCESSOR Operator`s
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1. PATCH LOCATIONS VER SV PAGE 21 THE ELECTRIC PENCIL WORD PROCESSOR WITH STANDARD PRINT PACKAGE VE SV REV 0 VDM 1 MAY 1977 COPYRIGHT C 1977 MICHAEL SHRAYER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DW 0 RESERVED FOR USER DW 0 NITIALIZATION OF DW 0 I O BOARD SUCH AS DW 0 MSAI SIO 2 ETC DW 0 DW 0 DB CTRL VDM CONTROL PORT DB RUB DELETE CHARACTER DW MONI SYSTEM MONITOR DB RUB DELETE CHARACTER DB ESC ESCAPE CHARACTER KEYBOARD INPUT ROUTINE IN STAT GET KEYBOARD STATUS ANI DAV MASK STATUS BIT JNZ STATS MAY NEED JZ HERE RET IN DATA GET KEYBOARD DATA ANI 127 STRIP PARITY BIT RET PRINTER OUTPUT ROLE PUSH PSW IN STAT GET PRINTER STATUS AN TBE MASK STATUS BIT JNZ OUT8 1 MAY NEED JZ HERE POP PSW OUT DATA OUTPUT 70 PRINTER RET DB ESC ESCAPE CHARACTER DB 0 NULL CHARACTER DB 0 NUMBER OF NULLS DW OCCOOH VDM MEMORY ADDRESS2. ke BG Ga as oe al 17 Titling Pages and Page Numbering 0 18 Unden ENENG See IP a ea a 5 18 Exi t SUG OMY She Beat sla 19 Loading The Electric Pencil 6 Ge as a at ae al 19 Re CGS UNM Aig Ce wie Seo el SAE 19 kok e Banc 20 THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 1 NTRODUCTI ON The Electric Pencil is a Character Oriented Word Processing System This means that text is entered as continuous string of characters and is manipulated as such This allows the user enormous freedom and ease in the movement and handling of text Since lines are not delineated any number of characters words lines or paragraphs may be inserted or deleted anywhere in the text The entirety of the text shifts and opens up or closes as needed in full view of the user The typing of carriage returns as well as word hyphenation is not required since each line of 0 d t text is formatted automatically As text is typed in and the end of screen lin is reached a partially completed word is shifted to the beginning of the followin line Whenever text is inserted or deleted existing text is pushed down or pul up in wrap around fashion Everything appears on the video display screen as occurs thereby eliminating any guesswork Text may be reviewed at will by variab speed scrolling both in the forward and reverse direct
3. A B Standard keyboard Characters when referenced shall be enclosed in brackets e g A 5 etc COMMAND FUNCTION VERSION 55 NOTES A CURSOR LEFT Left arrow may also be used 5 CURSOR RI GHT Right arrow may also be used W CURSOR UP Up arrow may also be used 7 CURSOR DOWN Down arrow may also be used CURSOR HOME Use N or HOME Q CURSOR to END of FILE Use 0 B CURSOR TO BEGINNING of FILE SCROLL UP Forward X SCROLL DOWN Backwards D DELETE CHARACTER F INSERT CHARACTER Y DELETE LINE INSERT LINE ERASE to END of LINE uU DELETE BLOCK INSERT BLOCK J Same as LINE FEED L Same as FORM FEED 1 Same as TAB Same as RETURN V STRING SEARCH CONTINUE SEARCH R REPEAT FUNCTION K SUB SYSTEM COMMAND TABLE P PRINT 0 EXIT SYSTEM Jumps to SOLOS or CUTER CONTROL CREATE CONTROL CHARACTER DELETE BACKSPACE and ERASE CHARACTER ESCAPE RETURN to MAIN SYSTEM FORM FEED TERMI NATE a PAGE LINE FEED TERMI NATE a RECORD RETURN CURSOR to BEGINNING of LINE TAB CURSOR 8 SPACES to the RIGHT CONTROL CHARACTERS were selected for location and convenience rather than significance as shall be discussed THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 8 CURSOR MOTION COMMANDS Notice that the most often used Cursor Motion Command keys are clustered at the left of the keyboard The keys that move the cursor UP and DOWN and to the LEFT and RIGHT form a diamond that
4. 2 or 3 to select the printer 1 0 should be set just prior to entering The Electric Pencil PRINTING with a DIABLO The Form length switch on the Diablo Hy Type 11 should be set to the desired form size The paper is then manually advanced to the top of form and the SET TOF switch then depressed Additional information on how this is accomplished will be found in the Diablo Manual The cursor is then placed over the first character of text text desired and P is typed Printing will begin Printing may be controlled by using the SPACEBAR RETURN and ESCAPE as in scrolling PRINTING with a SELECTRIC TTY ETC Page Spacing A in the sub system will determine the number of lines between pages The paper is manually advanced to the top of form desired This position will be where printing will actually start on the paper The cursor is then placed over the first character of text desired and P is typed Printing will begin Printing may be controlled by using the SPACE BAR RETURN and ESCAPE as in scrolling THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 18 TITLING PAGES and PAGE NUMBERING Pages may have title headings as in this manual by entering the following information at the beginning of the file onto the video display screen This is a Sample Title Heading LF Note that in the above example a dollar sign MUST precede the title and a LINE FEED MUST be typed after the title text In order for the title to appe
5. POP PSW OUT DATA OUTPUT TO PRINTER RET DB ESC ESCAPE CHARACTER DB ESC ESCAPE CHARACTER DB ESC ESCAPE CHARACTER DW OCCOOH VDM MEMORY ADDRESS ADDR Bl B2 B3 B4 B5 EROR LINE 0000 0001 0000 0002 0000 0003 0000 0004 0000 0005 0000 0006 0000 0007 0000 0008 0000 0009 0000 00 00 0032 0002 00 00 0033 0004 00 00 0034 0006 00 00 0035 0008 00 00 0036 000 00 00 0037 0019 0046 0019 C8 0047 0082 0098 0082 7F 0099 011D 0167 011D 00 EO 0168 07 1 1054 07C1 7F 1055 091D 1240 091D 1B 1241 0922 1246 0922 1247 0922 1248 0922 DB 00 1249 STATS 0924 E6 01 1250 0926 C2 22 09 1251 0929 C9 1252 092D DB 01 1256 INP8 092E E6 7F 1257 0931 C9 1258 0932 1259 0932 1260 0932 1261 0932 F5 1262 OUTS 0933 DB 00 1263 0935 E6 80 1264 0937 C2 33 09 1265 093A F1 1266 093B D3 01 1267 093D C9 1268 9 1371 O9FF 1B 1372 00 1529 00 1533 00 1756
6. Tarbell Cassette Interface must be used The starting address is 0000H and the block length is 1000H A proper load is indicated by G appearing on the terminal The computer is then reset and The Electric Pencil will sign on If this doesn t occur some patches may be required to allow The Electric Pencil to operate with your system Information as to specifically what patches to make for your system may be obtained from the source where you purchased your tape The following pages contain the patch locations that may be required REGI STRATI ON Please fill out the registration form that appears on the last page of this manua so that your name will be placed on a mailing list to receive information of any up dates as well as improvements to The Electric Pencil Happy Word Processing ADDR B1 B2 B4 B5 EROR LINE 0000 0001 0000 0002 0000 0003 0000 0004 0000 0005 0000 0006 0000 0007 0000 0008 0000 0009 0000 00 00 0032 0002 00 00 0033 0004 00 00 0034 0006 00 00 0035 0008 00 00 0036 000A 00 00 0037 0019 0046 0019 C8 0047 0082 0098 0082 7F 0099 011D 0167 011D 00 EO 0168 07C6 1055 07C6 7 1056 0922 1241 0922 1B 1242 0927 1247 0927 1248 0927 1249 0927 DB 00 1250 STATS 0929 01 1251 092B C2 27 09 1252 092E C9 1253 0932 DB 01 1257 8 0934 E6 7F 1258 0936 C
7. screen as well as its normal function of tabbing 8 spaces to the right RETURN moves the cursor to the beginning of the current line and also terminates commands in the sub system command table THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 11 STRING SEARCH The search function is used to Locate any string of characters that may exist in the file fromthe current cursor position to the end of the file V clears the video display screen and then displays SEARCH STRING The character string desired followed by a RETURN is then typed in by the user The maximum string Length is 40 characters The first occurence of the string from the cursor position forward will appear as the top Line on the video display Screen The search may be continued by typing control character Each Subsequent find will also appear as the top line on the screen When the end of the file is reached or the string no longer exists in the file CAN NOT LOCATE String will appear on the video display screen This function is used to quickly locate selected areas within a file SEARCH and REPLACE This function is used to locate a string and replace it with another string The old and new strings may be of different lengths The way this is handled is as follows SEARCH STRING Old string New string 12 followed by a RETURN 12 represents the number of times that the replacement is to occur and may be any decimal number In the event that Old string onl
8. the same as except the file is not placed into the file area It is however checked for correctness and returns with VERIFIED if the tape is correct or with TAPE ERROR if it is not A tape just written showing TA ERROR should be re written with W Continual tape errors indicate faulty tape or a faulty cassette recorder X WORD NUMBER X will return the number of words that are in the file from the current cursor position A word is defined as any amount of characters with at least one space at either end A word may be as short as one character or as long as one line Y RECORD NUMBER Y will return the number of records that are in the file fromthe current cursor position A record is defined as any block of text that is terminated by a LINE FEED or a FORM FEED L A record may be as short as one character or as long as the entire file A record is most nearly like a paragraph THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 15 CLEARING COMMANDS The following clearing commands require three characters to be entered by the user as a precaution against accidental destruction of the file area These commands Should be used with caution since any material in the file area cannot be retrieved once it has been erased Back up copies of text should always be made of files before text is cleared CAA CLEAR ALL AFTER CURSOR CAA will clear all text in the file from the cursor position just prior to entering the S
9. user THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 9 DELETE CHARACTER D is used to delete a character that exists in a body of text The cursor is simply placed over the character to be deleted and D is typed The entire text then moves towards the cursor one position Multiple deletions are also possible from any location by deleting one character or space at a time INSERT CHARACTER The Electric Pencil is normally in an over write mode This means that any character typed will appear wherever the cursor is located If there is already character at the current cursor position the new character typed will replace the existing By typing the Insert Mode is entered cursor itself will change in its appearance to warn the user that the system is now in Insert The manner of change will depend upon the equipment that is used with The Electric Pencil While in the Insert Mode any character typed will automatically shift the entire text to the right and insert the new character into the cursor position Typing F or leaving the current line will exit the Insert Mode and the cursor wi assume its normal form When the end of a line is reached while in the Insert Mode or even while in the normal over write mode an entire line will be opened up to allow for additional character insertion If a line is only partially filled D will pull up the rest of the text to the
10. 9 1259 095E 1282 095E 1283 095E 1284 095E F5 1285 OUT8 0960 DB 00 1286 0962 E6 80 1287 0964 C2 60 09 1288 0967 F1 1289 0968 D3 01 1290 096A C9 1291 0A2C 1394 0A2C 1B 1395 OCAA 1B 1704 0 9 1B 1715 7 1817 7 00 1818 BASE PATCH LOCATIONS VER DV PAGE 20 THE VER COPYRIGHT ELECTRIC PENCIL VITH BLO PRINT DI D DV REV 0 VDM 1 WORD PROCESSOR PACKAGI GI MAY 1977 1977 MICHAEL SHRAYER ALL RIGHTS RE SERVED DW 0 RESERVED FOR USER DW 0 NITIALIZATION OF DW 0 I O BOARD SUCH AS DW 0 MSAI SIO 2 ETC DW 0 DW 0 DB CTRL VDM CONTROL PORT DB RUB DELETE CHARACTER DW MONI SYSTEM MONITOR DB RUB DELETE CHARACTER DB ESC ESCAPE CHARACTER KEYBOARD INPUT ROUTINE IN STAT GET KEYBOARD STATUS ANI DAV MASK STATUS BIT JNZ STATS MAY NEED JZ HERE RET IN DATA GET KEYBOARD DATA ANI 127 STRIP PARITY BIT RET PRINTER OUTPUT ROUTINE PUSH PSW IN STAT GET PRINTER STATUS AN TBE MASK STATUS BIT JNZ OUT8 1 MAY NEED JZ HERE
11. L The action of the text moving up or down the VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN More than 16 lines of text one PAGE must exist in the FILE for this action to occur STRING Any consecutive grouping of Letters spaces numbers punctuation or symbols In this system a STRING may be anywhere from 1 to 40 characters Long VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN The electronic display unit of The Electric Pencil Also called a CRT Cathode Ray Tube or monitor or simply screen It may also be the face of a television set WORD Any amount of characters with at Least one space at either end A WORD may be as short as one CHARACTER or as long as one line WRI The action of moving text from the FILE AREA and recording it onto cassette tape Recording tape fromthe computer THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 6 GETTING STARTED Whenever The Electric Pencil is entered for the first time or the system is cleared the video display screen will display THE ELECTRIC PENCIL 1977 MICHAEL SHRAYER Depressing any key on the keyboard will clear the screen and the character that was typed will appear in the HOME or upper left hand corner of the screen A file may now be started by typing in whatever text is desired Note that RETURN is not used at the end of a line and that any partially completed word that doesn t fit on the ine will be brought down to the next line Typing can proceed normally until the end of a paragraph is reached At this
12. THE ELECTRIC PENCIL WORD PROCESSOR Operator s Manual Copyright C 1977 Michael Shrayer All Rights Reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS UCR ON star Hea eh ae SAS GANS Ee eas eh ak 1 System Hardware Requirements 0 2 Vieng Manual ade GA GEE gi 2 GOSS ATY i Be gS AR ce este 3 gt a 6 Commands and Functions o ose gue eG A be See BE 1 Cursor Motion Commands o AR al 8 Ser Ong aids Display Control s ee SS a 8 Del Glee ani IAN begs een 9 Block Movement ae ah gS Wnt ah Min te 4 Bh Oe 8G 10 Dy Ree TAB andi RETURN Sa Ne Sie Ge ce as ae a 10 SETI ste oe ew Bt ee Bg AR Ae a ho 11 SON ON andi Rep ae we 11 Coded STOIC Sanches g 12 Repeat CPUC TEN 12 Sub System Command Table ocean SBS qe So oP Ge es 13 Tepe Reade He ep Bok Ges ae bk a 13 ee thet dey A 14 TADE Ais Scam 14 Word and Record so roe 14 Commands ca h 15 Setting Up PTE VES Me ee 15 Gets lee aie gt Sie ote
13. ar in printing as a title printing MUST start with the cursor directly over the dollar sign Otherwise the title will be printed as regular text If the title length is greater than the Line Length L minus 10 selected in the sub system the title text will appear on the printed page as regular text Whenever a title heading is used pages will be automatically numbered at the extreme top right of each page as they appear in this manual If only page numbering is desired without a page title only the dollar sign immediatly followed by a LINE FEED is used Printing must also begin directly over the In the course of printing title headings may be changed by placing additional title headings using the above form into the text The Electric Pencil will recognize these ONLY if they appear directly after a FORM FEED L The new title heading will then appear on a Subsequent pages till the end of printing unless still another title is inserted after FORM FEED Page numbering will remain sequential throughout The starting page number will always be 1 unless set otherwise in the sub system UNDERLI NI NG Words or phrases may be underlined ONLY in lines shorter than 62 characters and terminated by a LINE FEED Underlining is not permissable within justified text Text is underlined by entering the following onto the video display screen THIS IS A TEST LF will print THIS 15 A TEST LF Thi
14. closed in brackets e g A 5 All commands must be terminated with RETURN The DELETE key is used to backspace and the ESCAPE key is used to leave the sub system Command entry errors are indicated with a question mark on the video display screen Note that some of the functions are abbreviated on the screen R TAPE READER To enter a file that is on cassette tape into the file area of The Electric Pencil irst depress the Tape Reader command R then run the cassette recorder to a ittle before the file starts on the tape press the cassette recorder play button nd then hit RETURN The cursor will disappear from the screen and reading will egin When the file has been correctly read into memory READY will appear on he screen If there is an error in the tape ERROR will appear When a ile is read into The Electric Pencil it is normally placed at the end of any aterial that may already exist in the file area If this is to be a new file the ile area should be cleared See CLR CAA and CAB If the incoming file is too long for the existing memory FILE AREA FULL will appear on the screen The partially loaded file will then be removed fromthe file area with no z te oO DS THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 14 damage to the current file if any Version SS only Files may be also called by name per the SOLOS CUTER format Typing R SAMPL 2 will start cassette unit 2 search for the f
15. conveniently points in these directions The 0 in the upper left hand corner represents HOME which is also the upper left corner of the video display screen MOVING THE CURSOR TO THE BEGINNING AND END OF FILE The and are not as heavily used as the above cursor commands and therefore are not located in the same area returns the cursor to the beginning of the file and moves the cursor to the end of the file HOME Q W UP E SCROLL UP pd LEFT A I 5 RIGHT Z DOWN X SCROLL DOWN SCROLLING AND DISPLAY CONTROL SCROLLING is the action of the text moving up or down the video display screen More than 16 lines of text one page must exist in the file for this action to occur The and X keys scroll the screen up and down respectively The cursor will disappear from the screen during a scroll Scrolling speed may be controlled by typing the numerals 1 through 5 while scrolling 1 is the fastest speed and 5 is the slowest Further control is provided by the SPACE BAR which temporarily halts the scroll Continued depressions of the SPACE BAR will scroll one line at a time in the direction previously selected The RETURN key will continue the scroll after it has been halted by the SPACE BAR Whenever the end of the file is reached or when ESCAPE is used the scroll will stop completely the cursor will re appear on the screen and total system control wil return to the
16. cursor Doing the above actions will demonstrate more clearly what actually happens far better than this manual DELETE LINE Y will delete whatever line the cursor is currently on INSERT LINE G will move the line that the cursor is currently on down one and the cursor wil assume a position at the beginning of that line Text may now be typed in as needed and when the end of the line is reached another G will automatically be entered by the system allowing the user to continue entering text without interuption ERASE TO END OF LINE erases all text from the current cursor position to the end of the current line THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 10 BLOCK MOVEMENT A block is s defined as any amount of text as small as one character or as large as an entire file It may be a word a sentence or paragraph or a group of paragraphs In order to move a block of text to another part of the file or t delete a block of text it must first be marked The character used to mark the boundaries of a block is This character is also called a marker To mark the boundaries of a block the cursor is placed over the first character of the text desired and then the key is depressed The action will be the same as if the Insert Mode was entered The text will shift right and the marker wi be placed The cursor should now be moved to one character beyond the end of the block of text desired and s
17. hat has been entered onto the VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN and Subsequently into the memory of The Electric Pencil All the text resident within the system at given time is called a FILE FILE AREA The area in memory that has been reserved for the FILE When The Electric Penci is first turned on this area is automatically determined by the system by examining all available contiguous adjoining memory and claiming it Whenever the FILE AREA is full the message FILE AREA FULL will appear on the screen USTI FICATION The process of adjusting spaces within a Line of text in order to create an even right hand margin PAGE Sixteen Lines of text appearing on the VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN May be any number of lines of text when referring to a printed PAGE PAGENATI ON The process of automatically numbering pages PRINTER An electric typewriter that prints text from The Electric Pencil FILE AREA onto paper THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 5 PRINT VALUE A value assigned to a printing function by the user or by the system This value will determine Line Length PAGE Length Line Spacing etc READ The action of moving a FILE from a cassette tape and inserting it into the FILE AREA Playing a tape into the computer RECORD Any BLOCK of text that is terminated by a LINE FEED or FORM FEED A RECORD may be as short as CHARACTER or as Long as the entire FILE A RECORD 15 most nearly like a paragraph SCROL
18. ile SAMPL and place the file into the file area when it is found A file name may be up to 5 characters long and the default value of the tape unit is 1 Addresses are not used W TAPE WRITER To write a file onto cassette tape first place the cursor to the position in the file from which you wish to write If the entire file is needed then B should be used to place the cursor at the beginning of file K will then bring up the Sub System Command Table Depress W start the cassette recorder in Record mode at convenient location on the tape let the tape run for 3 5 seconds and hit RETURN The cursor will disappear and writing will begin When the file has been recorded onto tape WRITTEN will appear on the screen Stop the recorder rewind to a little before the location where the writing started and VERIFY When working with lengthy text it is advisable to periodically write the file onto tape as a precaution against power failures which can destroy all material in the file area as well as The Electric Pencil itself Version 55 only Files may be named per the SOLOS CUTER format Typing W PENCL 1 will start cassette unit 1 and the system ill then proceed to write a standard file header followed by the file itself The file will be a type D for Data file and not executable File tapes may be scanned for content using the CA command in SOLOS V VERIFY NOT AVAILABLE IN VERSION 55 IV is basically
19. imilarly marked Exactly two markers must be used otherwise a MARKER ERROR message will appear on the video display screen when a move is attempted ESCAPE is used when this occurs to return to the system so that the user can place the markers correctly Markers may be deleted using the search function Markers are automatically deleted during a block delete Markers should not be placed after a LF character on the screen Instead place the marker at the beginning of the following line This will prevent the appearance of two markers on the screen DELETE BLOCK U will delete a block that has been correctly marked as stated above The block markers are also deleted during this action If a block is incorrectly marked or not marked at all MARKER ERROR will appear on the video display screen NSERT BLOCK is used to insert a correctly marked block at any selected cursor position and may be repeated as often as desired MARKER ERROR will appear on the video display screen if an attempt 15 made to move a block into itself or if more or less than two markers exist in the file LF FF TAB and RETURN LF LINE FEED is used to terminate a record or to place an empty line between records FF FORM FEED is also used to terminate a record but when it is encountered during printing the printer will advance the paper to the top of the next page may be used as an express key to quickly move across the
20. ions By using the search or the search and replace function any string of characters may be located and or replaced with any other string of characters as desired Specific sets of characters within encoded strings may also be located and used in creating selective mailing lists When text is printed The Electric Pencil automatically inserts carriage returns where they are needed Numerous combinations of Line Length Page Length Character Spacing Line Spacing and Page Spacing allow for any form to be handled Right Justification gives right hand margins that are even Camera ready copy produced when a printer such as the Diablo Hy Type with variable horizontal spacing is used Pages may be numbered as well as titled wn This manual was prepared using The Electric Pencil Printing was done on a Diablo 1620 using a OCR B printwheel and a carbon film ribbon Line length was set to 75 characters across and page length was set to a maximum of 54 lines per page THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 2 SYSTEM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS The following is a List of the minimum equipment that is required to operate The Electric Pencil Word Processing System 8080 or Z 80 Based Microcomputer 8K of memory starting at Location 0000 minimum Printer Diablo Hy Type 11 Selectric TTY etc Printer to Computer Interface Video Display Interface VDM 1 SOL 20 or Polymorphic Video Display Monitor Cassette In
21. nitions that are also defined in the glossary are capitalized If any of the text seems vague while reading thi manual simply go back to the last point in the text that was fully understood read forward to the word that was not fully understood and look it up Try it it works wn BLOCK Any amount of text as small as one CHARACTER or as large as an entire FILE A BLOCK may be a WORD or a sentence or a paragraph or a group of paragraphs CHARACTER Any letter number punctuation or symbol appearing on the VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN or keyboard CLEAR The action of erasing or wiping out or deleting text from the face of the VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN or fromthe FILE AREA COMMAND A CONTROL CHARACTER or normal letter CHARACTER that is used to tell The Electric Pencil what to do CONTROL A keyboard key that is used together with any letter key to create a CONTROL CHARACTER CONTROL CHARACTER A keyboard key used with the CONTROL key to tell The Electric Pencil what to do CURSOR A solid white block which appears on the VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN and is used to indicate the CHARACTER or space about to be typed moved inserted or deleted THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 4 DEFAULT VALUE A PRINT VALUE assumed by The Electric Pencil whenever no value is specified by the user DELETE The process of removing a CHARACTER a space a line or a BLOCK of text from the VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN FILE The entirety of text t
22. on to the end of the file P1 through P255 sets the number of records that will be printed fromthe cursor position onward THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 17 L LINE LENGTH DEFAULT VALUE 62 L25 through L125 sets the number of characters per line of text that will be printed Using justification the number of actual characters per line will vary but the over all character width of the line will be the value selected At the DEFAULT VALUE the line length will be the same as that which appears on the video display screen and if justification is not selected the text will be printed exactly as it appears on the screen PRINTING P commands The Electric Pencil to start printing text from the current cursor position forward The amount of text that will be printed is governed by the setting of Print Length P in the sub system format that the printed page will assume is determined by the Print Values set up by the user prior to printing Printing may be repeated in order to obtain multiple copies of text by using the Repeat Command R The print head of the printer will print forwards and backwards in the Diablo version while the Selectric versions will print forward only Version 55 only The Electric Pencil uses the 1 0 ports selected by SOLOS CUTER for its keyboard and printer Output pseudo port 0 is ALWAYS the video display screen and if selected as the output device PRINTING WILL NOT OCCUR Use SE 0 1
23. point a LINE FEED should be typed to terminate the paragraph or record Any additional LINE FEEDS will insert blank ines after the record If this is to be the end of a page a FORM FEED is typed Before continuing with this manual the user is advised to try this in order to get feel of how text is entered into The Electric Pencil file area It is recommended that sentences begin at the extreme left margin since indentation can not be guaranteed unless a line is terminated by a LINE FEED Whenever a specific number of spaces within a line are essential the line must be terminated by a LINE FEED This 15 because lines are not delineated and may be broken up at any point during printing Exactly where a line will end is determined by the line length that is selected by the user just prior to printing However by assuming manual control of The Electric Pencil during printing indentation is possible Experimentation and imagination will bring about almost any desired results in the final printing of text THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 7 COMMANDS AND FUNCTIONS NOTE Control Character Commands require that the CONTROL key and the specified alphabetic character key be depressed simultaneously Control Character Commands with the exception of LINE FEED and FORM FEED will not appear on the video display screen In this text all references to Control Character Commands shal be designated by enclosing themin parenthesis e g
24. required using J1 THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 16 5 LINE SPACING DEFAULT VALUE 51 through 55 sets the amount of blank lines between text lines that wil appear in printing single spacing double spacing etc H CHARACTER SPACING DEFAULT VALUE 10 Version DV only H8 through H50 sets the amount of space between characters during printing The values of H are what is called Horizontal Motion Index in a Diablo Product Description Manual PAGE SPACING DEFAULT VALUE 12 Version SV and SP only A2 through A20 is the amount of spaces empty ines between pages during printing This function is handled mechanically on the Diablo versions G PAGE LENGTH DEFAULT VALUE 54 61 through G72 sets the amount of lines of text that will appear on a page during printing An empty line also counts as a line of text LEFT MARGIN DEFAULT VALUE 0 VER SS ONLY MO through M100 sets the position of the left margin This value added to LINE LENGTH must not exceed the carriage width of the printer PAGE NUMBER DEFAULT VALUE N1 through N255 sets the first page number to be used during printing This assumes that pagenation has been set up The highest page number available is 255 and then the system resets to 0 1 2 etc P PRINT LENGTH DEFAULT VALUE 0 PO enables printing of all the text fromthe cursor positi
25. s is a NEWtest LF will print This is a NEW test LF The above examples apply to the Diablo versions ONLY On a Selectric TTY etc the above form is reversed The underline goes on the top and the text goes directly below it THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 19 EXIT SYSTEM 0 is used to exit The Electric Pencil and go to a different location within the computer This location is presently set at 0 000 but may be patched to any location desired See the patch locations section of this manual If there isn t anything located at DO NOT use this command It will destroy The Electric Pencil and its file area Should this occur re loading the system will be required Version SS only 0 exits The Electric Pencil and returns system control to SOLOS CUTER LOADING THE ELECTRIC PENCIL VERSION SS Use the SOLOS CUTER commands XE PENCL or GE PENCL to load The Electric Pencil If GE PENCL is used then EX 0 will start the program XE PENCL will automatically load and start the program The screen will clear and The Electric Pencil wil sign on A good idea is to select the print device just prior to entering The Electric Pencil The only patch locations that may be needed are 0840 which is the number of printer nulls required currently set to 0 and OB3EH which is the null character currently set to 0 LOADING THE ELECTRIC PENCIL TARBELL CASSETTE The cassette interface input routine supplied with the
26. ted from a file automatically using the coded string search function REPEAT FUNCTI ON Most functions may be repeated any number of times as per the following examples R 5 D ill delete 5 characters R 22 ill type 22 periods R 3 P ill print 3 times The cursor will disappear whenever R is typed and will return after the number of repeats are performed the event of a typing error the cursor will return and nothing else will happen This three part command is not visible on the screen THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 13 SUB SYSTEM COMMAND TABLE Within The Electric Pencil is Sub System Command Table that permits implementation of additional commands as well as the setting up of Print Values K clears the video display screen and displays the Sub System Command Table as follows TAPE READER TAPE WRITER Not in Version 55 TAPE VERIFY WORD NUMBER RCRD NUMBER lt x gt CLER AA CUR CLER AB CUR CLER SYSTEM CLR RGHT JUSTFY J0 1 LINE SPACNG 51 5 DV Version only CHAR SPACNG H8 50 SV and SP Versions only PAGE SPACNG A2 20 PAGE LENGTH 61 72 SS Version only LEFT MARGIN MO 100 PAGE NUMBER N1 255 PRNT LENGTH 255 LINE LENGTH 125 125 While in this mode the standard keyboard keys are used alone without the CONTROL key The above commands are NOT Control Character Commands When these commands are referenced in this text they shall be en
27. terface Tarbell SOL 20 S0L0S or CUTER Cassette Recorder The Electric Pencil Software is available in four versions The version selected depends on the hardware that is to be used with it The combinations are as follows Version Printer Video Cassette Interface SP TTY Selectric etc Polymorphic Tarbel 55 TTY Selectric etc SOL 20 or VDM 1 CUTS SV TTY Selectric etc VDM 1 DV Diablo Hy Type 11 VDM 1 Tar bel USING THIS MANUAL Knowing full well that instruction manuals can be rather tedious this one was assembled with ease of application as its main criteria This text 15 not intended to be a course but rather a guide to the proper operation of The Electric Penci Word Processing System Within a few hours anyone can certainly start using The Electric Pencil and in Less than a few days can be expert at it It is assumed that the reader is familiar with a standard electric typewriter keyboard THE BEST WAY TO LEARN TO OPERATE THIS SYSTEM 15 TO USE IT Trying all the commands and experimenting with different combinations as well as discovering the most efficient ways to do things will really pay off Speed will be directly proportional to previous typing ability THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 3 Any words that may be new to the reader are included in this glossary Commonly used words that may have a special meaning in the context of word processing are also included Words that appear within defi
28. ub Systemto the end of the file Upon completion the Sub System is aborted and normal operation is resumed CAB CLEAR ALL BEFORE CURSOR CAB will clear all text in the file from the cursor position just prior to entering the Sub System to the beginning of the file The character under the cursor will not be cleared Upon completion the Sub System is aborted and norma operation is resumed CLR CLEAR SYSTEM CLR will clear the entire file area as well as reset all PRINT VALUES to their DEFAULT VALUES The video display screen will clear and display THE ELECTRIC PENCIL 1977 MICHAEL SHRAYER CLR as well as CAA and CAB should be used with care SETTING UP PRINT VALUES The following PRINT VALUES are automatically set to DEFAULT VALUES when The Electric Pencil is first entered or when CLR is used Whenever command is entered without a value and is followed by a RETURN the system assumes the DEFAULT VALUE for that command RIGHT JUSTIFY DEFAULT VALUE 0 0 zero sets the system to print as many characters on a line as will fit ithout justifying the right hand margin of the text Jl tells the system to calculate the number of characters in a line and expand the text so that the right hand margin is justified even The Selectric versions do this by inserting additional blank spaces between words while the Diablo version actually spreads out the spaces between characters Hyphenation is normally not
29. y appears 8 times in the text from the current cursor position the screen will clear and display LOCATED Old string 8 TIMES The actual replacement will have been made 8 times If Old string occurs 12 or more times in the text 12 replacements will be made and the cursor will return to the file All occurences of Old string can be replaced by typing a number greater than the possible occurences of Old string at the end of the reply to the SEARCH STRING question For example SEARCH STRING Mr Jones Mr Smth 9999 The system will respond with LOCATED Mr Jones 14 TIMES Assuming Mr Jones appears only 14 times in the text THE ELECTRIC PENCIL OPERATOR S MANUAL Page 12 CODED STRING SEARCHES Strings may be also located where only a certain pattern is required Assuming a file consists of names and addresses of clients with a code prefix as follows WS1234HP Tom Jones 15 94th St New York N Y 10028 WP1235LP Bill Smith 3800 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles CA 90016 WS6784HL El mer Brown 300 N Vermont Los Angeles CA 90028 SEARCH STRING WS 4H will locate Tom Jones Typing a control character C will then locate Elmer Brown Note that is a don t character Using this function a selected mailing list can be produced Other uses might include lists of sales prospects with action dates to represent appointments expirations service dates etc Data can be selectively extrac
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