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1. in memory and will be available for recall Remember you can correct text in Type mode as long as you have not left the line in which the error appears You do this simply by backspacing your cursor to the proper position Once you ve gone on to another line however you can go back only b ing into Line Edi is is accomplished by hitting the ESCAPE key while in Type mode which automatically puts you into Line Edit After you have made your correction you can hit T to go directly from Line Edit mode to Type mode Or you can ESCAPE to the Main Menu and hit L There s yet another way Perhaps you ve noticed what happens when you go into View mode Try it ESCAPE to the Main Menu we presume you haven t zapped text or shut off your computer since the last exercise that began with Welcome to Quick Brown Fox Press V for View You will see your flashing cursor at the bottom left of the screen right after the question Edit This means you re now viewing text Do you see any errors that you d like to correct edit If so hit Y for yes Tapping the space bar now will let you start editing from the top of the page displayed on your screen Or you may begin editing anywhere on that screen by typing a few letters to identify where you want to begin and then hitting the ESCAPE key Here are some fur ther details about those Line Edit commands you played with in the typing exercise You inserted deleted and replaced without an2. Some printers capable of bidirectional printing will not allow proportional spacing or underlining or bold face printing in the bidirectional mode This is because the printers are so dumb that they do not know how to act on codes when going in the opposite direction Should your printer behave strangely when you are trying any of the special features try printing without the U O H or X commands If this solves the problem it means alas that you cannot use pro portional spacing or underline overstrike or boldface while using bidirectional printing Use the N command instead Some printers TEC C Itoh have a switch setting for the pitch of the print wheel Should you be using a 10 pitch wheel and this setting is set to 12 and or you have specified another value with the Wnn command that does not agree with the switch setting your printer will not work properly SPECIAL COMMANDS We ve already talked about the U O and H commands Here are some others Remember they don t work with all printers X Turns proportional spacing on or off with the draft dodger printers When on each character will be printed with exactly the same spacing around it When off and if your printer can do it the characters will be set with different spac ing The width of each character never changes W nn Change pitch to nn On daisy wheel printers only the wheels are usually 10 or 12 characters per inch This co
3. spaces punctuation capitalization and all Quick Brown Fox can t decipher almost but not quite instructions On some early models of the Commodore 64 the screen will go blank whenever you Save or Retrieve your text on or from tape While retriev ing it will halt each time it finds a file name and you ll have to press the space bar or the C lower left corner key to make it continue MERGE As the name implies you can merge two or more files or merge a file with new material you ve just typed in memory on the screen as long as you don t run out of memory If you do Quick Brown Fox will tell you so To merge already stored files simply go to the Clerk menu and type M Specify your device 1 or 8 and hit the RETURN key Then type in the name of one of the files you wish to merge Repeat this procedure one at a time with the other files to be merged If you wish to merge new text you ve just typed with a stored file simply type the material don t zap it then go into Clerk type M and proceed as above When you merge two files remember that the merging takes place in the computer s memory on the screen and not in the computer itself Therefore once you ve merged files A and B into file A B you must save that merged file under a new name A B It is a brand new file The only thing to worry about is running out of memory when trying to merge too many files at once ERASE Once again this can
4. Edit feature G Edit on your Main Menu enables you to make a single change repeatedly throughout the text by means of a simple operation If you discover after you have typed several pages of text that you have misspelled a word consistently or if you have used a wrong name throughout you can make all the corrections easily using Global Edit of course you can do it through Line Edit as well Here s the procedure 1 Access Global Edit by going to the Main Menu and typing G or g 2 A From prompt will appear on the screen This asks you what you want to change from Type the character s you wish to change 3 Hit the ESCAPE key 4 A To prompt will appear Type the new character s and hit the ESCAPE key again NOTE The total number of characters you can type after To can be no more than 256 The total you can type after From can be no more than 39 If you go over these limits you will get a Full message 5 Quick Brown Fox will search out the first occurrence of your From string to be altered PAGE 12 G QUICK BROWN FOX and will show you what the text will look like after the alteration This change is surrounded by brackets 6 Quick Brown Fox will then ask you Y N or ESC 7 If you agree with the change press Y If you disagree press N If you ve changed your mind altogether press ESCAPE to return to the Main Menu 8 If you type Y or N Quick Brown Fox will see
5. Non destructive back space A Replace text Retum Display next text line A Delete character COW oe vue wane Delete word EE oos Delete sentence e E E Delete paragraph EEE ases Eee Insert text Duro usa ewes Type append new text nee name een ae Line Edit from another place QUICK BROWN FOX PAGE 19
6. be used only if you have a disk drive If you want to remove a file from the disk directory permanently hit E and follow the usual sequence You must use this command only when you re absolutely sure that you ll never need that file again It cannot be restored once it has been erased EXPERT GRADUATION EXERCISE It s time for a little more practical experience Here s a memo that should easily flunk you out of Miss Missive s Word Processing Academy With what you ve learned so far you can turn this into a flawless manuscript Type it as it is in its raw unadulterated state Then ESCAPE into Line Edit and do your stuff To Department Head From Senior Clerk Re Quick Brown Fox Well when your first told me was going to have to learn how to do Word Process ing was scared as can be have trouble making a can opener work it s even worse if it s an electric can opener This things not so bad The rumble on the mptor of the disk drive may eventually put me in the funny farm but I think Ill probably survive until then guess we can throw all those bottles of Whiteout away Corrections on this thing are a snap Lift off tape no longer holds a major appeal for me took a lokk back through mu first paragraph and it s a bit of a mess have a tendency to type too fast anyway and this thing is seductive just pound away without even look ing att hte screen and hope for the best In the old days would never have t
7. contact any other metal surface such as the edge connector or the circuit board This may expose you to a shock hazard and damage your equipment If you are not using a Data 20 64K Pack type SYS 24576 and press the RETURN key You should then see the screen message WIDTH 0 4 8 If this message does not appear either you made a typing error or there is a bad connec tion Turn the computer off check that everything PAGE 18 4 QUICK BROWN FOX Next type RUN and hit the RETURN key When the ready message appears type SAVE and hit the RETURN key The message PRESS RECORD amp PLAY ON TAPE will appear Follow these instruc tions The program will save a short routine on your cassette tape After you have saved this pro gram reinsert your Quick Brown Fox cartridge and go to the Clerk menu this is described in this manual Make sure the tape is re wound Retrieve the program device 1 no name just hit the RETURN key The cursor problem will then be fixed for the rest of the word processing session RS 232 Initialization On the VIC 20 we ve changed the way in which you initialize the RS 232 port If you have an RS 232 printer or modem and change the RS 232 parameters with POKES you ll have to type SYS32549 to get the Fox going with your new parameters QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE aie il ion ar ion Enter 1st Character gt o o o o Clerk Menu Type Add to text Directory List fi
8. exercises on the next few pages even if they seem ridiculously simple Take the time to do each exercise and note the results on the keyboard Otherwise as you get further into the manual you may become confused For the VIC 20 and Commodore 64 THE KEYBOARD Your Commodore keyboard looks like the stan dard QWERTY device that s been around since the days of John Underwood but our friends at Commodore have created a few exceptions just to keep us on our fingertips The shift key is prob ably going to outfox you at the beginning For one thing the shift lock key stays down until the shift lock is pressed unlike on a standard typewriter where you can shift and unshift by merely pressing the bottom shift key Also and probably more troublesome the period comma and colon semicolon keys don t work the same way On the Commodore keyboard you keep the IU UNO aero parag as you do for the colon and semicolon the last two are on separate keys You ll discover that the keys on the Commodore are sensitive so tap them gently and don t hold them down or they may repeat and you wil get several characters when you want only one YOUR FIRST EXERCISE Enough theory let s try it Go to the Main Menu and press T ort tor Type The word Type should appear followed by the number of charac ters you have remaining to type Press the shift lock key make sure it clicks and then press the comma key three times Do
9. shift hit e m o space shift hit F release the shift hit r o m colon hit space bar twice shift hit M release the shift hit e hit RETURN key NOTE don t hit the commas after each letter in the previous sentence From now on you re on your own Start typing from To The Boss Memo From Me RETURN RETURN To The Boss RETURN RETURN PAGE 4 G QUICK BROWN FOX RE Quick Brown Fox RETURN RETURN Guess what have coupled my intelligence with the intelligence and speed of a computer to transform myself into sort of a bionic typist RETURN RETURN This amazing transformation was achieved with out surgery All that was required was Quick Brown Fox a remarkably simple program designed for today s most popular brands of microcomputers RETURN RETURN With Quick Brown Fox I will soon be producing flawless letter perfect copy much faster than even my previous lightning fast efforts RETURN ESCAPE ESCAPE When you tapped the ESCAPE key twice the Main Menu popped up again Now is the time for all good folk meaning you to View what they have typed Press V for View The words View From will appear on the screen Hit the space bar again Doing this means we ning You will see the word Scanning on the screen Hit the space bar again and the text will appear on the screen from the beginning Every time you hit the space bar you will get a new screenful of t
10. tab position where the text starts This is called a Dot ted Tab NOTE that tabs will not be useful with proportional spacing printers unless proportional spacing is turned off X Proportional spacing will alter the actual tab position unpredictably due to the difference in character widths Lnnn Put a new margin nnn spaces in from the paper margin position 000 As with the tab commands be sure to use a three digit number This margin does not take effect until the text shifts to a new line either by filling the current line with text or by the use of a RETURN or other command that forces a line feed This overrides any previous L command This will allow you to view and print a You can now go back to the example we gave you and interpret the embedded commands to see how each one produced its effect Return to the Main Menu and select L for Line Edit then press ESCAPE All the embedded commands will now be displayed exactly as you typed them This allows you to edit your commands to achieve any effect you desire In the View mode you will see the actual layout what you see is what you get on the printer pro viding you have an 80 character expander The commands are visible only in Line Edit Some other embedded command codes include F This code causes the printer to advance to the top of the next form page Rnnn and Lnnn These commands set right and left hand margins They are also hand
11. this printer directly from your computer In practice if the printer reads signals from the computer at a dif ferent rate than the computer is sending them you may get garbled text or no text at all The rate at which these signals are sent is called the baud rate Your printer manual should tell you how to set the baud rate usually by manipulating switches inside the unit Try a 300 rate to start When you re ready to print select P from the Quick Brown Fox Main Menu and then type 2 as your device number You will be asked for your baud rate Specify it If your printer doesn t work use a lower baud rate and try again If your printer won t work at even the slowest baud rate you may not be able to use it with Quick Brown Fox and or Commodore Check with your dealer Quick Brown Fox is set up with the following technical parameters no parity two stop bits and three line handshaking If your printer is not com patible with these parameters and you own a Commodore 64 you may not be able to use that particular printer If you own a VIC 20 you can change the Quick Brown Fox parameters so that they match your printer Here s how Turn on the computer but before you type your SYS 24576 command type POKE 5042 X POKE 5043 Y where X is your command register value and Y is your control register value that is what you would use in BASIC when opening a file to your printer Then press the RETURN key and instead of
12. want to view from then hit the ESCAPE key The Quick Brown Fox will isolate that string of characters in brackets and ask you whether that is the point from which you wish to view You can answer Y for yes in which case the Fox will reply with the word Scann ing To view press the space bar and you will begin viewing with the word or characters you have isolated If you answer N for no the Fox will keep bracketing subsequent occurrences of your string of characters until it has gone through the entire text and none remain Of course you can always ESCAPE back to the Main Menu It s advisable not to set your right margins until you re ready to print your text The first few lines of text may disappear off the top of the screen if the right margin is set greater than the character capacity of your computer i e greater than 22 characters on the VIC 20 and greater than 40 characters on the Commodore 64 If you are using an 80 character expander with either computer then you should have no problem THE FILE CLERK Now that you have created some text edited it to your satisfaction and decided how you want it to look on paper it s time for you to learn how to use the di retrieve merge and print out this text The File Clerk menu is designed to help you do this ESCAPE to the Main Menu and type C for Clerk it s the last selection on the Menu FILE CLERK Directory Save Retrieve Merge Erase A
13. QUICK BROWN friendly professional Word processing 536 Broadway 11th Floor New York New York 10012 212 925 8290 21983 The Quick Brown Fox Company CONTENTS Page Starting Up With a Cartridge ua aana 1 Starting Up Wim a DBK n lt lt en RR RR x c 2 The Keyboard 122er hen ee a AAA 3 Gpening Eample _ _ oeiooooeoesose sone RR R9 RR xa 4 NN ee na nn a ee ee OR LT ROT are a on Ee 5 PM A 6 LO E a a 6 IE DEM uoo a bo hE EPG ure uS ESEESASISG ME Ru TOU ERA Foe Shee ES PS 7 ro kp FEMME 7 Replace TEM coo codecs e 7 Viewing th Text oc co ky mg RR Rr as 7 e PA 7 54007 34 oh na T SHEE Baw ne te Be eh re ne een pa ee ei 8 EMEN in Go ORK eH Ge HA de Se eee deed EOE RAGES eS eee een ead Be 8 na eh he ee Be a ee ee a ee 8 BN a ana ke FE ann a ee oe a TTD od bg be ee ooh 8 qol ATCP 9 10 1L m DECEM 9 Embedded Commands ilio o sl 10 DOCTI ER 12 si Aa vM Le Send and Receive ool la 13 HEURE EEEE T T i RR Dr hec xdG ke 9g ek res key xVPeitr4aw bad 13 K Insert Keyboard Insert 13 BoilerPlates iii RR rana 13 Columnar Tabbing i li ls 15 PHA eoesnemsso eR Er ks ARR RR RP EEPLtixzecrSEesac44a eQpS 549 25 15 MOTE OM Printers 2 0 0 eR e rk RA 16 BED Leaup esses creme rkRRS RE EIEGuR eux R Ree 3 bx E RLPGSreSerigdagc 18 Quick Reference Guide 19 Program 1982 The Quick Brown Fox Company Diskette version 1983 The Quick Brown Fox C
14. aken a risk like that but since don t have to worry aboyyt printing this until l ve had a chnace tto go over it I make it look good before let anyboy see it think I m sokld Can have one to take home Here s what your corrected version should look like To Department Head From Senior Clerk Re Quick Brown Fox Well when you first told me was going to have to learn to do word processing was scared as can be have trouble making a can opener work it s even worse if it s an electric can opener This thing s not so bad The rumble on the motor of the disk drive may eventually put me in the funny farm but I think l Il probably survive until then guess we can throw all those bottles of Whiteout away Corrections on this thing are a snap Lift off tape no longer holds a major appeal for me took a look back through my first paragraph and it s a bit of a mess have a tendency to type too fast anyway and this thing is seductive just pound away without even look ing at the screen and hope for the best In the old days would never have taken a risk like that but since don t have to worry about printing this until I ve had a chance to go over it I ll make it look good before let anybody see it think I m sold Can have one to take home Congratulations You have now learned how to do a number of important things with Quick Brown Fox You can Type enter text in memory Line Edit make c
15. al Edit feature to save a lot of time Consider the following example Let s say we want to set up a chart showing the name pay rate hours worked and gross earnings of several employees and we want to represent the data in a columnar format Type the following 1Grace 223hrs 3 5 25 4 199 50 1Yolanda 220hrs 3 3 25 4 65 00 Now go into View mode Your text won t look like anything you had in mind Instead it will view like this EETTTTTTTTERETTTTTEHETRITITITITSTTITEITTM Grace 24242222222222222222222222222222222222 23 hrs 3333333333333333333333333333333333333 5 25 4444444444444444444444444444444444444 199 50 ETE Now here s where we get creative Decide where you would like the columns to appear Let s say name at 000 hours at 015 pay rate at 030 and gross earnings at 045 Escape to the Main Menu and select G for Global Edit Change your 1s to T000 your 2s to T015 your 3s to T030 and your 4s to T045 Your copy should now look like this Grace 23hrs 5 25 199 50 Yolanda 20hrs 3 25 65 00 PRINTING Users of Quick Brown Fox and other microcom puter software as well generally find that printer operations provide the most headaches We ve designed our software to be compatible with most any printer on the market but the printer manufacturers sometimes sneak in a variation to keep us alert Someday all this will be standard ized But right now you should be prepared to deal with some
16. anual for details Insert and remove the cartridge gently so you don t damage any of the delicate connections FOR VIC 20 USERS Your off the shelf VIC 20 called an unex panded VIC from now on comes with about 4K of memory and displays its type in lines that are 22 characters wide Never fear all of the Quick Brown Fox features work with an unexpanded VIC But you may find it more practical to add a memory expansion board that also extends your line widths to 40 or 80 characters If you choose to expand you ll need an expansion board called a motherboard that plugs into the same slot in the VIC 20 as does our cartridge The motherboard allows you to plug in both the Quick Brown Fox cartridge and the memory expander You may need to initialize your memory board before using it with Quick Brown Fox Initializing means typing in a code that will tell the two devices Quick Brown Fox and the expansion board to work together If you are using a Data 20 or Quantum Data expander these are two of the most popular Quick Brown Fox will initial ize it automatically Other cartridges must be initialized by typing SYS followed by a number that you will find specified in the expander instructions Type SYS24576 and press RETURN The message width 0 4 8 will appear On an unex panded VIC type O If you are using a Data 20 or Quantum Data board type 4 for a 40 character text display or 8 for an 80 chara
17. ays them for you with this option It also tells you the length of each file in blocks Each block is 255 characters long You create the file names yourself when you Save text onto a disk or tape SAVE Once you ve typed some text you can Save it by Escaping to the Main Menu then hitting C to go into the File Clerk Hit S for Save and your screen will ask you which device you are using Hit the proper number Quick Brown Fox will then ask you to name your file There may already be a name there If this is the name you want hit the RETURN key If it s not the name you want type in another name You can give a file a name of up to 15 letters Try not to use numbers or punctuation marks as part of the file names Sometimes rarely the computer will con fuse one of these numbers with a code of some sort and it might bring things to a standstill After you have given your file a name hit the RETURN key After your file is saved the Clerk menu will reappear Remember that when you Save onto a cassette tape you will be wiping out other text on the tape You must keep track of the material on the tape that you want to preserve Use the tape counter and make notes If you are using Quick Brown Fox with a disk drive remember that to save text onto a raw disk that s come straight out of the box you must prepare the disk format it Turn on your computer without the Quick PAGE 8 amp QUICK BROWN FOX Brow
18. cter display With some adapters you might have to hold down the shift key while typing 4 or 8 If you use a RS 232 printer see appendix QUICK BROWN FOX PAGE 1 FOR COMMODORE 64 USERS If you do not have any other accessories plugged in you should see the Quick Brown Fox copy right message on the screen as soon as you plug in the cartridge and turn on the computer If this doesn t happen turn off the computer make sure the cartridge is plugged in correctly and try again Then proceed If you are using Quick Brown Fox with an 80 character adapter you must initialize the adapter after the copyright message is displayed Make sure you have a buffered expansion board If you are using Data 20 s adapter type 9003 and press the RETURN key This should take you straight into the Quick Brown Fox Main Menu If you have some other kind of 80 character adapter look into its instructional manual to find out what number will initialize it You ll probably find two numbers one in decimal ordinary nota tion and the other in hexadecimal letters and numbers You want hexadecimal Type it in press the RETURN key and proceed STARTING UP WITH A DISK If your Quick Brown Fox program comes on a disk the loading procedure is different First of all handle this disk and any disk with care Don t bend it fold it staple it touch the shiny surface or expose it to extremes of heat or cold The disk probably has an a
19. egin your move Press the ESCAPE key Quick Brown Fox will show you that string of characters surrounded by brackets and followed by the words Y N or ESC If it is not the right place press N and Quick Brown Fox will keep searching until it s found the place you want to start moving from Once you ve found the right place type Y The screen will show the word Move again followed by the prompt End with Type the last character word or words up to 39 characters of the text area you wish to move Press the ESCAPE key Again Quick Brown Fox will search for the correct location Answer Y N or ESC as above Escape if you want to call off the search Once you have pointed out the text to be moved by answering Y the screen will once again show Move followed by the words Put After Type a string of characters indicating where you wish the text area to be moved to and press ESCAPE You will go through the search as you did before When you know where you want your moved text to appear press Y The screen will then show the word Delete If you want to delete the text from its original position type Y If you want the text to appear in both the old and the new place type N You should go through the text in View mode to make sure everything is correct Keep an eye out for spacing and punctuation Remember also that if Quick Brown Fox can t find an exact match for the string of characters you ask for it will return
20. er is set up If you are using some other brand of adapter you must hold down the Shift key while you type 4 or 8 You also have to hold down the shift key and type 4 or 8 with some Data 20 or Quantum Data boards Here s how to solve the disappearing cursor problem With the Quick Brown Fox cartridge removed put a re wound cassette into the Datasette When the cassette is ready type the following 10 FORM 820T0841 READA POKEM A NEXTM 20 POKE178 74 POKE810 52 POKE811 3 30 POKE43 42 POKE44 3 POKE45 80 P0OKE46 3 SAVE CURSOR 1 1 100 DATA 160 0 173 134 2 145 243 110 DATA 160 40 145 243 164 211 145 120 DATA 243 169 74 133 178 76 130 DATA 62 241 puter s manual for instructions In the future when you want to use Quick Brown Fox insert our cartridge or disk and your 64K pack turn on the computer and load this BASIC program Type RUN and press the RETURN key Wait a few moments while the program does its job Even tually you should see WIDTH 0 4 8 displayed On your screen To users of Cardco s Cardboard 6 slot Adapter The long ribbon cable that connects this adapter to your computer is liable to pick up electrical interference that prevents some cartridges including Quick Brown Fox from working reliably Products from Precision Technology are also suspect The only way to fix Cardco s 6 Slot Adapter is to wrap the ribbon cable in aluminum foil to screen out the interference Be sure that the aluminum foil doesn t
21. er want to use a simple typewriter again RETURN When you have finished typing this material press ESCAPE twice once to escape from Type mode once to escape from Line Edit The Main Menu should now be showing so press V to View the text As before hit the space bar twice to view your typing as shown in the Expert example The margins may be different on your computer While you were typing a few moments ago do you remember that all you saw was a solid block of text with no line spaces or indentations visible Yet as you View the material now your text appears in a different format complete with paragraphing This has happened as a result of the Quick Brown Fox s embedded commands P for example instructions that you insert while typing to tell the Fox how the text should look or be formatted These commands do not appear when the text is Viewed or Printed Our embed ded commands are easily recognized and remembered To find one look back in this manual to the original exercise you typed Do For now let s correct some of the errors on the screen Escape to the Main Menu and press L for Line Edit The words Line Edit From will appear As we did in View mode press the space bar to start from the beginning of your text The first line of type will appear at the bottom of the screen as it was originally typed embedded com mands included Follow these instructions exactly 1 Hit the space bar until
22. ext If there s no more text in memory hitting the space bar while in View mode will bring you back to the Main Menu As you view the text of your memo note that wherever you hit a RETURN key Quick Brown Fox produced new lines for you Now let s print the text Of course you don t have your printer hooked up yet but we ll go through the motions anyway ESCAPE to the Main Menu once more Hit P for print A series of questions will pop up Ignore them just for now by hitting the space bar until you ve reached the end of the questions At this point you ll see your text running or scrolling across the screen If you had a printer hooked up the text would be printing out on paper at the same time Congratulations You are now an Apprentice word processor You re now ready to learn how to do even more exciting things with Quick Brown Fox ESCAPE to the Main Menu and zap your memory It s like putting a new sheet of paper in a typewriter and throwing the old sheet away Just in case you re skeptical type V for view hit the space bar twice and prove to your self that there is no more text in memory on the screen You ll be left with a blank screen and a page number EXPERT Go through this section at your leisure making sure you understand the example At the end of this section you will be a duly certified Quick Brown Fox Expert This means you will be able to handle nearly all routine word processing Many peo
23. five times Notice that the cursor is now positioned over the space between lazy and dog Press the space bar five times The cursor will move to the right and erase any letters you ve typed That s why the forward cursor key is sometimes called a non destructive key The space bar acts as an eraser We ll talk about the up down key a little later when we get to the Line Fdit section One more note about cursor keys Do you see the INST DEL key in the upper right corner of the keyboard Wit e shift key tap the INST DELI key Sow y five times The cursor will move Tive spaces to the left Don t try to use the INST DEL key with the shift key just yet however Use the forward cursor key in the lower right corner of the keyboard to position the cursor at the end of the sentence once more Position your cursor at the end of the sentence right after lazy Now hit the RETURN key T th urd Aen tu QUICK BROWN FOX PAGE 3 You ll see an at sign and the cursor will jump to the beginning of the next line It works just li lectric type writer However you don t have to hit the RETURN key every time your typed text nears the right margin Try it and see Type the same sentence several times and watch what happens Resist the temptation to hit the RETURN key when you near the end of the line Now type the sentence again and hit the RETURN key Type it once more doing the same Quick B
24. hanges View your Text Save and Retrieve your Text Zap the computer s memory You are now an Expert ready to become a Master Demand that someone give you a con gratulatory kiss or at least a handshake Let s continue MASTER Going from Expert to Master you will be learning a few of the more advanced features of Quick Brown Fox They include Embedded Commands new ways of formatting text QUICK BROWN FOX G PAGE 9 Global Edit making a single change repeatedly throughout the text Move transferring text from one place to another Print transferring text from screen to paper EMBEDDED COMMANDS Quick Brown Fox has special codes called embedded commands because they re embedded or buried in the text and are viewable only in Line Edit mode not in View mode These com mands instruct Quick Brown Fox to do specific things such as justify text both margins even center double space triple space even octuple space move margins set tabs and the like The last page of this manual has a full listing of all embedded commands Embedded commands are simple to use you can either type them in the text as you go along or insert them in the Line Edit mode later Before describing the various codes and their uses we will give you a quick demonstration of some of them in action Type out exactly what is shown in the example the lines may be longer on your screen but no
25. hrase or line that will appear on the second and subsequent pages of your text In creating a header the first character in your workspace even before your margin settings must be a slash This tells Quick Brown Fox that you intend to use a header You can then type a string of characters which can include embedded commands At the end of the header type another to tell Quick Brown Fox that this is the end Later when you print your text the header will appear at the top of the second and subsequent pages K INSERT The embedded command K tells Quick Brown Fox that there is an insert to be filled in either directly from the keyboard or from one of your BoilerPlates stored on tape or disk see next section You might type My Dear Mr K K 1983 or Yours Very Truly K and have the K replaced by other words This will become clearer in the BoilerPlate section The K com mand can also be used to stop the printer so that you can align your paper BOILERPLATING You ve read legal contracts or form letters where substantial portions of the text are identical with only a few alterations for names addresses and so forth Quick Brown Fox makes it possible for you to store frequently used phrases and sentences in a BoilerPlate file so you don t have to type the same information repetitively BoilerPlates are not difficult to use but it takes a QUICK BROWN FOX G PAGE 13 little practice to get everything d
26. isappear and the text yes all the way to the end will jump back a character to replace the vacant space If you hold dawn the D the characters will continue to disappear until you release the key Hitting DW will delete a word up to the next space DS will delete a sentence up to the next period or question mark and DP will delete a paragraph up to the next line feed Of course if you have a period used as a decimal point or at the end of an abbreviation within a sentence the DS will delete up to that point If you type DW then DS then plain W a word will not be deleted You can only do it as follows DW W W or DS S S or DP P P To replace text position the cursor over the character you want to replace and press R The line will reappear with the cursor properly posi tioned Type whatever new character you wish Note that this command works with one character at a time When you are finished press the ESCAPE key and you will go back to Line Edit mode in case you want to make another insertion or deletion VIEWING THE TEXT If you want to see what your text will look like as it s going to be printed ESCAPE to the Main Menu and press V for view A view from prompt will appear To view the text from the beginning hit the space bar and when the word Scanning appears hit it again To view text from a particular place after the View From message type a string of characters to identify where you
27. k out the next appearance of your character string and continue doing so until it has checked through the entire text in memory 9 If you are absolutely positively sure that you want to make the change in all cases just lean on the Y key keep your finger down on it and Quick Brown Fox will zip through your text making the change throughout 10 Remember you must type exactly what you want to be changed or Quick Brown Fox will not find it That means correct spelling punctuation spacing upper and lower case etc 11 Also note that Quick Brown Fox is very literal minded It will seek out every occurrence of the specified string wherever it appears For example if you wanted to change rat to mouse and your text included the word berate Quick Brown Fox would ask you be mouse e This is why you must beware of casually pressing Y repeatedly and finding a bemousee in your text 12 Global Edit is also helpful in creating an index By using this feature you can see the number of times and places where a specific word appears MOVING TEXT If you decide after you have finished typing that you want to rearrange words sentences or even entire paragraphs you can do so easily by using the move option in the Main Menu To select move type M or m The screen will show the word Move followed by the words Start From Type a string of characters from 1 to 39 that identifies where you wish to b
28. le names View Display text Save Save memory to disk or tape A Print text Retrieve Get file put in memory B View Show BoilerPlate Merge Get file add to text A MA Global Edit Erase Delete a file L Ed aa eu os Line Edit Move Move Copy text Delete Delete text Zap su sms Clear workspace Send sss Send text modem Receive Receive text modem Clerk File operations A TENE AR ESC Left Arrow Return to menu Retum Force line feed AA Start of BoilerPlate Shift fl tof2 End of BoilerPlates A Advances the cursor to the next word Right Arrow Non destructive forward space Left Arrow Non destructive backspace b PEE E Insert Embedded Commands upper or lower Case Bnn Add BoilerPlate nn Nnnn Send character nnn PENNE Centering on off a gt A Overstrike on off Dnnn Dotted tab to col nnn Sp Paragraph P ailiuu Form page feed Rnnn Right Margin nnn ad PEN Heavy print on off Sm Line Spacing nn fInn Lines Inch nn Tnnn Tab to col nnn 8 Justification on off ut ogee wv os Underlining on off VE ws ww Keyboard entry here Wnn Width nn chr inch 4 nnn Left Margin nnn x Te Proportional on off Line Edit upper or lower een gy REX ERR bebe a SE eee Non destructive forward space Right Arrow Non destructive forward space Left Arrow
29. mmand is used to stop the printer so you may change print wheels or simply set the pitch to a different value using the same print wheel When using this option you must answer Y yes to Ho option in print sequence Inn Changes the lines per inch to nn If you want 8 lines per inch instead of 6 use 108 USING PARALLEL PRINTERS Which kind do you have Look at the plug on the end of the cable that connects your computer to the printer If the plug is two inches wide or slightly more you have a parallel printer Your computer will not drive this printer directly You will need an adapter to connect it with the Com modore serial port Such an adapter may be called a Centronics adapter or a serial parallel adapter Not all of them will work successfully with all printers We suggest Cardco s printer interface To use it plug your printer into the adapter and the adapter into the serial port of the computer If your disk drive is already plugged into the serial port use the spare serial port on the back of the disk drive If in doubt consult your Commodore or printer instruction manual When you are ready to print select P from the Quick Brown Fox Main Menu and specify device 4 or 5 according to how your adapter is set up If in doubt you can go by trial and error USING SERIAL PRINTERS If your plug is an inch and a half wide see USING PARALLEL PRINTERS above you have a serial printer In theory you can drive
30. mputer and start again Quick Brown Fox Type View Print B View G Edit L Edit Move Delete Zap Memory Send Receive Clerk Quick Brown Fox is a very simple and logical program To access any of the Menu features simply type the first letter of each command T for type L for line edit M for move P for print and so forth At the end of the Menu after the word Clerk you ll see a flashing rectangle called the cursor This symbol indicates where your last character was typed When you re ready to line edit move it to the place in your text where you want to insert delete or replace text We have to tell you about the Mystery of the Dis appearing Cursor On some Commodore 64s the cursor may vanish in Type mode after a line or two This is because of a ROM Read Only Memory change that was made by Commodore One way to retrieve the cursor is to backspace a character or two hold shift key down press left right arrow key at bottom right and then pro ceed If you own a Datasette recorder you can poke in a short program that will fix the problem See appendix If this is the first time you ve ever used a com puter don t feel nervous You can t melt your keyboard or start a nuclear war by pressing the wrong button A few suggestions Do take time to read this manual as you go along The computer is infin itely patient it will wait for you The most impor tant thing is that you type all of the
31. n Fox cartridge or disk Insert the new disk in your disk drive device 8 and close the door of the drive Then type the following OPEN 1 8 15 NO NAME OF DISK XX and press the RETURN key Instead of NAME OF DISK you can type any title you like up to 15 letters in length Instead of XX you can type any two iden tifying numbers or letters Wait for the drive to do its work When its red light goes out type CLOSE 1 and press the RETURN key RETRIEVE Use this option to transfer text from tape or disk back into the computer s memory Be careful the new text you re retrieving will wipe out any existing text in the computer s workspace screen memory If you don t want this to happen Save that text before retrieving anything else When you choose the Retrieve function the first question the computer will ask you is Zap Memory You must answer Y for yes to this question This will clear the com puter s memory not your file stored on disk if you have saved it first You must retrieve files exactly as you have saved them letter for letter and character for character It would be a good idea to save your files in all upper case letters it s easier to remember So to retrieve text you go to the File Clerk hit R for retrieve answer Y to Zap Memory and specify the device number and file name using the RETURN key at the end of each operation You must type the file name exactly as it appears
32. of the idiosyncrasies that a few printers have It s not difficult though At the beginning you ll be slowed up by mun dane matters such as proper positioning of the paper but before long everything will be second nature Let s do a quick and simple exercise before we start explaining the variations Type a few paragraphs or retrieve them from disk or tape and escape to the Main Menu as usual Press P for Print and then just lean on the space bar until the printer kicks off If you have a Commodore printer answer Y yes to the Commodore ques tion We re presuming that you ve got your printer hooked up properly with the correct inter faces You should follow the directions that come with your printer and computer As you lean on the space bar you notice a list of commands zipping by you on the screen Let s take the time to describe each of these in detail Here s what the complete list looks like Device 4 Commodore Page No Centered Page No at Bottom Page Prefix Quick Brown Fox Li66 P 01 C01 AP View From Scanning Ho QUICK BROWN FOX T PAGE 15 You can change these commands to achieve almost any effect you want when the material is finally printed out Device 4 RS 232 printers are Device 2 Other printers are Device 4 Commodore Do you have a Commodore printer If you do answer Y the first time you print during a session For subsequent printings during the same word proce
33. ompany Manual O 1983 The Quick Brown Fox Company QUICK BROWN friendly professional word processing Welcome to friendly professional word processing on your Commodore computer Quick Brown Fox turns your VIC 20 or Commodore 64 into a powerful writing tool for home school or business Using this word processing program allows you to eliminate much of the drudgery involved with typing writing correcting and rewriting text whether it be the manuscript for your Great American Novel or a simple memo to the boss Some of our Faithful Users have told us that by using a word processor they find their creativity is enhanced With a word processor they don t have to worry about handwriting misspellings or formatting during the creative process They just plunge into writing and make changes later Teachers report that youngsters and adults who use word processors express themselves better because they don t need to worry about penmanship while they re trying to write By following these simple instructions anyone from eight to 100 can become a computer operator within the hour STARTING UP WITH A CARTRIDGE First make sure your computer is turned off Then plug the Quick Brown Fox cartridge into the expansion slot at the right rear of your computer as you face the keyboard placed in normal typing position Never plug in or unplug the cartridge while the computer is turned on Of course read your computer m
34. own Don t wait until you really need them before you try them B View on the Main Menu allows you to view the BoilerPlates you ve stored in your file To type the original BoilerPlates you start out with the Main Menu You hit T to go into Type mode and then press the f 1 function 1 key at the upper right corner of the keyboard Don t hold the shift key down while doing this or you may turn it into a function 2 key Appearing on your screen will be the words Type BoilerPlate 01 Type any text you wish BoilerPlates may be of any length and may contain any of the embedded commands including a Bxx or a K command When you have finished typing one BoilerPlate and wish to type another simply press the f 1 key again with the shift key depressed This tells the computer you really want f 2 which ends the BoilerPlate At this point you ll see the word Type You are back in the normal Type mode If you want to type another BoilerPlate hit the f 1 key again It does not matter if you mix normal text with BoilerPlate text as you type along While it is not a very organized way of doing things you can type a few BoilerPlates then text then more BoilerPlates more text and so on What you must remember is to hit the f 2 key shift and f 1 when you wish to return to the normal typing mode If you do not do this Quick Brown Fox will think your normal text is an addition to BoilerPlate You must always hit f 1 to start a BoilerPla
35. pear on the screen when you are viewing the text You will then be passed on to Line Edit which will show you text near the error so that you can fix it Here are a few points to keep in mind when using embedded commands 1 Whenever possible include a blank in front of an embedded command This avoids long strings QUICK BROWN FOX amp PAGE 11 of characters that may fool Quick Brown Fox when it is searching for the last word on a line An example to avoid is L015 T012CHAPTER NUMERO gt UNO PThis is 2 TAB commands are not affected in printouts by margin settings That is TO20 will tab to position 20 no matter what the margin says However T050 will jump you to the next line if you have an R040 command in force for example 3 Margin commands R and L continue to operate until cancelled or given a new number 4 A TAB command does not automatically pro duce a line feed unless it is necessary to move ahead to the specified position For example a T020 would not produce a line feed if the last character happened to be printed at column 015 If the last character was printed at say column 043 then a T020 would produce a line feed 5 The symbol is always interpreted as a command So if you wish to print out only the symbol type 6 When typing margin commands next to line feed commands type the margin command first before hitting the line feed key GLOBAL EDIT The Global
36. ple will find that this is all the word process ing they ever really need to know Once again follow the directions exactly Escape to the Main Menu and type T to get into the Type mode Next type the Expert example in the next paragraph exactly as you see it mistakes and all Don t correct them as you type The pur pose of this exercise is to show you how to edit and correct your text Just keep typing and ignore the margins If you do make a mistake simply backspace remember how and strike over as necessary But remember right now you can make a correction in this fashion only if you have not advanced to the next line Ready Here s the Expert example for you to type you see the P right at the beginning before the word Welcame P tells the Fox Indent a paragraph You ll learn other embedded com mands as we move on Quick Brown Fox 01 Edit V L Edit From L Edit P Velcame to the Quick Brown Fox a word pressing program designed Replace Bre to the Quick Brown Fox a word pressing program designed PWelcame to the Quick Brown Fox a word pressing program designed for use on the Commodore Word processing is a method of producing typed copy by using a com puter It avoids many of the frustrations and delays built into the use of standard typewriters and offers many advantages PAfter you have used this sytem for a short time and begin to realize the advantages it provides you ll nev
37. productivity By using them in con junction with the K command you can avoid having to type and retype a lot of repetitive material BoilerPlate files can be used effectively for short runs of form letters You can set up files on a variety of topics current affairs the weather your health on separate BoilerPlates each with a different number Then you decide what to tell whom and create a letter by calling up whatever numbers you wish You may want to tell Aunt Hilda about the nice person you met last week but you may not want to tell her what happened afterwards PRINTING OUT BOILERPLATES If you have already printed something out prior to calling up the BoilerPlates just follow these instructions 1 From the main menu type B or b for BoilerPlate View 2 The prompt BoilerPlate 01 will appear Hit the space bar 3 The Print prompt will appear Enter Y for yes 4 BoilerPlates will start printing If the first thing you want to do after you turn on your computer is print out the BoilerPlates you have to first initialize your printer as follows 1 From the main menu type P or p for print 2 Hit the space bar all the way through until the printer starts moving 3 Hit the ESCAPE key to go back to the Main Menu 4 Follow the first set of instructions A WORD ABOUT COLUMNAR TABBING Here s an easy way to set up columns without having to set a T for tab command before each entry You can use the Glob
38. ragraph or any chunk of text preceded by a line feed or P character If you have long unbroken stretches of text however Quick Brown Fox may be forced to break it up If you don t wish to utilize this option hit the space bar View From If you wish to print whatever is in the memory from the beginning j the space bar If you want to start from the middle or anywhere else type a string of characters identi fying the point where you want the printout to begin Hit the ESCAPE key and you will be PAGE 16 G QUICK BROWN FOX shown the first occurrence of this set of characters with the prompt Y N or ESC Answer as usual The word Scanning will appear on the screen as Quick Brown Fox searches for the proper posi tion and lines up all embedded commands This can take a few moments if the point you have specified is near the end of the text Then hit the space bar to continue Ho Short for hold Do you want to hold stop the printer at the of each page Use this option when you have to feed in single sheets of paper or to halt the printer to change print wheels when a Wnn change pitch command is found If you want to stop printing during the run thump the ESCAPE key a few times and the printing process will stop with the word Aborted appearing on the paper To continue printing you must select P from the main menu and go through the print sequence again MORE ON PRINTERS Some of the de
39. re and after whatever text you want centered This command will override the justification command you can t have your text justified and centered at the same time To stop centering type another C after the last word or punctuation mark you want centered Some commands work only on some printers See the Printer section of this manual for further information The following commands will work if your printer can backspace U Starts or stops underlining H Starts or stops boldface heavy print Q Starts or stops overstrike dyes X Starts or stops proportional spacing Some commands override or cause other com mands to be ignored These are the C J and X commands If you want centering you won t get justification J or proportional spacing X If you want justification you won t get propor tional spacing and can t use centering If you want proportional spacing you won t get it where the 4 or C commands are in control You can not use X with P otherwise you will get ragged left and right margins When the J command is in effect any N commands equal to or less than 005 will not work The special effects commands U H and O can be used with each other You can underline boldface and overstrike all at once SPECIAL TIPS ON EMBEDDED COMMANDS Errors when using embedded commands are usually a result of misuse If you make an error so bad that the Fox doesn t know what to do ERR will ap
40. rown Fox contains a feature called autowrap automatic word wrap This means that when you reach the end of a line your cursor will automatically jump to the beginning of the next line You don t have to hit the RETURN key The following applies only if you have a 40 80 character board ESCAPE to the Main Menu and zap your text Hit T for type and hold the shift key down once again This time hit the 2 key Then hit the 7 key You ll get a single quote mark each time Not to worry Although the external display shows only single quotes hitting the 2 key will produce double quotation marks in the final print out OPENING EXAMPLE Now it s time to do a lengthier exercise Once again follow the instructions exactly and care fully observe what happens Don t worry if the length of the lines shown in our example are a different length when you type them on the screen The length may vary depending on whether or not you are using a 40 80 character expander If you type in comparatively long words you may find that the last few letters of the word may be displayed on a line all by itself Don t worry it will look fine when you view or print out Type the memo that appears below To start you off we ll lead you through step by step for the first few characters ESCAPE to the Main Menu hit the left arrow key in the upper left corner of the keyboard remember Zap if you need to hit T for type shift hit M release the
41. rrow to tell you which way you should insert it into the drive Insert it carefully and type LOAD QBF 8 RETURN The messages SEARCHING FOR QBF and LOADING will appear in sequence and the pro gram will load in about 45 seconds When loading is complete leave the disk in the drive and type RUN RETURN The Quick Brown Fox copyright message will appear You can now initialize an 80 column adapter by typing in its initialization address in hexadecimal Otherwise hit the space bar and proceed The program disk is write protected and cannot be used to store files so remove it from the drive and use a blank disk for file storage See the File Clerk section for information on how to initialize or prepare blank disks for storage WORD PROCESSING AT LAST Be patient you ll be word processing in just a few moments The initial preparation is a little more time consuming than just rolling a sheet of paper into a typewriter but you ll save a lot of time and hassle in the long run once you get going PAGE 2 QUICK BROWN FOX After following the specific instructions for your equipment ni Q ptic you will see the Quick Brown Fox Main Menu Don t hit the ESCAPE key left arrow key at the top left of the keyboard to go from the copyright message to the Main Menu If you do you might get a message that says 00000 bytes free in the Type mode and you won t be able to do any typing If you accidentally do this shut off the co
42. s with the Main Menu you select options by typing the first letter of each category or function To save or retrieve text you ll need either a Datasette or a disk drive The disk drive is much faster and more versatile so we hope you ll invest in one Also with a Datasette you can access your Directory only through BASIC see your QUICK BROWN FOX PAGE 7 Commodore user s manual for details The Direc tory is your table of contents that lists all your files by name so it s really essential to have a disk drive unless you want to keep a separate pencil and paper record of your file names and that sort of defeats the purpose of the new electronic marvel known as the computer Any time you select an option from the File Clerk Menu you will be asked to specify the number of whichever device tape player or disk drive you are using The tape player is number 1 and the disk drive number 8 The File Crertcwill remember this from last time and will display the number right on the screen for you If so you need only confirm it by hitting the space bar If no number appears or if the wrong one appears simply enter the proper number the program will automatically go on to the next question If you have more than one disk drive type 9 for the second one Type 6 for the third and 7 for the fourth Let s go through the File Clerk options one by one DIRECTORY Your disk drive keeps all your files in a list and displ
43. scape to the Main Menu and press V for View Hit the space bar twice to View the edited text The text will appear again but with all words spelled correctly Congratulations once again you have edited your first piece of text Sure beats erasing correction fluid and retyping doesn t it As you progress you ll learn more of our embedded commands which permit you to change spacing and margins justify or center text underline overstrike print boldface and insert boilerplates to name but a few A FEW EXPLANATIONS ON TYPE AND LINE EDIT TYPE Before explaining how to store and retrieve your text on disk or cassette let s take a few moments to clarify a number of points about the Type and Line Edit functions that we ve just learned As we noted you can type along and the Fox will automatically advance to the next line without your having to hit the RETURN key On rare occasions the last word on a line may be overly long and the Fox will break it in the middle and place the remainder on the following line before shifting to the next real line Not to worry _ when you View or Print everything will appear on the proper line Quick Brown Fox does not automatically hyphenate but we ve made sure that no words get broken up between lines As you type long stretches of text the top line s will roll up up and away This is called scroll ing Again no problem The Fox keeps the text PAGE 6 Y QUICK BROWN FOX
44. ssing session you need only hit the space bar However if you get graphics or upper case in your printout answer to the auestion again to the question again Page No Centered If yes press the space bar If no press N Page No at Bottom If yes press the space bar If no press N Pressing N will put the page number at the top Page Prefix Quick Brown Fox The words Quick Brown Fox will appear at the bottom of each page of printed text unless you suppress it entirely by pressing the ESCAPE key at this point If you Wish to change the wording retype up to 15 characters and then hit the ESCAPE key You will not be able to correct typing errors at this stage however In order to do so you must escape to the Main Menu and go through the print selection routine again Li66 Do you want 66 lines per page which is standard for 6 lines per inch on 8 by 11 paper If you agree press the space bar if you disagree type in your own two digit number P 01 This option selects page numbering If you don t want any page numbers to appear type 00 C01 How many copies If more than 01 type in that two digit number and you can get as many printouts as you need without having to go through the print selection routine each time AP Associated Press style Quick Brown Fox will not break up a paragraph at the end of a page if VOL answer ues Lo this option In other words each page will start with a new pa
45. t to worry R037 TO25TAB PPARAGRAPH TOTOTAB D025DOTTED TAB LOO5New Left Margin The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy star LOTONew Left Margin The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy star L020New Left Margin The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy star When you have finished typing the above material press the ESCAPE key twice to get back to the Main Menu and then select V for view What you see on the screen should look exactly like this providing your screen can display at least 40 characters PAGE 10 QUICK BROWN FOX TAB PARAGRAPH TAB oe sees DOTTED TAB New Left Margin The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy star New Left Margin The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy star New Left Margin The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy star We will now explain how this happens The symbol says to Quick Brown Fox what follows is a formatting command Display and print out whatever the code tells you to P Skip a line and start a new paragraph indenting five spaces Tnnn Tab nnn spaces from the left column and print what follows You MUST use three digits in the tab code even if you are tabbing fewer than 100 spaces For instance if you wish to tab to column 6 you must type TOO6 When you print out the Tab will count from the left paper margin position 000 Dnnn Set up a tab as with the Tnnn com mand but this time run a series of dots to the
46. tails in this section might not apply to you but it is helpful to get a general under standing of the various types of printers and how they work with Quick Brown Fox You could skim through this section and come back to it as you need to Quick Brown Fox supports all ASCII printers and takes advantage of several of their special features Almost all printers fall in this category Quick Brown Fox works with three general classes of printers Non backspacing Printers The print head on these moves forward only Commodore s printer falls into this category Backspacing Printers With a printer that automatically backspaces you can boldface underline overstrike or proportionally space Draft Dodger Printers These are printers that accept the command sequence known as Escape US This command allows most daisy wheel and thimble printers to vary the horizontal motion index HMI Setting the HMI is essential to the way Quick Brown Fox accomplishes pro portional spacing Nearly all word processing printers are draft dodgers These printers also usually support options on the lines per inch feature If you have such a printer you can vary your lines per inch using the Ixx command Many recent printers have built in features such as alternate character fonts automatic underlin ing even automatic justification Most of these features can be used by Quick Brown Fox by using the N character by number command
47. te and f 2 to end it Quick Brown Fox will automatically number them for you After you have checked your BoilerPlates for accuracy go into the File Clerk and Save them If you decide to create additional BoilerPlates in the future make sure you first Retrieve your previous BoilerPlate file so that new BoilerPlate text will be added on to the same file USING BOILERPLATES Whenever you wish a BoilerPlate to appear in your text just call it up by using the Bxx command B32 would call up only BoilerPlate 32 for instance Once you have typed in all your normal text and the BoilerPlate numbers you want to use go into the File Clerk and merge your BoilerPlate file with the text This permits you to view your text and BoilerPlates just as they would appear together with correct formatting If you do not merge your BoilerPlate file with your text you will be thrown into the Line Edit mode and an ERR error message will appear PAGE 14 G QUICK BROWN FOX near the Bxx command you inserted in your text One gotcha to watch for is using formatting commands that have a global effect changing margins underlining centering and so forth If the centering command is operational and you call up a BoilerPlate the contents of the BoilerPlate will be centered as well If you turn on the underlining command within the Boiler Plate and forget to turn it off all the remaining normal text will be underlined
48. the cursor is positioned on the a in Welcame 2 Press the letter R for Replace Don t worry if a few letters seem to have disappeared from the screen the Fox still has them 3 Press s ee 2 Cower case Magically an o will appear where the a had been 4 Press ESCAPE to confirm the change This puts you back into Line Edit mode so that you can perform another Line Edit function 5 Move the cursor again until it is on the t in the word the We re asking you to delete the word the so press the letter D for delete The QUICK BROWN FOX PAGE 5 letter t should disappear and the he as well as the rest of the text should move up to fill the space 6 Press the eter Wand the rest ofthe ward the will vanish Hitting the ey in Line Edit mode deletes a character at a time and DW deletes a word at a time DS deletes a sentence at a time up to the next period so be careful if you have a decimal point somewhere DP deletes a paragraph at a time up to the next line feed symbol 7 Move the cursor again until it is atop the e in pressing 8 Press the dr Bar ipse zur wait a few seconds until the lines have stopped shifting and the type insert message appears Next press the letters oc and then hit the ESCAPE key This inserted the letters oc and the ESCAPE confirmed it i 9 Now let s see what we ve accomplished E
49. the same with the period the colon and the semicolon On your screen you should see this lt lt lt gt gt gt Menu by left arrow key at the upper left corner of the keyboard We want to zap memory so press Z Just so you don t accidentally destroy your SEL Ed Pulitzer winning manuscript we ve built in a failsafe feature Zap Memory which means Are you sure you really want to Zap this If you are press Y for Yes and kiss it goodbye Okay this time escape to the Main Menu go into Type mode unlock the shift key and strike the keys for comma period colon and semicolon Hit each key three times Now you should see the following That s more like it In the right corner of the keyboard there are two cursor keys one for up down movement the other for right left Once again the position of the shift key is crucial Tap the shift lock locked and press the right left cursor key The cursor will move backwards to the left Unlock the shift lock and a tap on the right left cursor key will move the cursor forward to the right Now type this line of text The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Hold the shift key down not the Shift Lock with a left hand finger and slowly tap the left right cursor key ten times The cursor should now be positioned over the space between the and lazy Release your finger from the shift key and slowly tap the cursor key
50. up to the next U command of course Another restriction to be aware of is that you cannot call up a BoilerPlate with a K command that contains another K Remember too that the BoilerPlates must be in the computer s memory on screen before you can use them Quick Brown Fox is not smart enough yet to find your BoilerPlates on disk This will work but the second K command prints twice once where it s supposed to be and the second time at the end of your text EDITING BOILERPLATES You can edit BoilerPlate text just as any other text Nothing special is required except that you should be careful not to delete the 7 mark that indicates the beginning of a BoilerPlate or the zz mark that indicates the end of a BoilerPlate If you delete one of these accidentally you may end up merging one BoilerPlate with another merging a BoilerPlate with normal text or even merging all your text with a BoilerPlate While it is possible to edit BoilerPlates from the B View mode it is not recommended VIEWING BOILERPLATES By selecting B View from the Menu hit the B key you can see your BoilerPlates one by one and can print them out The first question is BoilerPlate 01 If you don t want to start viewing from this point enter another two digit number and hit the space bar If you do want to view from BoilerPlate 01 hit the space bar three times BOILERPLATE USAGE With a little planning BoilerPlates can greatly increase your
51. y hassle didn t you Now here are the rules for manipulating these commands Edit V L Edit From L Edit PWelcome to the Quick Brawn Fox a word processing program designed 027840 Free PWelcome to the Quick Brown Fox a word processing program designed for use on many popular computers Word processing LINE EDIT The e three oper sible under Line it INSERT DELETE and REPLACE When you want to insert go into Line Edit mode and position your cursor to the right of where you want to insert text Note that the number of characters free will appear Your insert must be no longer than this number Type I or i for insert and the line will reappear with an up arrow A indicating where your insert will occur You may now type whatever you wish to add from a single character to the full memory space remaining When you are finished press the ESCAPE key and the line will reappear with the cursor at the beginning This is helpful if you want to check your insertion add or delete a space and so on Pressing the ESCAPE key once again will return you to the Main Menu You may be returned to View mode first so don t be frightened if the Main Menu doesn t come up right away Just tap the ESCAPE key again and you ll see the Main Menu gt o Delete o into Line Edit mode and this time posrtrofi your cursor directly atop the character you wish to delete Then press D or d The character will d
52. y to use when you want to set off a block of text by using a narrower width The right margin command forces a new line so when you want to set both right and left margins at the same time set the left one first Set your right margin counting from the far left side of the page 000 Nnnn This is the character by number com mand used to send special characters to the printer The three digits nnn are translated to single code and printed You can send any code from 000 to 099 The nnn codes are in your printer s manual use the decimal version Bnn The boilerplate command See the boilerplate section of this manual for full instructions K This command stops the printer for insertion of text from the keyboard The number of charac ters free will appear followed on the next line by the words Type Insert You can type any number of characters up to the Free limit This command is useful for filling in blanks in con tracts and form letters Example Our records show that your current amount owing is K Snn This command changes line spacing S02 is double spacing 503 is triple spacing and so forth Don t type 500 it will automatically get changed to single spacing SO1 The program is automatically set to single spacing which is what you will get if you use no code at all Starts or stops justification and produces a line feed C Center text command You must enter C befo
53. you to the Main Menu without doing anything Also if you are moving paragraphs or any text that starts with an embedd ed command n you must indicate that com mand as part of what you type in after the Start From prompt SEND AND RECEIVE This option from the Main Menu is designed to allow you to send or receive text from one com puter or word processor to another This can either be over telephone lines via a modem or by a direct hook up RS 232 port to RS 232 port between computers This option is specifically intended for communi cation with another system using Quick Brown Fox You may however be able to send receive between Quick Brown Fox and many foreign systems with an RS 232 modem only Quick Brown Fox sends exactly what is in the Line Edit mode If the foreign systems cannot recognize embedded commands you may have to write a program to translate the Quick Brown Fox commands The quickest and easiest way to find out about Send and Receive is to try it You can t mess anything up and if your text has been saved you can t lose anything You must make sure that the two computers are set at the same baud rate speed of data transmission Select compatible baud rates by selecting the proper letter once you ve selected the Send and Receive features from the Menu Device 2 Baud Rate As 50 B 75 C 110 D 134 E 150 2 Commodore li HEADERS A header is an identifying word p
54. your usual SYS 24576 command type SYS 32549 and press the RETURN key Later when you are ready to print select device number 2 and your baud rate as before For more information see page 253 of the Commodore VIC 20 s Programmer s Reference Guide QUICK BROWN FOX Q PAGE 17 APPENDIX To users of Data 20 64K Packs This device presents a special problem Before you can use Quick Brown Fox you must load and run a separate BASIC program Here s how First turn off your computer remove the Quick Brown Fox cartridge then turn the computer back on Next type the word NEW and press the RETURN key Type the following pressing the RETURN key at the end of each line 10 A 39932 20 FOR N 24576 TO 32767 30 POKE A 2 B PEEK N 40 POKE A 0 POKE N B NEXT 50 SYS 24576 Make sure you get all the numbers spacing and punctuation right Don t confuse numeral 1 with letter or numeral O with the letter O Save this program onto tape or disk referring to your com is properly plugged in and start over WIDTH 0 4 8 means you must select how many characters are to be displayed on each line of your screen text If you are using Quick Brown Fox on its own in an unexpanded VIC type O to select the standard VIC 20 text of 22 characters per line If you are using Quick Brown Fox with the Data 20 or Quantum Data board type 4 for a 40 character text display or 8 for an 80 character display according to how your adapt
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