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TYPEWRIT Documentation
Copyright (C) 1986
by F.P. Nagle
Introduction
In order to understand how to use TYPEWRIT.ACC from
RUBICON SOFTWARE, it is necessary to know a little
about the GEM environment on the 520/1040 ST. Certain
programs can be loaded at inital startup (BOOT UP),
and these programs remain resident in memory until you
turn the system off or RE-BOOT the system. TOS looks
for programs ending in .ACC for these ACCessories.
When Atari first released the ST line, TOS was on
disk, and all ACCessories had to be named DESK1.ACC,
DESK2.ACC etc. When TOS was placed in Read Only Memory
(ROM) chips, this convention was changed to allow any
main name with an ACC extender, so instead of
DESK1.ACC you could actually say TYPEWRIT.ACC. The
accessory on this disk is named TYPEWRIT.ACC. If you
still have TOS on disk and NOT in ROM, then rename
this ACCessory to DESKN.ACC, where N is some number
not currently being used on your BOOT disk.
How To Use The Typewriter
Place this accessory on your BOOT disk, or TOS disk if
still on disk, and turn on the computer. When the
start-up is completed you will see the normal Menu
items at the top of your screen. If you point to the
Desk menu, you will now see another accessory called
TYPEWRIT. Just select this item by pointing to it and
double clicking the left mouse button. (Double
clicking refers to TWO QUICK clicks in a row.) This
will give you a clear screen with two cursor marks.
One in the upper left corner, and one positioned in
the approximate middle of the screen. These are only a
convienience for addressing envelopes. They mark the
Return address area and the Mailing address area for
legal size envelopes.
Just start typing your line of text. As you type the
letters appear on the screen, and you can back space
for corrections until you reach the end of the line or
you press the Return key. Once you press the return
key, the line of text is typed to your printer, and a
line feed is issued to begin the next line of text.
The TYPEWRIT ACCessory can be used for correspondence,
short memos, addressing envelopes, just about anything
an ordinary typewriter can be used for.
There is one added feature that typewriters don't
necessarily have, if your printer can display other
type fonts (Elite, compressed, etc.) you can send the
special characters to turn these functions on and off.
My Epson (tm) can print compressed if it receives
Control-O, (Press and hold the Control key, then press
the O key). By entering this in the TYPEWRIT I can
turn on the compressed mode so my return address is in
a smaller mode than the Mailing address. To turn off
this mode, I merely type Control-R (Press and hold the
Control key, then press the R key). The same thing is
true for all Control-X characters. You can also send
an ESCape sequence to the printer, just press the Esc
key (upper left of the keyboard), and the series of
letters/numbers needed for the complete sequence. Just
remember, to EXIT the ESCape mode, you need to press
Esc at the end. If you fail to press Esc a second
time, each character as you type it is sent to the
printer and you could wind up with some strange output
on your printer.
How To End Using The ACCessory
This is easy, just click on the upper left corner of
the TYPEWRIT window. There is an oval there with an X
through it. Just point and double click. The accessory
window will close, and you will be back to either the
Desk Top, or the program you were running before
activating the typewriter accessory.
COMPLETE SOURCE:
To receive complete source (Personal Pascal) send
$15.00 to:
Frank P. Nagle
559 Bobolink Circle
Sunnyvale, CA 94087-3309
Hope you find this accessory just a little useful.