In the section "iS-DOS!" we will consider-
ask questions related to working in a new
iS-DOS disk operating system.
So today we’ll look at:
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│║ P R A V I L A ║│
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│║ USING THE NEWSpectrum MAGAZINE ║│
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Magazine "NEWSpectrum", as you already understand,
whether, published in the operating system
iS-DOS - “and that’s right!”, as they said
in a famous advertisement. Why?
Yes because:
Firstly:
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- user-friendly interface, easy to read information
mation on the screen, both color and black-
but a white (monochrome) monitor, so
how you can customize it as you wish
paper color, ink, border, and
screen size.
Secondly:
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- text and graphic information is easy-
to print on a printer (which is not to say-
are you talking about such a popular magazine as
"SPECTROFON"). By the way, the texts can be written
chat on a printer connected to
IBM computer, which many people have on
work!
Thirdly:
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- text information, in whole or
only some part (according to you -
lania), easy to transfer to another disk
or destroy it on the same disk. That is,
after reading the magazine, you can decide what to do
deal with information that you don’t want
needed.
Fourth:
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- the magazine also contains programs, work-
operating system TR-DOS, which
can be easily copied to disk, formatted
designed for TR-DOS.
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│ HOW TO PRINT ARTICLES FROM A MAGAZINE │
│ ON THE PRINTER │
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All articles are in the NEWSP directory.
Open this directory, select the one you need
article, place the cursor on this file and
press the "H" key, in the menu that appears
nu tune in to the desired operating mode of the Va-
your printer and print to your health (not
forgetting, of course, to pre-load
driver for your printer).
For ease of printing, you can pre-
Efficiently divide the text into pages. What
does it give? Let's say you divided the text into
pages of 45 lines each. This is known
cheat that the printer will print 45 lines and
will stop for you to replace
sheet of paper for a new one. One more thingproperty in
that it is possible to establish an ordinal well-
page layout.
How to practically divide the text into
pages?
Move the cursor to the desired file and click
Press key 4, that is, enter the text
vy editor. Move the cursor to the line
which will be the last one on the page, click
Press SS/Space and then the "L" key. you
you will see that appears under the cursor
the dotted (endless) line is and
there is a page end symbol - LF (Form
Feed).
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│ HOW TO RECORD PART OF TEXT │
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In order to record only some
th part of the text according to your desire, need-
but note this part.
How is this done?
Once in your text editor, enter
cursor to the first line with which you want
Please mark part of the text. Press once
SS/ENTER, then press the "M" key.
The line turned pink, with
using the "Q" and "A" keys, the marked block
can be increased or decreased. Having installed
to the last line of the marked block,
press the "M" key again. Everything, yours
block is marked. Now it needs to be written to
separate file.
To do this, press simultaneously
SS/ENTER, then the "P" key. In the appeared
In the next window, write the file name, for example,
part1.txt.
where part1 is the file name;
txt - file extension.
Press ENTER and your file will be written to
the directory where you are now.
Now you can print this file on
printer.
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│ HOW TO RECORD A GAME FROM SECTION │
│ "GAME LIBRARY" │
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Open the "GAMES" directory, select
the game you need, for example "SEYMOUR",
open this directory and use the key
SPACE (space) mark all files found
living here. After this, press the key
2 and in the menu that appears at the top left, select
Select the option "WORK WITH TR-DOS", press
ENTER. A menu will appear on the right, selecting
Select "WRITE TO TR-DOS DISCS" and press
ENTER. The copier screen will appear flashing
with a cursor prompting you to select a dis-
drive A, B, C or D. After selecting the drive
press ENTER - "SOURCE" will appear
- press ENTER - part of the files will be downloaded
from the copied disc. The inscription will change to
"DESTINATION" - insert a disc into the drive
formatted in TR-DOS and press
ENTER. Change disks until it appears
the inscription "COPY END".
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Now you are reading a text with line length
ki in 42 characters, but if you click on the key
hang 1, then you can read the text in which
You can print 64 characters on one line.
lA. This can be done in any text
log file.
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│ VIEWING CONTROL KEYS │
│ TEXT FILES │
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A - one line up
Q - one line down
S - smooth scrolling up
(when pressed again, the speed increases
is revealed)
W - smooth scrolling down
(when pressed again, the speed will decrease
no need)
1 - 64 characters per line (press again
ie - 42 characters per line)
CS/A - page down
CS/Q - page up
CS/S - to the end of the file
CS/W - to the beginning of the file
SS/A - exit to SHELL shell
SS/SPACE - call the customizer.
About how to work with the customizer in
next issue of "NEWSpectrum" magazine
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kiSSSoft 1995
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