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Contents
Table of Contents
Troubleshooting
Bookmarks
Table of Contents
Introduction
Contents
Setting up
Fitting the Mains Plug
Connecting the Keyboard and the Printer
Switching on
The Main Keyboard
The Keyboard with ALT
The Keyboard with EXTRA
Special Key Combinations
Your First Twenty Minutes
Postscript
Keeping Your Work on Disc
Discs for the PCW8256
How to Handle Discs
Loading and Unloading Discs
Making Copies of Discs
Notes about Copying
Organising Your Work
Keeping Your Filing System up to Date
Managing Your Discs
How to Move about the Screen
The Operations Available
Word Processing Operations
Disc Housekeeping
Preparing Discs for Use
Making a Start of Day Disc
Making a Data Disc
Formatting
Let's Make a Data Disc
A Guide to Locoscript
Typing Special Characters
Enhancing the Text
Underlining
How Locoscript Remembers Your Instructions
A Bit of Style
Using the Simpler Editing Keys
The Textual Movement Keys
Textual Movement and Editing
Deleting Sections of Text
Finding a Particular Point in the Text
Moving a Section of Text
Copying a Section of Text
Exchanging One Piece of Text for Another
Setting out Text
Indenting Text
Tables
Changing the Tab Settings
Changing the Margins
Changing an Existing Layout
Refining the Appearance of the Text
Centring Text
Justification
Right Justification
Using Different Character Sizes
Document Layout
A New Layout
Making Changes
Using an Existing Layout
Editing a Layout
Line Endings
Setting out Pages
What Is a Page?
Changing the Line Spacing
Changing the Line Pitch
Where to Start a New Page
Let Locoscript Choose
Making more Fundamental Changes
Headings and Page Numbers
Setting up Headers and Footers
The End Result
Cutting and Pasting
Maintaining Your Blocks
Pasting in Whole Documents
Using Phrases
Setting up Phrases
Maintaining Your Phrases
Printing
Printing Your Documents
The Printer Control State
Direct Printing
Printing Part of a Document
Eliminating Keystrokes
Using the Set and Clear Menus
Using Abbreviations
Doing Without Menus
Setting up a Group Template
A New Template
Editing Template
Other Changes to File Header
Summaries of Your Documents
Lockscript Summarised
How Locoscript Views Your Documents
Key Features
Operating the Menus
Locoscript Shortcuts
The Set and Clear Menus
Avoiding the Menus
Summary of the Word Processing Menus
The Show Menu
Codes
Rulers
The Emphasis Menu
Edit Layout
Underline
The Style Menu
Bold
Double
Reverse Video
The Pages Menu
Last Line of Page
End Page here
Edit Header
The Blocks Menu
Insert Text
Block
Troubleshooting
Loading and Maintenance
Paper for the Printer
Autoloading the Printer
Continuous Stationery
Removing the Tractor Mechanism
Changing the Ribbon
Adjusting the Print Head
Putting a New Cassette in
General Hints
Using Locoscipt Files in Other Programs
Making an ASCII File
File Communication
Index
Locomotive Software
Transfer
Documentation
Breach
Exclusions
CP/M Plus
The PCW8256 Keyboard under CP/M
Introduction to CP/M on the PCW8256
Getting Started
Essential Preparation
Using CP/M
Using the Utilities
What's on Your Discs
The Memory Disc
Copying Files
Organising Your Discs
File Sizes
Some Shortcuts to Take
When Programs Need Two Drives
Which Commands to Use
Assissing the Available Space
Copying Discs
Creating Files
Creating a Start of Day Disc
Editing the Command Line
Editing Text Files
Starting the Edit
Editing Large Files
The Editing Commands
Moving the Pointer
Displaying What You Are Editing
Inserting Characters
Search and Replace
Finishing the Edit
ED Error Messages
Erasing Files
Finding the Size of a File
Formatting Discs
Listing the Directory
Listing a File
Operating the Printer
Auto-Loading the Printer
Other Printer Operations
Changing the Paper Settings
Troubleshooting the Printer
Personalising Your System
Generating Command Sequences
Extending What Happens When You Load CP/M
Making Use of the Function Keys
Renaming Files
Resetting the PCW8256
Shortening the Command Line
Searching Additional Discs
Including Submit Files in the Search
Switching Which Disc Is Read or Written
Commercial Software for the PCW8256
Suitable Software
First Steps
Running Ready Installed Software
Turnkey Operation
Installing the Software
Running the Installation Program
PCW8256 Parameters
Keyboard Operations
Printer Operations
Screen Operations
Graphics on the PCW8256
The Pcw8256'S GSX Software
GSX Programs for the PCW8256
Using Other Printers and Plotters
Errors Associated with GSX Programs
Technical Information
The CP/M Plus Built-In Commands and Utilities
Conventions
Setting up the Hardware
Advanced Programming Tools
Dir
Dirsys
Disckit
Copying
Single-Drive Systems
Two-Drive Systems
DISCKIT Messages
Erase
Get
Initdir
Pip
PIP Options
Put
Rename
Setdef
Show
Submit
Type
User
Date
Device
DEVICE Options
Language
Language Identifierss
Palette
Paper
Setlst
Setsio
Set24X80
Dump
Ed
ED Commands
Gencom
Hexcom
Lib
Link
Mac
Patch
Rmac
Save
Sid
Xref
Help
CP/M Plus Character Sets
The Language Variants
Characters Available under CP/M
Redefining the Keyboard
Setting up the Key Definition File
Making the Redefined Keyboard Your Standard
The Supplied Set of Expansion Tokens and Expansion Strings
The Complete Character Set
Advanced Use of the Printer
The First Button
The Next Button
LF and FF
Print Quality
Further Control of the Printer
Paper End Detection
Printing Hexadecimal Codes
The Final Button
Printer Control Codes
Printing Text
Printing Graphics
Page Layout
Line Spacing
Margins
Tabs
Print Position Changes
Backspace
Carriage Return
Form Feed
Override Paper End Detection
Paper Feed
Page Length
Single Sheet Mode
Printer Initialisation
Clear Print Buffer
Reset the Printer
Reset the Print Defaults
Typestyles
Condensed Text
Elite Text
Enlarged Text
Italic Text
High Quality Text
Double-Strike
Emphasised Text
Selecting a Mixed Print Mode
Superscripts and Subscripts
Special Characters
Character Set Variants
Extending the Range of Characters that Can be Printed
Selecting Zero with or Without a Slash
Graphic Effects
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Quick Links
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Introduction
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Switching on
3
Special Key Combinations
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