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Radix
User's Manual
Using Radix With VisiCalc
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program. Although it is
now widely imitated, it is still one of the most popular. The
descriptions here are for VisiCalc as implemented on the IBM-PC;
it may work slightly differently on your computer.
VisiCalc spreadsheets are printed with the /Print command.
The /Print command prints the area of the spreadsheet between
the active cell, at the upper left, and a cell that you enter in the
command, at the lower right.
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First, move the active cell to the cell in the upper left corner of
the area that you want to print. Then, to start the print command,
enter /P, and then P to direct the output to the printer. Now you
must specify the lower right corner of the part of the worksheet
that you want to print, and press return to start printing.
This system works fine if the area of the worksheet that you
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want to print all fits on one page. But if you want to print a larger
area and break it into pages, then you must figure out the different
areas that you want to print and use separate /Print commands to
print them, moving the active cell to the upper left cell of each area
before you print it. You also must use the printer controls to
advance the paper to the next page so that you don't print over the
perforations on sprocket feed paper.
Radix gives you another way to print large spreadsheets. You
can change the width of the characters that Radix prints, and thus
print more characters per line. The "Setup option allows you to
send function codes to the printer from VisiCalc. To change the
character pitch to condensed, enter ""CO( RET). The following
table shows what the shorthand that VisiCalc uses when sending
function codes to the printer. The A character (the caret on the
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VisiCalc control codes
"C
This marks the next character as a control code. For example, if you
want to send control-O to the printer, you must enter "CO.
"E
This sends an esca e to the printer. Since escape is so widely used, they
made a special co B e for it.
"R
This sends a carriage return to the printer.
"L
This sends a line feed to the
between sections of the wor &
rinter. You can use this to put blank lines
sheet as you print it out.
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"H
This code says to treat the next two characters as hexadecimal digits.
For example, if you entered "HOF, then VisiCalc would send hex OF
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(decimal 15, or control-O) to the printer.
Ah
This sends one caret character (") to the printer.
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