IBM 5150 Manual To Operations page 149

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4
Now type:
type items.dat
and press the Enter key.
5
The command you just typed and contents of
ITEMS.DAT will be displayed and printed.
6
When you see the DOS prompt,
A>,
you can remove the
diskette and put it away.
7
Stop the printer from printing what is displayed on the
screen by pressing and holding the Ctrl key and then
pressing the Prtsc key.
Some files contain information that you won't be able
to read. These are programs or certain data files that
the computer can read-but we can't. The printer
information might look similar to this:
~:
s
....,-
..
Tla;]wu~\<t}e u(}7u~<t>j
~~~~t
IU7u
'71\F)
And the information on the screen looks even stranger!
DOS 3-75