Formatting Records - Tandy 600 Owner's Manual

Valid characters in the FORM fields are:
Formatting Records
You fill in fields of the FORM record to define the type, width, and
appearance of the data fields in each column. Column widths are
determined by the number of characters, including spaces, that you type in
the fields of the Form record. There are 3 field types: text, number, or
date/time.
Do not mix types in a single Form record field. For example, when
formatting a column of address fields consisting of numbers and text, you
must format the column for text or for numbers. Because you use numbers
in addresses descriptively rather than mathematically, text is the logical
column format.
text
boilerplate symbol for phone number formats
boilerplate symbols for phone number formats
number
scientific notation
boilerplate symbol for dollar formats
boilerplate symbol for decimal formats
boilerplate symbol for number formats
month
day of the month
year
boilerplate symbol for date formats
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hour format
minute
second
a boilerplate symbol for time formats
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Note: Any characters can be used as boilerplates in the FORM field. The
ones listed here are only some of the most commonly used
boilerplate symbols.
You can change the format in the FORM field to convert one type of data
to another. However, when you convert numbers to text, you can no longer
calculate them. They lose their genuine numeric values.
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