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Section A:
General Introduction
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The Status Line
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A.B. The MZ-3500 Status Line
The bottom line of your screen has a special function,
as already indi-
cated by tnverse video mode:
it is an information line, not affected by
normal screen functions. Either a system status line, or a free definab-
le user status line can be displayed here.
Both of them are
completely
independent.
You
may switch anytime from one status line to the
other
and back again.
Let
us have a look on what EOS is telling us in the system status line.
As you see,
the line is divided into eight fields.
Let us number
the
fields
from
1
to B,
where 1 denotes the leftmost field,
and
8
the
rightmost one. Then, the fields and their meanings are:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Field
'1' -
Name of current program. If the SHELL program is active and
you can enter commands,
"E 0
S" appears here.
Field '2' -
Current drive.
Field '3' -
Active
user area.
When you are running programs which are
switching between drives and user areas,
you can follow it
up in the status line.
Field '4' -
Current keyboard and screen state:
Field
'5'
-
Field
'6'
-
Field '7' -
Field
'8'
-
KeyLock
Monitor
Key Def
UsrStat
SysStat
'Graphics
'Edit Mode'
'Hard Copy'
Keyboard is locked, no input possible
Screen in monitor mode
InpUt of key definitions
Setting user status line
Setting system status line
Screen in pseudo graphics mode
Screen editor active
Screen hardcopy is just performed
For further information,
please refer to section D of
the
system's manual. The screen in described in detail there.
When
EOS
executes a command file,
the
filename
appears
here.
free for user programs.
Today's date (can be switched off)
Current time (can be switched off)
EOS User's manual
Daeumling & Zimmermann
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