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Atari XL User Manual (77 pages)

Brand: Atari | Category: Software | Size: 0.83 MB |

English

Table of contents

The Last Word

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Contents

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1 INTRODUCTION

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1.2 ABOUT THE MANUAL

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1.3 STARTING LW

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1.4 BASIC OPERATION

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1.4.2 TEXT BANKS

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1.4.4 THE FILE SELECTOR

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1.4.5 BASIC CONFIGURATION

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1.4.6 LEAVING THE PROGRAM

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2 EDITOR COMMANDS

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3.1 COUNTING WORDS

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3.2 EDITED TEXT INDICATOR

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3.3 TABULATION

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3.5 TEXT AND DOCUMENT MODES

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3.4 BOOKMARKS

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Meaning

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Default

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3.8 HANDLING LARGE FILES

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DISK OPERATIONS

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4.2.1 ADDITIONAL COMMANDS

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4.2.2 SUBDIRECTORY FEATURES

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5 PRINTING WITH LW

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5.4 EMBEDDED COMMANDS

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5.4.2 STAGE 2 COMMANDS

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5.5 OTHER PRINT FEATURES

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Statement

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Arguments

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Comments

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6.2.4 STYLES

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7 MACROS

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7.2 RUNNING MACROS

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7.4 SPECIAL MACRO COMMANDS

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7.4.2 SPECIAL CHARACTERS

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7.6 EXAMPLE MACROS

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DUAL FONT LOADER

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TRANSPOSE CHARACTERS

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8 CONFIGURING LW

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8.3 THE LW.SYS FILE

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8.3.3 THE SEARCH PATH

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8.5 CUSTOM FONTS

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8.6.1 THE KEYBOARD TABLE

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KEY 10,97

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KEY 150,3

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9 DOS PACKAGES AND LW

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9.5 DISK-BASED SPARTADOS

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9.6 SPARTADOS X

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10 LW COMMAND SUMMARY

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10.2 SPECIAL KEYS

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10.3 MACRO COMMANDS

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11 PRINT FORMATTING COMMANDS

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12.2 MEMORY USAGE

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12.3 PROGRAM DESIGN

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12.4 DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

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12.5 WHY LW CAME INTO BEING

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12.6 DEVELOPMENT

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12.7 CORRESPONDENCE

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