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---- HELP FILE ON USING TVEDIT ---- THIS HELP FILE PROVIDES INFORMATION NESSARY FOR CREATING AND EDITING A FILE ON THE PDP-8 USING THE TV SCREEN EDITOR TVEDIT. IT DESCRIBES THE OS/8 COMMANDS TO RUN TVEDIT, THE FORMAT FOR SPECIFYING INPUT & OUTPUT FILES, AND THE COMMANDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE WITHIN THE EDITOR FOR CHANGING TEXT. -- TO OBTAIN A COPY OF THIS HELP FILE TYPE: .TYPE TVEDIT.HL (CR) (THE . IS SUPPLIED BY OS/8) (NOTE: (CR)=CARRIAGE RETURN) -- KEYBOARD MONITOR CALL: (TO RUN THE TV EDITOR) .R TVEDIT (CR) -- COMMAND DECODER CALLS: (TO SPECIFY INPUT & OUTPUT FILES) GENERAL FORMAT: *DEV:OUTPUT.1<DEV:INPUT.1,...DEV:INPUT.9 (CR) CREATING A FILE: *DTA1:FILENA.PA< (CR) NOTE: DTA1=DEC.TAPE#1 READING A FILE: *<DSK:FILENA.PA (CR) NOTE: DSK=DISK MODIFYING A FILE: *DTA0:FILEN1.PA<DTA1:FILEN2.PA (CR) MERGING FILES: *DTA0:FILEN1.PA<DTA1:FILEN2.PA,DSK:FILEN3.PA(CR -- TVEDIT COMMANDS FOR EDITING FILES (TO CHANGE TEXT) -- CURSOR POSITIONING: HOME CURSOR HOME OR (CTRL) ] UPPER LEFT CORNER OF SCREEN UP CURSOR (CTRL) Z OR (UP ARROW) ONE POSITION UP DOWN CURSOR (CTRL) K OR (DOWN ARROW) ONE POSITION DOWN RIGHT CURSOR(CTRL) X OR (RHT ARROW) ONE POSITION RIGHT LEFT CURSOR (CTRL) H OR (LEFT ARROW) ONE POSTION LEFT TAB SET (CTRL) T SET TAB MARK AT CURSOR POSITION (NOTE- TAB SET IN COLUMN 1 CLEARS ALL TABS) TAB CURSOR TAB OR (CTRL) I MOVE CURSOR RIGHT TO NEXT TAB MARK -- CHARACTER MANIPULATION: DELETE CHARACTER (CTRL) D DELETE CURSOR CHAR LINE DELETE (CTRL) L DELETE BLANK LINE BLANK LINE (CTRL) B BLANK LINE FROM CURSOR TO END OF LINE ADD-TEXT MODE (CTRL) A ENTER CHARACTER INSERT MODE NORMAL-TEXT MODE (CTRL) N ENTER CHARACTER OVER-WRITE MODE PAGE (CTRL) P SCROLL UP FOUR LINES OF TEXT VIEW (CTRL) V SCROLL THROUGH TEXT (ANY CHAR TERMINATES) -- TEXT SEARCH: (TO FIND SOME TEXT IN THE FILE) ($ IS TERMINATOR CHAR, (AT SYMBOL)= ANY CHAR FOR SEARCH) SEARCH TEXT (CTRL) S SEARCH FILE FOR 1 TO 17 CHARACTERS REPLACE TEXT (CTRL) R REPLACE 1 TO 17 CHAR BY 0 TO 17 CHARS (EITHER SEARCH OR REPLACE STOPPED BY ANY CHAR) UNDO TEXT STRING (CTRL) U CLEAR CURRENT TEXT STRING BUFFER QUIT EDITTING (CTRL) Q COMPLETE EDIT WITH CURSOR LINE END EDITTING (CTRL) E COMPLETE EDIT WITH ALL TEXT -- MISCELLANEOUS: BREAKPOINT (CTRL) C RETURN TO KEYBOARD MONITOR REPEAT LAST COMMAND (AT SYMBOL) REPEAT LAST COMMAND --NOTE: WHEN YOU ARE THROUGH, PLEASE TYPE THE FOLLOWING DEL *.BN,*.LS,*.TM SQUISH SYS:/0 THESE COMMANDS WILL GET RID OF ANY TEMPORARY FILES THE SYSTEM MAY HAVE CREATED AND WILL INSURE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF FREE SPACE ON DEC TAPE.