J.E.Lawrie HINTS-11 v.2 Z88 to PCW Locofile - Transfer 1. Create intended Locofile file card as needed. 2. Save Z88 file as plain text. 3. Send to PCW as ASCII file, using C.PORT or CPM transfer, PIP/MAIL 4. PCW. Create Locoscript file (F1) & insert text of ASCII file. 5. Edit file. Find and exchange all <--' (hard returns) except those to be used as `separators' in Locofile. e.g References <--' Keywords <--' Notes <--' 6. Run Locofile, create new filecard. 7. (F1) Insert text. 8. Select Merge file (file with same number of hard returns as intended file card, e.g References <--' Keywords <--' and Notes <--' ). 9. Select Z88 ASC file, now converted to Locoscript, with hard returns deleted except for intended separators for filecard 10. Edit new file card in Locofile for spelling, etc. Note! If, when inserting text into Locofile, the intended text spills over into more filecards than intended it may be the result of not deleting ALL hard returns - the `strays' are being treated as separators!. ( Provided by Peter Jenkins ) Printing from a Pipedream file. Something I have never seen in any manual or book on the Z88 - - with a Pipedream file on screen and the printer all ready to print you can mark a block, press <>PO and it prints, immediately ! Mark the top left slot and the bottom right slot (with <>Z) and press <>PO and it will print the whole page. Or you can mark part of a page or even just one line. Don't forget to press <>Q to cancel the block marking after printing.. You can print addresses, selectively, very quickly this way; or only parts of spreadsheets without fiddling with "range of columns" or "rows to print" which you get if you type <>PO before marking. Which RAM? Isn't it annoying when you go from an application to the Filer and find that it is not the RAM you were hoping it would be? What you can do is to move to the RAM you want there and press ESC. Now, every time you go to the Filer from that application you are at the same RAM. END Back to HINTS-INDEX