J.E.Lawrie HINTS-18. v.3 Using <>CARD You probably know that pressing <> and CARD at the Index will show a table of ROM, EPROM and RAM in the three slots. <>CARD has another use, especially when doing CLIs. No matter where the cursor is in the INDEX it will be moved to the top of the left-hand column if you type <>CARD and then press ESC.. Normally `Diary' resides there so you can move ~D to Pipedream or ~D~D to Basic or ~L to the last file in use at the top of the Suspended Activities and then ~E to ENTER what you have selected. Just in case `Diary' is not at the top (you will have a mess if it isn't!) then use <>CARD#T#I and hey presto! ( If you don't know how to get ` - it's just <> & ' ) Avoiding a panic! When you push both SHIFTs and the screen remains blank - DON'T PANIC First, check that the contrast control at the left of the keyboard is turned up; it is so easy to move it too low when setting up the computer. No good? Well, you may not know that if any key is making contact (inadvertently of course) both SHIFTs will not start it up. Brush you hands, fairly roughly, over all the keys and try again. If you've done this a few times without success - NOW YOU CAN PANIC ! You could have a duff battery and your supply from the PSU is not there but chances are you will have to do a Hard Reset. Keeping S.sgn and K.sgn out of RAM.- S.sgn is the filename which is created in :RAM.- to held everything which appears on screen from then on, until cancelled. Immediately before anything appears on the screen it is only necessary to press three keys: [] = and S [] is the "square" key. Cancel with [] - and S Whilst S.sgn is in use there is a sign CLI at the rt-hand end of the screen. This can also be cancelled by pressing <> and ESC If the file :*//S.sgn is loaded into Pipedream, as plain text, its contents will be seen. Unfortunately, any files in :RAM.- ,including `boot.cli', if that has been used, can cause problems if left there so one has to remember to erase them. A very good way is to use a cli called SSGN.CLI If this is executed, from whichever RAM it is in it will generate a file called S.sgn in that RAM and not in RAM.-, so it won't cause any problems. Similarly, KSGN.CLI can be used instead of K.sgn if this was was to be used for recording keypresses. SSGN.CLI is simply .T>S.sgn KSGN.CLI is .T<K.sgn ( Note! < here). .S .S END Back to HINTS-INDEX