J.E.Lawrie                                                           HINTS-18.
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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).
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