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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: WordStar Pagination Question
Keywords: demos
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Date: 8 Feb 90 15:21:20 GMT
References: <9611@cbmvax.commodore.com> <6128@arisia.Xerox.COM>
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In article <6128@arisia.Xerox.COM> stidd@arisia.UUCP (John M. Stidd) writes:
>If you are old enough to remember WordStar and still able to sit up and
>see the screen with your ancient, tired eyes, and peck at the keyboard
>with your arthritic fingers, I have a question for you.

I'm 41 and started using WordStar in 1980.  Do I qualify?

>How do I force a page break from WordStar?  

This was/is done with a "dot command". A line like this:

.pa

did the trick. There was no embedded control code for a page break.

>I don't see a way to enter a ASCII Form Feed (Ctrl-L, hex 0C) into 
>WordStar.  Is there some other way to force a page break?

Besides the fact that Ctrl-L won't do it, you *can* enter any control
character by hitting ctrl-p first. The control-p "print functions" menu
actually inserts control characters in the text.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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