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COMMANDS MENU
The Commands menu contains several items which con-
trol th e MacTerminal document and the local computer. Pull
down the Commands menu . Th e first item listed s hould be
Don't Record Lines Off Top. Wh en this item is sel ec ted, th e
entries onto the MacTerminal document will disappear as th ey
scroll
off the top of the di sp lay. Pulling down the Commands
menu again will reveal th e command Record Lines Off Top.
Selecting thi s item will return the document to the initial mode.
Th e Mac will retain the lines which scro ll off the top of the
dis pla y.
We will assume at this point th at you have been communi-
cating with the remote computer. You will notice that the
docum ent scrolls upward beyond the top of th e Mac 's di splay.
The portion which is remembered beyond th e top of the di sp lay
is called the "Off Top" portion of the document. The Off Top
portion of the d oc ument is delin eated from the dis pla y portion
by th e dotted line which appears at the top of the display (see
figure 8.4).
To
remove th e lines stored Off Top, select the Clear Lines
Off Top item in th e Commands menu. This may be necessary
when communica ting for ex te nded periods of tim e where th e
docum ent becomes too large to hold within the Mac's RAM.
The Mac will display the window, s hown in figure 8. 14 . Select
Yes to co mplete th e operation. Pr essing the Return or Enter
keys su bs titut es for sel ecting No in this window. You may wish
to save this document b efore erasing the Off Top portion.
The next item in the Commands menu is Reset. Selecting
thi s o ption will clear the display portion of the document. It
will also cause the Settings menu it ems to return to the settings
held when the document was opened or la st save d. The OffTop
portion of the document will remain intact. The Mac will
di spl ay another message which is depicted in figure 8. 15 .
Selecting Yes will instruct the Mac to comp lete the opera tion.