Atari 400 - Page 298

296 User 's Handbook to the Atari 400/ 800 Computers
The output produced would be;
NNA
Notice that when the ESC \ CTRL-+ keyboard entry was made,
the control process specified (cursor left) did not actually occur .
However, the screen character for cursor left (-) was displayed
on the screen.
When the PRINT statement was subsequently executed, the
cursor left control process did take place. The result of this
control process was the movement of the cursor one position to
the left (over the third N entry) and the display of the A in place
of the previous character entered (N).
If the Atari ASCII code 27 (keyboard e ntry ESC \ ESC) is included
in the PRINT statement just before the control character, that
control process will not occur. However , the control character
will be displayed.
For example, if the following statement was entered,
~ ESC \ ESC pressed here
PRINT "NNN -A"
~ ESC \CTRL-+ pressed here
the following output would be displayed on the screen;
NNN-A
Notice that while the control process did not occur, the control
character was displayed.
A great number of the Atari characters can only be entered via
the keyboard when the keyboard is in the lower case mode. By
pressing the LOWR key once, the keyboard will be in the lower
case mode. If the CAPS key is pressed (SHIFT-LOWR keys), the
keyboard ' is returned to the upper case mode.