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1.
Suppose
that
you
are
working
within
Memorite with the file
RECORD.MEM.
For some reason, you have
to
leave
the
MEMORITE
program and go
to
CP/M.
Once
you
are
in
CP/M, you
can
go
directly
to
MEMORITE
and
the
file you
were working on by
entering
TPA
[RETURN].
The
following
example
will
show you
how
to
use
TP
A when already in CP/M:
FORMAT:
TPA
[RETURNj
EXAMPLE:
A>..i.fA
[RETURN]
RESULT:
Any
prompts
or
actions
resulting
from the
last
program you were using will
display on your screen.
2.
If
you
have
to
press
the
RESET
button
to
stop
a program from executing,
normally this results in a loss
of
all
information
you
have
entered
since
the
last
SAVE command
(or
the
last
time
you
wrote
to
disk).
Enter
the TPA
command
after
booting, and you
may
be
able
to
save the
information
you had
entered
before resetting.
The
format
and example for this
use
of TPA
are
identical;
the
only difference
is
that
you would use
it
after
a RESET
to
try
to
retrieve
lost
information.
Note
also
that,
should
you
accidentally
leave
a
program
and
use the TPA
command
to
reenter
it,
you
can
copy
that
program (and all
its
data)
to
disk by
using
the
SAVE command
described
earlier.
You
will
need
to
specify
the
approximate
size
of
the program or
data
in memory, in "pages" of
256
bytes.
Tbe
BSPL Command
The
BSPL
(begin
spooler) command allows you
to
spool (send) a particular file
to
the
disk so
that
eventually
it
can
be
printed
out.
The
BSPL
command
will
begin
the
spooler
function
and
send
all
subsequent
printer
characters to a
specified file.
BSPL
will
detach
any
attached
printer device before
spooling.
Therefore,
after
completion of BSPL, make
sure
you
attach
your printer.
As
another suggestion, consider using a specific extension for all spooled
files.
Although
the
spooler
will
accept
any extension,
it
is usually a good idea
to
use a c'ertain type of extension
to
signify
that
all
files
with
that
extension
are
to
be
dealt
with in the same way.
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