WO-DOC.DO Dave Cloutier CLUB 100 Library - 415/939-1246 BBS, 937-5039 NEWSLETTER, 932-8856 VOICE Dave Cloutier (of Bullard Road, North Brookfield, MA 01535) described and listed this program in TRS-80 Microcomputer News for April 1984. "Model 100 Printer Formatter" was the title of the article. I typed the listing and call the program "Word." Fred Forrester added the pagination and titling routines beginning at line 2000 and I added line 5 that automatically corrects the date$ bug every time you run the program (you'll need to change the year to "87" on January 1). In line 5 I also added the lprint command for my printer to print in correspondence mode, something you will want to customize or for yours or eliminate. You can change the default values in lines 1000 and 1010. One idiosyncrasy of the program is the necessity of putting a at the end of the last line--or it won't be printed. With these changes the program is now 2117 bytes long. Dave Cloutier's original documentation (corrected for typos) follows: "The Model 100 has an excellent word processor built into its ROM. However, it does have rather primitive printing features, allowing only width control and no control characters. The following program imitates a few of the basic features of SCRIPSIT-margin control, page length, and line spacing. The codes are displayed below. Left margin LM = 5 (defalt value) Right margin RM = 72 Top margin TM = 6 Bottom margin BM = 60 Page length PL = 66 Line spacing LS = 1 To use the control codes, type them after a greater-than sign (">"). They can be anywhere in a file, but they must be in upper case, separated from each other by one space apiece, and they must be on a separate line. Example: >LM=10 RM=40 LS=2 PL=30 Now is the time for all good foxes to jump over lazy dogs. >LS=1 TRS-80 computers are great. The left margin is set to 10, and the right to 40, giving a line length of 30. The page length is set to 30 lines, but the top and bottom margins remain the default values of 6 and 60. Also, the file is double spaced. This is changed back to single spacing before the printing of the last line. The program is a cheap, but useful alternative from the more advanced text formatters which are beginning to be introduced."