ThinkTank Manual

*REPT: [Apple II only] The REPEAT key, when held down simultaneously with another key, causes the other key to repeat. On the Apple IIe and III, you can repeat a key by simply holding it down.

*RETURN: The RETURN key enters a headline into Think— Tank or selects a command. You use it to indicate that you are satisfied with your current entry or command and want the computer to accept it. Al- though it is sometimes called a carriage return, you will generally not use it to move from the end of

one line to the beginning of the next, since Think— Tank does this automatically.

*DELETE: [Apple IIe only] In ThinkTank’s text editor, the DELETE key is used to erase characters or selected blocks of text.

*RESET: The RESET key terminates whatever program is running and causes your computer to act like it had just been turned on. (Since this can be a rather drastic measure, some computers require you to press CTRL—RESET to minimize the chance of accidentally resetting your computer.) You may use RESET to start up ThinkTank (see below). However, DO NOT PRESS THE RESET KEY while running ThinkTank except in the rare case that your computer “hangs” and will not respond to your commands. Pressing RESET causes a premature exit from the program and you will lose any information that hasn’t yet been recorded on your data disk.

In addition to these special keys, the Apple III has a numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard. You can use all of its keys in ThinkTank. The ENTER key is equivalent to the RETURN key described above.

STARTING UP THINKTANK

This section is divided into two parts. If you have a hard disk drive on your computer system, skip to the section on “Hard Disk Systems” later in this chapter.

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