TGAL Manual

PAUSE Command
TGAL Commands
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PAUSE Command Use the PAUSE command to display one page of a document at a time. TGAL pauses
at the top of each page. It continues printing when you press the RETURN key.
This command is useful if you do not have continuous form paper; it gives you time to
insert another sheet of paper. You can also use PAUSE to view a document on a
display terminal before printing.
The syntax of the PAUSE command is:
PAUSE










ON
OFF
ON
stops printing after each page.
OFF
prints without stopping.
Considerations
Displaying a document on a terminal lets you view the format, determine page
breaks, and detect errors. A page on a display terminal (24 lines) usually is less
than a printed page (66 lines). Thus, you see only the bottom of each page; the top
part scrolls off the screen. On some terminals, you can scroll back to see the rest of
the page. If your terminal does not let you scroll back, you can set the page length
to the size of the terminal screen.
Terminals cannot overstrike characters, so overprinted lines only display the last
line on a terminal. If, in your EDIT file, you underscore a word, only the
underscores remain on the screen. The line up to and including the word to be
underlined is replaced with the blank and underscore characters that make up the
overprinted line.
If a terminal drops characters from footings, section names, and page numbers,
this is a problem with the terminal, not TGAL. Usually, these items appear
correctly when printed on paper.
On some terminals, if you have lines that exactly meet column 80, the terminal
appears to double space the page. When the terminal prints a line, it prints the
character and then spaces over just as a typewriter does. Unlike the typewriter,
the terminal has no hard stop at the right margin. When it prints a character in
column 80, it spaces to the next line before performing the carriage return. Then, it
prints the next line, thus giving the impression of double spacing. Again, the page
appears correctly when printed on paper.
If you do not use this command, TGAL assumes:
PAUSE OFF