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_Welcome to the World of_

\GS-TOP\

\The _Interactive_ Text Output Processor\

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From

\_GILMORE SYSTEMS_\

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Welcome to the world of GS-TOP, the _interactive_ text output processor.
GS-TOP can handle your text formatting needs from one page memos to
form letters, to full blown manuals. The GS-TOP package includes the
following supplemental programs:

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\GSCONFIG\\\Allows you to customize GS-TOP to your printer. Whatever
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your printer is capable of doing, GS-TOP can activate it (ie:
Color, super and subscripts, italics, etc.).
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\GS-INDEX\\\Creates a word index of your formatted file.
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\GS-TABLE\\\Creates a table of contents of your formatted file.
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GS-TOP is highly command oriented. Your text file contains both your
text and commands to GS-TOP. All commands start in column 1 of your
input file. For instance, the command to center things on your output
(screen, printer, or file), is '/CENTER=ON'. To turn centering off, the
'/CENTER=OFF' command is used. All text that appears between these two
commands (text does not mean 'commands') would be centered. Other
commands work the same way. All commands are English-like so that you
don't have to memorize meaningless abbreviations. Note how the command
started with the '/' symbol. When that symbol appears in column 1, that
tells GS-TOP that line is a command and not text. GS-TOP then activates
or deactivates that particular command path. GS-TOP looks for special
symbols that mean other things like start or stop underlining,
boldface, automatic insertion variables such as day, date, time, a user
response to a prompt, or a file response. These symbols can all be
redefined so that you have use of all the symbols on the keyboard for
your text.

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GS-TOP recognizes the '@' symbol (you can change it later) to mean an
automatic variable. For instance, when GS-TOP encounters '@day' in your
text, it replaces it with _%day_ (the current day of the week). '@date'
is replaced with _%date,_ '@time' is replaced with _%time_ and '@user'
asks you to respond. When you are prompted with the '_USER AUTOVAR_' at
the bottom of your screen, type your name followed by the 'enter' key.
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Hello there, %user!
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GS-TOP can also get responses from a file with '@file' placed in your
text. This is used for form letters.
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GS-TOP can also issue messages to the user, like telling him to insert
a diskette with a certain file in a particular drive and to hit a key
when he's done so. Here is a sample message that waits for you to hit a
key to continue with processing. \Hit the space bar after you've read
the message.\
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GS-TOP can also show you what commands are activated or deactivated and
the parameters (if any) on the activated commands. You can accomplish
this by asking to see a 'Status Report' at any time.
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/wait=Hit the Space Bar when ready!
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GS-TOP will always return you to the main processing screen when you're
done. You can interactively issue commands to GS-TOP to activate or
deactive certain functions. When you are prompted with 'Command ===>'
at the bottom of the screen, you can enter a command. To return to
text processing, just hit 'enter' without typing a command (enter a
blank line). Try issuing the command 'STRIKE=2' followed by the 'enter'
key. When you are prompted for another command, just hit 'enter'.
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You could have entered _any_ command at that command line. All commands
entered on that command line take immediate effect. If you make a
mistake with a command, GS-TOP will issue an error message something
like ....
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If you made the mistake from the command line rather than in your file,
GS-TOP will precede the error message with 2 '++' signs. You can enter
commands including the 'STATUS' command to see what's going on.
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This has been a small sampling of GS-TOP's capabilities. Please take
the time to read through the User's Manual, paying close attention to
Section 3.
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