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Editing

The following mnemonics are used to control various editing operations in both

text-based and GUI display environments:

'BE' Begin Echoing

'LI' Insert Line

'BI' Begin Input Transparency

'ME' Begin Edit Mode

'BT' Begin Type-Ahead Mode

'MN' End Edit Mode

NI' Next Input Numeric

'BW' Begin WrapAround

'RB' Ring Bell

'CE' Clear from Cursor to End of Screen

'RC' Return Cursor Address

'CF' Clear Foreground Mode

'RL' Return Line Contents

'CI' Clear Input Type-Ahead Buffer

'RP' Terminal Read to End

'CL' Clear from Cursor to End of Line

'RS' Restore Screen

'CS' Clear Screen

'SCROLL' Define/Control Scroll Region

'DC' Delete Character at Cursor

'SE' & 'SD' Scroll Enable/Disable

'EE' End Echo Mode

'TR' Terminal Read from Start

'EI' End Input Transparency

'TW' Transmit Windows as String

'EL' Start Edit Key Load

'UC' Convert Input UpperCase

'ET' End Type Ahead

'WRAP' WrapAround On/Off

'EW' End WrapAround

'FL' Start Function Key Load

GUI Display/Printer

The following mnemonics are used in both graphical environments -- they can be

sent to a graphical print spooling system (i.e., *WINPRT*), or as output to a screen:

'ARC' Define/Draw Arc

'JD' Justify Decimal-Aligned

'Bn' Background Colour

'JL' Left-Justify Text

'BACKGR' or 'BK' Next Colour Is Background

'JN' Right-Justify Numeric

'BLACK' & '_BLACK' Colour Text

'JR' Right-Justify Text

'BLUE' & '_BLUE' Colour Text

'JS' Left-Justify String

'BU' Begin Underscoring

'LINE' Define / Draw a Line

'CIRCLE' Define / Draw a Circle

'LM' 'Landscape Mode

'CP' Condense Print for Screen

'LF' Line Feed (Advance Line)

'COLOUR' & '_COLOUR' User-Defined Colours

'MAGENTA' & '_MAGENTA' Colour Text

'CYAN' & '_CYAN' Colour Text

'MS' Mode Serial

'DEFAULT' or 'DF' Define Default

'PEN' Define Pen Style

'EP' Start Expanded Print

'PICTURE' Define / Draw Picture

'EU' End Underscoring

'PIE' Define / Draw Pie Slice

'FILL' Define Fill Style

'PM' 'Portrait Mode

'Fn' Foreground Colour

'POLYGON' Draw Polygon

'FONT' Define / List Fonts

'RECTANGLE' Draw a Rectangle

'GREEN' & '_GREEN' Colour Text

'RED' & '_RED' Colour Text

'GE' End Graphics Data

'SP' Standard Print

'GS' Start Graphics Transmission

'TEXT' Draw Text

'IMAGE' Define a Graphics Group

'WHITE' & '_WHITE' Color Text

'JC' Justify Centre

'YELLOW' & '_YELLOW' Colour Text

Note: In Windows, the 'FILL', 'FONT', 'PEN', and 'PICTURE' mnemonics use Graphical

Device Interface (GDI) resources/handles that are only released when the window

they are in is dropped or cleared, or their 'IMAGE' group is deleted.