Jack Dohany’s introduction to Customized MScript version 5 (CMS V5), dated March 1986. CMS is Dohany’s reworking of Micro-Systems Software’s MScript word processor for the TS2068. It came in four varieties: MS5T for cassette only, MS5A for cassette and the A&J wafer drive, MS5D for cassette and the AERCO disk, and MS5Z for cassette and the Zebra disk.
The introduction sheet covers getting started and summarizes the new Home Menu, which replaces MScript’s help menu with a cataloger and commands to add, load, save, kill and restore text, choose a drive, printer interface and number of copies, and set block printing, form feed and line feed options. It also lists the new function keys (alternate character set, key click, a flipped top key row for cursor and editing keys) and pokes for Tasman B and C interfaces. The rest of the document is the alphabetical reference that also came on the disk as the textfiles ANN, BILL and CARL, with BASIC line numbers and memory locations for each command. A later Oliger-disk build, MS V5.5, is in the MScript (FD68) download.
The full reference that this sheet introduces, the textfiles INTRO, ANN, BILL and CARL converted to plain text, is in the “CMS V5 reference” folder of the MScript (FD68) download.
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