====== TOPS-20 Interactive Tutorial ======

This file is a log of a session with the TOPS-20 interactive tutorial on twenex.org. It has been added to the SDF tutorials to make the content available on the World-Wide Web, but it is a much more effective learning experience to work through the tutorial interactively by logging-in to twenex.org and running the TOPS20 program.

===== Executive Summary =====

The tutorial introduces a number of useful keystroke commands for working with in the TOPS-20 EXEC environment.

| Output control |||
|  | ^S | Pause output scrolling |
|  | ^Q | Resume output scrolling |
|  | ^O | Toggle output suppression |
| Command guidance |||
|  | ESC | Command completion and guide words |
|  | ? | Expected input guidance |
| Command line editing |||
|  | ^R | Retype current line |
|  | DEL (or BackSpace) | Erase previous character |
|  | ^W | Erase previous word |
|  | ^U | Erase current line |
| Program status and control |||
|  | ^T | Session status |
|  | ^C | Exit program (may need 2 or more) |

Does not apply to SDF-EU.

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