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Using INFO on a printing terminal. Most of INFO's special value is lost on printing terminals, but it can still help direct you to the documentation you are interested in. When you arrive at a node, the header and title lines will be typed out automatically to orient you. To see any more of the node, you must ask explicitly. The staple of printing terminal INFO is the T command. T prints out the entire node - very simple. As an alternative, the Space command on a printing terminal prints out ten more lines - the ones after the last ones you saw. The B command still works; it will make Spaces start printing from the beginning again. Caret will move back 10 lines, not printing them. B and Caret are most useful on "Glass teletypes", which are stupid displays combining the worst features of displays and printing terminals. The Dot command (redisplay screen) will type out the node's header and title lines once again. It does not affect the sequence of lines printed by Spaces. If your only interest in a node is to use its Menu, you need not type anything out if you know the name of the topic to specify. If you don't, then once you are into the M command you can have the Menu typed out for you, one item at a time, by typing Spaces. When you have seen enough, you can give the Menu item name. Alternatively, you can type a "?", which will provide you with a list of just the names of all the items in the menu. Both "?" and space will no longer work once you have typed the first character of the item name.