🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm slowly getting up to speed on TeX (running on a VAX) and Metafont (on
my Atari ST), together with various viewers.  Not a guru in sight, unfortunately
And the manuals kinda assume the availability of one.  So I have a few questions
1) Once virmf has read plain.bas, is there any way of interrogating it on-line
as to what the settings corresponding to various modes are?
2) Can anyone tell me the settings for the modes built into plain.bas for the
Atari ST (as available on panarthea)?
3) The printing of WEB documents that incorporate changes seems to be MASSIVELY
affected by a thing called '\maybe'.  I keep finding places where it's set,
but noplace where it's either tested or conditionally set.  Any help?  Any
pointers?
4) So I lied in the header..here's something else: I have neither a .DVI driver
for my Star NX-1000 nor the connections to support ftp.  Any pointers to
source or Atari ST executables of (I presume)dvieps?  Is some file I already
have likely to be a good skeleton to build my own from?
5) (getting weird) My printer supports color.  Does the TeX universe?
                                   Steve J.