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In <Bx043x.5tv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider) writes:

>I am trying to use the \verbatim command that is in the TeXbook,
>but I can't figure it out.  Does anyone out there use this
>(or a similar command) in plain TeX?

>What I want to do is to have *exactly* what is on my screen
>appear on the page.  Could someone suggest exactly which
>definitions I need to copy out of the TeXbook?

Well.....  this may be more than you really want at the moment, but 
to kill this bird, and many others, with the same stone why don't
you get the eplain.tex format file off of one of the servers.  
Eplain is Karl Berry's EXTENDED plain format, which contains all sorts of
nifty things including a properly working verbatim like environment
for plain TeX.  The nice thing is that is just *extends* plain TeX 
without breaking anything, and you're not forced into style conventions
as with LaTeX (in his intro Berry says this was his goal,to give 
functionality like cross-referencing, automatic equation numbers, etc.
in a format free environment).

It's at shsu, Berry's own machine, etc.

Hope this is helpful --- Tom