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- ** Programmer's Technical Reference for MSDOS and the IBM PC **
- USA copyright TXG 392-616 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- ──────────────────────────┤ DOSREF (tm) ├───────────────────────────
- ISBN 1-878830-02-3 (disk-based text)
- Copyright (c) 1987, 1994 Dave Williams
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- │ Shareware Version, 01/20/94 │
- │ Please Register Your Copy │
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- How to use this Reference
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- This reference changes so often that any attempt to format it for
- pagination would be a tremendous waste of time. Simply printing the
- thing out and letting the pagebreaks fall where they may is how most
- people do it. The neatest solution is Vern Buerg's LIST.COM or
- SideKick's file view function.
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- An efficient method of using the Reference is to concatenate all the
- chapters together with the COPY command, ie COPY CONTENTS +
- CHAPTER.001 + CHAPTER.002 + ..... + CHAPTER.010 REF. (REF being the
- new file name for the concatenated files.) With LIST.COM, the
- backslash (\) or F9 key will search for strings. You can then dump
- pieces of text to a disk file or your printer.
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- If you work better with a printout than scanning with a file viewer,
- try setting your printer to 132 columns. This allows a nice margin
- for writing notes, and eliminates the problem some printers have when
- printing 80 character wide text. Some of the text and charts in the
- reference are a full 80 columns wide; unfortunately some printers wrap
- automatically at 79 columns. Some printers don't handle a combination
- of compressed print and graphics characters very well either. You may
- have to use the PRTRFIX.COM program provided on Disk 1 to squelch the
- graphics for printing.
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