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- Phil Callihan
- Duck Run Electronics
- 5332 Adventure Drive
- Dublin, OH 43017
- (614)761-0724
- CompuServe (72617, 3620)
-
- Date: 17 January 1990
-
- OS2 IBM4019 Laser Printer Program
-
- This is a printer program that we use to assist in
- developing software and to deliver source code documentation
- to our customers. The program accepts multiple file names
- with paths to different directories and uses the command
- line wild cards '*' and '?'. The files are sorted by name,
- printed, and a index listing is produced for the print out.
-
- This program uses the Courier 17.1 font in the
- portrait orientation. Each page printed contains a header,
- 66 lines of text, and a footer. The default page width is
- 124 characters. The top and bottom are 1/2 inch from the
- papers edge. The right margin is 1 inch from the papers
- edge to allow the use of a three ring binder. The left
- margin is 1/4 inch from the papers edge.
-
- The header is printed with double strike, double
- height, and double width characters. The header can contain
- a company name line and a project title line. The header
- will always have the name of the file being printed on a
- line.
-
- The text is printed 66 lines per page without any
- special printer characteristics. This provides a very
- legible listing and still allow rooms to make notes or
- comments on the paper while using the print out. Tabs are
- expanded into spaces by the program. The tab expansion is
- based on the files extension unless a program user overrides
- this with a command line switch. This program expects .c
- and .h files to use a tab size of 3 and all other extension
- use a tab size of 8. This is easily changed with the source
- code or the clever use of a Norton utility.
-
- The footer is printed with the double strike
- characters. The footer will always print "n page of m
- pages" for each file being listed. The n denotes the
- current page of the file and m denotes the last page of the
- file. If the index command line switch is set the footer
- with print a master index page number of each page printed.
- After the files are printed and index is produced that
- allows the files to be found quickly.
-
- The index is printed with a header, text, and footer as
- described above. The text in the index contains an index
- page number for the first page of the file, the file name,
- the number of pages in each file, the file's size, the
- file's disk allocation, and the date the file was last
- written.
-
- The program has several command line options. The
- options are set using the '-' character as a switch. The
- options are:
- -c<arg> - Company name to be used in header,
- -p<arg> - Project title to be used in header,
- -i<arg> - Produce index,
- -d<arg> - Use an Alternate output device,
- -q - Query for company name and project title,
- -t - Tab conversion size,
- -w - Set print width to 132,
- -s - Silent don't verify printing requirements
- -u - Usage - produce program description.
- Upper or lower case characters are accepted as switch
- arguments. An example of this program use could be:
-
- ibmcute -ic "Duck Run Electronics" -p"IBM4019 Printer Program Source Code" g:\ibmcute\source\*.c g:\ibmcute\include\*.h
-
- This command line would use "Duck Run Electronics" as the
- company name, "IBM4019 Printer Source Code" as the project
- title, and produce an index.
-
- I use the program on OS2 version 1.1 and 1.2. The
- program will work with the HPFS, but it treats the files as
- though the were from a FAT file system. The program will
- not work in the DOS mode because threads are used to hurry
- things up. I hope the program is as useful to you as it is
- to us. With the IBM4019 speed it is no longer painful to
- get a good looking program listing. Good job IBM!
-