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- OKIGRAPHICS
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- A Graphics designer for the Okidata Microline 93
- (c) 1984 by Neil J. Rubenking
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- ║ I release this program into the ║ ║
- ║ public domain. If you create a ║ Neil J. Rubenking ║
- ║ particularly great design with ║ 300 Page Street ║
- ║ it, I would very much appreciate ║ San Francisco, CA 94102 ║
- ║ receivinging a copy (on disk) ║ ║
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- With OKIGRAPHICS you can design a graphics pattern on-screen, dot by dot,
- and save it to a file or print it directly to the printer. You can also
- retrieve such a file for further editing. You can TYPE a file created by this
- program directly to your printer ("type (filename).OKI>prn"), so you may use
- it to create a title page for a report, and then print the title page from a
- batch file.
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- OKIGRAPHICS is still rather rough-hewn. It has no capacity for saving
- parts of images for later use, or even for copying an image to another part
- of its screen. It is pretty much a dot-by-dot affair. Also, because of the
- way it manipulates its huge array of potential dots, it is amazingly slow.
- (For programs of this size written in TURBO PASCAL, anything but an instant
- response is amazingly slow!). Also, there is no I/O checking -- if you ask
- to retrieve a file that does not exists, you will CRASH. All that aside, it
- does the job.
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- OKIGRAPHICS COMMANDS
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- OKIGRAPHICS shows a 42 row by 80 column window of dots at any time.
- This prints as a rectangle about 1/2" by 1 1/3". You can move this window
- using <Ctrl> + left, right, PgUp, or PgDn. The maximum up-and-down dimension
- of a "big picture" is 20 of these screens -- across, it's 8 screens. Thus,
- if you have the patience, you can create an APA graphics design about 10"
- square. <Ctrl>+ Home and End moves you to the top left or to the bottom
- right of the "big picture".
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- The keypad arrows move in the direction you would expect, and the keypad
- "corners" move you diagonally. If the Scroll Lock is on, moving around with
- the keypad leaves a trail of dots set. (I always end up with one too many or
- too few!)
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- F1: set a dot
- F2: erase a dot
- F3: print--either to printer or to file
- F4: retrieve file
- F7: re-initialize (blank the "big picture")
- F9: blank the current screen
- F10: QUIT
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- CURSOR MOVEMENT
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- <Ctrl> goes to top ║ ┌─── ║ /^\ ║ ───┐ ║ <Ctrl> moves 1/2
- left of picture ║ │ \ ║ │ ║ / │ ║ screen up
- ║ \ ║ │ ║ / ║
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- ║ / ║ ║ \ ║
- <Ctrl> moves 1/2 ║ <─── ║ ║ ───> ║ <Ctrl> moves 1/2
- screen left ║ \ ║ ║ / ║ screen right
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- ║ / ║ │ ║ \ ║
- <Ctrl> goes to ║ │ / ║ │ ║ \ │ ║ <Ctrl> moves 1/2
- bottom right of ║ └─── ║ \v/ ║ ───┘ ║ screen down
- picture ╚════════╩════════╩════════╝
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- SAMPLE OKIGRAFX FILES:
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- "Anagram.OKI" and "Dict.OKI" print out the words "ANAGRAM" and
- "DICTIONARY" in letters about 1/2" high.
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