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- Programs and documentation (C) 1983 Userview Corporation.
-
- BANNER
-
- This program prints block letters on the display or printer
- with several options.
-
- INVOKING THE PROGRAM: From DOS command level, type BANNER <text>/<options>.
- The /<options> are optional. If no options are specified, the <text>
- is sent to the printer in block letters composed of asterisks. The options,
- which may be combined in any fashion, affect BANNER's behavior as follows:
-
- /D Send the output to the display instead of the printer.
- /F Formfeed (form feed to printer or clear video display)
- /H Print the characters double Height.
- /I Print the characters in Italics.
- /S Compose each block letters with the Same character (i.e.
- a lower case 'q' is made up of many lower case 'q's, etc.)
- /Ux Use char 'x' instead of an asterisk to form the letters.
- Note this option cannot be combined with /S.
- /X Clear other parameter settings
- /W Print the characters double Width.
-
- Typing "banner" without any text will not do anything.
-
- BANNER messages over 10 characters long will not look nice on the video
- display. BANNER messages over 10 characters long which are sent to
- the printer will be printed in a compacted format so as to fit on the
- paper.
-
- BANNER messages may be split up with the form separator (|) character.
- For example, one might use "banner alpha/d|beta/d" to put "alpha" on
- the first line and "beta" on the next.
-
- SPECIAL NOTE: BANNER is configured for use with an Okidata 84P printer.
- The program is easily patched to support other printers. The string
- of characters at 103H is sent to put the printer into compact mode,
- and the string at 10BH puts it back to normal. There is space for
- up to 7 characters of mode-setting; the string must terminate with
- a zero.
-
- The author suspects that the following settings will work with an IBM
- (a/k/a Epson) printer:
-
- ecs:103 0F 1B 30 00
- ecs:10B 12 1B 32 00
-
- but he isn't sure.