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- February 20, 1986
- PC-OUTLINE Version 1.02
-
- These are some of the files on this disk:
-
- PCO.EXE - executable file for running PC-OUTLINE
- README.1 - the latest notes about PC-OUTLINE not included in the manual
- README.2 - descriptions of the utility programs included on the disk
- GLOBAL.COM - utility program #1 (see README.2)
- CPY.COM - utility program #2 (see README.2)
- DIRS.COM - utility program #3 (see README.2)
- MOVE.COM - utility program #4 (see README.2)
- MEM.COM - utility program #5 (see README.2)
- BEEP.COM - utility program #6 (see README.2)
- PUSHDIR.COM - utility program #7 (see README.2)
- POPDIR.COM - utility program #8 (see README.2)
- DOC.PRN - brief documentation in printable form
- DOC.PCO - brief documentation in a PC-OUTLINE file
- EPSON.CFG - the epson printer driver
- IBM.CFG - the ibm printer driver
- BLANK.CFG - a dummy printer driver that will ignore all print codes
- PRINTDOC.BAT - a batch file that will print DOC.PRN to LPT1
- PCPRINT.COM - a program for changing printer drivers
- KEYSET.COM - a program for customizing the PC-OUTLINE invoke key
- PCOPRN$.CFG - a printer substitution file for correctly printing graphics
- characters on non-IBM printers.
- CREATE.PCO - an outline describing how to create new outline elements.
- MENUS.PCO - an outline describing how to use the menus.
- HIDING.PCO - an outline describing how to hide and unhide outline
- elements.
- MOVE.PCO - an outline describing how to rearrange outline elements.
-
- Last minute notes about PC-OUTLINE:
-
- A couple new features have been implemented which are not included in
- the manual.
-
- 1) NEW WAY OF SPECIFYING WHERE THE CONFIGURATION FILE IS FOR USE ON
- A HARD DISK: Instead of using the /l=<configuration file/path
- name> as a command parameter option, you may put the command
- SET PCO=<configuration file/path name> in your autoexec.bat
- file. PC-OUTLINE will first look in the current directory for
- the configuration file PCO.CFG. If it is not found there and
- there was no /l=..... command parameter, then PC-OUTLINE will
- try the file/path set in the environment with the dos SET
- command. By using this feature, you can start PC-OUTLINE from
- anywhere on your hard disk simply by pathing to the directory
- that contains PCO.EXE. PC-OUTLINE will do the rest of the work,
- automatically finding its configuration files.
-
- 2) NEW /d COMMAND PARAMETER FOR CONTROLLING THE STARTING CURRENT
- DIRECTORY IN PC-OUTLINE: The configuration file PCO.CFG
- (created from the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION menu) can contain a
- starting directory. If it does, then each time PC-OUTLINE
- starts it will automatically start with that directory as the
- current directory for outline files. If it does not contain a
- starting directory, (the entry in the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION
- menu for starting directory is blank), then PC-OUTLINE will use
- the current DOS directory as its starting directory. If you set
- a current directory in the above menu because you keep most of
- your outline files in one particular location, but sometimes you
- want to start up PC-OUTLINE with a different directory, then you
- can log to the directory you want and type PCO.EXE /d. The /d
- will tell PC-OUTLINE to ignore the starting directory set in the
- configuration file and use the DOS current directory.
-
- 3) Although it is not mentioned in the documentation anywhere,
- PC-OUTLINE supports the creation of a printer substitution table
- allowing you to print graphics characters on some printers. Note:
- Graphics characters will print exactly as seen on the screen on an
- IBM printer. On epson printers and most other printers, however, you
- must do a little extra work to get some graphics characters to print
- correctly.
-
- For example, if you choose bullet numbering for your outlines, an
- epson printer will not correctly print the bullet. To fix this,
- create an ascii file named PCOPRN$.CFG and place the following line
- in it (this file exists on the PC-OUTLINE system disk):
-
- char(254)=143
-
- The bullet character on screen is 254 and the epson printer character
- for a bullet is 143. This command tells PC-OUTLINE that whenever it
- is about to print a character 254, print a 143 instead. You can
- place as many printer substitutions as you like. The string to
- substitute can be more than one character if desired. For example
- you could redefine the tilde character (~) to turn boldface on (for
- an epson printer) by inserting the following line.
-
- char('~')=27,'E'
-
- This would substitute ESC G for every occurence of a tilde character.
-
- Note that there are two ways to insert a value, by placing a
- character in single quotes ('D') or by entering the decimal
- representation for the ascii value of the character (123). Each
- entry must be separated by a comma. Following are some valid
- entries:
-
- char(132)='a'
- char('f')='ABC',32
- char(34)=255,'abc',27,'G'
-
- Any line in the file that begins with a semicolon will be ignored
- (useful for inserting comments). Lines in the substitution file may
- be no longer than 80 characters. To continue a line on the next
- line, end the line with a plus sign. For example:
-
- char('~')='ABCEFGHIJKLMNOP',+
- 'QRSTUVWXYZ'
-
- This command would print the entire alphabet everytime the tilde
- ('~') was encountered in a file.
-
- PC-OUTLINE will look for the file PCOPRN$.CFG in the same directory
- as the configuration file. If you have not used either the
- l=<filename> command parameter or the SET PCO=<filename> command to
- specify where the configuration file is located, then PC-OUTLINE will
- just look for PCOPRN$.CFG in the current directory.
-
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.02:
-
- De-install:
-
- While using PC-OUTLINE in memory resident mode, press Control-Backspace
- three times in a row and PC-OUTLINE will be deinstalled. If there were
- no memory resident programs loaded after PC-OUTLINE, you will recover all
- the memory that PC-OUTLINE was allocated. If you load any memory resident
- programs after PC-OUTLINE, the memory PC-OUTLINE occupied will be freed,
- but it will not be available for dos to use to run programs in.
-
- Note: ONLY USE THE DEINSTALL COMMAND IF YOU INVOKED PC-OUTLINE FROM
- THE DOS PROMPT OR YOUR MACHINE MAY HANG.