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- SPRINT: Speedy PRINT replacement for IBM ROM BIOS routines.
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-
- Ver 1.0 - 11/04/84 by Ward Christensen
-
- PURPOSE:
- - To make screen print MUCH faster than the BIOS ROM routine under most
- conditions by suppressing trailing blanks from the print lines.
- - To have an execution-time option to eject the page after the print.
- - To translate unprintable control characters shown on the screen, to '.' so
- the printer won't "mess up". (Prompted by Phoenix PFIX debugger which places
- 04H characters on the screen to represent unprintable characters in its ASCII
- dump)
- - To simulate an IBM printer box graphics when printing on a Gemini 10-X
- printer.
-
- INSTALLATION:
- - Simply type: SPRINT, or place it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- DEPENDENCIES:
- - Uses BIOS ROM int 17h for printer output, and INT 10h to get the characters
- off the screen.
- - Must be installed BEFORE GRAF or GRAPHICS or other routines that assume INT
- 5 is the default screen-print routine.
-
- OPERATION:
- - Left-Shift-PrtSc will print the screen, but NOT form-feed after print.
- - Right-Shift-PrtSc will print the screen and form-feed after print.
-
- COPYRIGHT:
- - I do not place any conditions upon this program. HOWEVER, This code is a
- "derivitive work" based upon the Copyrighted IBM BIOS screen print code, and
- thus is thus COPYRIGHT (C) IBM Corp.
-
- NOTES:
- - The GEMINI translation is assembly-time optioned. Users with a standard IBM
- printer will appreciate the speed improvement and form-feed option.
- - Jams itself into screen print INT 5, ignores what was there.
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