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- LASERJET.COM - V4.2
- December 31, 1985
- Author - Guy Gallo
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- SYNTAX : LASERJET [/L]
-
- Where /L is an optional parameter which loads laserjet into memory.
-
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- PURPOSE
-
- To facilitate the setup and manipulation of the Hewlett-Packard
- LaserJet printer.
-
- REQUIREMENTS
-
- The HP LaserJet, optional font cartridges
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- To access fonts other than those built into the ROM of the
- LaserJet (that is, Courier 10 portrait (vertical) and Courier 10
- landscape) you must have one of the following optional Font
- Cartridges:
-
- 92286A - Roman-8
- Bold and Italic for Courier 10
- Line Printer (16.6 cpi) landscape
-
- 92286B - TMS Proportional USACII:
- Times Roman 10 point normal, bold, italic
- Times Roman 8 point (no bold or italic)
- Helvetica 14.4 point (bold only);
- Line Printer (landscape) 16.6 cpi
-
- 92286D - Prestige Elite
- This cartridge overrides Courier 10 as the default for the
- LaserJet. Resetting the printer invokes Prestige Elite 10
- point, 12 cpi with the Roman-8 character set.
- USACII is available from the Font menu.
- Bold and Italic.
-
- 92286E - Letter Gothic
- Bold and Italic 12 point, 12 cpi
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-
- USAGE
- All commands can be accessed by typing the letter of the
- command. Alternately, you can move the highlight to the desired
- command and press <enter>.
-
- The highlight is moved using the following keys:
- spacebar, right-arrow - highlight next command
- backspace, left-arrow - highlight previous command
- Home - goto first command
- End - goto last command
-
- LOADING:
-
- There are two ways to run LaserJet.
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- 1) Normally, simply by entering LaserJet at the Dos Prompt.
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- 2) And the memory resident option:
-
- A> Laserjet /L
-
- This will load LaserJet into memory, consuming 79 Kilobytes of memory.
- This parameter can be either upper or lower case.
-
- The HotKey can be changed to any of the following:
- Alt F1 - F10
- Shift F1-F10
- Ctrl F1-F10
- Alt 1-0,-,=
- This is done by selecting HotKey under the options menu. The altered
- HotKey can be changed anytime, on the fly, or made permanent by
- selecting Save setup (also under the Options menu); In order for the
- Save setup option to work, the program MUST be 1) named LASERJET.COM,
- and 2) accessible in the currently active directory.
-
-
- This memory resident version has been tested with the following memory
- resident program loaded PRIOR to LaserJet:
- FileFacility, CED, SuperKey, SideKick.
-
- If you wish to use LaserJet from within SideKick's notepade, you MUST
- load LaserJet FIRST.
-
- You can reclaim the memory consumed by LaserJet by selecting Unload
- in the Options menu.
- BE SURE YOU ARE NOT INSIDE A PROGRAM WHEN YOU DO THIS. YOU WILL BE
- DUMPED TO DOS IF YOU ARE.
-
-
- [note: the LaserJet allows two Fonts to be selected at a
- time. This enables you to switch (either from
- LaserJet.com or from your application) the active font.
-
- For example:
- if you have the proportional space font loaded.
- Set Primary to Prop. Set Secondary to Italic.
- If you are using WordStar (or some other patchable
- editor), you can now specify, through WordStar's
- intallation program, a printer format command that will
- switch to Italic by sending ^O at the beginning of the
- words to be italicized and ^N when you wish to return
- to primary (normal) printing.
- Or, in other editors, you can actually embed the ^O/^N
- pair manually into the text.
- Or, if you are printing a straight ascii file from
- within Laserjet.com, you can select Out before List and
- the entire file will be printed in the secondary font
- (italics in this example). You could also set Primary
- as Proportional and Secondary as Courier or Line
- Printer.]
-
- Most command are completely self-explanatory. A few that might use
- some comment follow:
-
- Left Margin - the number of spaces to offset the left
- margin. This is useful if printing an ascii file from
- within Laserjet.com
-
- Right Margin (that is the number of spaces to allow
- for each line, at the currently specified font - with
- TinyRmn you can have a larger line than Courier; or in
- Line Printer;
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- Top Margin - the number of spaced to skip at the top of
- each page (in addition to the default .5 inch); uses the
- current lines per inch to determine distance.
-
- Clear - clear all margin settings to default. Top margin
- must be reset to 5; a full reset does this automatically.
-
- 66 - allows the LaserJet, which usually prints only
- 62 lines per page, to print 66 lines per page. This
- enables you to use many page printer, WordStar and other
- programs that expect to print 66 lines per page
-
- 51 - sets the page length appropriate to landscape
- printing.
-
- 86 - sets the page length appropriate to legal sized
- sheets.
-
- Lines - set the number of lines per inch. The number of
- 1/48th of an inch to skip.
-
- Pitch - this option allows you to change the number of
- characters per inch the LaserJet will print; This would
- allow you to customize your document (much in the way
- the .cw dot command does in WordStar);
-
- You can force the selected Font (Font must be selected FIRST) to
- print in a pitch other than its normal pitch. A 10 pitch font
- (Courier) can print at 12; or Elite (12 pitch) at 10.
-
-
- NOTE: when using proportional space fonts, only the SPACE
- character is affected by the Pitch commnad. The result is
- that the characters are no closer together (or further apart),
- but the words are.
-
- NOTE: Each time you select a Font, or switch from Primary to
- secondary font, the PITCH is reset to the selected font's default.
- So, select the font you wish to use FIRST.
- This part of LaserJet.com uses the Horizontal Cursor Spacing
- command. See page 4-37 in the manual.
-
-
-
- ENVELOPE - sets the margins and orientation for manual
- feeding of a business-sized envelope.
-
- Version 4.2 has much improved editting of the ten label lines. Press Esc
- return to the Export Menu. The current label can then be saved or printed.
- It will remain in memory until over-written by another label with the load
- command or until manually erased.
-
-
-
- LIST - prints an ASCII file to the LaserJet in either portrait (55 lines
- per page) or landscape (47 lines per page), with page number and
- optional header (consisting of filename). At this time, Laserjet
- will NOT print WordStar files.
-
- Note: The Landscape option of the List commad sets the right hand
- margin (line length) to 160. This enables you to take advantage of
- the Line Printer Font (16.6 cpi) on cartrige 92286B. If, however,
- you are only using the in ROM landscape Font (Courier 10 cpi), be
- aware that any characters beyond 80 (minus left margin) will not be
- printed.
-
- The left margin is left at 0 for both portrait and landscape under
- the List command. You can set it manually using the Offset command.
-
- There is now an option to print at either 6 lines per inche or
- 8 lines per inch. In portrait mode, 6 lines per inch will print
- 58 textlines; 8 lines per inch will print 78 textlines. In
- landscape mode, 6 lpi will print 46 textlines; 8 lpi will print 58.
-
- NOTA BENE:
- A complete RESET will be performed if List was activated in
- Landscape mode; Otherwise Font selections will remain as selected
- before entering List and lines per page will remain as selected
- for printing.
-
-
- TYPE - a typewriter emulator that allows you to type and edit a page of text
- (a full 66 lines) before sending it to the printer.
- The bottom line of the display shows the Function Key commands
- active within the TypeWriter.
-
- 1-Undo last change in current line
- 2-Tab - Set, clear and purge all tabs
- 3-DelLine - Deletes current line
- 4-Insline - Inserts line
- 5-Erase - erases line
- 6-Print (line spacing 1,2,or 3)
- 7-Save memo to disk
- 8-Load memo from disk
- 9-Clear - erases current memo
- 10-Help - shows Alt Key functions
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- NOTE: Version 4.2 allows the loading and saving of memos. If you try
- to load an ascii file larger than 66 lines LaserJet will read
- the first 66 lines and then stop. Avoid this.
-
- NOTE: Nothing will be sent to the LaserJet until you select Print (F6);
- If you have not exited or erased the page with ESC, you can
- print the page any number of times.
-
-
- OTHER ACTIVE KEYS
- ESC - erases the current page and starts over
- PgUp - up a screen
- PgDn - down a screen
- Home - moves to beginning of current line
- End - moves to end of current line
- Ctrl-Home - top line of current screen
- Ctrl-End - bottom line of current screen
- Ctrl-PgUp - goes to first line of page
- Ctrl-PgDn - goes to last line of page
- Ctrl-RightArrow - moves forward to next word
- Ctrl-LeftArrow - moves back to previous word
- Alt-F7 - erase from cursor to the end of current line
- Tab - moves forward to next tab stop (see F3)
- Shift-Tab - move backward to previous tab stop
- Alt-D - deletes current line
- Alt-E - invokes envelope feed
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- FORMATTING:
- Alt-I - begins and ends Italics
- Alt-B - begins and ends Bold
- Alt-U - begins and ends Underline
- These codes must be entered a second time in order to
- turned off formatting. (e.g. <alt-u>anyword<alt-u>)
-
- Alt-S - makes Secondary font active for the words that follow until
- Alt-P is encountered.
- Alt-P - makes Primary font active again after an Alt-S
- (e.g. <alt-s>This would be secondary font <alt-p>and this in primary).
-
- Alt-L - activates Landscape Orientation
- Alt-M - activates Manual Feed
-
- Landscape (Alt-L or Alt-E) orientation will be reset to portrait
- upon exiting the TypeWriter.
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- NOTE: With a little fiddling, you can use the TypeWriter to print labels.
- Test the spacing using autofeed, compare to your labels, adjust, then
- print (number of copies also adjustable);
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- Also, if you need to print many copies of the same Envelope (or just the
- return address) the TypeWriter might be easier than the line by line
- editor under Envelope.
-
- The interface for version 4.2 was completely rewritten using code from
- Borland International's Turbo Editor ToolBox. It is hoped that a future
- release will also use the kernel editor from this package, to allow for
- expanded notepad functions.
-
- The memory resident routine was written by Lane Ferris (STAYRES.332).
-
- Please address any comments or discovered bugs to
- Guy Gallo
- at PCSI 1-212-924-6598
- The Invention Factory 1-212-431-1194
- Gene Plantz' IBBS in Chicago.
-
- If you feel this is a useful program, send payment to:
-
- Guy Gallo
- c/o Harvard Club of New York
- 27 West 44th Street
- New York, NY 10036