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- PRTSCFX.DOC -- Documentation for PrtScFX 11/23/83
-
- PrtScFX is a screen dump program which prints a graphic image of a text
- mode display on an Epson FX or RX (not MX!) series printer. The printout
- looks just like a screen display, including connected line graphics.
-
- PrtScFX should be run once, typically from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. From
- then on, if you are in 80 column text mode, the Shift-Prtsc key will give
- you the prompt:
-
- G = text graphics dump, D = darker graphics, SPACE = normal dump, Esc = cancel
-
- and you can type:
-
- G for a text mode graphics dump
- D for a better quality (double-strike) text graphics dump
- Space Bar for a "normal" screen dump (passes the request on to the
- standard - or other special - screen dump utility)
- Esc to cancel the screen dump request
-
- Either the IBM Monochrome Display or the color/graphics adapter can be
- used, but only 80-column TEXT mode displays are dumped. For either display
- adapter, the printout duplicates the font of the IBM Monochrome Display.
-
- PrtScFX coexists nicely with IBM's GRAPHICS program. Just run them both in
- your AUTOEXEC (in either order), and then GRAPHICS will handle graphics
- mode displays, and PrtScFX will kick in for text mode.
-
- PrtScFX produced the illustrations of Transend PC screens in my article
- (with Richard Moore), "A Communications Package for the IBM PC", in the
- November 1983 BYTE magazine. For camera-ready art like this, I recommend:
-
- * A fairly fresh ribbon - but not brand new (smudges). The one we used
- in the article was a little faint.
- * Good quality bond paper - not typical printout paper (the ink bleeds).
- * If available, friction feed instead of pin feed - better registration.
- * The D option for double-strike graphics.
-
- In the article, we used a ribbon that was just a little too faint.
-
-
- PrtScFX is placed in the public domain without restriction.
-
- Michael Geary
- P.O. Box 1479
- Los Gatos, CA 95031
- (408) 354-4400
-
-
- FILES
- -----
-
- If you just want to use PrtScFX, you just need PRTSCFX.COM
-
- If you want to modify and/or re-assemble PrtScFX, the source files are
- PRTSCFX.ASM and MONOCG.ASM. The latter file contains the character
- generator data from the ROM on the display adapters. If you don't need to
- modify this, just use MONOCG.OBJ.
-
-
- ASSEMBLING & LINKING
- --------------------
-
- (change drive letters as needed)
-
- B>masm PrtScFX ;
- B>masm MonoCG ; (omit if you have MONOCG.OBJ)
- B>link PrtScFX + MonoCG ;
- If you have the Spacemaker program by Realia, Inc.:
- B>sm PrtScFX ; /s
- If you don't have Spacemaker, you should get it! For now, use:
- B>exe2bin PrtScFX.exe PrtScFX.com
- (Your .COM file will be larger using exe2bin)
- B>del PrtScFX.exe
-
- Suggested modifications: Handle 40 column text, clean up & document code
- (sorry, it started out as a "quick and dirty" program).
-
-