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- SidePC is a modified version of the public domain program SIDEWAYS.PAS.
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- The modifications are principally to those areas that are EPSON specific,
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- and hopefully, the printer control functions are sufficiently identified
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- so that persons without IBM Graphics Printers can modify to suit.
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- (Should be trivial for everyone but Okidata owners; Oki numbers its
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- printhead pins upside down from the rest of Japan. But if you want
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- the Oki version, leave a message for Fred Baguhn on the PCUG BBS
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- 608-256-8088 and I'll upload it or arrange to transfer it to you
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- directly.)
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- The program is not robust; if your textfile does not have a ^Z as the
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- end of file marker, it will tell you about it by giving a cryptic error
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- message such as 1107, and returning you to DOS.
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- The work around is simple; re-copy your file using the /a switch
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- e.g. A>COPY/A OLDFILE.DOC NEWFILE.DOC
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- which will append the ^Z , as shown by the difference in file size.
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- The program will accept the input file name as a command input; the other
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- questions, such as file or printer output, and Normal or Compressed type,
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- will require operator input, or bypassing via. a program such as KEY-FAKE.
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- CAUTION ON THE FILE OUTPUT OPTION; as you are getting enough output to
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- map each of the dots on a sheet of paper, have lots of free disk space.
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- a 9K source file becomes about 160K of output....
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- While this program doesn't have the font versatility of the commercial
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- versions, it serves as a useful alternative to nothing.
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