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- The QSYS documentation is provided in several files. This may seem
- a bit strange at first, but really, there's a very good reason. Most
- printers available for personal computers are not designed to withstand
- continuous duty. I found this to be true with my own printer. It seems
- that the heat associated with extremely lengthy print jobs has a very
- adverse effect on printheads. For this reason, I thought it appropriate
- to provide the documentation file in the form of several smaller files.
- There is also a provision for combining the files into one large file,
- or to print all of the smaller files at once, for those of you who feel
- that your printer is up the task. If in doubt, assume that your printer
- is only as good as mine was.
- Regardless of which of the following methods you decide to use for
- printing the documentation, a few things are assumed. Each page of the
- documentation is 66 lines long. This means that on standard 8.5" x 11"
- forms, at 6 lines/inch, each page will finish at top-of-form, it it
- started at top-of-form. The documentation files all have an extension
- of '.DOC ', and are on the QSYS DOCUMENTATION diskette in the order in
- which they should be printed and assembled.
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- - Light-Duty Printers:
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- Use the 'COPY ' command to print each '.DOC ' file. For example,
- the command 'COPY Q_TITLE.DOC LPT1: ', would print the first file to a
- printer connected to the first parallel port.
- The 'PRINT ' command could also be used, but since the spooler
- outputs a top-of-form at the end of each file, a blank page would be
- ejected after each file that was printed.
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- - Continuous-Duty Printers
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- A batch file named 'MAKEDOC.BAT ' is provided for combining the
- documentation files, or for printing all of the files at once. This
- batch file uses two parameters. The first parameter tells MAKEDOC where
- the QSYS documentation files can be found, and the second parameter
- tells MAKEDOC where to output them. Enter the command in the following
- format.
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- d:MAKEDOC parm1 parm2
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- d: - The drive in which QSYS DOCUMENTATION is inserted, if not the
- default drive.
- parm1 - The drive in which QSYS DOCUMENTATION is inserted. Must be
- specified if not the default drive, or if parm2 is specified.
- parm2 - The output device or file specification to which the combined
- QSYS documentation files will be copied. Any valid device
- name, such as 'LPT1: ' or 'COM1: ' may be specified. May also
- be a file specification, including drive, path, and filename.
- This parameter defaults to 'd:QSYS.DOC ' if omitted.
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- For example, 'B:MAKEDOC B: LPT1: ' invokes MAKEDOC from drive B:, and
- copies all of the QSYS documentation files from drive B: to the device
- connected to the first parallel port. The command 'MAKEDOC ' without
- any parameters assumes that QSYS DOCUMENTATION is in the default drive,
- and copies all of the documentation files to a file named 'QSYS.DOC '
- on the QSYS DOCUMENTATION diskette. The latter example would be most
- useful for printing the documentation file using the 'PRINT ' command.
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