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- 123DOC
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- 123DOC is a program to document a Lotus 123
- spread-sheet as a spread sheet in human readably form.
- The program is written in compiled BasicA for a 320k
- machine with 2 drives and a color board. This is a
- LOTUS type configuration and the program probably does
- not run without the color board. Its speed is print
- limited.
-
- To use the program on a spread sheet file say
- TEST.WKS, first prepare a report file say TEST.PRN of
- the spread sheet in formula mode. ie in 123 use the
- command.
-
- /PFOOC for "Print File Options Other
- Cell-Formulas", with the range pre-specified to be the
- whole spread-sheet of interest. ( Thus this file is
- actually one form of the output. What 123DOC does is
- put this into a matrix format.)
-
- Then run the program with the default set to drive
- A and the disk with the TEST.PRN file in drive B
-
- A>123doc
-
- The program requires the following information in
- order to layout the page and cater to long formulae
- which it attempts to squeeze into a cell so many
- characters wide and an indefinite number of characters
- deep, unless the ajacent cell is free. (Try it)
-
- Cell width--which defaults to 15 characters.
-
- Page width--which defaults to 132 characters.
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- Rows per page--which defaults to 40.
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- The program lists all of the .PRN files on drive B
- and then requests a file name b:....PRN, for which in
- this case the correct answer is
-
- TEST
-
- Given this it reads the spread-sheet file 40 rows
- at a time, displaying the cell structure on the screen,
- and then prints a series of pages that paste together to
- form the 40 rows, going accross the rows. This repeats
- untill the whole report is complete when all rows have
- been read.
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-
- I find it pretty usefull although there are a few
- obvious improvements. Good-luck, address all
- suggestions to John Pearson on (703) 241-8621, or the
- C-UNIX BBS, if you think I should change it.
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