This utility program is made available to the public as a shareware program. All rights and titles to this utility are reserved and copyrighted by Daniel Delamatta and George F. Farrell, Jr.
You may use this program till your heart's content, and you may give copies to anyone. Under no circumstances are modified copies of this program allowed without the express consaent of the above programmers. If you do not wish to keep this program, then either delete it from your disks, or give it to someone else.
If you do want to keep this program, then send your $15 shareware fee to:
Daniel Delamatta
275 South St Ext
Coventry, CT 06238
On receipt of your fee, you will be put on my mailing list, and will be kept informed of the latest updates.
If you have any problems or questions, then write to the above address, and please state your version number.
The command ~BL will cause the program to issue xx Blank Lines, where xx is a number between 1 and 99.
WARNING: Each one of these lines will be numbered and counted. If you have the line number function on, each line issued will have an ever-increasing number. Even if you do not number the lines, the line number counter will still be incremented.
WARNING: You must be very careful when telling the program to center a line when you have the word wrap on, or you have set the margins narrower than the original text margins. This may cause the current line to exceed the right margin, yielding an error. To prevent this, always have the line to be centered on its own line, and if you have the word wrap on, have a blank line beforehand.
The ~FD will cause the program to issue a Form Feed, or a top of the page character (character 12). This command is useful when you need a lot of blank lines on a page, and are not sure of how many.
The ~UL command will cause the program to UnderLine the following xxx characters, where xxx is a number between 1 and the limits of the right margin, minus the current location.
If you have the word wrap function on, you must be very careful because the number of underlined characters may exceed the right margin. To avoid these occurences, you may put the to-be-underlined word(s) on its own separate line, or issue a ~bl01 just beforehand. This incident will only be necessary if the printed margins are less than the text file margins.
The command ~~ will cause the printer to print the spacial character. However, the above command will only work as-is if the special character is the tilde (~). If you re-define it as the caret (^) for example, then the correct command would be ^^. This variant will hold true for all of the above commands: ~cl would be ^cl, ~wwo would be ^wwo, etc.
This command will be used only in those special circumstances where the special character needs to be printed. If you need to print it quite often, then re-define it, OR turn the IGNORE function off, and then back on again after the multiple use of the special character has been completed.
The command ~@ will cause the program to issue a backspace to the printer, so that you may print over the last position. This is very useful when you need to print foreign characters, but do not want to change to their special set, and back again when done (ie., you only need one or two characters).
The command ~SP will cause the program to Suspend Printing until the command ~RP (Resume Printing) is found. During the time that the program does not print anything, the line numbers and the page numbers are still incremented, eventhough they are printed. The first line after the resumption of print will be on its own new line, with its own line number (if the function is turned on). The next top-of-page number will be the new number.
The command ~RP means to Resume Printing the text. WARNING: Do NOT issue this command without a prior ~SP command: this will cause an error.
There are 52 minor text commands. They are ~AO, ~AF, ~BO, ~BF, etc., until ~ZO, ~ZF. These commands are pre-defined for the user by the program. The A to Z commands are defined as O for on, and F for off. You may never use all of them, but they are there for when you do. Please refer to the ‘Printer’ help instructions for a complete explanation of the various commands.
