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- LABELER Version 5.30
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- A PC-DOS / MS-DOS Disk Labeling Program
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- Copyright (c) Guardian Software
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- Guardian Software
- PO Box 39
- St. Clair Shores, MI 48080-0039
- Phone (313) 775-3080
- Fax (313) 774-5848
- CompUServe ID: 76400,3141
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- East Coast Development Center
- 26 Rose Street
- Baltic, CT 06330-1028
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- Program and Documentation Copyright 1986,93 Guardian Software.
- All rights reserved.
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- PC-DOS is a trademark of IBM Corporation
- MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation
- EPSON is a trademark of Sieko Epson Corporation
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- Introduction
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- Tired of trying to find a disk because you were to rushed (in my
- case, lazy) to do a proper job of labeling it? Can't fit all those
- filenames on it anyway? Need to distribute a large number of
- disks, or just one and make sure it gets back to you? Then LABELER
- is just the thing for you.
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- LABELER is a menu driven utility that will produce high quality
- disk labels with a minimum of effort.
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- Registration Information
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- LABELER is distributed as shareware, which means if you've
- downloaded it from a bulletin board or obtained it from a friend,
- you can try it out before you decide whether you'd like to keep it.
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- Like all shareware, if you decide to keep LABELER, you must pay a
- registration fee.
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- LABELER is copyrighted program protected by both U.S. and
- international copyright law. You are authorized to use it without
- charge for a limited period of time (not to exceed 30 days). After
- this time you must register and pay for LABELER to continue using
- it.
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- License Agreement
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- (1) The LABELER program and all other programs and documentation
- distributed or shipped with it are copyrighted works protected by
- U.S and international copyright law.
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- (2) LABELER is a commercial software package. It is not free nor
- in the public domain.
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- (3) If you wish to use LABELER after the 30 day period, you must
- register and pay for LABELER. If you decide not to use LABELER you
- must remove it from your computer, although you are allowed to keep
- copies to pass along to others.
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- (4) You may use your registered copy of LABELER on a single
- computer. You may use LABELER on more than one computer provided
- there is no possibility of LABELER running on more than one machine
- at a time.
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- (5) You may copy LABELER for archival purposes and to distribute
- to others. If you give copies to others, please ensure that they
- get all of the distributed files.
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- (6) You may not distribute LABELER other than through individual
- copies passed to friends and associates. Specifically, you may not
- place LABELER in any commercial library without express written
- consent by Guardian Software.
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- (7) If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this
- License you do not have permission from Guardian Software to use
- LABELER and must remove it from your computer.
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- LABELER Features
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- - Produces labels on several standard size one-up tractor fed
- labels. (And with version 5.30 on sheets)
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- - Add or redefine your own labels (up to 15 total sizes).
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- - Uses any one of your printer ports.
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- - Print a batch of labels for one disk with a single command.
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- - Modify the printer drivers to use your needs.
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- Installing LABELER
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- Your LABELER disk (LABELER.ZIP file if downloaded from a BBS) that
- you received should contain the following files.
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- LABELER.EXE - Program Executable File
- LABELER.DOC - Program Documentation
- LABELER.HST - History of Revisions
- LBL530.ZIP - Authorized BBS upload file
- (other).DRV - Printer driver files (varies)
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- To install on a hard drive copy the above file(s) to the
- hard drive in a subdirectory that is referenced by the path.
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- Using LABELER
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- LABELER now sports a sopisticated (easy with Turbo Vision) user
- interface. To activate a menu item, all you need do is click on
- it with the left mouse button, or press the Alt key and the high-
- lighted letter of the menu item. All dialog boxes can be canceled
- just by pressing the ESCape key or clicking on the small box in the
- upper left hand corner of the box. Navigating around inside the
- dialog box can be a bit trickier. To move from item to item
- you must use the TAB (shift-TAB to go backwards), hold the Alt key
- press the highlighted Letter key or click on the place you want to go.
- Be careful, pressing the ENTER key will always press a pushbutton.
- This can be handy at times (ie: enter a Title on the Title line in the
- PRINT dialog box then pressing ENTER will press the print button.
- This allows you to generate lots of different labels very quickly,
- just insert the disk, type the name, press ENTER and repeat.
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- Print
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- The place you'll spend most all of your time is in the Print
- Dialog Box. The Title line contains the text that will show as the
- Title on your diskette label. Copies tells how many copies of the
- label to print. The two lines above and below the 'Dividers' have
- the text that can replace the dashes separating the three sections
- of the diskette label. If you desire to just have the dashed lines,
- just leave them blank and LABELER will do that for you. Drive is the
- drive that is selected for reading, size is the label definition you
- desire to use, port is your printer port number, margin is the number
- of spaces to print before each line, this moves the whole label over.
- Margin allows to print on labels that are more than one column
- wide. The SAVE button will write all the information on this form
- back into the LABELER.EXE file, so that they will become the new
- startup defaults. The PRINT button prints the label. The SKIP button
- will skip past a label that has already been written on. The EJECT button
- will make the printer spit out the sheet of labels. LOAD will do one line
- feed. The most important use of skip, eject and load is in Laser or
- DeskJet printers. The LINES entry will tell how many 1/12" line feeds
- pushing the LOAD button will perform. Usually this will be 6-7 or 19-20
- depending on which end of the sheet is inserted first. If you print just
- one label and eject the page, the next time you will have to do a skip
- then print a label to skip over the already printed area. Easy, but to
- get to the next column of labels you must feed the page back in and set
- the margin to about 80 then print the labels. The third column over
- uses a margin setting of about 160. But, because the printers usually
- have a larger right margin, the last few letters can be lost. To get
- better results on the third column, feed the sheet in upside/down and
- treat it as the first column. Don't forget to reset LINES before LOADing
- the sheet of labels.
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- Setup Printer
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- Allows you to enter printer setup codes into LABELER. The LOAD
- button will open another box that will show you a list of
- predefined printer driver files that can be loaded into LABELER.
- The SAVE button will write the information into the LABELER.EXE
- file, to become the new defaults. If you press OK then the printer
- changes take effect, but when you restart the program, the printer
- will be reset back to its previous settings. CANCEL causes no
- changes to take place.
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- Configure Labels
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- With this screen, you can change sizes and layout of the labels.
- WRAP directs the program to generate a wrap-around label title (for
- 3½ disk labels). INVert causes the Title to appear on the bottom
- a a label vice the top. DouBLe causes the Title to printed
- double-width. ROWS and COLumnS is a count of the rows and columns
- of filenames that can fit on a label. FILL is the number of spaces
- between columns. FEED is the number of line-feeds (1/12th inch)
- needed to get to the top of the next label. If you are going to
- experiment, use paper to test your changes. It's cheaper.
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- Reg Form
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- This prints out the mail in registration form, after ensuring
- your printer is ready.
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- Register
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- After you send in your registration form, you will receive a card
- stating the serial number and name to type into the REGISTER box.
- The name must be typed exactly as it appears on the card. This
- doesn't activate any additional or secret options, but will provide
- you with that warm feeling associated with doing right. This
- serial number and name combination will be good for any further
- releases of LABELER.
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- Printer Driver Format
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- The printer driver files are simple text files. The only
- difficult thing would be trying to duplicate the 1st line. The
- simplest way would be to copy from another file into the one you
- are making. After that, the information is entered in the same
- order as requested by the dialog box. I.E. Printer, Initializtion
- string, Line Spacing set to 1/12th inch, title on, title off, ....
- Each decimal code is separated by a semicolon and each item ends
- with two semicolons.
- The title on and off allows you to get fancy with bold, italic,
- or different printer fonts on the title line. The graphics is to
- setup to send 8 bytes of 8 bit graphics data to the printer.
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