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- GENERATING NYWORD PRT FILES FROM PC-WRITE PR.DEF FILES
-
- The success of the New York Word word processor in the
- "user-supported" software market has taken me quite by surprise. It
- seems as if many people are switching from their old word processors
- to NYWord. It seems that a large number of people were previously
- using the PC-WRITE word processor, published by Quicksoft.
-
- PC-WRITE comes with a utility called MENUPRT.EXE which generates a
- file called PR.DEF. The PR.DEF file contains configuration information
- for your particular printer. NYWord comes with several printer
- configuration files, all ending in a .PRT extension. The PR.DEF and
- the .PRT files have different formats, so the user who changes a
- PR.DEF file to a .PRT file has a tedious job ahead.
-
- The enclosed files help change a PC-WRITE PR.DEF file into a
- NYWord .PRT file. There are three files included in this package. They
- are :
-
- 1) PCWTONYW.EXE - the executable program which generates a PRT file
- from a PR.DEF file.
-
- 2) X.BAT - a batch file to automate the process
-
- 3) PCWTONYW.C - the C source code for the utility
-
- To generate a .PRT file, follow these steps :
-
- A. Use PC-WRITE's MENUPRT.EXE program to choose the printer you
- would like to configure. MENUPRT.EXE will generate a file called
- PR.DEF in your current directory.
-
- B. Invoke the X batch file with the name of the printer. For
- instance, if the PR.DEF file contains information for a Brother H15
- printer, give the command :
-
- X broth15
-
- C. A file called BROTH15.PRT will be generated. This is the printer
- configuration file to be used by NYWord.
-
- D. NYWord comes with a file called WPPRMENU. Change the first line
- of this file to "broth15".
-
- E. Move the BROTH15.PRT file to the same subdirectory as your other
- NYWord configuration files.
-
- Enjoy the utility.
-
- Marc Adler
- Magma Software Systems
- 138 - 23 Hoover Ave.
- Jamaica, NY 11435
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