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- Disk Envelope Printer
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- By M.J.Worsfold 1989.
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- One of my major niggles about floppy disks, is that the sticky
- labels are just not big enough to write all the disk information
- on. Disk Envelope has been written to first scan the disk and then
- print an envelope which can be cut out and glued together. This
- will aid in the determination of what is on each disk without the
- need to do a quick DIR. This envelope contains the details of all
- the files on the disk in their appropriate directories.This is very
- useful when your disks are full with small files in many different
- directories.
- Admittedly this only works for 5 1/4 inch disks as 3 1/2 inch
- disk don't even need envelopes, it is also silly to try and print
- an envelope for a Hard disk!
- To make the program even more useful, I have allowed a simple
- disk listing to be made to the printer. This could be very useful
- when cleaning up hard disks of unwanted files, as the program gives
- a complete listing of all the files on the disk.Hidden, System and
- Read-only files are given abbreviations in the listing so that they
- can be identified as such.
- Quite a lot of files on computers are personal, some of them
- you may not wish to be printed on the envelopes. For this reason I
- have included a facility to remove lines from the scanned data.
- However once removed they can only be replaced by re-scanning the
- disk, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
- The envelope can only have 96 entries printed on it (due to
- it's physical size), while the scanned disk can have many thousands
- of entries. I've allowed for 5000 entries, with up to 500 files in
- any one directory. The colour of the entries changes at 96 entries
- so you will know what will be printed on the envelope.
- The program is menu driven and as such is easy to use. When
- editing the disk data, lines can be removed using the DEL key on
- the numerical keypad. The line cursor can be moved using the cursor
- and page keys in the normal fashion.
- The final output can be to any Epson or IBM graphics printer
- (or Compatibles), in Draft,NLQ or even Enhanced NLQ !. Speed drops
- considerably with Enhanced NLQ as four passes of the head are made.
- All different screen displays are covered including all mono
- and colour adapters. The program only uses the text screen so all
- types of graphics adapter will work. I have tested the program on
- Hercules, CGA, EGA and MCGA and all have worked fine.
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- I hope you find the program useful, even if you don't use 5
- 1/4 inch disks.
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- M.J.Worsfold.
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