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PCPS.EXE Version 7.02 -------- Copyright (c) 1992 MicroSource 1. INTRODUCTION --------------- PCPS is an executable program designed to run under MS-DOS or PC-DOS version 2.1 upwards. The program will read in a normal DOS text file and produce POSTSCRIPT* output that can be directly printed on a POSTSCRIPT* compatible printer, in particular, the Apple Laserwriter. 2. LICENSE ---------- Please read the file LICENSE.DOC for licensing information. 3. DESCRIPTION -------------- When executed, PCPS reads in one or more text files, converts them to POSTSCRIPT* and the outputs them either directly to a printer or optionally to a disk file. Banner, orientation, fonts, font sizes, line handling, output format, output path and line numbering options may be specified. 4. USEAGE AND ARGUMENTS ----------------------- The format of the command is as follows: PCPS [-args] file1 file2.....filen If no arguments are specified the following defaults are true: 1. Default output is to the second printer ie. LPT2 2. Default output page order is normal ie. first page first (this is for laser printers that do sort the pages out for you.) 3. Default is non-gaudy banner ON ie. a banner containing the file name, creation date and time and the POSTSCRIPT* page number will be printed in bold at the top of each page. 4. Default font is Courier. 5. Default font sizes are: Portrait and 1 col Landscape - 10 point. 2 col Landscape - 7 point. 6. Default orientation is Portrait. 7. Default is to wrap long lines. 8. Default is to pass tab characters through as they are. 9. Default is to do page sorting in memory if there is enough free memory for the operation 10. Default is no line numbers. 11. Default is not to delete input file after processing. 12. Default is for continuous paper feed (ie. Not Manual Feed) 5. ARGUMENTS ------------ -l => List available font codes. This should be used by itself (ie. PCPC -L) as anything else on the line will be ignored. -b => Banner OFF (ie. Do not print a banner on each page). * -b- => Enable Banner. 5. ARGUMENTS (cont) ------------ -c => Truncate (Cut) lines longer than the maximum number of characters allowed for the current mode. * -c- => Wrap long lines -dl => Delete the input file after successful processing. USE WITH CAUTION! PCPS considers that if it receives no errors when processing the file, then it is printed. On a network, however, the print job might get lost! * -dl- => Do NOT delete the input file. -dm => Switch off memory sorting - useful if, for some reason, PCPS reports a memory allocation error whilst processing your document. * -dm- => Enable memory sorting -dr => Enable draft mode whereby the word "DRAFT" is printed in grey on each page appearing to be behind the text. * -dr- => Disable draft mode. -f<code><size> => Code of font to use followed by optional font size. Refer to section 7 or -l argument for a description of font codes. The font size must be specified after the font code(if present) or if you wish just to alter the size and not the default font, -f<size> will be accepted. * -f- => Use Courier font at the default point size for that mode. -g => Print a gaudy banner at the top of the page containing the file last-modified date and time, the file name and the page number. This argument is meaningless if "-b" (banner off) is specified. * -g- => Use non-gaudy banner if banner is enabled. -i => Inverse page order (ie. Output the last page first). * -i- => Normal page order. -m => Manual paper feed at printer - useful if you wish to use different paper than what is loaded into the paper tray. -m1 => Manual paper feed for the first page only - useful if the first page needs to be printed on letter head. * -m- => Disable either manual feed mode. -o<path> => Instead of output to LPT2, output to <path> where <path> can be the pathname of a file (eg. \bin\example.ps) or the name of another printer (eg. LPT1). **NB** This argument replaces "-p" from previous versions * -o- => Use the default output file LPT2. 5. ARGUMENTS (cont) ------------ -p<path> => Printer Preparation file pathname - the contents of this file are sent to the output file prior to the POSTSCRIPT* output of PCPS. (See Section 6) -p- => Do not use any Printer Preparation File (See Section 6) -q => Quiet mode - no fancy information is displayed. For each file processed, only the number of pages output is displayed. * -q- => Noisy(?) mode with lots of information on the screen. -r => Rotate the print 90 degrees (Landscape mode). This mode allows lines up to 132 characters before it wraps or truncates. * -r- => Use portrait orientation. -2 => Rotate the print 90 degrees and print in two columns with the smaller 7 point print. This is a good mode to economize on paper. * -2- => Use single column portrait orientation. -t[n] => Expand tabs to tabstops. If just -t is specified, tabs will be expanded to tabstops every 8 columns. If a number (n) follows the -t, tabs will be expanded to tabstops every n columns. * -t- => Pass through tabs untouched. -u[n] => Unlimited (almost) line length or specify number of chars - PCPS, as a default, calculates a maximum line length based on the font size and paper orientation. This calculation is performed assuming COURIER font (the only non-proportional font) and so is inaccurate when applied to other fonts. The usual result of this is that it under-calculates how many characters will fit on the line. This switch is useful if you wish to over-ride the calculated line length. The maximum line length will be set to 32767 chars or to "n" chars if specified. * -u- => Use default calculated maximum line length. -#[n] => Print line numbers. If just -# specified, the line numbers default to 4 digits. If a number (n) follows the -#, the line numbers will be set to that many digits (max 6). If the line number count increases to greater than the current number of digits can handle, the digits will automatically be increased to compensate for this situation. * -#- => Do NOT print line numbers. All arguments indicated by "*" are the defaults for PCPS. 5. ARGUMENTS (cont) ------------ Wild cards are permitted to be used for the input text files and more than one file may be specified. The maximum number of characters per line is automatically calculated by PCPS based on the font Courier and the font size specified at invocation. For example: if a font size of 48 is specified and the mode is portrait, PCPS decides that it can fit 18 characters on each line which works out well for the font Courier. The spacing may vary to some extent with other fonts. PCPS will wrap a line of text from an input file that is longer than the maximum number of characters unless -c (Cut) is specified. 6. PCPS FILE AND SCREEN SUPPORT ------------------------------- PCPS now supports two optional files as follows: PCPS.CFG -------- This file can be used to store default arguments. The arguments should be entered into the file using the same syntax as the command line. The arguments can, however, be spread over as many lines within the file as desired. PCPS will look for this file under the current directory and, if it doesn't find it there, will look inside the directory that PCPS was executed from. If not there, PCPS will check for the environment variable PCPSCFG and look at the path that this variable points to. This enables the user to have many different defaults in different directories and a master if so desired. The use of the environment variable is intended for network users who load PCPS from a server but wish to have a local PCPS.CFG file. The arguments are read and processed from this file sequentially before the command line arguments are processed and so are overidden by command line arguments (apart from "-l"). Eg. If "-b" is contained in the PCPS.CFG but you wish to have a banner printed, you may include the argument "-b-" on the command line. PCPS.PPF -------- For those situations where it is desirable or necessary to first send some preparation data to the printer before outputting the postscript provided by PCPS, the user may place such data into a file of this name. PCPS will look for this file in the same manner as for PCPS.CFG (ie. the current directory first, the directory from which PCPS originated and then the environment variable PCPSPPF). If the user wishes to specify a PPF file other than the defaults as above, the argument "-p<path>" is provided for this purpose. In the circumstances where the user does not want ANY existing PPF file sent to the output file, the "-p-" argument may be specified. PCPS also supports different screen sizes (lines per screen) for long displays such as the fontcode list and the help screen. The screen lines are read from the system area of memory and PCPS will automatically provide a "[more]" prompt at the end of each screen. The user need only press the "q" key to quit or press any other key to have the next screen displayed. 7. FONTS -------- The Apple Laserwriter has many fonts built into it and any of these pre- defined fonts are available for use with PCPS. Listed below are the fonts and the code for each that can be used with the -f argument within PCPS: FontCode Font -------- ---- AGB AvantGarde-Book AGBO AvantGarde-BookOblique AGD AvanteGarde-Demi AGDO AvantGarde-DemiOblique BD Bookman-Demi BDI Bookman-DemiItalic BL Bookman-Light BLI Bookman-LightItalic C Courier CB Courier-Bold CBO Courier-BoldOblique CO Courier-Oblique H Helvetica HB Helvetica-Bold HBO Helvetica-BoldOblique HN Helvetica-Narrow HNB Helvetica-Narrow-Bold HNBO Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique HNO Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique HO Helvetica-Oblique NCSB NewCenturySchlbk-Bold NCSBI NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic NCSI NewCenturySchlbk-Italic NCSR NewCenturySchlbk-Roman PB Palatino-Bold PBI Palatino-BoldItalic PI Palatino-Italic PR Palatino-Roman S Symbol TB Times-Bold TBI Times-BoldItalic TI Times-Italic TR Times-Roman ZCMI ZapfChancery-MediumItalic ZD ZapfDingbats PCPS now supports all of the european characters in all text fonts. (Eg. 0x80 through 0xa8) 8. HELP ------- A quick help screen is available within PCPS and it is activated by typing in either of the following commands: PCPS<cr> PCPS ?<cr> 9. EXAMPLES OF USE ------------------ PCPS -l<cr> List all available fonts and their codes. PCPS -dl -g HELP.DOC<cr> This will read the file "HELP.DOC", convert it to POSTSCRIPT*, put a gaudy banner at the top of each page and output it to LPT2 in normal page order, then delete HELP.DOC. PCPS -i -b -m HELP.DOC<cr> This will read the file "HELP.DOC", convert it to POSTSCRIPT* and output it to LPT2 with the pages in inverse order with no banner and put the printer in manual feed mode such that the user will have to feed the pages manually. PCPS -b -oHELP.PS HELP.DOC<cr> This will read the file "HELP.DOC", convert it to POSTSCRIPT* and output it to a file called "HELP.PS" in normal order with no banner. PCPS -i -f7 \UTILS\*.DOC<cr> This will read all of the files under the "UTILS" directory with an extension of ".DOC", convert them to POSTSCRIPT* and output them in inverse page order with a font size of 7 to LPT2. Each .DOC file will be processed one at a time. PCPS -# -2 -fhn -u85 *.C *.H<cr> This will read all of the files in the current directory with extensions of .C and .H, and output them to LPT2: in landscape mode with two columns, in the font Helvetica- Narrow with 4 digit line numbers and will wrap any line >85 characters. PCPS -p- -od:\temp\out.doc *.doc This will read all of the files in the current directory with extensions of .DOC and output them to the file D:\TEMP\OUT.DOC in normal portrait orientation and all PPF files will be ignored. 10. FUTURE ---------- Enhancements are planned for the future - for these I ask you to be patient. Paul Carapetis. 11. SUPPORT ----------- If you have problems with or find bugs in PCPS, please contact: Paul Carapetis: Internet: pjc@melb.bull.oz.au * POSTSCRIPT is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.