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- How to use this Reference
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- This reference changes so often that any attempt to format it for pagination
- would be a tremendous waste of time. Simply printing the thing out and letting
- the pagebreaks fall where they may is how most people do it. The neatest
- solution is Vern Buerg's LIST.COM or SideKick's file view function. If your
- editor has multiple-window support, you can open a small window into the
- Reference and cut and paste into your source.
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- An efficient method of using the Reference is to concatenate all the chapters
- together with the COPY command, ie COPY CONTENTS + CHAPTER.001 + CHAPTER.002 +
- ..... + CHAPTER.017 REF. (REF being the new file name for the concatenated
- files.) With LIST.COM, the backslash (\) or F9 key will search for strings.
- You can then dump pieces of text to a disk file or your printer.
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- If you work better with a printout than scanning with a file viewer, try
- setting your printer to 132 columns. This allows a nice margin for writing
- notes, and eliminates the problem some printers have when printing 80
- character wide text. Some of the text and charts in the reference are a full
- 80 columns wide; unfortunately some printers wrap automatically at 79 columns.
- Some printers don't handle a combination of compressed print and graphics
- characters very well either. You may have to use the PRTRFIX.COM program
- provided on Disk 1 to squelch the graphics for printing.
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- I strongly recommend using a viewer instead of printing. If you *must* print
- the Reference out, do it in stages so your printer does not overheat. Some
- inexpensive printers will self-destruct after a couple of hours.
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