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- Every effort has been taken to provide the highest possible quality of
- documentation with Sfware. An unfortunate side-effect of these efforts is
- that the process of printing the documentation has become slightly more
- complicated than appears necessary at first.
-
- One additional complication is the fact that Sfware comes in two flavors.
- One flavor is a full-screen, menu-oriented shell (called SfShell) that
- provides high-level access to the features of Sfware. The other flavor is a
- collection of command-line utilities that provide access to every nuance
- possible with Sfware. This approach was taken deliberately. It means that a
- different full-screen shell (perhaps one for Microsoft Windows) can be
- written independently of the utilities. And it means that the utilities can
- be used in situations where an interactive program is inappropriate (to
- download a collection of fonts every morning, for example).
-
- Regardless of the flavor you choose, the documentation is distributed in two
- LaserJet PCL format files. The SFW???D1 archive contains the manual for the
- shell flavor of Sfware and the SFW???D2 archive contains a manual for the
- standalone utilities. Most users will need only one manual. Unless you are
- incapable of running the shell (because you don't have a hard disk or enough
- memory, for example), you should begin with the shell documentation and print
- the utilities documentation only if you need or want to use the standalone
- utilities.
-
- There are two LaserJet PCL files in each of the documentation archives. One
- file contains all of the odd pages of the manual and one contains all of the
- even pages. The manual is designed to be printed like a book with odd and
- even pages on alternate sides of each physical sheet.
-
- The procedure that follows describes how to print the manual with two-sided
- pages. Some laser printer manufacturers recommend against feeding paper
- through the printer twice. Please consult the users guide for your printer
- before you proceed. Neither Small Planet Software nor Norman Walsh are
- encouraging you to use your laser printer in a way that contradicts the
- manufacturers suggested or recommended use. If you cannot run pages through
- your printer twice, simply print the even and odd pages seperately and
- collate them together.
-
- To print two-sided pages, proceed as follows:
-
- 1) Print the odd pages (either SFSHELLO.PCL or SFUTILSO.PCL). If you are
- unsure how to print the pages, the following DOS command will work:
-
- COPY <file> /B PRN
-
- For example, "COPY SFSHELLO.PCL /B PRN" to print the odd pages of the
- shell documentation.
-
- 2) Remove the table of contents and the order form (these are the last two
- odd pages).
-
- 3) Reverse the order of the odd pages and turn the stack of pages over. When
- you finish, you should have a stack of pages that looks like this: the
- back of the title page should be on top, the next lower sheet facing you
- should be the back of the NO WARRANTY page, the next sheet should be the
- back of the Introduction, etc.
-
- 4) Place these pages into your printers paper tray with the blank side
- face-up and the top of the pages facing into the printer.
-
- 5) Print the even pages (either SFSHELLE.PCL or SFUTILSE.PCL).
-
- 6) Now, collate the pages into their proper order, insert the table of
- contents before the introduction, and bind the pages as you see fit.
-
- Each archive also contains an unformatted, text version of the manual.
- This manual can be used as an online reference or printed on any printer
- that supports the IBM extended ASCII characters. Special formatting
- information (boldface, italics, graphics, etc.) is absent from the text
- version of the manual so it should not be used as a substitute for "the
- real thing".
-
- If you already have a printed copy of the version 1.0 manual, you do not
- need to reprint the manual when you obtain the 1.1 release. Simply print
- the addendum file(s) SFSHELLA.PCL and/or SFUTILSA.PCL. These files contain
- new pages that were added to the manual. Other, minor, changes have been
- made, but it is not necessary to print the new manual.
-