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- University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun 4, (chyde.uwasa.fi) has a large
- collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by anonymous
- ftp. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains news about the TS-programs in
- the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order). This text, which you now
- have, is an extract from the 0news-ts file.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
- School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
- Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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- Tue 10-Jul-90: I have specialized programs for printing text files
- to three printers, which I use myself. These are the Dicionix Inkjet
- Parallel Printer Model 150, Daisy Bubble Jet parallel printer, and
- Gabriele 8008 daisywheel serial typewriter. I have also two programs
- with pull-down menus for setting the Diconix and the Daisy. These
- programs are contained in /pc/ts/tsprn15.arc update. What I've done
- is to have introduced line editing potential into user interfaces,
- added controlled ctrl-c and break interrupting, and made the
- off-line response times from the printers much quicker. Without
- speeding them up, the off-line response times can be annoying long
- depending on your hardware. You can use these programs on any PC for
- these printers, but originally the Diconix program was developed for
- a Zenith Z-181 laptop, and hence the information file contains some
- special advice for Z-181 users.
- The are two pulldown menu driven programs (setdico and setdaisy)
- for convenient setting of the Diconix and Daisy printers. And next
- on a more technical note. Originally, one of the reasons (besides
- wanting to be able to set these printers easily) I wrote these these
- programs to try pulldown menu programming in Turbo Pascal. One
- feature of many such programs is the ability to exit to a Dos shell,
- and I included this feature. One of the problems with a Dos shell is
- that it is easy to forget being in a shell and needing to type exit.
- (If you don't do that you may run out of memory.) Now SemWares QEdit
- has a nice trick to remind you of being in the shell. It adds [QE]
- to the prompt while in the shell. What I've done in the new release
- is to program (the inevitable) [TS] addendum to the shell prompt.
- This turned out to be quite a challenging piece of programming, and
- the logic is much due to a PD code by Ron Cravis published in a
- Turbo Pascal FidoNet conference from Rivendell TAP/1 (1:260/340).
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- Wed 9-Aug-89: Released update tsprn13.arc. It contains utilities
- for printing text files, and setting Diconix and Daisy Inkjet
- printers. The changes are in the printer setting programs.
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- Mon 10-Jul-89: I have been interested in the techniques for making
- pull-down menus, and MsDos gateways, which are so often used in
- commercial programs in their user interfaces. So, I decided to try
- it out. This resulted in two new programs setdico.exe and
- setdaisy.exe. They are programs for setting Diconix InkJet and
- Daisy BubbleJet printers. These programs are included in the
- printer program package, which has been at the same time been
- upgraded from tsprn11.arc to tsprn12.arc.
-