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- F.F.
- "Form Feed"
- Version 1.0
-
- Wednesday October 16, 1991
-
- Programmed by: Manabu Asano
- Address: 7 Aperture park,
- Lethbridge, AB
- T1K6T4
- Canada
-
- What is "Form Feed"?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - FF is a Windows utility that sends printer control commands to EPSON
- compatible printer on LPT1.
- - FF sends the following printer control commands:
- 1. Form feed (FF) to eject a page
- 2. Line feed (LF) to skip one line
- 3. Reverse line feed (RF) to back up one line
- 4. Micro line feed (MLF) to perform a 10/180 inch line feed
- 5. Micro reverse line feed (MRF) to perform a 10/180 in LF in reverse
- 6. Reset printer (RP).
- - Reset printer is useful when you want to set the top of the page.
- Especially useful after a printing is cancelled from Print Manager.
- It just resets the printer at wherever the printing was stopped
- (thus setting the top of the page there).
-
- Limitations
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1. This program does not send to LPT2 or any other printer port.
- 2. In case that the attached printer is off-lined, this program cannot
- detect it and, thus, system error message will come out and
- terminate this program.
-
- In future release (if there is any?)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - Limitation 1 can be solved quickly. It will be probably easy to solve
- but the problem is who uses a dot matrix printer on LPT2? Well,
- I don't... If you do, please send me a letter saying you do.
- - Limitation 2 will be a matter of how this poor programmer can afford
- another 10 to 20 hours for reading (very friendly!) manuals and debugging.
- If someone knows what is the easiest way to solve this, please send me
- a comment. I can send the source codes if necessary.
- - And possible new features will be ... I don't know! If you have any,
- send me please.
-
- Question from me
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - I set the MLF(Micro Line Feed)/MRF(Micro Reverse line Feed) to be
- 10/180 inch. If you feel it is not appropriate, give me a right one.
-
- If there is any bug or problem encountered with this program, please report
- to the address above. Also if you like this program and want to make it
- better, please send me your comments to the same address.
-
- Thank you.
-