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- CONTROL Richard Kihlken
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- Purpose: Reads decimal values from the command line, and sends them to your
- printer.
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- Format: [d:][path]CONTROL n [, n, n...]
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- Remarks: Many users like to configure their printers automatically from within
- batch files, or on the fly at the DOS prompt. While its possible to
- write lots of different COM files for each control code you want to
- send, it's far easier to create one master print control program that
- reads codes off the command line.
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- CONTROL.COM reads any decimal arguments you enter, and sends them to
- your printer. You can use an legal delimiters between the numbers.
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- Example: To send a CHR$(12) form-feed, you'd simply type:
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- CONTROL 12
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- Or, to send an IBM Esc+G command to turn on double strike printing,
- type:
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- CONTROL 27 71
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- Notes: Users familiar with using DEBUG can modify the default border, text,
- and header colors of ASC.COM. These values, initially 0Fh, 1Fh, and
- 1Eh, respectively, are located at offsets 014D through 014F in the
- .COM file. For use with a composite monochrome display, the values
- 70h, 07h, and 07h are suggested.