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- Documentation for PRINT
- -----------------------
-
- PRINT is a program designed to output textfiles to your printer with a
- number of formatting options. You can either use the default settings,
- or change them all yourself.
-
- There are two programs which are a part of the PRINT package. These
- programs are PRINT.EXE and PINSTALL.EXE.
-
-
- Using PINSTALL:
- ---------------
-
- Before you can use PRINT, you must first run PINSTALL. PINSTALL creates
- a configuration file that tell PRINT how to communicate with your printer.
- Into this file you must put the codes that your printer requires for
- switching to enhance mode, etc. If you do not want (or do not know what
- codes your printer uses) to enter these codes, simply run PINSTALL and
- enter nulls (ascii code 00) for the printer codes.
-
- PRINT supports uses of the dos environment variables. This allows you
- to place your printer configuration in any subdirectory, and then just
- use the dos command SET to leave a message for PRINT in the environment
- table telling it where you left the configuration. As an example, lets
- say that you wanted your configuration file to be in the C:\UTIL
- subdirectory. You would first go to the \UTIL subdirectory and run
- PINSTALL to create the configuration, then you would add a line to your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file that said:
-
- SET PRINT=C:\UTIL
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- Using PRINT:
- ------------
-
- To use PRINT to print a file, you simply invoke it as PRINT <filename>,
- where the <filename> is the filename you want to print. When invoked in
- this fashion, PRINT will use all of its default settings for page
- numbering, margins, etc.
-
- As an example, lets say you wanted to print the file TEST.DAT, you would
- enter the command:
-
- PRINT TEST.DAT
-
- If you want to be able to change the default settings, simply add the
- parameter M after the above command line, and you will be prompted for
- each of the settings.
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- PRINT TEST.DAT M
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- General Comments:
- -----------------
-
- I hope you enjoy using PRINT. I have found it to be an indispensable
- tool for printing program listings and miscellaneous text files.
-
- The file PRINT.ARC also contains a printer configuration for an
- NEC PC-8023A printer. When you run PINSTALL, it will ask if you wish
- to overwrite this file. If you do not have this type of printer, respond
- YES and then enter the data for your printer.
-