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This page covers notes for PrintGL 1.42 that are not included in the
v1.40 manual.
F1 lets you view the PrintGL documentation of PrintGL/D or
PrintGL/W.
The * suboption of /D says to output a continuous stream of data to
help with networks and multiple PC printer buffers. P1, P2, and P3
are direct printer port destinations.
The H (hardware) suboption of /Q specifies to use the printer
hardware to generate mulitiple copies rather than sending data for
each copy. This works only for page printers.
Auto run mode lets you set up PrintGL/D or PrintGL/W as a background
task under DESQview or Windows that automatically processes new
plotfiles. In auto run mode, the disk is continually searched for
new files that match the mask or file specified in "auto opts".
Whenever one is found, PrintGL is run on that file. Run PrintGL's
auto run mode and switch it to the background. Then you can output
files and they will be printed automatically.
Auto run mode uses one of two ways of choosing new files
(specified under "auto opts"). The first is by time/date stamp. In
this mode it will only catch files that have a time/date stamp
that is later than when auto run mode was started and is later
than the last file processed in auto run mode. The file with the
earliest time/date stamp is processed first. Copying a file does
not change its time/date stamp, so copying a file to the auto run
mask will not cause it to be seen as a new file.
The second way is by archive bit. When auto run mode is started,
any file that matches the mask and has its archive bit set will be
processed, regardless of when it was created. The file with the
earliest time/date stamp is processed first. After it is chosen,
its archive bit is unset so that it will not be chosen again. This
lets you copy files to the auto run mask to print them.
The plotfiles are not deleted. You can overwrite a file and auto
run mode will catch it as a new file, but do not overwrite a file
that is currently being processed.