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February 20, 1986
PC-OUTLINE Version 1.02
These are some of the files on this disk:
PCO.EXE - executable file for running PC-OUTLINE
README.1 - the latest notes about PC-OUTLINE not included in the manual
README.2 - descriptions of the utility programs included on the disk
GLOBAL.COM - utility program #1 (see README.2)
CPY.COM - utility program #2 (see README.2)
DIRS.COM - utility program #3 (see README.2)
MOVE.COM - utility program #4 (see README.2)
MEM.COM - utility program #5 (see README.2)
BEEP.COM - utility program #6 (see README.2)
PUSHDIR.COM - utility program #7 (see README.2)
POPDIR.COM - utility program #8 (see README.2)
DOC.PRN - brief documentation in printable form
DOC.PCO - brief documentation in a PC-OUTLINE file
EPSON.CFG - the epson printer driver
IBM.CFG - the ibm printer driver
BLANK.CFG - a dummy printer driver that will ignore all print codes
PRINTDOC.BAT - a batch file that will print DOC.PRN to LPT1
PCPRINT.COM - a program for changing printer drivers
KEYSET.COM - a program for customizing the PC-OUTLINE invoke key
PCOPRN$.CFG - a printer substitution file for correctly printing graphics
characters on non-IBM printers.
CREATE.PCO - an outline describing how to create new outline elements.
MENUS.PCO - an outline describing how to use the menus.
HIDING.PCO - an outline describing how to hide and unhide outline
elements.
MOVE.PCO - an outline describing how to rearrange outline elements.
Last minute notes about PC-OUTLINE:
A couple new features have been implemented which are not included in
the manual.
1) NEW WAY OF SPECIFYING WHERE THE CONFIGURATION FILE IS FOR USE ON
A HARD DISK: Instead of using the /l=<configuration file/path
name> as a command parameter option, you may put the command
SET PCO=<configuration file/path name> in your autoexec.bat
file. PC-OUTLINE will first look in the current directory for
the configuration file PCO.CFG. If it is not found there and
there was no /l=..... command parameter, then PC-OUTLINE will
try the file/path set in the environment with the dos SET
command. By using this feature, you can start PC-OUTLINE from
anywhere on your hard disk simply by pathing to the directory
that contains PCO.EXE. PC-OUTLINE will do the rest of the work,
automatically finding its configuration files.
2) NEW /d COMMAND PARAMETER FOR CONTROLLING THE STARTING CURRENT
DIRECTORY IN PC-OUTLINE: The configuration file PCO.CFG
(created from the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION menu) can contain a
starting directory. If it does, then each time PC-OUTLINE
starts it will automatically start with that directory as the
current directory for outline files. If it does not contain a
starting directory, (the entry in the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION
menu for starting directory is blank), then PC-OUTLINE will use
the current DOS directory as its starting directory. If you set
a current directory in the above menu because you keep most of
your outline files in one particular location, but sometimes you
want to start up PC-OUTLINE with a different directory, then you
can log to the directory you want and type PCO.EXE /d. The /d
will tell PC-OUTLINE to ignore the starting directory set in the
configuration file and use the DOS current directory.
3) Although it is not mentioned in the documentation anywhere,
PC-OUTLINE supports the creation of a printer substitution table
allowing you to print graphics characters on some printers. Note:
Graphics characters will print exactly as seen on the screen on an
IBM printer. On epson printers and most other printers, however, you
must do a little extra work to get some graphics characters to print
correctly.
For example, if you choose bullet numbering for your outlines, an
epson printer will not correctly print the bullet. To fix this,
create an ascii file named PCOPRN$.CFG and place the following line
in it (this file exists on the PC-OUTLINE system disk):
char(254)=143
The bullet character on screen is 254 and the epson printer character
for a bullet is 143. This command tells PC-OUTLINE that whenever it
is about to print a character 254, print a 143 instead. You can
place as many printer substitutions as you like. The string to
substitute can be more than one character if desired. For example
you could redefine the tilde character (~) to turn boldface on (for
an epson printer) by inserting the following line.
char('~')=27,'E'
This would substitute ESC G for every occurence of a tilde character.
Note that there are two ways to insert a value, by placing a
character in single quotes ('D') or by entering the decimal
representation for the ascii value of the character (123). Each
entry must be separated by a comma. Following are some valid
entries:
char(132)='a'
char('f')='ABC',32
char(34)=255,'abc',27,'G'
Any line in the file that begins with a semicolon will be ignored
(useful for inserting comments). Lines in the substitution file may
be no longer than 80 characters. To continue a line on the next
line, end the line with a plus sign. For example:
char('~')='ABCEFGHIJKLMNOP',+
'QRSTUVWXYZ'
This command would print the entire alphabet everytime the tilde
('~') was encountered in a file.
PC-OUTLINE will look for the file PCOPRN$.CFG in the same directory
as the configuration file. If you have not used either the
l=<filename> command parameter or the SET PCO=<filename> command to
specify where the configuration file is located, then PC-OUTLINE will
just look for PCOPRN$.CFG in the current directory.
ADDED IN VERSION 1.02:
De-install:
While using PC-OUTLINE in memory resident mode, press Control-Backspace
three times in a row and PC-OUTLINE will be deinstalled. If there were
no memory resident programs loaded after PC-OUTLINE, you will recover all
the memory that PC-OUTLINE was allocated. If you load any memory resident
programs after PC-OUTLINE, the memory PC-OUTLINE occupied will be freed,
but it will not be available for dos to use to run programs in.
Note: ONLY USE THE DEINSTALL COMMAND IF YOU INVOKED PC-OUTLINE FROM
THE DOS PROMPT OR YOUR MACHINE MAY HANG.