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- Documentation -- The Lazy Labeler v1.0
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- Raison d'etre
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- This program was written in GFA Basic for two reasons: 1) To fulfill
- a personal requirement of a program which would automate the printing
- of disk directories on 3 1/2 disk labels, and 2) To explore the
- capabilities of GFA Basic. The program was written to print the
- top level directory of the disk to the screen/printer.
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- Use of the program
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- Use of the program is, hopefully, self-explanatory. The menu bar
- shows the selections available within the program. Explanation of
- the options available under each selection is as follows:
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- DESK
- About Lazy Labeler -- Alert box shows the name of the program,
- language it's written in, programmer's name,
- and version number.
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- CONFIGURE
- Drive select -- Select which drive the disk(s) to be read will be
- located, A: or B:. The program defaults to drive
- A:.
- Label length -- Select the length of the disk label to be printed.
- The system assumes a label width of 2 3/4 inches,
- allowing for 3 filenames per line on the printer
- label. The 1 " and 2 " labels have top margins of
- 3 lines; the 3 " label has a top margin of 10
- lines to allow for the part of the label which
- folds over. The program defaults to the 3 "
- label length.
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- Volume label -- Select whether to print/show the volume label of
- the disk. Disks without labels are printed/shown
- " not labeled". The program initially defaults to
- no volume label printed/shown.
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- Bytes free -- Select whether to print/show the number of bytes
- free on the disk. The program initially defaults
- to not printed/shown.
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- OUTPUT
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- Screen -- Select disk directory print to the screen.
- The directory is formatted five filenames per
- line.
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- Printer -- Select disk directory print to the printer.
- The directory is formatted three filenames per
- line.
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- MODE
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- One label -- Read and print one label.
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- Loop -- Requests insertion of disk into selected drive,
- reads the directory and shows/prints it, and then
- repeats the insertion request for a new disk.
- Hitting <RETURN> or selecting YES continues the
- looping. Selecting NO stops the looping.
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- STARTSTOP
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- Go! -- Execute the program.
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- Quit -- Exit the program.
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- NOTES:
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- Attempting to run the program without making any selections brings up
- an alert box informing the user that a selection needs to be made
- from the OUTPUT menu and the MODE menu each.
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- Select both the Screen and Printer options if you want to display the
- directory on the screen and print it out on the printer.
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- The Volume Label and Bytes free options can both be selected to be
- displayed/printed.
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- The 3 " label length option allows a maximum of 60 filenames to be
- printed on the label. The maximum number of filenames, and
- subdirectory names allowed in the directory is 112.
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- Feel free to make any modifications/improvements to the program. This program
- was and is an education tool. It fulfills my requirement as it stands now,
- but you may have different needs.
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- Richard Antley
- 01/21/87
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