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- This page covers notes for PrintGL 1.42 that are not included in the
- v1.40 manual.
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- F1 lets you view the PrintGL documentation of PrintGL/D or
- PrintGL/W.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.