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POSPRINT
POSPRINT is a home-made applications which makes it possible to print plain
ASCII-files on the Apple LaserWriter. The program will adjust the pointsize
of the character font so that a text of any (user-specified) width will fit
between the left and right side of the paper.
Syntax: POSPRINT Filename Destination Width Orientation
Where Filename : The full filename of the file to be printed. May include
Wild characters (* and ?).
Destination : The print destination (the device to which the Apple
is connected on your PC), usually lpt1, lpt2 or lpt3.
Width : The maximum column width you want to print. POSPRINT will
adjust the character-pointsize to be able to print exactly
that number of columns across a page.
Orientation: The print orientation : Portrait (default) or Landscape.
The relation between the width (number of characters) and the pointsize and
the number of lines on a page is shown in the table below:
┌───────┬──────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ │ Landscape │ Portrait │
├───────┼────────────┬─────────────────┼───────────┬─────────────────┤
│ Width │ Pointsize │ Number of lines │ Pointsize │ Number of lines │
├───────┼────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────│
│ 10 │ 124.9 │ 3 │ 86.9 │ 7 │
│ 50 │ 24.9 │ 17 │ 17.4 │ 36 │
│ 80 │ 15.6 │ 27 │ 10.9 │ 58 │
│ 130 │ 9.6 │ 43 │ 6.7 │ 94 │
│ 255 │ 4.9 │ 87 │ 3.4 │ 189 │
└───────┴────────────┴─────────────────┴───────────┴─────────────────┘
There is one important limitation with regard to the printable characters:
The Apple can only print the 126 first characters of the IBM characterset.
The so-called IBM extended characters are thus not printable. This means that
some foreign (= non USA) characters and-accents and the line-drawing characters
are not available.