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1993-08-02
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@echo off
echo PrnSet & Friends 2.45
echo
echo PrnSet is a non-resident universal printer setter. Print control data live in
echo file PRNSET.DAT, which can be created and edited on any plain ASCII text edit-
echo or. You can also print & copy files from PrnSet's menu. For a copy of the man-
echo ual: COPY PRNSET.DOC PRN. PrnSet's "Friends" are a set of utilities to mani-
echo cure text files for printing. Also on the disk is a simple ASCII text editor.
echo
echo Files on this disk:
echo
echo PRNSET.EXE PrnSet program. Must be on path to work.
echo PRNSET.DAT Default data file for PrnSet. Must be on path.
echo xxxxxxxx.DAT Alternative data files to fit various printers.
echo COUNTnnn.EXE* Count pages, check for bad pagination &c before you print.
echo PAGINnnn.EXE* Break file into pages with optional headers & footers.
echo MANGLnnn.EXE* Perform various useful minor surgery on text files.
echo PRN2Bnnn.EXE* Divide file for printing on both sides of the paper.
echo TERS143B.EXE* Terse, a simple ASCII text editor.
echo WHATSNEW List of changes in P&F versions.
echo Files marked * are self-extracting archives. See next screen for advice.
echo
echo If one of the DAT files suits your printer, copy it to PRNSET.DAT. If not,
echo you'll have to make one. Each program has a manual in its corresponding DOC
echo file. The manuals tell all; READ THEM.
pause
echo
echo PrnSet's "Friends" manicure ASCII Text files for printing. Unlike some, they
echo can handle the bare carriage returns sometimes used to underline & boldface.
echo
echo CountPgs gets information about the file: Number, length, & width of pages;
echo presence of: Left Margin, FF's, tabs, bare CR's, high-bit (usually
echo graphics) characters, misplaced ^Z's, & oversize pages.
echo
echo Pagina breaks an unpaged file into pages, with or w/o headers, footers and
echo margins. You get lots of choice about the headers and footers.
echo
echo Prn2Both divides a paged file for printing on both sides of the paper (print
echo odd pages, turn over, & print even pages on the back). It can make
echo proper margins and reverse headers & footers if necessary.
echo
echo Mangler Does minor surgery: insert FF's, add/strip margin, add/strip ter-
echo minal blanks, break file into parts, remove/replace strings, UN-
echo paginate, reverse order of pages, remove headers and footers, swap
echo frontsy-backsy around CR's, et. alii.
echo
echo All these are packed into self-extracting archives. Put, say, COUNT352.EXE,
echo on the path, move to a disk:\directory with plenty of room, run COUNT352, &
echo it will unfold itself into a set of files. The files will go into whatever
echo is the default drive:\directory at the time, so make sure there's room.
pause
echo
echo When PrnSet's Friends have done as much as they can, you may still need to
echo go in with an editor for some final touches --things like fixing widows and
echo orphans. To do this, & to edit DAT files for PrnSet, an editor must be able
echo to do two things:
echo
echo (1) write plain ASCII files.
echo (2) read and write bare carriage returns.
echo
echo Some word processors and most small editors can't do these things. In case
echo yours can't, on the disk there's an able small text editor called TERSE that
echo can. It's written and copyright by Joseph (Yossi) Gil, and it appears here
echo by his permission. This is an abridged version of TERSE. The full package
echo contains some additional editors and some useful utilities. If you take to
echo using TERSE, you may want the full package, and you should certainly send
echo Mr. Gil the very reasonable sum he asks for.
echo
echo When you run TERS143B.EXE, it will expand itself into several files. The two
echo most important are T.COM, the editor program, and TERSE.DOC, which explains
echo everything else.
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