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This is a Printer driver for the DEC (Digital Equipment) LN03+
laser printer. The source provided compiles under Aztec C 3.4a and
possibly later versions, but I havn't tried them.
You will have to modify the MAKEFILE to the "path" of your
include files, but otherwise everything should MAKE.
There seems to be a problem with Aztec C 3.4a in trashing Reg A6
when using the memory allocating/dealloc routines. As render.c uses this
register on exit it would crash. BUT GREAT NEWS I have included a patch
by simply saving A6 on entry to render.c and restoring it on exit.
This cured the appearance of the dreaded GURU on the completion of
each screen dump.
SCREENDUMPS
The screen dumps produce a very nice grey-scale picture with the
dumps done at a grid size of .0045" on the ln03+. I havn't included
a facility to change these with preferences yet as the other grid
sizes don't seem to produce as nice a picture.
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As for the text routines, I have supported Italics if your machine
has them installed, underlining,bold, and small and large fonts.
Superscript/subscript is used by PLU/PLD commands. All character sets
are supported. Proportional spacing is also supported.
Please feel free to modify the source and include other features, I
only ask that you include my name as original author (makes me feel
good) and get it on the FISH disks as that is my only means of getting
public domain software.
......... enjoy.
written by Bernie Mentink
c/o Oncology Department
Cristchurch Public Hospital
New Zealand.