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- This is Version 1.02 of LP.
- LP makes it possible, to print fast and comfortable unformated texts,
- like program-sources or documentations in the background of Windows.
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- LP takes direct control over the printer, that's why you can print faster
- than you can do this with the Windows-printing. The printer control is free
- configurable. The default settings are set for the new NEC Pinwriters, but
- with the exception of the three definable fonts the settings are standard
- ESC-sequences which should be compatible to most other printers.
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- Features of LP are:
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- - free configurable print margins
- - printing with 6, 7, 8, 10 or 12 lines per inch, where 12 lines per inch
- are print with the superscript font
- - printing with 10, 12, 15, 17 or 20 characters per inch
- - printing of 2 sides of the text side by side in the Two-columns-mode with
- 20 CPI pro Inch
- - selection out of three free definable printerfonts
- - support of many papersizes
- - ANSI or ASCII characterset
- - printing of pagenumbers and/or filenames
- - free adjustment of tabulator width
- - free adjustment of priority of background-printing
- - free definition of a file-selection-box, like those of Windows 3.1
- - you can save settings and couple each with a special set of files
- - free printer configuration
- - language englisch or german
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- and with the Windows 3.1 version:
- - easy printing of a file with drag&drop
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- and especially:
- - animated icon while printing - you can see the icon printing one page
- after the other!!! Try it!!
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- and many others.
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- Things LP don't have now:
- - free configurable Header and Footer
- - no general help (I don't have the time to make some), but I hope most of
- the program is easy to use
- - no support for printers with serial port
- - multiple selection of files
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- While startup LP trys to detect if your Windows is configured for german
- language or not. If, LP uses german language and if not LP uses english
- language. If you want to ignore the default language you can add the
- following parameters to the call of LP:
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- LP.EXE /D : german language
- LP.EXE /E : englisch language
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- You must have Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.0 with the new DLL's CommDlg und Shell
- to run LP.EXE. If you don't have any you can use LP_30.EXE with Windows 3.0.
- The only different is, that LP.EXE supports drag&drop with the filemanger of
- Windows 3.1.
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- You can use and distribute LP free, as long as the following files are not
- changed and you distribute all files together
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- - lp.exe
- - lp_30.exe
- - lp_deu.txt
- - lp_eng.txt
- - lp.ini
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- I am programming LP because I have fun and not to make any profit. That's why
- LP is free and you don't have to pay more or less high registration charges.
- I think it is a bad habit, that more and more program authors want to have
- money even for the smallest programs.
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- Long lives the Freeware!
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- If you have problems, comments, suggestions or you detect one error,
- please E-Mail to
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- s_furrer@ira.uka.de
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- (c) 1992 by Andreas Furrer
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- Version history
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- 1.02: - With some language settings LP doesn't start in german mode, although
- the german language was set in control panel.
- - There was no hotkey for two menuitems in the english version.
- - During scrolling the filelistbox shows now every time the correct filename.
- - You could have to start LP maximized, although the Window has no button or
- menu for it (this is an error of Windows).
- - It was not possible to choose a wildcards in the editwindow
- 1.01: There was a little curious error:
- If you have startet LP within a TurboPascal program by WinExec, you
- got sometimes a runtime error (depending if you have included WinCRT
- or what style the TPW-window had). With C programs this error never
- appears.
- 1.00: First version of LP.