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University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun IPX sparcstation garbo.uwasa.fi
has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
anonymous ftp or mail server. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains news
about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).
This text, which you now have, is an extract from the 0news-ts file.
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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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Sat 20-Jun-92: I recently acquired a HP Desk Jet 500 printer at home
and have programmed a menu driven system SETHP.EXE to set the
printer. It is available in my updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/
tsprn16.zip printer program collection.
Tue 10-Jul-90: I have specialized programs for printing text files
to three printers, which I use myself. These are the Diconix Inkjet
Parallel Printer Model 150, Daisy Bubble Jet parallel printer, and
Gabriele 8008 daisywheel serial typewriter. I have also two programs
with pull-down menus for setting the Diconix and the Daisy. These
programs are contained in /pc/ts/tsprn15.arc update. What I've done
is to have introduced line editing potential into user interfaces,
added controlled ctrl-c and break interrupting, and made the
off-line response times from the printers much quicker. Without
speeding them up, the off-line response times can be annoying long
depending on your hardware. You can use these programs on any PC for
these printers, but originally the Diconix program was developed for
a Zenith Z-181 laptop, and hence the information file contains some
special advice for Z-181 users.
The are two pulldown menu driven programs (setdico and setdaisy)
for convenient setting of the Diconix and Daisy printers. And next
on a more technical note. Originally, one of the reasons (besides
wanting to be able to set these printers easily) I wrote these these
programs to try pulldown menu programming in Turbo Pascal. One
feature of many such programs is the ability to exit to a Dos shell,
and I included this feature. One of the problems with a Dos shell is
that it is easy to forget being in a shell and needing to type exit.
(If you don't do that you may run out of memory.) Now SemWares QEdit
has a nice trick to remind you of being in the shell. It adds [QE]
to the prompt while in the shell. What I've done in the new release
is to program (the inevitable) [TS] addendum to the shell prompt.
This turned out to be quite a challenging piece of programming, and
the logic is much due to a PD code by Ron Cravis published in a
Turbo Pascal FidoNet conference from Rivendell TAP/1 (1:260/340).
Wed 9-Aug-89: Released update tsprn13.arc. It contains utilities
for printing text files, and setting Diconix and Daisy Inkjet
printers. The changes are in the printer setting programs.
Mon 10-Jul-89: I have been interested in the techniques for making
pull-down menus, and MsDos gateways, which are so often used in
commercial programs in their user interfaces. So, I decided to try
it out. This resulted in two new programs setdico.exe and
setdaisy.exe. They are programs for setting Diconix InkJet and
Daisy BubbleJet printers. These programs are included in the
printer program package, which has been at the same time been
upgraded from tsprn11.arc to tsprn12.arc.