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- %H2%General
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- %JR%This file describes gives extra information to the PipeDream 3 User
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- %H2%Fonts
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- %JR%The PipeDream 3 User Guide implies that specifying fonts within your
- %JL%text only has effect on the printer and has no effect on the screen.
- %JR%This is not the case. Fonts are also displayed on the screen. The
- %JL%current slot is always shown in the system font because on most
- monitors it is much clearer and easier to edit with.
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- %JR%To be able to display or print characters in fonts other than the
- %JL%system font (the system font is the one used by the window's title bar)
- %JR%the Archimedes needs to have information about the shapes of all of the
- %JL%letters. This information is supplied on disc and is read from disc
- %JR%when needed. The directory !Fonts on Applications Disc 1 contains some
- fonts and others may become available from Acorn or other sources.
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- %JR%To speed the operation of drawing fonts RISC OS reduces disc accesses
- %JL%by keeping as much font information in memory as it can. The area of
- %JR%memory used for storing fonts is called the Font cache and you can vary
- %JL%the amount of memory available for the Font cache in the Task display
- %JR%off the Archimedes 'A' icon bar menu. The memory that you allocate to
- %JL%the font cache becomes unavailable to the rest of the system so it is
- %JR%best to keep it as small as possible. But if you find that fonts take
- %JL%ages to display because they are continually being read from disk you
- will need to give the font cache a little more memory.
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- %JR%In order to show RISC OS where to find the directory !Fonts it is
- %JL%necessary to catalogue the disc or directory which contains it. Then,
- %JR%whenever RISC OS needs to read more font information, it will
- automatically read it from the disc.
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- %JR%The file Readme_f in this directory contains a copy of this document
- %JL%formatted in Trinity.Medium. Try loading that file into a window to
- %JR%compare the text with that in the system font. If you have a
- %JL%dot-matrix or a laser printer and a suitable RISC OS printer driver you
- %JR%can try printing Readme_f . You may find that to obtain a reasonable
- %JL%speed in the display of fonts you need to allocate a lot of memory to
- %JR%the Font cache and to print at a reasonable speed on a dot-matrix
- printer you need to allocate a lot of memory to the Module area.
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- %H2%Highlights in headers and footers
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- %JR%Highlights can be inserted into headers and footers (and the title) by
- %JL%inserting ^n where n is the highlight number (similar to search and
- replace). For example ^4 would switch on italics.
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- %H2%Z88 Filing System
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- %JR%The Z88 Filing System provided on the PipeDream 3 disc enables you to
- %JL%connect a Z88 computer to the Archimedes and load files from it and
- %JR%save files to it as if it were a disc drive. In order to do this two
- %JL%extra pieces of hardware are required - a Z88-Archimedes lead and the
- %JR%PC-LINK EPROM card plugged into the Z88. Both of these components are
- available separately from Colton Software.
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- %JR%To start the Z88 double-click Select on the Z88 icon on the PipeDream 3
- %JL%disc. The Z88 Filing System will load and install its icon on the icon
- %JR%bar. Ensure that the lead is connected securely to both computers and
- %JL%that the PC-LINK EPROM card is inserted and running in the Z88. Now
- %JR%click Select on the Z88 icon on the icon bar. A directory viewer
- %JL%should appear showing the devices available on the Z88. Click Select
- %JR%on one of the devices and a directory viewer will appear showing the
- files and directories currently in the device.
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- %JR%If you receive the message "Failed to synchronise with the Z88 (Is
- %JL%PC-LINK running on the Z88?)" check that the lead is connected securely
- %JR%in both computers, and that the PC-LINK EPROM is correctly inserted and
- %JL%running in the Z88. (To start PC-LINK press []L (square L) on the
- Z88.)
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- %JR%With the Z88 Filing System running you can copy files between a
- %JL%directory on an Archimedes disk and a directory in the Z88. You can
- %JR%create selections in directories on both the Z88 and Archimedes and
- %JL%copy the selections. You can also copy files from the Z88 to PipeDream
- %JR%3 running on the Archimedes either by dragging the file to the
- %JL%PipeDream 3 icon on the icon bar to load the file, or by dragging the
- %JR%file into a PipeDream window to insert it into another document.
- %JL%Similarly you can save a file from PipeDream 3 to the Z88 by dragging
- the file icon from the Save dialog box to the Z88 directory viewer.
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- %JR%You can also drag files from the Z88 to other, but not all,
- %JL%applications. For example you can load files from the Z88 straight
- %JR%into Edit by dragging files in a similar way to that described above
- %JL%for PipeDream 3. Some applications will not be able to load or save
- %JR%Z88 files directly and the data will be corrupted when it is displayed
- %JL%in the application's window. Of course, you can copy the file into a
- %JR%directory on an Archimedes disc first, and then load it into the
- %JL%application. (For the technically minded, this is because the PC-LINK
- EPROM does not support random access, just sequential access.)
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- %JR%Not all of the filing system operations are supported by the Z88 Filing
- %JL%System. You cannot use the Access, Delete or Rename commands on the
- %JR%Filer Selection sub-menu to operate on Z88 files. Neither can you
- %JL%create directories on the Z88 from the Archimedes; you must do this on
- the Z88 itself, using it's own Filing System.
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- %L%02 August 1989
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