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Welcome to LASR-MAN, a utility program to print
text files on a laser printer in a variety of styles!
LASR-MAN prints ASCII text files (those without format control characters) on a
laser printer in any of 36 styles. LASR-MAN can dramatically decrease the amount
of paper required to print many of your documents - by as much as 93%! It's
great for use with user manuals, program listings and manuals, wide spread-
sheets, database listings, etc. Available styles include: normal portrait or
landscape orientation each with five font sizes ranging from 10 to 32 characters
per inch; multiple pages per paper sheet - 2, 4, 8 or 16; individual files where
each is printed in the form of a booklet; groups of files printed together -
each in the form of a book chapter - in the form of a manual. Many options in-
cluding custom header/footer page titles and menu option/file(s) selection.
Configuration files are included to allow printing on letter, legal and A4 size
paper.
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L A S R - M A N U T I L I T Y M A N U A L
LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Release January 31, 1992
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Copyright (C) 1990-1992,
by Micrometric,
All rights reserved.
LASR-MAN is distributed as SHAREWARE and, as such, may be copied and shared on a
private non-commercial basis with others in its unmodified form. Liability is
limited to replacing the software for registered users. There is no liability
for any damage or loss caused by this software, directly or indirectly.
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Please send comments, manual corrections, enhancement suggestions and configura-
tion files for other printers that you want to share to:
Micrometric
98 Dade Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34232-1609 USA
Voice/FAX (813) 377-2515
REGISTRATION SERIAL NUMBER
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PKZIP, PKUNZIP and PKSFX are trademarks of PKWARE, Inc.
LaserJet is a trademark of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
MS-DOS is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation.
IBM PC, XT, AT and PC-DOS are registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Major Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Print Style Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Manual Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Page layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Brackets and parentheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Computer key conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Action steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
■■■■-MAN programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Shareware distributed documentation manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Shareware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
If Questions Arise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
INSTALLING THE SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
RUNNING LASR-MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Command Line/Environment Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Archive Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Drive-Directory Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
File - File Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Option File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Option Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Reverse Second Pass Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Style of Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Title (Header/Footer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
HELP Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
ESCAPE Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
File View Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Actions and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Disk Not Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Printer Not Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
MAIN MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Advanced Information Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Operation Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Main Menu Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
DIRECTORY FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Data path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Config file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Restore Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Restore Conf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
OPTIONS FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Reload the Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Change menu colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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Option File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Style of Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Pages/Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Text Pages/Book Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Spaces per Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Page Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Option Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
File Page Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Switch Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Binding margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Print Form Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Title Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Page Dividers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
FILES SELECT FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Archive bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
File Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
File Selection/Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
PRINT FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Reverse 2nd Pass Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Print these Selected Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Cutting and Folding Sheets for Booklets and Manuals . . . . . . . . . . 86
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Two Pages/Side, One Text Page/Book Page 86
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Two Pages/Side, One Text Page/Book Page 86
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Eight Pages/Side, One Text Page/Book
Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Two Pages/Side, Two Text Pages/Book Page 87
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Eight Pages/Side, Four Text Pages/Book
Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
EXIT FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Return to DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Save Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
EDITING THE CONFIGURATION FILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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INTRODUCTION
LASR-MAN prints ASCII text files (those without format control characters) on a
laser printer in any of thirty-six styles. Available styles include: normal
portrait or landscape orientation each with five font sizes ranging from ten to
thirty-two characters per inch; multiple pages per paper sheet - two, four,
eight or sixteen; individual files where each is printed in the form of a book-
let; groups of files printed together - each in the form of a book chapter - in
the form of a manual. See the end of the section "PRINT STYLE OVERVIEW", later
in this chapter, for a summary of all the available print styles.
LASR-MAN can dramatically decrease the amount of paper required to print many of
your documents - by as much as 93%. It can also save laser toner (except for the
Pica pitch, the characters are smaller) and wear and tear on the printer (less
paper passing through). It's great for use with user manuals, program listings
and manuals, wide spreadsheets, database listings, etc. You can select the print
pitch size based on usage: normal and medium sizes for everyday use, small and
tiny print for occasional and archival purposes.
Many options are available including custom header/footer page titles and menu
option/file(s) selection. Other options include menu colors, selection of only
files that have been changed, customizable page header, starting new files on
the next page or the next odd page and substitution of spaces for tabs. Configu-
ration files are included to allow printing on A4 and legal size paper.
LASR-MAN options may be specified in an environment variable, on the program's
command line or by menu selection while the program is running. Files to be
printed may be selected in the same manner.
LASR-MAN prints only unformatted ASCII files. If you use it to print a .COM file
or a document generated by a word processor such as WordPerfect and stored in
that word processor's format, the output will look strange. The only control
characters that are passed from the text file to the printer are carriage return
(13), line feed (10) and form feed (12). The tab character (9) is converted to
spaces.
All other control characters (0-31) are replaced by a '■', or optionally another
user selected character. Valid characters (32-255) are printed "as-is". To print
a document generated from a word processor and normally stored in it's format,
first have the word processor program store the document in the unformatted
"ASCII" form.
The default printer commands are configured for use with several Hewlett-Packard
LaserJet printer models. However all printer commands are available to the user
in the configuration file and each may be changed for use with other printers.
See the manual section "Editing the Configuration File" for information on chan-
ging the printer commands and messages.
Major Features
* Twelve Major Print Styles:
Single and double sided standard portrait type orientation.
Single and double sided standard landscape type orientation.
Single and double sided landscape type with two pages/sheet side.
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Single and double sided portrait type with four pages/sheet side.
Single and double sided landscape type with eight pages/sheet side.
Booklet types - four, eight or sixteen pages per sheet.
Manual type (a merge of multiple files into one document) - four, eight or
sixteen pages per sheet.
* Five character pitch options with standard portrait and landscape type orien-
tation: ten, twelve, seventeen, twenty-three or thirty-two characters/inch.
* Optional three segment page header/footer title that may be customized to
include user entered data, the file name, its last date and time updated,
current date and time, and the page number.
* Three paging options for Manual and Booklet styles: one, two or four text
pages per book page.
* Page title left and right segments may be reversed on even pages.
* No need to type the paths and names of files to be printed.
* Preview how a file's pages will look when printed before selecting a file or
before printing it.
* Context sensitive help available for all actions.
* Tag individual or groups of files on any directory for printing.
* Will print up to seventy-file files of 3000 pages in one program pass.
* Variety of option switches for output formatting.
* Option to allow a half inch binding border.
* Ability to substitute from zero to ten spaces for tabs.
* Ability to select only files whose archive bit is on and then turn it off
after printing.
* User interface is with pop-up window menus whose colors are user selectable.
* Menus follow the IBM SAA/CUA (System Application Architecture-Common Usage
Access) guidelines.
* Specify most options in the Environment and/ or on the program's command line
and then be able to over-ride them with the program's menus.
* Change program options and save the changes in a named file. These options
may then be reloaded any time that the program is run.
* The ability to change any of the printer command strings and informational
message with a configuration file.
* Support for printing of letter, legal and A4 paper sizes.
* Automatic color display on systems so equipped - user may set menu colors.
* Specify the file names to be displayed and then tagged for printing with DOS
wildcard characters.
* Determine the required number of printed pages for any file before its print
selection.
* May be set for reverse printing of the second print pass to allow for the use
of any input tray.
* Second pass print messages may be user edited.
* Options may be set with an environment variable, on the program command line
or with the program selection menus.
* Special document files to assist in determining the proper operating proce-
dures for the various printer setups and printing styles.
* Indexed manual may be printed with this program.
* Registered users may suppress the shareware reminder message. displays and
receive a printed/bound manual along with an installation/upgrade/brand pro-
gram.
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 INTRODUCTION
Print Style Overview
LASR-MAN will print text documents in either portrait or landscape orientation
on a laser printer. PORTRAIT orientation is where the long side of the paper is
on the left and right edge and the short side is on the top and bottom edge of
the paper sheet, as shown below.
NOTE: The style diagrams in this section denote one side of a paper
sheet with a single closed boxed line. A text page is depicted using
the '░' character.
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║ ORIENTATION: Portrait │ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 1 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 1 or 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 1 or 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PITCH: 10, 12, 17, 23 or 32 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ long side ── │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ PAGE:1 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────┘ ║
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LANDSCAPE TYPE orientation has the long side as the top and bottom edge and the
short side on the left and right edge, as shown below.
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║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Landscape │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 1 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 1 or 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 1 or 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PITCH: 10, 12, 17, 23 or 32 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ short side ── │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ PAGE:1 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
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Additionally, more that one page may be printed on one side of the paper.
The style summaries depicted above show only one page per side while those below
show two, four and eight pages per side.
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║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Landscape │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 1 or 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 2 or 4 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PITCH: 17 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:1 │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:2 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ┌───────────────────────┐ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Portrait │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 4 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 1 or 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 4 or 8 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PITCH: 23 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░ PAGE:1 │ ░░ PAGE:2 │ ║
║ │───────────┼───────────│ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░ PAGE:3 │ ░░ PAGE:4 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────┘ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Landscape │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 8 │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 1 or 2 │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 8 or 16 │ PAGE:1 │ PAGE:2 │ PAGE:3 │ PAGE:4 │ ║
║ PITCH: 32 │────────┼────────┼────────┼────────│ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:5 │ PAGE:6 │ PAGE:7 │ PAGE:8 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
Text files may also be printed in either the form of a booklet or a manual.
A BOOKLET TYPE is defined within LASR-MAN as the text contents of a SINGLE file
printed on a set of paper sheets such that it can be cut/folded in the form of a
book (cutting is only required for styles that print four or eight pages per
side).
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Sample depictions of the output from either BOOKLET TYPE or MANUAL TYPE style of
a single file each, containing only the number of pages that will fit on a sin-
gle sheet of paper, are shown below.
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ STYLE: Booklet or Manual ║
║ ORIENTATION: Landscape ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 2 ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 4 ║
║ PITCH: 17 ║
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:4 │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:1 │ │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:2 │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:3 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
║ FRONT BACK ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ┌───────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐ ║
║ STYLE: Booklet │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ or Manual │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Portrait │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 4 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 8 │ ░░ PAGE:8 │ ░░ PAGE:1 │ │ ░░ PAGE:2 │ ░░ PAGE:7 │ ║
║ PITCH: 23 │═══════════╪═══════════│ │═══════════╪═══════════│ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░ PAGE:6 │ ░░ PAGE:3 │ │ ░░ PAGE:4 │ ░░ PAGE:5 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────┘ ║
║ FRONT BACK ║
║ (Double line signifies to CUT the sheets here) ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ STYLE: Booklet or Manual ║
║ ORIENTATION: Landscape ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 8 ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 16 ║
║ PITCH: 32 ║
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:16│ PAGE:1 ║ PAGE:14│ PAGE:3 │ │ PAGE:4 │ PAGE:13║ PAGE:2 │ PAGE:15│ ║
║ │════════╪════════╬════════╪════════│ │════════╪════════╬════════╪════════│ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:12│ PAGE:5 ║ PAGE:10│ PAGE:7 │ │ PAGE:8 │ PAGE:9 ║ PAGE:6 │ PAGE:11│ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
║ FRONT BACK ║
║ (Double line signifies to CUT the sheets here) ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
BOOKLET TYPE output always prints individual files on separate sets of output
sheets. If two files are printed in BOOKLET TYPE style at one time, the output
will consist of TWO separate sets of paper sheets, each one with the text con-
tents of only ONE of the two files.
A MANUAL TYPE is printed in the same manner as the BOOKLET TYPE, except there is
only one set of paper sheets of output regardless of the number of files printed
at one time. Each file is treated as a chapter in the manual, and these files
are printed one after another.
Printing a single file with either BOOKLET TYPE or MANUAL TYPE style will result
in the same output.
The same two files are depicted below, first in BOOKLET TYPE style and then in
MANUAL TYPE style.
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╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ STYLE: Booklet │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Portrait or │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ├─┐ ║
║ Landscape │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 2, 4 or 8 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 4, 8 or 16 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ├────┐ ║
║ PITCH: 17, 23 or 32 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │░░░ ├─┐ ║
║ │ FILE:1░░░PAGE:8 │ FILE:1░░░PAGE:1 │ │░░░ │ │ ║
║ └─┬─────────────────────────────────┘ │░░░ │ ├─┐ ║
║ │ FILE:1░░░PAGE:6 │ FILE:1░░░PAGE:3 │░░░ │ │ │ ║
║ └────┬──────────────────────────────┘░░░ │ │ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ │ ║
║ NOTE: Only the front of │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ │ ║
║ these booklet sheets │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:12│ FILE:2░░░PAGE:1 │ │ │ ║
║ is shown here. └─┬─────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ ║
║ The remaining text pages │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:10│ FILE:2░░░PAGE:3 │ │ ║
║ would be printed on the └─┬─────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║
║ back. │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:8 │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:5 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ STYLE: Manual │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Portrait or │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ├─┐ ║
║ Landscape │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 2, 4 or 8 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ├─┐ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 4, 8 or 16 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ├─┐ ║
║ PITCH: 17, 23 or 32 │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ │ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ │ ├─┐ ║
║ │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:12│ FILE:1░░░PAGE:1 │ │ │ │ │ ║
║ └─┬─────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ║
║ │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:10│ FILE:1░░░PAGE:3 │ │ │ │ ║
║ NOTE: Only the front of └─┬─────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ ║
║ these manual sheets │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:8 │ FILE:1░░░PAGE:5 │ │ │ ║
║ is shown here. └─┬─────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ ║
║ The remaining text pages │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:6 │ FILE:1░░░PAGE:7 │ │ ║
║ would be printed on the └─┬─────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║
║ back. │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:4 │ FILE:2░░░PAGE:1 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
BOOKLET and MANUAL type output may also have more than one text page per book
page. The three options of one, two or four text pages per book page are graphi-
cally shown below.
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╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ STYLE: Booklet or Manual ║
║ ORIENTATION: Landscape ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 2 ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 4 ║
║ TEXT PAGES/ ║
║ BOOK PAGE: 1 ║
║ PITCH: 17 ║
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:4 ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ PAGE:1 │ │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:2 ║ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:3 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
║ FRONT BACK ║
║ ▓▓ ═ BOOK PAGE 1 (Double line signifies to FOLD the sheets here) ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ┌───────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐ ║
║ STYLE: Booklet │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ or Manual │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ ORIENTATION: Portrait │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 4 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 8 │ ░░ PAGE:7 │ ░░ PAGE:8 │ │ ░░ PAGE:5 │ ░░ PAGE:6 │ ║
║ TEXT PAGES/ │═══════════╪═══════════│ │═══════════╪═══════════│ ║
║ BOOK PAGE: 2 │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ PITCH: 23 │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ▓▓ PAGE:1 │ ▓▓ PAGE:2 │ │ ░░ PAGE:3 │ ░░ PAGE:4 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────┘ ║
║ FRONT BACK ║
║ ▓▓ ═ BOOK PAGE 1 (Double line signifies to FOLD the sheets here) ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ STYLE: Booklet or Manual ║
║ ORIENTATION: Landscape ║
║ PAGES/SIDE: 8 ║
║ SIDES/SHEET: 2 ║
║ PAGES/SHEET: 16 ║
║ TEXT PAGES/ ║
║ BOOK PAGE: 4 ║
║ PITCH: 32 ║
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:13│ PAGE:14║ PAGE:1 │ PAGE:2 │ │ PAGE:5 │ PAGE:6 ║ PAGE:9 │ PAGE:10│ ║
║ │────────┼────────╫────────┼────────│ │────────┼────────╫────────┼────────│ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:15│ PAGE:16║ PAGE:3 │ PAGE:4 │ │ PAGE:7 │ PAGE:8 ║ PAGE:11│ PAGE:12│ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
║ FRONT BACK ║
║ ▓▓ ═ BOOK PAGE 1 (Double line signifies to FOLD the sheets here) ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
All three of the last styles are useful when printing out large documents, the
last two especially for occasional use.
The table below is a summary of the thirty-six LASR-MAN printing styles current-
ly available.
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ S T Y L E S U M M A R Y ║
╠═════════════╤═══════╤═══════╤═══════════╤═════════╣
║ MAJOR │ SIDES │ PAGES │ PAGES │ ║
║ STYLE │ ───── │ ───── │ ───────── │ PITCH ║
║ TYPE │ SHEET │ SIDE │ BOOK PAGE │ CPI ║
╟─────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────┼─────────╢
║ Landscape │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 10 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 12 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 17 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 23 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 32 ║
║ │ 1 │ 4 │ - │ 23 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 10 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 12 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 17 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 23 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 32 ║
║ │ 2 │ 4 │ - │ 23 ║
╟─────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────┼─────────╢
║ Portrait │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 10 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 12 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 17 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 23 ║
║ │ 1 │ 1 │ - │ 32 ║
║ │ 1 │ 2 │ - │ 17 ║
║ │ 1 │ 8 │ - │ 32 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 10 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 12 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 17 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 23 ║
║ │ 2 │ 1 │ - │ 32 ║
║ │ 2 │ 2 │ - │ 17 ║
║ │ 2 │ 8 │ - │ 32 ║
╟─────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────┼─────────╢
║ Booklet │ 2 │ 2 │ 1 │ 17 ║
║ │ 2 │ 4 │ 1 │ 23 ║
║ │ 2 │ 4 │ 2 │ 23 ║
║ │ 2 │ 8 │ 1 │ 32 ║
║ │ 2 │ 8 │ 4 │ 32 ║
╟─────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────┼─────────╢
║ Manual │ 2 │ 2 │ 1 │ 17 ║
║ │ 2 │ 4 │ 1 │ 23 ║
║ │ 2 │ 4 │ 2 │ 23 ║
║ │ 2 │ 8 │ 1 │ 32 ║
║ │ 2 │ 8 │ 4 │ 32 ║
╚═════════════╧═══════╧═══════╧═══════════╧═════════╝
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System Requirements
LASR-MAN will run on an IBM PC, XT, AT or true compatibles. It has been tested
with PC-DOS/MS-DOS operating systems version 3.0 through 5.0. The program will
determine what type of display monitor is available and adjust itself accord-
ingly. The program was developed using a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIP, and
should work with any LaserJet compatible printer. The program may also be used
with other laser printers that use the Printer Control Language (PCL) after
defining their printer command codes in a configuration file.
Manual Format
This manual is divided into several introductory chapters followed by a chapter
for each LASR-MAN function menu option. The format of these chapters and the
information presented therein has been standardized using the following conven-
tions.
Page layout - Each page has a header detailing the chapter and the program ver-
sion covered. A footer displays the manual page number.
Brackets and parentheses - Brackets, [...], are used in the manual and in the
help screens to specify what should be entered in response to the current
prompt. If a character string is to be entered, the type of character is noted,
such as ALPHA, NUMERIC, ANY, etc. Parentheses, (..), are used for comments.
Computer key conventions - Keys specified in the manual text that are not in
entry brackets are shown as reversed text, such as ESCAPE . All key references
are in capital letters for clarity.
Action steps - Some procedures may require selection from a menu of options,
inputting data or following a sequence of steps. Most manual sections will first
give an overview of the function or task under discussion and then detail the
various action operating procedures. In order to make this manual easier to use
a symbol, -> , marks the beginning of each of these action operating procedures.
■■■■-MAN programs - The general group of shareware programs by Micrometric is
referred to by the name ■■■■-MAN. It may also be used in reference to a specific
program in that group.
Shareware distributed documentation manual - The documentation file included on
the shareware distribution diskette contains the same information as the printed
and bound manual supplied as part of registration with two exceptions, the re-
sult of the word processor, formatting and printer used. The first is that all
of the control display characters (ASCII 1-31) and the reverse print keyboard
codes are NOT shown properly. Finally, bolding, underlining and special symbols
are NOT present.
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Shareware
LASR-MAN is being distributed as SHAREWARE. The SHAREWARE concept allows users
to examine a program on a trial basis at no (or minimal) charge before purchas-
ing it. In addition, by decreasing marketing costs, professional quality soft-
ware may be distributed for a fraction of the cost of a comparable commercial
product. Regardless of whether you register the program, please help distribute
LASR-MAN by sharing unmodified copies of it and its files with others.
You are hereby granted the right to use the LASR-MAN program for a thirty (30)
day evaluation period. If you find LASR-MAN of value and continue to use it
after this evaluation period, YOU MUST REGISTER YOUR PROGRAM USE. This will
provide you with:
* A 7" x 8 1/2" printed and bound manual.
* LASR-MAN phone or mail support for one year.
* Notification of the next LASR-MAN release.
* Sharing and exchange of LASR-MAN configuration files.
* Ability to suppress the shareware registration reminder message displayed
at the end of the program.
* An installation/upgrade/brand program with context sensitive help.
* Sincere thanks for your support of the SHAREWARE concept.
A Single System Program Registration entitles the user to unlimited use of the
LASR-MAN program on a single computer.
A Site License Program Registration entitles the user to unlimited use of the
LASR-MAN program on all computers, including networks, at a single corporate
location.
Program Registration, Single System . . . $35.
Includes latest version diskette and manual
Program Registration, Site License . . . $350.
Includes latest version diskette and manual
Latest Version Diskette only . . . . . . $10.
Shipping - Surface (for outside of USA/Canada only)$5.
Shipping - Air (for outside of USA/Canada only)$10.
ADDRESS: Micrometric
98 Dade Avenue
Sarasota FL 34232
PHONE: Voice/FAX (813) 377-2515
For ease in program registration, a registration order form may be printed at
the program exit or there is a quick registration form that is available with
the program F1 help key.
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This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Profession-
als (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principal works for you. If
you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by
contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can
help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide
technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at
545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442-9427, send a Compuserve message via easyplex
to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536, or by FAX to the ASP FAX number: (616) 788-2765. In
communications with the Ombudsman please include a telephone number and/or FAX
if available.
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INTRODUCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
If Questions Arise
If you have problems with this program, or want to send comments, manual correc-
tions, enhancement suggestions or configuration files for other printers that
you want to share, you may call or mail them to Micrometric at the phone and
address given above. Additionally, you can send routed E-Mail via the RIME(tm)
network to David Groome at the ->ACTION node in the ASP, Laser, Batch Common or
Shareware conferences. I also check Compuserve (71631,744), but only on an in-
frequent basis.
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INSTALLING THE SYSTEM
If the LASR-MAN program have been obtained from a diskette vendor, you should
follow any of their instruction on unpacking/installing the programs (if indeed
they have separate instructions.) The program and its files is normally supplied
as a self extracting file whose name is "LASR@xxx.EXE" (xxx is the version, such
as "LASR@300").
This file should first be copied to a directory on your hard disk. This direc-
tory may be a new one, such as one named "LM" and created specifically for LASR-
MAN, or a current one, such as "UTILITY", that has other programs/files. For
information on creating a separate directory, see your DOS manual.
FOR BEST OPERATION, ALL REQUIRED LASR-MAN FILES *SHOULD* BE PLACED ON PATH
REFERENCED SUBDIRECTORIES!
Once the file is copied to the desired hard disk directory, at the DOS prompt
change to this drive directory and then type the EXE file name (such as
"LASR@300") and press <ENTER>. This will unpack all of the LASR-MAN files.
If the LASR-MAN file was downloaded from a Bulletin Board, it should first be
copied to a directory as defined above and then unpacked, using whatever program
is specified by the Bulletin Board. It is normally distributed with a name of
"LASR@vvv.ZIP" (vvv is the version) or "LASRMN.ZIP".
The user manual (this document) may be printed out by LASR-MAN, but only after
it is installed. (Sort of like the chicken and egg problem, isn't it!)
For registered users, the detailed installation operating instructions are con-
tained in the "INST-MAN UTILITY MANUAL".
The files required for full LASR-MAN operation consist of:
LASR-MAN.EXE Executable program
LASR-MAN.LMH Help text information*
SMALL.LMF Small (23cpi) font*
TINY.LMF Tiny (32cpi) font*
*.LMC Configuration files* (at least 1 must be present)
NOTE: LASR-MAN will operate, although with diminished capabilities, if
any of the files marked with a '*' are not present.
If the LASR-MAN files are not located on PATH referenced directories, then, when
executing LASR-MAN, either:
1. The drive-directory on which they are located must be made the current
one, or
2. The drive-directory on which they are located must be specified on the
command line.
See the following section, "Running LASR-MAN", for more complete details, on
operation if the files are not located on path directories.
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RUNNING LASR-MAN
The syntax for running LASR-MAN is:
[d:][directory_path]LASR-MAN [option_a][option_b][...]
where: d: is the drive on which LASR-MAN.EXE is located.
directory_path is the path to the subdirectory on which the program
is located.
option_x are various program options whose functions and format are
described below.
NOTE: Drive and directory_path are not required if LASR-MAN.EXE and its asso-
ciated files are located on PATH referenced directories.
-> To run LASR-MAN properly one of the following three conditions must
be met:
1. LASR-MAN is located on a path referenced directory.
2. LASR-MAN is located on the current drive and directory.
3. The drive and directory on which LASR-MAN is located are specified
on the command line prior to the program name.
The command line options provide information to LASR-MAN that will override the
default options in effect at the beginning of the program.
These options may also be specified by use of an environment variable, LM. For
example, to set tabs equal to four spaces and the style of output for BOOKLET
TYPE, the following DOS command could be used -
set LM=/T4/SB
Additionally, all of these options, except GRAPHICS, may be changed within the
program. The order in which the LASR-MAN options are set is:
1. Program stored default settings.
2. Environment variable LM.
3. Command line options.
4. Program menus.
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RUNNING LASR-MAN LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Command Line/Environment Options
The format of the LASR-MAN program options is:
/{X}{option_value}
where: X is the option code which may be either lower or upper case.
option_value is the data required for setting this specific option.
A value of '*' will select the default for that option.
NOTE: The options may appear in any order in the environment variable or on
the command line. Each option must be preceded by a '/'. Spaces may be
used after any option string for clarity but they are not required.
An example of two options used to set LASR-MAN for the Manual style of output
and use a legal sized configuration is:
/SM/CHP-C-LEG.LMC
The individual LASR-MAN options are detailed in the following sections in alpha-
betical order.
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Archive Status
A [archive] The ARCHIVE OPTION specifies which files will be displayed for se-
lection: all files or only those that have changed and have their ar-
chive bit set on. Additionally, if only changed files are selected, the
archive bit may be reset after the file is printed.
O On, leave Only files with their archive bit on will be available
for selection. The archive bit WILL NOT be changed after the file is
printed.
C on, Clear Only files with their archive bit on will be available
for selection. The archive bit WILL BE set to off after the file is
printed.
E Either on/off (Default) All files regardless of their archive bit
status will be available for selection. The archive bit WILL NOT be
changed after the file is printed.
An example archive option to use only changed files:
/AO
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RUNNING LASR-MAN LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Configuration File
C [configuration] The CONFIGURATION FILE OPTION allows the printer and display
color parameters to be modified.
-> To use modified parameters, first change the desired ones using the
default parameter file. This file may be copied and renamed.
-> To specify the path of a parameter file using this option, the syn-
tax is:
<[drive:][directory path]file_name.extension>
NOTE: The distribution configuration files with a "-C-" in their
name have been set up for printers using a paper cassette that
print on the top side of the visible sheet. Those with a "-T-"
are for use with printers who feed the paper from a multi-
purpose tray, such as the HP IIP printer, and print on the
other (not visible) side of the sheet.
An example configuration file specification is:
/CD:\UTILITY\LASR-MAN\HP-T-A4.LMC
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 RUNNING LASR-MAN
Drive-Directory Path
D [drive-directory] The DRIVE-DIRECTORY PATH OPTION may be used to specify
printing files from a drive and directory other than the current ones.
-> To specify a drive and directory for the files to be printed other
that the current one using this option,the syntax is:
<[drive:][directory_path]>
An example drive-directory specification is:
/DD:\COMPILER\SOURCE
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RUNNING LASR-MAN LASR-MAN Version 3.00
File - File Mask
F [file] The FILE OPTION may be used to select a single file for printing or
to specify a group of files to be displayed for printing selection.
-> To specify a single file to be printed using this option, the syntax
is:
<filename.extension>
NOTE: Using this option, the file selection/tag process is bypassed
if the file specified is located on the selected
drive/directory.
-> To specify a file mask for file printing selection using this op-
tion, the syntax is:
<filename.extension>
NOTE: The normal DOS wildcard characters of '?' and '*' may be used.
An example file specification is:
/FLASR-MAN.DOC
An example file mask specification of w?l?c?r?.* is:
/FW?L?C?R?.*
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Graphics
G [graphics] The GRAPHICS OPTION specifies how fast the graphic animation will
be displayed during the wait for option verification. The default grap-
hics option is 50.
nnn Display the animation graphics at this relative speed where nnn
is a one to three digit number (1 is faster, 999 is slower).
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Monitor
M [monitor] The MONITOR OPTION can force the display to be set for a monochrome
monitor. This is of primary use where a monochrome monitor is used with
a color card or where both color and monochrome monitors are used with
a system.
N o (Default) Do not force a monochrome display.
Y es Force a monochrome display.
An example of a monitor option for forcing a monochrome monitor is:
/MY
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Option File
O [option] The OPTION FILE OPTION allows the option settings to be saved and
loaded to LASR-MAN.
-> To use modified options, first change the desired ones while running
the program and before exiting, save them (EXIT Function). This file
may then be loaded either through the command line/environment op-
tion file parameter or via the program menus.
-> To specify the name of a option file using this option, the syntax
is:
<option file name>
NOTE: The option file extension is NOT specified, since it is always
".LMO".
An example option file specification is:
/OSOURCE1
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Option Switches
W [option switches] The OPTION SWITCH OPTIONS are used to set the various op-
tion switches. It must be specified completely for each switch to be
set (all three characters).
P file Page start (or A ) OPTION SWITCH determines whether new files
will be started on the next odd page when printing in multiple pages
per side, BOOKLET TYPE or MANUAL TYPE styles.
A ny Start printing the next file on the next available page.
O dd (Default) Start printing the next file on the next odd num-
bered page skipping any even numbered page.
An example of specifying that each file start on an odd numbered
page is:
/WPO or /WAO
T switch Titles (or L ) OPTION SWITCH will switch the left and right
title section data fields on even numbered pages.
Y es Switch left and right title section data fields on even num-
bered pages.
N o (Default) Do not switch title sections on even numbered pages.
An example of specifying that left and right title section will be
swapped every page is:
/WTY or /WLY
B Binding margin (or G ) OPTION SWITCH reads a special configuration
file that provides a half-inch binding margin on the printed output.
Y es Read the special binding margin configuration file that pro-
vides a half-inch margin.
N o (Default) Do not provide a binding margin.
F print Form feeds (or E ) OPTION SWITCH specifies how text form
feed characters will be handled during printing.
Y es (Default) Print all text form feed characters.
N o Ignore all text form feed characters.
H title Headers OPTION SWITCH is used to remove the headers from
title section data fields. Each title section data field, except the
custom field, has a header, such as "PAGE:" for the page data field.
Y es (Default) Display and print all title headers.
N o Do not display or print all title headers.
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D page Dividers (or V ) OPTION SWITCH is used to remove the page di-
viders that are normally included when multiple pages are printed on
one side of a paper sheet.
Y es (Default) Print page dividers when two or more pages are pri-
nted on one side of a paper sheet.
N o Do not print page dividers.
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Pitch
P [pitch] The PITCH OPTION is available only for the styles where one page is
printed per side of the paper sheet (The other side of the paper
sheet may also be printed, i.e, double sided printing). All other
styles use specific pitches.
P Pica 10 characters per inch.
E Elite 12 characters per inch.
L Line printer (Default) 17 characters per inch.
S Small 23 characters per inch.
T Tiny 32 characters per inch.
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Reverse Second Pass Printing
R [reverse 2nd pass output] The REVERSE 2ND PASS OUTPUT OPTION selects the
order in which the output is printed during the second printing pass.
The normal method is to print the back of the first sheet printed dur-
ing the first pass and continue to printing the back of the last sheet.
This option allows printing the back of the last sheet printed during
the first pass first and continuing to the back of the first sheet.
N o (Default) On the second printing pass, print the back of the
first sheet first and the last sheet last.
Y es On the second printing pass, print the back of the last sheet
printed during the first pass first and continue to the back of the
first sheet.
NOTE: This option is normally set to "Yes" for printers with a paper
cassette and to "No" for those with a multi-purpose tray, such
as the HP IIP.
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Style of Output
S [style] The STYLE OF OUTPUT OPTION selects the orientation of the printed
output and whether each sheet will be printed on one or both sides.
1 1 Up type Each page is printed in portrait orientation on one side
only of a single sheet of paper. (A single scan of reading the se-
lected file(s) and one printing pass is required.)
D Double type Same, but on both sides of each sheet of paper: page 1
front, page 2 back. (Two passes are required.)
L Landscape type Each page is printed in landscape orientation on
one side only of a single sheet of paper. (A single scan reading the
selected file(s) is required.)
U doUble sided landscape type Same, but on both sides of each sheet
of paper: page 1 front, page 2 back. (Two passes are required.)
2 2 Up type Two pages are printed in landscape orientation on one
side of each sheet: page 1 left, page 2 right. (One pass)
Q Quad type (Default) Same, but on both sides of each sheet of pa-
per: pages 1-2 front, 3-4 back. (Two passes)
4 4 Up type Four pages are printed in portrait orientation on one
side of each sheet: page 1 top left, page 2 top right, page 3 bottom
left, page 4 bottom right. (One pass)
O Octal type Same, but on both sides of each sheet of paper: pages
1-4 front, 5-8 back. (Two passes)
8 8 Up type Eight pages are printed in landscape orientation on one
side of each sheet: pages 1-4 on the top, pages 5-8 on the bottom.
(One pass)
H Hexadecimal type Same, but on both sides of each sheet of paper:
pages 1-8 front, 9-16 back. (Two passes)
B Booklet type Each selected file is printed Quad, with page 1 on
the right of the first sheet and the last page on the left. (Three
file scans, two passes of the printer)
K double booKlet type Same as booklet type, except each selected
file is printed Octal, with four pages per side. (Three file scans,
two passes of the printer)
E double booklEt type, double page Same as booklet type, except each
selected file is printed Octal, with four pages per side and each
book page has two text pages. (Three file scans, two passes of the
printer)
T quad bookleT type Same as booklet type, except each selected file
is printed Hexadecimal, with eight pages per side. (Three file
scans, two passes of the printer)
P quad booklet type, quad Page Same as booklet type, except each se-
lected file is printed Hexadecimal, with eight pages per side and
each book page has four text pages. (Three file scans, two passes of
the printer)
M Manual type All selected files are printed Quad as one document.
The first sheet has file 1, page 1 on the right, last file last page
on the left. (Three file scans, two passes of the printer.)
N double maNual type Same as manual type, except all selected files
are printed Octal as one document, with four pages per side. (Three
file scans, two passes of the printer.)
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Y double manual tYpe, double page Same as manual type, except all
selected files are printed Octal as one document, with four pages
per side and each manual page has two text pages. (Three file scans,
two passes of the printer.)
A quad mAnual type Same as manual type, except all selected files
are printed Hexadecimal as one document, with eight pages per side.
(Three file scans, two passes of the printer.)
G quad manual type, quad paGe Same as manual type, except all se-
lected files are printed Hexadecimal as one document, with eight
pages per side and each manual page has four text pages. (Three file
scans, two passes of the printer.)
An example of setting the style for printing a MANUAL TYPE with two
pages per side:
/SM
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RUNNING LASR-MAN LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Tabs
T [tabs] The TABS OPTION specifies the number of spaces to use for tab char-
acters in the selected files that are printed. Additionally, leading
spaces of more than 8 characters will be shortened as if they were tab
characters: for example, 24 leading spaces=3 tab characters. The de-
fault tabs option is 8 spaces per tab.
0 to 10 Substitute the selected number of spaces for each tab
character.
An example of setting five characters per tab:
/T5.
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Title (Header/Footer)
H [title] The TITLE OPTION selects whether the first/last two lines on each
page will be used for a page header/footer or for file text.
H title Header with underline A page title that is underlined and a
blank line are printed at the top of each page.
O title header withOut underline Same as above, but the page title
header is not underlined.
F title Footer with underline (Default) A blank line and a page
title that is underlined are printed at the bottom of each page.
W title footer Without underline Same as above, but the page title
footer is not underlined.
N No page title header No page title is printed at the top or bottom
of each page. Instead, two more lines of text are printed on each
page.
NOTE: This title, if selected, is divided into three sections (Left,
Center and Right). Any of the title data fields noted below may
be used in any of the title sections and they may also be repeat-
ed. The defaults are Left=F, Center=P, Right=A.
-> To specify a page title with the defaults, use only the option
character T .
-> To use title data fields other than the defaults, use the
title option letter T followed by the three title section
data field options, shown in the table below.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ <F>ILE: nnnnnnnn.eee mm-dd-yy hh:mm. FILE NAME, DATE, TIME │
│ f<I>LE: nnnnnnnn.eee mm-dd-yy....... FILE NAME, DATE │
│ fi<L>E: nnnnnnnn.eee................ FILE NAME │
│ <P>RINTED: mm-dd-yy hh:mm........ CURRENT DATE, TIME │
│ p<R>INTED: mm-dd-yy.............. CURRENT DATE │
│ p<A>GE: ppp................... OUTPUT PAGE NUMBER │
│ pa<G>E: ppp [ff-nnn].......... OUTPUT PAGE #, FILE #, FILE PAGE # │
│ <C>ustom................... USER ENTERED TEXT DATA │
│ <N>othing............... BLANK │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
NOTE: If the C ustom user entered text data field option is selected,
it should be followed immediately by the desired text data, pre-
ceded and terminated by single quote characters.
An example of an underlined title header with page number on the
left and file name only on the right:
/HHANL
An example of a title footer without an underline and with only a
center text field of [Sample Report]:
/HWNC'Sample Report'N
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 RUNNING LASR-MAN
HELP Key
Pressing the help key, F1 , displays a context sensitive help page window such
as shown below. The help page shown is the first one available as shown by the
page number 0 in the upper right corner. Page 0 acts as a help page menu for
this program. The help page actually displayed when the help key is pressed
depends on the actions of the program and will be the most appropriate for the
program at that point. The bar shown on the right edge of the help window de-
picts the position of this screen with regard to the total text of the current
help page.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│╒═╡ LASR-MAN Help ═ HELP INDEX Page 0 ╞═╕ │
││ INTRODUCTION.................................................... 1 █│
││ MAIN MENU....................................................... 2 ▒█│
││ DIRECTORY FUNCTION MENU................................. 3 ▒█│
││ Data Path Option................................ 3 █│
││ Drive Menu.............................. 4 │█│
││ Sub Directory Pick List................. 5 │█│
││ Config File Option.............................. 3 │█│
││ Configuration File Path List Menu....... 6 │█│
││ Configuration File Pick List............ 7 │█│
││ [F2] File View.................. T │█│
││ Restore Path Option............................. 3 │█│
││ Restore Conf Option............................. 3 │█│
││ OPTIONS FUNCTION MENU................................... 8 │█│
││ Reload Defaults Option ......................... 8 │█│
││ Change Menu Colors Option....................... 8 │█│
││ Change Menu Colors Menu................. 9 │█│
││ Option File Option.............................. 8 │█│
│╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
│ ESC/ENTER ExitHelp│[0] HelpIndex│[1 9 A Z] HelpPage│Pageup Pagedown Home End │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To display context sensitive help information while the program is waiting
for a response to a prompt, press F1 . The help window control keys are
covered below.
ESC ENTER Remove Help Window & return to the program
HOME . . . Display first screen of the current Help Page
END . . . . Display last screen of the current Help Page
PAGE UP . . Display previous screen of the current Help Page
PAGE DOWN . Display next screen of the current Help Page
0 . . . . . Display Help Page Index Menu, Page 0
1-9 F1-F9 A-Z Display the corresponding Help Page
ESCAPE Key
Pressing the ESCAPE key at any point while the program is waiting for the
response to a prompt cancels the current action and generally causes the program
to display the previous menu. The specific function of the ESCAPE key at the
present time is shown on the bottom help line.
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File View Key
Many of the LASR-MAN option menus allow viewing the highlighted file, either in
total or when ready to print, the first page that will print on a sheet. For the
purpose of viewing a highlighted file, the F2 key is always the one to press.
When file viewing is available, it will be shown on the bottom help line.
NOTE: Any occurrence of the '~' character in the viewed text will be replaced
by the '≈' character. This is due to the use of the '~' character as an
end-of-line indicator in the viewing window.
Actions and Messages
Various actions that occur during the execution of LASR-MAN are noted by an
action display similar to that shown below. This action display is only shown
while the given action is occurring and does not require any response from the
user. Messages from LASR-MAN are displayed is a similar manner and do require a
user response. The valid responses to the displayed message are given on the
bottom help line.
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔═╡ ACTION ╞═══════════╗ │
│ ║ Read data and format ║█ │
│ ╚══════════════════════╝█ │
│ ████████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────────┘
Disk Not Ready
If a disk drive is not ready, such as a floppy diskette drive door being open,
an informational message will be displayed.
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔═╡ MESSAGE ╞════════════════════════════╗ │
│ ║ Disk not ready. Correct & continue. ║█ │
│ ╚════════════════════════════════════════╝█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████████████████ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel this disk operation and exit from the program, press ESCAPE .
-> To continue, make the drive ready and press any other key.
Printer Not Ready
If the printer is not ready, an informational message will be displayed.
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔═╡ MESSAGE ╞════════════════════════════╗ │
│ ║ Printer not ready. Correct & continue. ║█ │
│ ╚════════════════════════════════════════╝█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████████████████ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel this printer operation and exit from the program, press ESCAPE .
-> To continue, make the printer ready and press any other key.
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MAIN MENU
The LASR-MAN screen display has been designed for ease of use while providing
the maximum amount of information on the current operation of the program. As
distributed, the screen display initially shows only the main function menu but
it can optionally display information on the current directory and the option
settings, as shown on the next page. This is to allow an uncluttered screen for
the new user while allowing the advanced user to display the full program infor-
mation.
A sample of this initial entry level screen display is shown below. The MAIN
MENU with its five functions is on the second line. The bottom line of this, and
all other LASR-MAN displays, describes the currently available action keys and
their function.
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│░ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀░│
╘╡ LASR-MAN Version 3.00, Copyright 1990-92 Micrometric, All Rights Reserved ╞╛
F1 Help│ESC eXit│ENTER/[char] Select│TAB Change Info Display│ Home End
-> To obtain context sensitive help at any point in the program, press F1 .
For more information on this feature, see the section "HELP KEY".
-> To begin the process of exiting from the program when none of the function
menus are displayed, press ESCAPE .
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MAIN MENU LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Advanced Information Display
-> To display the directory/option information at the MAIN MENU, press TAB .
Repeatedly pressing the TAB key will display more information, until final-
ly the screen is again cleared (three key presses). The first key press will
display the data and configuration file paths. The second additionally dis-
plays the option information and the third add a graphical representation of
the output sheet layout.
A sample of the full display, with the initial program defaults, is shown
below.
╒═╡ LASeR-print MANagement Program ╞═══════════╡ Started at═ 01-31-92 03:00 ╞═╕
│░ Directory Options Files select print eXit ░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░Data path═ C:\LM░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░4│
│░░░Configuration═ C:\LM\LASR-MAN.LMC░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░5│
│┌──┤ Page ├───┐░░░░░░░░░░░░Option file═ LASR-MAN.LMO Default options░░░░░░░░6│
││Landscape ═══════════════╗░░Style═ Landscape░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░7│
││ │ ║╗░░Tabs═ 8 spaces░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░8│
││ Lines═ 72 ║║░Title═ Footer_░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░9│
││ Pitch═ 17cpi ║║░░Left═ FILE: NNNNNNNN.EEE MM-DD-YY HH:MM░░10│
│└ Chars═ 81 ┘ ║║Center═ PRINTED: MM-DD-YY HH:MM░░░░░░░░░░░░11│
│░╚╡2 pages/SIDE╞══════════════╝║░Right═ PAGE: PPPP░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░12│
│░░╚╡BOTH SIDES╞════════════════╝┌───────────┤ Option Switches ├─────────────┐│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ file pAge start ODD print formfEeds YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ switch titLes══ NO title Headers══ YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ binding marGin═ NO page diViders══ YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░└───────────────────────────────────────────┘│
│░ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ░│
│░ ▓Ç ▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓ ░│
│░ ┌┼┐ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ░│
│░ ┌┴┐ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓▓ ░│
│░═┴═┴═▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ░│
│░ ░│
╘╡ LASR-MAN Version 3.00, Copyright 1990-92 Micrometric, All Rights Reserved ╞╛
F1 Help│ESC eXit│ENTER/[char] Select│TAB Change Info Display│ Home End
-> To clear the background display of the directory and option data when the
full data is being displayed, press TAB again. Note that this key only
works when the program is at the MAIN MENU display.
The fourth and fifth lines (the line numbers on the right side of the display
have been added for clarity) of this display provide data on the current
drive-directory and the printer configuration file in use.
The sixth line specifies the option file used, if any, along with its de-
scription.
The seventh through twelfth lines summarize the printing options currently in
effect.
The fourteenth through sixteenth give the current values of the option
switches.
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 MAIN MENU
The selected style of output is displayed along with a graphical depiction of
how text data will be printed on the left side of the screen.
In the example above, text will be printed in landscape orientation, with two
pages per side of paper and each piece of paper will be printed on both
sides. Each text page will be printed using the seventeen character per inch
font. Lines on each page will have a maximum length of eighty-one characters
and a page may contain up to seventy-two lines. Text tabs will be expanded to
eight spaces. Each page will have an underlined footer whose three title seg-
ments are shown. The option switches have been set with the values as dis-
played.
NOTE: To display the directory/option information automatically when the
program is executed, set the display to the desired level and then
exit, saving the current options.
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MAIN MENU LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Operation Sequence
The general operation sequence of LASR-MAN to follow for printing a file or
files is:
* Select the DIRECTORY on which the file(s) to be printed reside.
* Set the printing OPTIONS desired if different from the currently set op-
tions.
* Perform FILES SELECTion to tag the file(s) for printing.
* PRINT the selected files.
* EXIT the program.
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 MAIN MENU
Main Menu Functions
The MAIN MENU consists of five Function, one of which (PRINT) is dependent on at
least one file being selected. The print function is enabled when a file or
files has been selected for printing and its first letter in the MAIN MENU is
then capitalized and highlighted.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Directory Options Files select print eXit │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To select a MAIN MENU Function, press its highlighted letter or move the
MAIN MENU highlight bar to the desired Function with the cursor control
keys and press ENTER .
When a MAIN MENU Function is selected, the appropriate Function menu is
displayed.
-> To switch from one Function menu to another, press the highlighted
letter of the desired Function. For example, if, at the MAIN MENU, you
pressed D , for directory displaying the DIRECTORY Function menu. and
you now want to go to the FILES SELECT Function, press F .
45
MAIN MENU LASR-MAN Version 3.00
46
DIRECTORY FUNCTION
The DIRECTORY Function is used to specify the drive/subdirectory from which to
select files that are to be printed and to change the printer configuration
information of printer model - size paper.
-> To select the DIRECTORY Function when the display is at the MAIN MENU, press
D or move the MAIN MENU highlight bar to the DIRECTORY Function using the
cursor control keys and press ENTER . The DIRECTORY Option menu will then be
displayed, as shown below.
╒═╡ LASER-print MANagement Program ╞═══════════╡ Started at═ 01-31-92 03:00 ╞═╕
│ Directory Options Files select print eXit │
│░╔══════════════╗░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░║ Data path ║█C:\LM░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░║ Config file ║█C:\BAT\DEFAULT.LMC░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░║ Restore Path ║█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░║ restore coNf ║█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░╚══════════════╝█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░ ▒▒ ▒▒▄ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▄▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▄▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▄ ▒▒▄ ▒▒▄ ▒▒▄ ▒▒▄ ▒▒▄░│
│░ ▒Ç─* ▒▒▒▒▄ ▒▒█▀▀▀▀▀▀▒▒█▀▀▀▀▀▀▒▒█▀▀▀▒▒█ ▒▒▒▄ ▒▒▒█ ▒▒▒▒▄ ▒▒▒▄ ▒▒█░│
│░ ┌┼┐ ▒▒█▀▒▒▄ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▄▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▄▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒█ ▒▒▒█ ▒▒▒█ ▒▒█▀▒▒▄ ▒▒█▒▒▄▒▒█░│
│░ ┌┴┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒█ ▀▀▀▀▀▒▒█▒▒█▀▀▀▀▀▀▒▒█▀▀▒▒█▀ ▒▒█▒▒▄▒▒█ ▒▒▒▒▒▒█ ▒▒█ ▀▒▒▒█░│
│░═┴═┴═▒▒▒▒▄▒▒█▀▀▀▒▒▄▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▄▒▒█ ▒▒█ ▒▒█▒▒█▒▒█▒▒█▀▀▀▒▒▄▒▒█ ▒▒█░│
│░ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀░│
╘╡ LASR-MAN Version 3.00, Copyright 1990-92 Micrometric, All Rights Reserved ╞╛
F1 Help│ESC FunctionMenu│[DOFPX] Function│ENTER/[char] Select│ Home End│
-> To return to the MAIN MENU, press ESCAPE .
-> To switch to another Function, press its highlighted letter.
-> To select a DIRECTORY option, press its highlighted letter or move the
highlight bar to the desired option with the cursor control keys and press
ENTER .
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DIRECTORY FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Data path
The DATA PATH option sets the drive and subdirectory from which files are to be
selected for printing.
-> To change the drive and/or directory path from which to select files to
print, select the DATA PATH option by pressing D . The drive is first se-
lected and then the path to the desired subdirectory is set. The DRIVE selec-
tion menu is shown below. Available drives are capitalized.
┌────────────┐
│ ╒═DRIVE═╕ │
│ │ A n │█ │
│ │ B o │█ │
│ │ C p │█ │
│ │ D q │█ │
│ │ E r │█ │
│ │ F s │█ │
│ │ G t │█ │
│ │ H u │█ │
│ │ I v │█ │
│ │ J w │█ │
│ │ K x │█ │
│ │ L y │█ │
│ │ M z │█ │
│ ╘═══════╛█ │
│ █████████ │
└────────────┘
-> To leave the data path as it was before selection of this option, press
ESCAPE .
-> To select a DRIVE, press the desired DRIVE letter or move the highlight
bar to the desired DRIVE using the cursor control keys and press ENTER .
The selected drive will then be displayed to the right of the DIRECTORY
option and a SUBDIRECTORY menu will next be displayed.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔══════════════╗ │
│ ║ Data path ║█G:\LASR-MAN\ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ │
│╒═╡ PICK LIST ╞═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ │
││ accept path . <ROOT DIR> .. (PARENT> CONFIG DOC │█│
││ FONTS HELP OTHERS RELEASE │█│
│╘══════════════════════════════╡ Select the NEXT SUBDIRECTORY IN THE PATH ╞═╛█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To leave the data path as it was before selection of this option, press
ESCAPE .
-> To select the next SUBDIRECTORY to add to the data path, move the high-
light bar to the desired subdirectory using the cursor control keys and
press ENTER . Pressing a letter will move the SUBDIRECTORY highlight
bar to the first subdirectory whose name starts with that letter. When
selected, the subdirectory name is added to the path display and the
next SUBDIRECTORY menu is displayed.
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 DIRECTORY FUNCTION
-> To accept the path as it is currently set and displayed, move the high-
light bar to the "accept path" item and press ENTER . The program
returns to the DIRECTORY Function menu.
If this is not the root directory of the selected drive, two additional
items are displayed, ". <root>" and "..<parent>".
-> To reset the path to the root directory of the selected drive, move the
highlight bar to the ". <root>" item using the cursor control keys and
press ENTER .
-> To remove the last subdirectory added to the path, move the highlight
bar to the ".. <parent>" item using the cursor control keys and press
ENTER .
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DIRECTORY FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Config file
The configuration files are used to specify the make and model of laser printer
along with defining the size of paper on which to print. The files may be cus-
tomized, a procedure described in the chapter "EDITING THE CONFIGURATION FILE".
This option can select a configuration file containing all of the parameters or
one that changes only one of the parameters such as the maximum number of lines
per page or the print character used to separate pages.
Configuration files whose name contain "LET" are for letter size paper; "LEG",
legal; "A4", A4; and "LGC", legal size paper with letter size page text. The
distribution configuration files with a "-C-" in their name have been set up for
printers using a paper cassette that print on the top side of the visible sheet.
Those with a "-T-" are for use with printers who feed the paper from a multi-
purpose tray, such as the HP IIP printer, and print on the other (not visible)
side of the sheet.
NOTE: When LASR-MAN executes, it attempts to load a default configuration file
named "LASR-MAN.LMC". This default file can be generated by LASR-MAN when-
ever a configuration file is selected from those available using this
option. If no default configuration file is found, the DIRECTORY Function,
CONFIG FILE option is automatically selected and the message shown below
is displayed.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ MESSAGE ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐█ │
│ │ There is currently no default LASR-MAN.LMC configuration file.│█ │
│ │ A default configuration file SHOULD be defined. │█ │
│ │ A configuration file MUST be selected now before proceeding. │█ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█ │
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To exit from the program at this point, press ESCAPE .
-> To continue and select a configuration file, press any other key. Either
the PATH LIST or CONFIGURATION FILE menu will next be displayed, as shown
below.
-> To change the LASR-MAN configuration file, select the CONFIG FILE option by
pressing C . A PATH LIST menu will only be displayed if there are configura-
tion files on more than one of the PATH subdirectories.
┌────────────────────┐
│ ╒═╡ Path List ╞═╕ │
│ │ C:\BAT │█ │
│ │ C:\UTILITY │█ │
│ │ C:\ │█ │
│ ╘═══════════════╛█ │
│ █████████████████ │
└────────────────────┘
-> To cancel selection of the configuration file at this point, press ESC-
APE .
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 DIRECTORY FUNCTION
-> If the PATH LIST selection menu is displayed, select the desired PATH
directory by moving the highlight bar to it using the cursor control keys
and pressing ENTER .
The CONFIGURATION FILE PICK LIST selection menu is next displayed. It con-
tains all of the files on the selected (or only) directory that have an ex-
tension of ".LMC".
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔══════════════╗ │
│ ║ Data path ║█ │
│ ║ Config file ║█C:\BATΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ │
│╒═╡ PICK LIST ╞═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ │
││ DEF-BACK.LMC HP-C-A4.LMC HP-C-LEG.LMC HP-C-LET.LMC HP-C-LGC.LMC │█│
││ HP-T-A4.LMC HP-T-LEG.LMC HP-T-LET.LMC HP-T-LGC.LMC LASR-MAN.LMC │█│
││ _LETBIND.LMC _MLL-66.LMC │█│
│╘═════════════════════════════════╡ Select the desired CONFIGURATION FILE ╞═╛█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel selection of the configuration file at this point, press ESC-
APE .
-> To view the contents of a configuration file, move the highlight bar to
the desired one using the cursor control keys and press F2 . The file
view window will be displayed, as shown below.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│┌─┤ VIEW - File HP-C-LET.LMC Page 1 ├────────────────────────────────────┐ │
││ LASR-MAN PRINTER COMMAND CONFIGURATION FILE █│
││ ▒█│
││ NAME: HP-C-LET.LMC ▒█│
││PRINTER: Hewlett-Packard HP II/III Printer ▒█│
││ STYLE: Letter Size Paper, Lower Cassette ▒█│
││ SOURCE: 03-15-91 Micrometric, Sarasota, FL. █│
││ MOD: 01-02-92 Add lines/chars to all portrait/landscape styles │█│
││ Add small font, 23cpi and 4 pps styles │█│
││ Add tiny font, 32cpi and 8 pps styles │█│
││ Renumber two parameter: from #48 to #27, #81 to #28 │█│
││ Change printing pass 2 text format │█│
││ │█│
││To change a value from its default, remove the leading "*", if present, and│█│
││change the parameter after the equal sign to the desired value. All paramet│█│
││starting with a "*" will use the value previously loaded. │█│
│└ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ────┘█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To view more of this page of the selected file, use the PAGEUP
PAGEDOWN LEFTARROW RIGHTARROW UPARROW or DOWNARROW keys.
-> To return to the first screen display of this page, press HOME .
-> To view the next page of this file, press ENTER .
-> To end viewing this file, press ESCAPE .
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DIRECTORY FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
-> To select a configuration file to load, move the highlight bar to the
desired one using the cursor control keys and press ENTER . The selected
configuration file name is displayed to the right of the CONFIG FILE op-
tion. The file will then be read, with valid parameters replacing any
configuration parameters now in effect.
NOTE: If the default configuration file has not yet been loaded, this con-
figuration file MUST contain all of the required parameters. If it
does not, the message shown below is displayed.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ MESSAGE ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐█ │
│ │ This configuration file does not contain all of the parameters. │█ │
│ │ Select another configuration file. │█ │
│ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█ │
│ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To continue, press any key. The program will start the configuration
file selection process again.
A selection menu is next presented to allow the current configuration data
to be saved as the default for subsequent program executions.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╒═Use this as the NEW configuration DEFAULT?═╕ │
│ │ No │█ │
│ │ Yes │█ │
│ ╘════════════════════════════════════════════╛█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To leave the current configuration DEFAULT file unchanged, press N or
ESCAPE .
-> To save this data as the new DEFAULT configuration file, press Y . The
current DEFAULT configuration file is first saved to a file named "DEF-
BACK.LMC" (if that file does not already exist) and then the current
configuration data is written to the file "LASR-MAN.LMC".
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 DIRECTORY FUNCTION
Restore Path
At any time during the execution of LASR-MAN, the original data drive and direc-
tory path may be restored.
-> To restore the drive and directory path to that which was in effect when the
program was first loaded, select the RESTORE PATH option by pressing R . A
verification menu is then presented.
┌───────────────────────────┐
│ ╔══════════════╗ │
│ ║ Data path ║█ │
│ ║ Config file ╒═Sure?═╕ │
│ ║ Restore Path │ No │█ │
│ ║ restore coNf │ Yes │█ │
│ ╚══════════════╘═══════╛█ │
│ ████████████████████████ │
└───────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel this action and leave the data path as it currently is set,
press N or ESCAPE .
-> To continue and restore the data path, press Y .
53
DIRECTORY FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Restore Conf
Likewise, in general, the configuration parameters may also be restored to those
that were in effect when the program began. The exception is that, if the de-
fault configuration file has been modified and re-written during this execution
of the program, it is this re-written configuration file that will be restored.
-> To restore the configuration data to the defaults, select the RESTORE CONFIG
option by pressing N . A verification menu is then presented.
┌───────────────────────────┐
│ ╔══════════════╗ │
│ ║ Data path ║█ │
│ ║ Config file ║█ │
│ ║ Restore Path ╒═Sure?═╕ │
│ ║ restore coNf │ No │█ │
│ ╚══════════════│ Yes │█ │
│ ██████████████╘═══════╛█ │
│ █████████ │
└───────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel this action and leave the configuration data as it currently is,
press N or ESCAPE .
-> To continue and restore the default configuration data, press Y .
54
OPTIONS FUNCTION
Options are used by LASR-MAN to define how the program displays will appear and
how the printed output will look. All options specified in the environment vari-
able "LM" and on the command line are set before the options menu is first dis-
played. The OPTIONS Option menu allows changing and over-riding those option
settings.
As shown below, when the OPTIONS Function is selected the major option values
are displayed. The style of output shows the major style type selected - detail-
ed information on this output style is shown to the left of the OPTIONS Option
menu in graphical form. The number of spaces that will be substituted for any
tab characters is defined. If the title option is selected, its type is shown -
with an underline character if this sub-option has been selected - along with
the title data for the three title sections. Option switch settings are shown in
a boxed window.
-> To select the OPTIONS Function when the display is at the MAIN MENU, press
O or move the MAIN MENU highlight bar to the OPTIONS Function using cursor
control keys and press ENTER . The OPTIONS Option menu will then be display-
ed, as shown below.
╒═╡ LASeR-print MANagement Program ╞═══════════╡ Started at═ 01-31-92 03:00 ╞═╕
│░ Directory Options Files select print eXit ░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╔═════════════════════╗░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░║ Reload defaults ║░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░║ Change menu colors ║░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│┌──┤ Page ├───┐░║ Option file ║ LASR-MAN.LMO Default options░░░░░░░░░│
││Landscape ═║ Style of output ║ Landscape░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
││ │ ║ spaces per taB ║ 8 spaces░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
││ Lines═ 72 ║ page Title ║ Footer_░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
││ Pitch═ 17cpi ║ Monitor COLOR ║ FILE: NNNNNNNN.EEE MM-DD-YY HH:MM░░░░│
│└ Chars═ 81 ┘ ║ option sWitches ║ PRINTED: MM-DD-YY HH:MM░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░╚╡2 pages/SIDE╞╚═════════════════════╝ PAGE: PPPP░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░╚╡BOTH SIDES╞════════════════╝┌───────────┤ Option Switches ├─────────────┐│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ file pAge start ODD print formfEeds YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ switch titLes══ NO title Headers══ YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ binding marGin═ NO page diViders══ YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░└───────────────────────────────────────────┘│
│░ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░░░░░░░▄░░░░░░░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄░│
│░ ░Ç ░░░░▄ ░░█▀▀▀▀▀▀░░█▀▀▀░░█ ░░░▄ ░░░█ ░░░░▄ ░░░▄ ░░█░│
│░ ┌┼┐ ░░█▀░░▄ ░░░░░░░░▄░░░░░░░░█ ░░░░░░▄ ░░░█ ░░░█ ░░█▀░░▄ ░░█░░▄░░█░│
│░ ┌┴┐ ░░░░░░█ ▀▀▀▀▀░░█░░█▀▀░░█▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀ ░░█░░▄░░█ ░░░░░░█ ░░█ ▀░░░█░│
│░═┴═┴═░░░░▄░░█▀▀▀░░▄░░░░░░░░█░░█ ░░█ ░░█░░█░░█░░█▀▀▀░░▄░░█ ░░█░│
│░ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀░│
╘╡ LASR-MAN Version 3.00, Copyright 1990-92 Micrometric, All Rights Reserved ╞╛
F1 Help│ESC FunctionMenu│[DOFPX] Function│ENTER/[char] Select│ Home End│
-> To return to the MAIN MENU, press ESCAPE .
-> To switch to another Function, press its highlighted letter.
-> To select an OPTIONS option, press its highlighted letter or move the
highlight bar to the desired option with the cursor control keys and press
ENTER .
55
OPTIONS FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Reload the Defaults
All of the options may be reset to the values that were in effect when the pro-
gram was first loaded and before the options from the environment variable "LM"
and the command line were processed.
-> To reset all of the options to their original values, select the RELOAD THE
DEFAULTS option by pressing R . A verification menu is next displayed.
┌────────────┐
│ ╒═Sure?═╕ │
│ │ No │█ │
│ │ Yes │█ │
│ ╘═══════╛█ │
│ █████████ │
└────────────┘
-> To cancel resetting the option values, press N or ESCAPE .
-> To reset the options to their original values, press Y .
NOTE: Selection of this option WILL LOSE any options changes that were speci-
fied in the environment variable "LM" or on the command line.
56
LASR-MAN Version 3.00 OPTIONS FUNCTION
Change menu colors
The LASR-MAN menus and windows have been divided into eight types. The color of
each type may be changed independently and can then be saved when exiting so
that these colors will be used the next time the program is run.
-> To change the colors of any of the menu types, select the CHANGE MENU COLORS
option by pressing C . A menu to select the Menu Type for which a color
change is to be made is next displayed.
┌────────────────────┐
│ ╒═╡ Menu Type ╞═╕ │
│ │ Options │█ │
│ │ Main │█ │
│ │ Background │█ │
│ │ Actions │█ │
│ │ messaGes │█ │
│ │ Preview │█ │
│ │ file Info │█ │
│ │ file Select │█ │
│ ╘═══════════════╛█ │
│ █████████████████ │
└────────────────────┘
-> To cancel changing a Menu Type's color at this point, press ESCAPE .
-> To select the Menu Type whose color is to be changed, press its highlight-
ed letter or move the highlight bar to the desired Menu Type using the
cursor arrow keys and press ENTER . A sample menu with this Menu Type's
current colors is next displayed.
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╒═╡ Menu Type ╞═┌─┤ Menu Border ├─┐ │
│ │ Options │ Selected │█ │
│ │ Main │ Non-selected │█ │
│ │ Background └─────────────────┘█ │
│ │ Actions │███████████████████ │
│ │ messaGes │█ │
│ │ Preview │█ │
│ │ file Info │█ │
│ │ file Select │█ │
│ ╘═══════════════╛█ │
│ █████████████████ │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel changing this Menu Type's color at this point, press ES-
CAPE .
-> To change this Menu Type's background color, use the UP and DOWN
arrow keys to step through the sixteen background color combinations.
-> To change this Menu Type's foreground color, use the LEFT and RIGHT
arrow keys to step through the sixteen foreground color combinations.
-> To accept the sample menu's colors currently displayed for the high-
lighted Menu Type, press ENTER .
57
OPTIONS FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Option File
The option file option will load an option file with preset values, replacing
any/all of the current option values. The main purpose of this option is to
allow setting the LASR-MAN options for a specific type of printing, such as
printing manuals with a specific set of style options from a given directory.
These options may then be saved with a file name and description, using the EXIT
function, and then reloaded at a later time.
-> To load a previously saved option file, select the OPTION FILE option by
pressing O . A PATH LIST menu will only be displayed if there are option
files on more than one of the PATH subdirectories.
┌────────────────────┐
│ ╒═╡ Path List ╞═╕ │
│ │ C:\BAT │█ │
│ │ C:\UTILITY │█ │
│ │ C:\ │█ │
│ ╘═══════════════╛█ │
│ █████████████████ │
└────────────────────┘
-> To cancel selection of the option file at this point, press ESCAPE .
-> If the PATH LIST selection menu is displayed, select the desired PATH
directory by moving the highlight bar to it using the cursor control keys
and pressing ENTER .
A PICK LIST menu to select the available option files is next displayed, as
shown below. It contains all of the files on the selected (or only) directory
that have an extension of ".LMO".
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│╒═╡ PICK LIST ╞═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ │
││ BOWLHELP.LMO LASR-MAN.LMO SCREEN.LMO SOURCE4.LMO TEST.LMO │█│
│╘════════════════════════════════════════╡ Select the desired OPTION FILE ╞═╛█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel selection of the option file at this point, press ESCAPE .
-> To view the contents of a option file, move the highlight bar to the de-
sired one using the cursor control keys and press F2 . The file view
window will be displayed, as shown below.
58
LASR-MAN Version 3.00 OPTIONS FUNCTION
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│┌─┤ VIEW - File LASR-MAN.LMO Page 1 ├────────────────────────────────────┐ │
││/!Default options █│
││/AE ▒█│
││/CC:\LM\LASR-MAN.LMC ▒█│
││/DC:\LM ▒█│
││/EY ▒█│
││/F*.* ▒█│
││/G50 ▒█│
││/HF █│
││/HLF'' │█│
││/HCP'' │█│
││/HRA'' │█│
││/L0159 │█│
││/L1249 │█│
││/L2143 │█│
││/L323 │█│
│└ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ┘█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To view more of this page of the selected file, use the PAGEUP
PAGEDOWN LEFTARROW RIGHTARROW UPARROW or DOWNARROW keys.
-> To return to the first screen display of this page, press HOME .
-> To view the next page of this file, press ENTER .
-> To end viewing this file, press ESCAPE .
-> To select an option file to load, move the highlight bar to the desired
one using the cursor control keys and press ENTER . The selected option
file name is displayed to the right of the OPTION FILE option. The file
will then be read, with valid parameters replacing any option parameters
now in effect.
59
OPTIONS FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Style of Output
The STYLE OF OUTPUT selection menus are used to specify the orientation of the
printed output, whether each sheet will be printed on one side of the paper or
on both sides, how many pages of text will be printed on a side of the paper and
the pitch of the output. For a complete description of the various STYLE TYPES,
see the section "Print Style Overview".
The two different sheet orientations are shown in the figures below.
╔═══════════════════╗
║ PORTRAIT ║
║ ORIENTATION ║ ╔═════════════════════════════╗
║ ║ ║ LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION ║
║ ║ ║ └long side ║
║ ─long side ║ ║ ║
║ ║ ║ ║
║ FOOTER PAGE# ║ ║ FOOTER PAGE# ║
╚═══════════════════╝ ╚═════════════════════════════╝
-> To change the STYLE TYPE of output or its pitch, select the STYLE OF OUTPUT
option by pressing S . A menu to select the major print STYLE TYPE is next
displayed, with the current style highlighted.
When the STYLE OF OUTPUT option is selected, a table summarizing STYLE TYPE
information is displayed at the bottom of the screen, as shown below. The cur-
rent STYLE TYPE data is highlighted.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│╒═╡ TYPE PPS CPI CPL LPP TYPE PPS CPI CPL LPP ╞═╕ │
││ Portrait 1 10 80 61 Landscape 1 10 106 47 │█│
││ Portrait 1 12 96 81 Landscape 1 12 127 62 │█│
││ Portrait 1 17 134 96 Landscape 1 17 176 73 │█│
││ Portrait 1 23 184 132 Landscape 1 23 244 101 │█│
││ Portrait 1 32 264 166 Landscape 1 32 354 127 │█│
││ ─── Land/Book/Manual 2 17 81 72 │█│
││ Port/Book/Manual 4 23 81 61 ─── │█│
││ ─── Land/Book/Manual 8 32 81 60 │█│
│╘══╡ PPS=Pages/Side CPI=Characters/Inch CPL=Chars/Line LPP=Lines/Page ╞══╛█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Type - When the STYLE TYPE selection menu is displayed, a window depicting
information about the paper orientation options and type descriptions is also
displayed, as shown below.
60
LASR-MAN Version 3.00 OPTIONS FUNCTION
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╒═╡ Style Type Formats ╞══════════════════╕ │
│ │ ┌────────┐ ┌────────────┐ │█ │
│ │ │Portrait│ │ Booklet(s) │ │█ │
│ │ │ │ ┌───────────┐ │ or │ │█ │
│ ╒═╡ Type ╞════╕│ │1/4 pps │ │ Landscape │ │ Manual │ │█ │
│ │ Portrait ││ ┴────────┘ │ 1/2/8 pps │ │ 2/4/8 pps │ │█ │
│ │ Landscape ││═══════════ ┴───────────┘ └────────────┘ │█ │
│ │ Booklet(s) ││ Each file is printed on separate sheets.│█ │
│ │ Manual ││ Files are printed one after another, │█ │
│ ╘═════════════╛│ like chapters in a book. │█ │
│ ██████████████╘═════════════════════════════════════════╛█ │
│ ███████████████████████████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To leave the STYLE OF OUTPUT as it is currently set, press ESCAPE .
-> To leave the STYLE TYPE of output as it is currently set and change its
sides per sheet, pages per side and/or pitch options, press ENTER .
-> To select a different STYLE TYPE of output, press its highlighted letter
or move the highlight bar to the desired STYLE TYPE with the arrow keys
and press ENTER . The various values for this option are detailed below.
P Portrait type - Printing is done using the portrait orientation. There
may be one or four text pages per sheet side.
L Landscape type - Printing is done using the landscape orientation.
There may be one, two or eight text pages per sheet side.
B Booklet type - Each selected file is printed in booklet form. The out-
put will require two printer passes for each sheet of paper: first
printing text pages on the front of the sheet - two, four or eight
pages - and then a second printer pass to print text pages on the back
of the sheet. Each file is printed on a separate set of paper sheets.
M Manual type - Selected files are printed in manual form. The output is
the same as Booklet type except that printing multiple file is done in
a manner so that each file appears as if it were a chapter in a book.
Sides - If either the PORTRAIT or LANDSCAPE STYLE TYPES of output are select-
ed, a SIDES option selection menu is displayed (both BOOKLET TYPE and MANUAL
TYPE styles of output print on both sides of the paper sheet).
Selection of the "One side" option will result in the output being printed on
only one side of the paper and will require only one pass of the paper
through the printer.
The "Both sides" option selection requires that each output sheet will pass
through the printer twice and be printed on both sides.
┌──────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ Sides ├───┐ │
│ │ One side │█ │
│ │ Both sides │█ │
│ └─────────────┘█ │
│ ███████████████ │
└──────────────────┘
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OPTIONS FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
-> To leave the STYLE OF OUTPUT as it is currently set, press ESCAPE .
-> To leave the SIDES Style of output option as it is currently set and
change its pages per side and/or pitch options, press ENTER .
-> To select a different SIDES Style of output option, press its highlighted
letter or move the highlight bar to the desired SIDES with the arrow keys
and press ENTER .
Pages/Side - The PAGES/SIDE option selection menu is displayed with only
those options that are valid for the selected STYLE TYPE of output highlight-
ed.
┌─────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ Pages/Side ├─┐ │
│ │ One │█ │
│ │ Two │█ │
│ │ Four │█ │
│ │ Eight │█ │
│ └────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████ │
└─────────────────────┘
-> To leave the STYLE OF OUTPUT as it is currently set, press ESCAPE .
-> To leave the PAGES/SIDE Style of output option as it is currently set and
change its pitch options, press ENTER .
-> To select a different PAGES/SIDE Style of output option, press its high-
lighted letter or move the highlight bar to the desired PAGES/SIDE with
the arrow keys and press ENTER .
Text Pages/Book Page - For BOOKLET and MANUAL STYLE TYPES with four or eight
pages per side, an additional option is available, namely the number of text
pages printed on each book/manual page. For a full description on the avail-
able page layouts for this option, see the chapter "INTRODUCTION", section
"PRINT STYLE OVERVIEW". The PAGES/BOOK PAGE selection menu is displayed when
the STYLE OF OUTPUT selected allows, and is shown below. Valid options only
are highlighted.
┌────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ Pages/BookPage ├─┐ │
│ │ One │█│
│ │ two │█│
│ │ Four │█│
│ └────────────────────┘█│
│ ██████████████████████│
└────────────────────────┘
-> To leave the STYLE OF OUTPUT as it is currently set, press ESCAPE .
-> To leave the PAGES/BOOK PAGE Style of output option as it is currently
set, press ENTER .
-> To select a different PAGES/BOOK PAGE Style of output option, press its
highlighted letter or move the highlight bar to the desired PAGES/BOOK
PAGE with the arrow keys and press ENTER .
Pitch - The PITCH selection menu is displayed when any of the first two STYLE
TYPES are selected. All other styles use a fixed pitch.
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┌─────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ Pitch ├──┐ │
│ │ Pica-10 CPI│█ │
│ │ Elite-12 │█ │
│ │ Line-17 │█ │
│ │ Small-23 │█ │
│ │ Tiny-32 │█ │
│ └────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████ │
└─────────────────┘
-> To leave the PITCH as it is currently set, press ESCAPE .
-> To change the PITCH from that highlighted, press its highlighted letter or
move the highlight bar to the desired PITCH using the arrow keys and press
ENTER .
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OPTIONS FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Spaces per Tabs
The SPACES PER TABS selection menu is used to determine the number of spaces to
substitute for tab characters in the selected files that are printed. Addition-
ally, leading spaces of more than eight characters will be shortened as if they
were tab characters: for example, twenty-four leading spaces = three tab charac-
ters.
-> To change the number of spaces to be substituted for tab characters, select
the SPACES PER TAB option by pressing T . A menu to select the number of
spaces is next displayed.
┌────────┐
│ ╒═══╕ │
│ │ 0 │█ │
│ │ 1 │█ │
│ │ 2 │█ │
│ │ 3 │█ │
│ │ 4 │█ │
│ │ 5 │█ │
│ │ 6 │█ │
│ │ 7 │█ │
│ │ 8 │█ │
│ │ 9 │█ │
│ │Ten│█ │
│ ╘═══╛█ │
│ █████ │
└────────┘
-> To leave the SPACES PER TAB as it is currently set, press ESCAPE .
-> To select a different SPACES PER TAB, press its highlighted letter or move
the highlight bar to the desired SPACES PER TAB with the arrow keys and press
ENTER .
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 OPTIONS FUNCTION
Page Title
The PAGE TITLE selection menu is used to determine whether two lines on each
page will be used for a page title or for file text and, if there is a title,
its format. The title, when printed, consists of three segments - left, center,
right - each of which may be independently set to one of eight different for-
mats, one of which allows user data entry. The title may be in the form of a
page header or footer and it can be underlined. A depiction of the Page Title is
shown below.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ═══LEFT TITLE SEGMENT══ ══CENTER TITLE SEGMENT═ ══RIGHT TITLE SEGMENT══ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To change the page title option or edit its segments, select the PAGE TITLE
option by pressing T . A menu to select the TITLE Type is next displayed.
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ ╒═╡ TITLE Type ╞═════╕ │
│ │ Footer, underline │█ │
│ │ footer W/o under. │█ │
│ │ Header, underline │█ │
│ │ header w/O under. │█ │
│ │ No Page Title │█ │
│ ╘════════════════════╛█ │
│ ██████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────┘
-> To leave the page TITLE option as it is currently set, press ESCAPE .
-> To select a different TITLE Type, press its highlighted letter or move the
highlight bar to the desired TITLE Type with the arrow keys and press EN-
TER . If one of the types that display the title are selected, a TITLE format
selection menu is next displayed for the LEFT segment of the title. This will
be followed by menus for the CENTER and RIGHT title segments.
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ For the LEFT title, use ├─────┐ │
│ │ FILE: nnnnnnnn.eee mm-dd-yy hh:mm │█ │
│ │ fILE: nnnnnnnn.eee mm-dd-yy │█ │
│ │ fiLE: nnnnnnnn.eee │█ │
│ │ PRINTED: mm-dd-yy hh:mm │█ │
│ │ pRINTED: mm-dd-yy │█ │
│ │ pAGE: pppp │█ │
│ │ paGE: pppp [ff-nnnn] │█ │
│ │ Custom │█ │
│ │ Nothing │█ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘█ │
│ █████████████████████████████████████ │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To leave this and the other title segments with their current settings,
press ESCAPE . The program will return to the OPTIONS Options menu.
-> To leave this title segment data as it is currently set, press ENTER .
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-> To change the format to be displayed in this title segment from that high-
lighted, press its highlighted letter or move the highlight bar to the
desired title segment format using the arrow keys and press ENTER . If
the "Custom" title segment option is selected, A Custom Title entry window
is displayed.
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌──┤ Enter Custom Title ├───┐ │
│ │ ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ │█ │
│ └───────────────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████ │
└────────────────────────────────┘
-> To edit this Custom Title segment, type or change the desired data and
use the action keys that are shown on the bottom help line.
-> To cancel changing this Custom Title segment and restore its former
value, press ESCAPE .
-> To accept this edited Custom Title segment, press ENTER .
The newly defined title segment formats are temporarily displayed during
selection on the next to the last line of the background display. When all of
the data has been defined, these definitions are shown in the mid portion of
the background display. The display below would be seen after the LEFT and
CENTER title segments have been defined and while waiting for the RIGHT title
segment to be selected.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│FILE: NNNNNNNN.EEE MM-DD-YY PRINTED: MM-DD-YY HH:MM │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 OPTIONS FUNCTION
Monitor
The MONITOR Option specifies whether the display will be done in color or mono-
chrome. The default is that if a color graphics card is present, the display
will be in color. This procedure may be over-ridden with this option.
-> To toggle the LASR-MAN program display between monochrome and color, press
M .
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OPTIONS FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Option Switches
A variety of option switches are available to control the printed output. They
can be changed by either: 1.) first selecting the TOGGLE OPTION SWITCHES menu
and then toggling the desired switch, or 2.) toggling the switch directly from
the Option select menu. The TOGGLE OPTION SWITCHES menu is displayed below.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ TOGGLE OPTION SWITCHES ├────────────────┐ │
│ │ file pAge start ODD print formfEeds YES │█ │
│ │ switch titLes══ NO title Headers══ YES │█ │
│ │ binding marGin═ NO page diViders══ YES │█ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████████████████████ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To toggle an option switch directly from the OPTIONS Option menu, press the
desired option switches capital letter. For example, to toggle the "print
formfEeds" option switch, press E .
-> To first display the TOGGLE OPTION SWITCHES selection menu, press W or move
the highlight bar to it using the arrow keys and press ENTER .
-> To then toggle an option switch, press its highlighted letter or move the
highlight bar to the desired option switch using the arrow keys and press
ENTER .
File Page Start - Determines whether new files will be started on the next
odd page when printing in multiple pages per side, BOOKLET TYPE or MANUAL
TYPE styles. The "Any" option setting will start printing the next file on
the next available page. The "Odd" option setting will start printing the
next file on the next odd numbered page skipping any intervening even num-
bered page.
Switch Titles - Will switch the left and right title segment data fields on
even numbered pages. If the option switch is "Yes", the left and right title
segment data fields will be switched on all even numbered pages. If it is
"No", the title will be the same on all pages.
Binding margin - Reads a special configuration file that provides a half-inch
binding margin on the printed output.
NOTE: The Binding margin option switch can only be toggled from "No" to "Yes"
and NOT from "Yes" to "No". Additionally, it should only be used with
configurations files set for a paper width of 8.5" such as those whose
names contain "LET", "LEG" or "LGC".
-> To remove the binding margin once it is selected, it is necessary to
re-select the Configuration File. See the section "Config file" for
details.
Print Form Feeds - Specifies how text form feed characters will be handled
during printing. If the option switch is "Yes", all text form feed characters
will be printed. If it is "No", they will be ignored.
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 OPTIONS FUNCTION
Title Headers - Used to remove the headers from title section data fields.
Each title section data field, except the custom field, has a header, such as
"PAGE:" for the page data field. If the option is "Yes", these title headers
will be printed. If it is "No", they will be removed. As an example, the
first title segment data field would be printed as "'FILE:nnnnnnnn.eee mm-dd-
yy hh:mm" with the TITLE HEADERS switch set to "Yes" and as "nnnnnnnn.eee mm-
dd-yy hh:mm" when set to "No".
Page Dividers - Used to remove the page dividers that are normally included
when multiple pages are printed on one side of a paper sheet. If the option
is "Yes", the page dividers will be printed. If it is "No", they will not be
printed.
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FILES SELECT FUNCTION
File selection and tagging is the cornerstone of LASR-MAN operations. It is the
process of specifying which file or files, located on the current drive-direct-
ory, are to be printed. Only the files from one directory at a time may be pri-
nted with LASR-MAN. Only after a file or files are selected and tagged may pri-
nting occur.
The file names displayed for file selection are those files on the current
drive-directory as defined by the Data Path. If the files from a different
drive-directory are desired, first select the DIRECTORY Function and then
change the data path prior to selecting the FILES SELECT Function. Additionally,
the files must meet the criteria defined by ARCHIVE BIT STATUS & FILE MASK op-
tions.
LASR-MAN will handle directories with up to 512 files, displaying them seventy-
file at a time. Files in excess of this number will be bypassed and an overflow
error message will be displayed.
NOTE: To process directories containing more than 512 files, use the ARCHIVE
BIT and FILE MASK options to decrease the number of selectable files to
less than 512.
-> To select the FILES SELECT Function when the display is at the MAIN MENU,
press F or move the MAIN MENU highlight bar to the FILES SELECT Function
using the cursor control keys and press ENTER . The FILES SELECT Option menu
will then be displayed, as shown below.
╒═╡ LASER-print MANagement Program ╞═══════════╡ Started at═ 01-31-92 03:00 ╞═╕
│ Directory Options Files select Print eXit │
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│░░░░░░░Data path═ G:\LASR-MAN\R║ Archive bit EITHER ║█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░Configuration═ C:\BAT\DEFAUL║ file Mask *.* ║█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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╘╡ LASR-MAN Version 3.00, Copyright 1990-92 Micrometric, All Rights Reserved ╞╛
F1 Help│ESC FunctionMenu│[DOFPX] Function│ENTER/[char] Select│ Home End│
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FILES SELECT FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
-> To return to the MAIN MENU, press ESCAPE .
-> To switch to another Function, press its highlighted letter.
-> To select a FILES SELECT option, press its highlighted letter or move the
highlight bar to the desired option with the cursor control keys and press
ENTER .
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 FILES SELECT FUNCTION
Archive bit
The ARCHIVE BIT Status may be used to determine which files will be displayed
for selection: 1.) only those that have changed and have their archive bit set
on, or 2.) all files. Additionally, if only changed files are selected, the
archive bit may be reset after the file(s) is/are printed.
The three states that the ARCHIVE BIT Status may be set to are:
EITHER - Files will be displayed whether their ARCHIVE BIT status is on or
off.
ON - Files will be displayed only if their ARCHIVE BIT is on.
CLEAR - Files will be displayed only if their ARCHIVE BIT is on. Additional-
ly, any files that are selected and then printed will have their ARCHIVE
BIT set off after being printed.
-> To toggle the ARCHIVE BIT STATUS, press A .
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FILES SELECT FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
File Mask
The FILE MASK option can be used to denote a single specific file or to limit
the number of files that are displayed during the file selection process. The
current FILE MASK value is displayed to the right of the option, as shown below,
with the default of "*.*".
-> To edit this file name/wildcard, select the FILE MASK option by pressing M .
The action keys that may be used during editing are shown on the bottom help
line. The DOS wildcard characters of '*' and '?' may be used. A '.' must
separate the file name specifier from the extension.
┌───────────────────────────┐
│ ╔══════════════════════╗ │
│ ║ Archive bit EITHER ║█ │
│ ║ file Mask *.docΩΩΩΩΩΩ║█ │
│ ║ File selection/tag ║█ │
│ ╚══════════════════════╝█ │
│ ████████████████████████ │
└───────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel changing the FILE MASK and restore its former value, press ES-
CAPE .
-> To accept the edited FILE MASK, press ENTER .
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LASR-MAN Version 3.00 FILES SELECT FUNCTION
File Selection/Tag
FILE SELECTION/TAG is the process of specifying which file or files, located on
the current drive-directory, are to be printed.
-> To select and tag files from the current drive-directory for printing, select
the FILE SELECTION/TAG option by pressing F . A FILE TAG MENU is next dis-
played.
┌────────────────────────┐
│ ╒═╡ FILE TAG MENU ╞═╕ │
│ │ All───────────TAG │█ │
│ │ Toggle file tag │█ │
│ │ Skip file │█ │
│ │ Count pages │█ │
│ ╘═══════════════════╛█ │
│ █████████████████████ │
└────────────────────────┘
Additionally, three other windows are also displayed. The FILE INFORMATION win-
dow displays data on the currently highlighted file and will, when they are
selected, provide additional information with the COUNT and VIEW PAGE options.
The right-most abbreviations stand for maximum characters per line and maximum
lines per page. These are a function of the currently selected Style of Output.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ FILE INFORMATION ├───────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Name 8-PAGES.DOC Date 11-17-90 10:28 MaxC/L │█ │
│ │ Size 22055 Page MaxL/P │█ │
│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The next to the last line of the display is a PRINT SUMMARY DATA window, dis-
playing information of the files selected and printed. The file and size fields
will be updated as files are tagged and untagged.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Scan═ ■/2 File═ 1/■ Size═ 22055/■ Page═ ■/■ Sheet═ ■/■ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The FILES TO PRINT PICK LIST selection menu displays the current drive-
directory's files - as limited by the ARCHIVE BIT and FILE MASK options - in
alphabetical order. A maximum of seventy-files may be displayed at one time: if
this directory contains more than seventy-file, a prompt is added to the bottom
help line to allow viewing the remainder. Tagged file names are preceded by a
' ' character. The active highlight bar is that in the FILES TO PRINT PICK LIST
window.
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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│╒═╡ PICK LIST ╞═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕█│
││ 16-PAGES.DOC 8-PAGES.DOC BOWLHELP.LMO DEF-BACK.LMC HP-C-A4.LMC │█│
││ HP-C-LEG.LMC HP-C-LET.LMC HP-C-LGC.LMC HP-T-A4.LMC HP-T-LEG.LMC │█│
││ HP-T-LET.LMC HP-T-LGC.LMC LASR-MAN.EXE LASR-MAN.LMC LASR-MAN.LMH │█│
││ LASR-MAN.LMO LASR-MAN.ORD LASR-MAN.REG SCREEN.LMO SMALL.LMF │█│
││ SOURCE4.LMO TEST.LMO TINY.LMF _LETBIND.LMC _MLL-66.LMC │█│
│╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡ =Print Tag ╞═╛█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To terminate FILE SELECTION/TAG, press ENTER or ESCAPE .
-> If this directory contains more seventy-file files, to view the remainder
of the files, use the PAGEUP and PAGEDOWN keys.
-> To tag ALL of the displayed files from printing, press A . All of the
displayed files will be tagged and the ALL option will change to "CLEAR".
-> To clear the print tag on all of the displayed files, press A .
NOTE: This option acts as a toggle and will change from "CLEAR" to "TAG".
-> To toggle the print tag on the currently highlighted file, press T or
SPACE . This file's tag is changed and the file highlight will move to
the next file.
-> To skip the currently highlighted file without changing is print tag,
press S . The file highlight will move to the next file.
-> To determine the number of printed pages to be generated by the currently
highlighted file, press C . The FILE INFORMATION window will be updated
with this data along with the maximum line width and page length for this
file, as shown below.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ FILE INFORMATION ├───────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Name 8-PAGES.DOC Date 11-17-90 10:28 MaxC/L 78 │█ │
│ │ Size 22055 22051 Page 8 MaxL/P 57 │█ │
│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To tag the currently highlighted file, press INSERT . The file highlight
will move to the next file.
-> To clear any print tag on the currently highlighted file, press DELETE .
The file highlight will move to the next file.
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-> To preview how the text data from the currently highlighted file will look
when printed, press F2 . Information from the first page of this file
will be displayed in the PAGE PREVIEW window. The page number and maximum
number of characters per line and lines per page for this page are shown
in the FILE INFORMATION window. Each page will be displayed as it will
appear when printed, as shown below.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│┌─┤ VIEW - File 8-PAGES.DOC Page 1 ├────────────────────────────────────┐█│
││PPPPPPPP █│
││PPPPPPPPPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP █│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPPPPPPPPP │█│
││PPPPPPPP │█│
│└ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ─────┘█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To view more of this page of the selected file, use the PAGEUP
PAGEDOWN LEFTARROW RIGHTARROW UPARROW or DOWNARROW keys.
-> To return to the first screen display of this page, press HOME .
-> To view the next page of this file, press ENTER .
-> To end viewing this file, press ESCAPE .
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PRINT FUNCTION
Printing, the reason for LASR-MAN, may only be accomplished after one or more
files have been selected and tagged. Until this occurs, the PRINT Function is
not available.
-> To select the PRINT Function when the display is at the MAIN MENU and the 'P'
in "print" is uppercase and highlighted (signifying that file(s) have been
selected for printing), press P or move the MAIN MENU highlight bar to the
PRINT Function using the cursor control keys and press ENTER .
Two windows are then displayed; the PRINT Option menu for selection of print
options and the FILES TO PRINT PICK LIST information window showing all of
the selected and tagged files from the current directory.
╒═╡ LASeR-print MANagement Program ╞═══════════╡ Started at═ 01-31-92 03:00 ╞═╕
│░ Directory Options Files select Print eXit ░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╔═════════════════════════════╗│
│░░░░░░░Data path═ C:\LM░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░║ Reverse 2nd pass output YES ║│
│░░░Configuration═ C:\LM\LASR-MAN.LMC░░░░░░░░░░║ Print these selected files ║│
│┌──┤ Page ├───┐░░░░░░░░░░░░Option file═ LASR-M╚═════════════════════════════╝│
││Landscape ═══════════════╗░░Style═ Landscape░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
││ │ ║╗░░Tabs═ 8 spaces░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
││ Lines═ 72 ║║░Title═ Footer_░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
││ Pitch═ 17cpi ║║░░Left═ FILE: NNNNNNNN.EEE MM-DD-YY HH:MM░░░░│
│└ Chars═ 81 ┘ ║║Center═ PRINTED: MM-DD-YY HH:MM░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░╚╡2 pages/SIDE╞══════════════╝║░Right═ PAGE: PPPP░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░╚╡BOTH SIDES╞════════════════╝┌───────────┤ Option Switches ├─────────────┐│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ file pAge start ODD print formfEeds YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ switch titLes══ NO title Headers══ YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ binding marGin═ NO page diViders══ YES ││
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░└───────────────────────────────────────────┘│
│╒═╡ PICK LIST ╞═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕│
││ 8-PAGES.DOC ││
│╘══════════════════════════╡ =Not printed ▌=Front ▐=Back █=Both sides ╞═╛│
│░ ┌┴┐ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ░░▄░░█ ░░░░░░█ ░░█ ▀░░░█░│
│░═┴═┴═▓▓▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓█ ░░█ ░░█░░█░░█░░█▀▀▀░░▄░░█ ░░█░│
│░ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀░│
╘╡ Scan /2 File /1 Size /22173 Page / Sheet / ╞╛
F1 Help│ESC FunctionMenu│[DOFPX] Function│ENTER/[char] Select│ Home End│
-> To return to the MAIN MENU, press ESCAPE .
-> To switch to another Function, press its highlighted letter.
-> To select a PRINT option, press its highlighted letter or move the high-
light bar to the desired option with the cursor control keys and press
ENTER .
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Reverse 2nd Pass Output
The REVERSE 2ND PASS OUTPUT option sets the print order for the second printing
pass. The normal method is to print the back of the first sheet printed during
the first pass and continue to printing the back of the last sheet. Changing
this option allows printing the back of the last sheet printed during the first
pass first and continuing to the back of the first page.
-> To toggle the REVERSE 2ND PASS OUTPUT OPTION between "YES" and "NO", press
R .
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Print these Selected Files
Selection of the PRINT THESE SELECTED FILES open the gateway to printing of the
selected files using the currently defined options.
-> To select the PRINT THESE SELECTED FILES option, press P . If the Style of
Output is "BOOKLET" or "MANUAL" the program will first take one scan through
the selected files determining page locations. The next to the last line of
the display is a PRINT SUMMARY DATA window, displaying information about the
selected files. The fields of this window will be updated as files are read
and printed.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Scan═ ■/2 File═ 1/■ Size═ 22055/■ Page═ 1/■ Sheet═ 1/■ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Three additional windows are next displayed. The first is the FILE INFORMA-
TION window detailing data on the file currently being processed, as shown
here.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ FILE INFORMATION ├───────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Name 8-PAGES.DOC Date 11-17-90 10:28 MaxC/L │█ │
│ │ Size 22055 Page MaxL/P │█ │
│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The second window depicts the sheet to be printed - [ ] - and the current
text page - █ - and its relative position on this sheet. If more than one
text page is to be printed on this sheet, this display will change with each
additional text page as it is printed.
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ ACTION ├─────────┐ │
│ │ Print Page [██│──] │█ │
│ └────────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────┘
The third window is the PASS (1/2) PRINTING selection menu. The top menu
header of this window contains the current pass number and instructions on
how the printer output should be set for this pass.
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ╔═╡ PASS 1 Printing. Set OUTPUT-TOP. ╞═══════╗ │
│ ║ Print this sheet ║█│
│ ║ print all sheets of this File ║█│
│ ║ print all sheets of All files for this pass ║█│
│ ║─────────────────────────────────────────────║█│
│ ║ Skip this sheet ║█│
│ ║ skip all sheets of this fIle ║█│
│ ║ skip all sheets of aLl files for this pass ║█│
│ ║ skip to sheet X ║█│
│ ║─────────────────────────────────────────────║█│
│ ║ Cancel printing ║█│
│ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════╝█│
│ ███████████████████████████████████████████████│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel printing at this point and return to the PRINT Option menu,
press ESCAPE .
-> To print the current sheet that starts with the data specified by the FILE
INFORMATION window, press P . The current sheet will be printed and the
next sheet will be set up.
-> To print the current sheet and all remaining sheets of this file, press
F .
NOTE: This option is NOT available if the Style of Output is "BOOKLET" or
"MANUAL".
-> To print the current sheet and all remaining sheets for all files for this
pass, press A . This is the normal default printing option.
-> To skip the current sheet that starts with the data specified by the FILE
INFORMATION window, press S .
NOTE: EXTREME care should be taken with these skip options on multi-pass
output: if you skip anything on the first printing pass you MUST
skip the same thing on the second printing pass, or your output will
not line up. Normally, only use the skip options to determine how
many sheets will be required, then go back and print it.
-> To skip the current sheet and all remaining sheets of THIS file, press
I .
NOTE: This option is NOT available if the Style of Output is "BOOKLET" or
"MANUAL".
-> To skip the current sheet and all remaining sheets for ALL files for this
pass, press L .
-> To skip to a specific SHEET (not page), press X . This option is of pri-
mary use when, after printing a large document, a sheet was not printed
properly and you want to only reprint that sheet. A prompt will be dis-
played asking for the SHEET number to skip to.
-> To cancel this function, press ESCAPE .
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-> To accept the sheet number as entered/edited, press ENTER . The pro-
gram will skip to the desired sheet and then display the Printing se-
lect menu again.
-> To preview how this page will look when it is printed, press F2 . The
first page to be printed on this sheet will be displayed as it will appear
when printed. The solid bar on the right and bottom of the display denote
the size and location of this displayed text block to the rest of this
page.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│┌─┤ VIEW - File 8-PAGES.DOC Page 1 ├────────────────────────────────────┐█│
││PPPPPPPP █│
││PPPPPPPPPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP ▒█│
││PPP PPP █│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPP PPP │█│
││PPPPPPPPPP │█│
││PPPPPPPP │█│
│└ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ─────┘█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To view more of this page, use the PAGEUP PAGEDOWN LEFTARROW
RIGHTARROW UPARROW or DOWNARROW keys.
-> To return to the first screen display of this page, press HOME .
-> To end viewing this page, press ESCAPE or ENTER .
When the printing of all selected files on one side of the sheets of paper is
completed, either the Printing Complete message or Pass Complete message will
be displayed.
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ MESSAGE ├────────┐ │
│ │ Printing Complete. │█ │
│ └────────────────────┘█ │
│ ██████████████████████ │
└─────────────────────────┘
-> To continue and return to the MAIN MENU, press any key.
The PASS 1 PRINTING COMPLETE message gives specific instruction on taking the
PASS 1 OUTPUT and preparing it to use for INPUT to PASS 2.
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NOTE: The distribution configuration files have the instructions for both
the lower paper cassette and the multi-purpose input tray. The con-
figuration files with "-C-" in their name have the Lower Cassette
instructions first, "-T-" files have the multi-purpose ones first.
The reason is to cover all printer models, including those that have
both input paths. If the combination of instructions is confusing,
see the chapter "EDITING THE CONFIGURATION FILE" and edit the mes-
sages as desired.
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ MESSAGE ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ PRINTING PASS 1 COMPLETE. Use Pass 1 Printed Output for Pass 2 Input. │█│
│ │────────────────────┤ Set Pass 2 Input as follows: ├───────────────────│█│
│ │ LOWER CASSETTE: (Rev 2nd=YES) │█│
│ │ Printed side FACE DOWN, LAST PAGE ON TOP. │█│
│ │ Book Style output: FRONT [██Print██] BACK │█│
│ │ Flip Chart Style output: BACK [██Print██] FRONT │█│
│ │-or- │█│
│ │ MULTI-PURPOSE TRAY: (Rev 2nd=NO) │█│
│ │ Printed side FACE UP, FIRST PAGE ON TOP. │█│
│ │ Book Style output: [██Print██] │█│
│ │ Flip Chart Style output: [██Print██] │█│
│ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To cancel the next printing pass at this point, press ESCAPE .
-> To continue with the next printing pass after its input has been properly
placed, press any other key. The PASS 2 PRINTING option menu will next be
displayed.
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When printing is done with landscape orientation, the sheets may be print-
ed on the second pass in one of two forms - Book Style or Flip Chart
Style. Examples of these two forms, each with a binding margin and then
three hole punched and inserted into a notebook are shown below.
┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌──<Printing is upside down> │ │ │
│ 4:ΣΩÆΦ░░░░░░░░░ │ 3:ΣΩÆΦ░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░PAGE:3 │ ░░░░░░░░░PAGE:4 │
│ o o o │ │ o o o │
╞═══════)══════════)══════════)═════╡ ╞═══════)══════════)══════════)═════╡
│ o o o │ │ o o o │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░PAGE:5 │ ░░░░░░░░░PAGE:6 │ │ ░░░░░░░░░PAGE:5 │ ░░░░░░░░░PAGE:6 │
│ (Book Style Output) │ │ (Flip Chart Style Output) │
└───────────────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────────────┘
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Cutting and Folding Sheets for Booklets and Manuals
Booklets and Manuals may be printed with two, four or eight text pages per paper
side.
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Two Pages/Side, One Text Page/Book Page - After
both printing passes are complete, the sheets do not need to be cut before fold-
ing and stapling. Fold each sheet on the line between pages, as shown below.
╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ╔═ FOLD ║
║ ║
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:4 │ ░░░░░░░░ PAGE:1 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Two Pages/Side, One Text Page/Book Page - After
both printing passes are complete, cut the sheets as shown below on the page
divider line (double line labeled "CUT A"). Place the sheets from "STACK 1" on
top of those labeled "STACK 2". Then fold all sheets on the page divider line.
╔═══════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ╔═ FOLD ║
║ ║
║ ┌───────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ─ STACK 1 ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░ PAGE:8 │ ░░ PAGE:1 │ ║
║ │═══════════╪═══════════│ ═ CUT A ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ─ STACK 2 ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░ PAGE:6 │ ░░ PAGE:3 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────┘ ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════╝
86
LASR-MAN Version 3.00 PRINT FUNCTION
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Eight Pages/Side, One Text Page/Book Page - After
both printing passes are complete, cut the sheets as shown below on the vertical
page divider line (double line labeled "CUT A"). Place the sheets from "STACK 1"
on top of those labeled "STACK 2". Next cut the sheets on the horizontal page
divider line (double line labeled 'CUT B'). Place the sheets from "STACK 3" on
top of those labeled "STACK 4". Finally fold all sheets on the page divider
line.
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ╔═ CUT A ╔═ FOLD ║
║ ║
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ─ STACK 3 ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:16│ PAGE:1 ║ PAGE:14│ PAGE:3 │ │ PAGE:16│ PAGE:1 │ ║
║ │════════╪════════╬════════╪════════│ ═════ │════════╪════════│ ═ CUT B ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ │ ─ STACK 4 ║
║ │ PAGE:12│ PAGE:5 ║ PAGE:10│ PAGE:7 │ │ PAGE:12│ PAGE:5 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ ║
║ COMBINED ║
║ └─ STACK 1 └─ STACK 2 └─ STACKS 1 & 2 ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Two Pages/Side, Two Text Pages/Book Page - After
both printing passes are complete, fold all sheets on the page divider line
noted.
╔═══════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ┌───────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░░░░ │ ║
║ │ ░░ PAGE:7 │ ░░ PAGE:8 │ ║
║ │═══════════╪═══════════│ ═ FOLD ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ═ BOOK ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ PAGE ║
║ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ (2 text ║
║ │ ▓▓ PAGE:1 │ ▓▓ PAGE:2 │ pages) ║
║ └───────────────────────┘ ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════╝
87
PRINT FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Booklets/Manuals Printed with Eight Pages/Side, Four Text Pages/Book Page -
After both printing passes are complete, fold all sheets on the page divider
line noted.
╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ FOLD═╗ ╔═BOOK PAGE ║
║ (4 text pages)║
║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:13│ PAGE:14║ PAGE:1 │ PAGE:2 │ ║
║ │────────┼────────╫────────┼────────│ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ ░░░░░░ │ ░░░░░░ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ║
║ │ PAGE:15│ PAGE:16║ PAGE:3 │ PAGE:4 │ ║
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝
88
EXIT FUNCTION
The EXIT FUNCTION performs the task of leaving the LASR-MAN program and, option-
ally, saving the program options in their current state for subsequent execu-
tions.
-> To select the EXIT Function when the display is at the MAIN MENU, press X
or move the MAIN MENU highlight bar to the EXIT Function using the cursor
control keys and press ENTER . The EXIT Option menu is displayed, as shown
below.
╒═╡ LASeR-print MANagement Program ╞═══════════╡ Started at═ 01-31-92 03:00 ╞═╕
│░ Directory Options Files select print eXit ░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╔═══════════════╗
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░║ Return to DOS ║
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░║ Save options ║
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░║ Cancel ║
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╚═══════════════╝
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
│░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│
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│░ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░░░░░░░▄░░░░░░░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄ ░░▄░│
│░ ░Ç ░░░░▄ ░░█▀▀▀▀▀▀░░█▀▀▀░░█ ░░░▄ ░░░█ ░░░░▄ ░░░▄ ░░█░│
│░ ┌┼┐ ░░█▀░░▄ ░░░░░░░░▄░░░░░░░░█ ░░░░░░▄ ░░░█ ░░░█ ░░█▀░░▄ ░░█░░▄░░█░│
│░ ┌┴┐ ░░░░░░█ ▀▀▀▀▀░░█░░█▀▀░░█▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀ ░░█░░▄░░█ ░░░░░░█ ░░█ ▀░░░█░│
│░═┴═┴═░░░░▄░░█▀▀▀░░▄░░░░░░░░█░░█ ░░█ ░░█░░█░░█░░█▀▀▀░░▄░░█ ░░█░│
│░ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀░│
╘╡ LASR-MAN Version 3.00, Copyright 1990-92 Micrometric, All Rights Reserved ╞╛
F1 Help│ESC FunctionMenu│[DOFPX] Function│ENTER/[char] Select│ Home End│
-> To return to the MAIN MENU, press ESCAPE .
-> To switch to another Function, press its highlighted letter.
-> To select an EXIT option, press its highlighted letter or move the high-
light bar to the desired option with the cursor control keys and press
ENTER . If changes have been made to the type of monitor, menu colors or
reverse 2nd pass output options, it is assumed that the changes should be
saved and the a SAVE OPTIONS option will be highlighted: otherwise, the
RETURN TO DOS option is highlighted.
89
EXIT FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
Return to DOS
-> To return to DOS, select the RETURN TO DOS option by pressing R .
The program will exit. If this is an unregistered copy of LASR-MAN, a
shareware registration reminder message will be displayed.
Cancel
-> To cancel exiting from LASR-MAN and return to the MAIN MENU, select the CAN-
CEL option by pressing either C or ESCAPE .
90
LASR-MAN Version 3.00 EXIT FUNCTION
Save Options
The LASR-MAN program options currently in effect may be saved, either to a de-
fault or user named file. These options include all of this set by the DIRECTORY
and OPTION FUNCTIONS, the ATTRIBUTE BIT status of the FILES SELECT FUNCTION and
the REVERSE 2ND PASS OUTPUT of the PRINT FUNCTION.
-> To save the current option settings, select the SAVE OPTIONS option by press-
ing S . An OPTION FILE data entry window is displayed, with entry required
for both the option file name and its description.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ Option File ├──────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Name LASR-MAN │█│
│ │ Description LASR-MAN Default Option ParametersΩΩΩΩΩΩ │█│
│ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘█│
│ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To edit either the file name or description, use the control keys shown
on the help line. The default option file name of "LASR-MAN" will cause
the file to be loaded every time that LASR-MAN is run. The option file
extension will be ".LMO" and should NOT be entered.
NOTE: The description is optional and may be left blank, although it
can be quite helpful when viewing option files prior to loading.
-> To cancel this function, press ESCAPE .
-> To accept either the file name or description after editing is com-
plete, press ENTER . After both name and description have been en-
tered, the current options will be saved and a save complete message
displayed.
┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─┤ MESSAGE ├───────────────────────┐ │
│ │ LASR-MAN.LMO option file updated. │█│
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘█│
│ █████████████████████████████████████│
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
-> To continue, press any key. The program returns to the EXIT FUNCTION
menu.
NOTE: The option files may be modified with and ASCII word proces-
sor/editor. For example, if you want to use the default option
file, "LASR-MAN.LMO", but want the data directory to be the cur-
rent drive-directory, you may edit the file and remove the line
that begins "/D...".
91
EXIT FUNCTION LASR-MAN Version 3.00
92
EDITING THE
CONFIGURATION FILE
The CONFIGURATION FILES are unformatted ASCII files which have an extension of
"LMC" that may be edited by any word processor. Editing the configuration file
may be done by using your word processor's option for editing unformatted files.
Configuration files with all of the default values for both printer commands and
display messages are included with the system. These files may be edited and
used, or better yet, copied and renamed before being edited.
Two print test files, 8-PAGES.DOC and 16-PAGE.DOC, are included with LASR-MAN.
These file consists of eight and sixteen pages, each with a maximum of fifty-
-seven seventy-nine character lines. The files may be printed using the various
printing styles in order to determine the proper procedure necessary to produce
the correct output. Results of this experimentation may then be used to modify
the configuration file to provide the proper printer commands and end of print-
ing pass messages for your printer and procedures.
-> To replace a printer command's default value, remove the '*' at the beginning
of its line and edit the command as desired. Any ASCII character may be used
in a command string EXCEPT for carriage return (13). All characters are en-
tered using their ASCII codes. (Hold the ALTERNATE key down and enter the
ASCII code using the numeric keypad only.)
Printer commands may appear in any order in the file and may be deleted if they
are not to over-ride their default values. Blank lines (except at the end of the
end of pass messages) and those not starting with a numeric code are ignored.
At the end of the printer commands are the messages that are displayed at the
end of the various printer passes. These messages may be customized for your
specific printer or installation in the same manner as the printer commands.
-> To edit the end of pass messages, place each desired message line on a sepa-
rate line (ended with a CR LF combination) in the file, starting the first
line on the same line as the equals sign. A blank line MUST follow the last
message line. Blank characters at the beginning and the end of each message
line are significant and will be displayed as entered.
-> To use a configuration file, specify its name and path on the command line
using the configuration option or select it using the program's DIRECTORY
Function.
Two configuration files are shown on the following pages. The first is the de-
fault values used by the program for a Hewlett-Packard II/III printer using
letter size paper fed from a lower cassette and the second is used to force the
two page per side landscape mode to print only 66 lines per text page instead of
72.
NOTE: CONTROL CODES ARE SHOWN IN THIS MANUAL IN BRACKETS <> WITH THEIR DECIMAL
VALUE SINCE THEY ARE NON-PRINTING. THEY SHOULD APPEAR IN THE CONFIGURA-
TION FILE AS SINGLE ASCII CHARACTERS WITHOUT THE BRACKETS. The maximum
length of text data fields is given in brackets [ ].
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LASR-MAN PRINTER COMMAND CONFIGURATION FILE
NAME: HP-C-LET.LMC
PRINTER: Hewlett-Packard HP II/III Printer
STYLE: Letter Size Paper, Lower Cassette
SOURCE: 03-15-91 Micrometric, Sarasota, FL.
MOD: 01-02-92 Add lines/chars to all portrait/landscape styles
Add small font, 23cpi and 4 pps styles
Add tiny font, 32cpi and 8 pps styles
Renumber two parameter: from #48 to #27, #81 to #28
Change printing pass 2 text format
To change a value from its default, remove the leading "*", if present, and
change the parameter after the equal sign to the desired value. All parameters
starting with a "*" will use the value previously loaded.
FOR DEFAULT CONFIGURATION FILES, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ALL PARAMETERS BE SET!!
(They should all be present with no leading "*")
01:chars_line_landscape_2pps=81
08:chars_line_portrait_4pps=81
151:chars_line_landscape_8pps=81
02:chars_line_portrait_10=80
03:chars_line_portrait_12=96
04:chars_line_portrait_17=134
09:chars_line_portrait_23=184
152:chars_line_portrait_32=264
05:chars_line_landscape_10=106
06:chars_line_landscape_12=127
07:chars_line_landscape_17=176
10:chars_line_landscape_23=244
153:chars_line_landscape_32=354
11:max_lines_landscape_2pps=72
18:max_lines_portrait_4pps=61
161:max_lines_landscape_8pps=60
12:max_lines_portrait_10=61
13:max_lines_portrait_12=81
14:max_lines_portrait_17=96
19:max_lines_portrait_23=132
162:max_lines_portrait_32=166
15:max_lines_landscape_10=47
16:max_lines_landscape_12=62
17:max_lines_landscape_17=73
20:max_lines_landscape_23=101
163:max_lines_landscape_32=127
21:print_landscape[9]=<27>&l1O
22:print_newsheet[9]=<12>
23:print_portrait[9]=<27>&l0O
24:print_reset[9]=<27>E
25:print_underlineoff[9]=<27>&d@
26:print_underlineon[9]=<27>&dD
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27:print_topline_normal[9]=<27>&a0R
28:char_for_control=<254>
31:print_2pps_bottomline[9]=<27>&a73R
32:print_2pps_textlength[9]=<27>&l75F
33:print_2pps_font[9]=<27>(10U
34:print_2pps_normal[24]=<27>(s0p16.66h8.5v0s0b0T
35:print_2pps_spacing[9]=<27>&l5.14C
36:print_2pps_topmarg[9]=<27>&l3E
41:print_2pps_centerpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a88L
42:print_2pps_centerpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a90M
43:print_center_vertical=<179>
44:print_2pps_leftpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a3L
45:print_2pps_leftpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a83M
46:print_2pps_rightpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a93L
47:print_2pps_rightpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a173M
231:print_4pps_bottomline_top[9]=<27>&a63R
232:print_4pps_bottomline_bottom[9]=<27>&a133R
233:print_4pps_font[9]=<27>(10U
234:print_4pps_normal[24]=<27>(1X
235:print_4pps_spacing[9]=<27>&l3.8C
236:print_4pps_topmarg[9]=<27>&l2E
237:print_4pps_textlength[9]=<27>&l134F
241:print_4pps_centerpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a92L
242:print_4pps_centerpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a94M
243:print_center_horizontal=<196>
244:print_4pps_leftpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a3L
245:print_4pps_leftpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a83M
246:print_4pps_rightpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a101L
247:print_4pps_rightpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a181M
248:print_4pps_topline_top[9]=<27>&a0R
249:print_4pps_topline_bottom[9]=<27>&a70R
331:print_8pps_bottomline_top[9]=<27>&a61R
332:print_8pps_bottomline_bottom[9]=<27>&a128R
333:print_8pps_font[9]=<27>(10U
334:print_8pps_normal[24]=<27>(2X
335:print_8pps_spacing[9]=<27>&l3C
336:print_8pps_topmarg[9]=<27>&l3E
337:print_8pps_textlength[9]=<27>&l130F
341:print_8ppsl_centerpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a86L
342:print_8ppsl_centerpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a88M
344:print_8ppsl_leftpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
345:print_8ppsl_leftpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a81M
346:print_8ppsl_rightpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a91L
347:print_8ppsl_rightpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a172M
348:print_8pps_topline_top[9]=<27>&a0R
349:print_8pps_topline_bottom[9]=<27>&a67R
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441:print_8ppsr_centerpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a268L
442:print_8ppsr_centerpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a270M
444:print_8ppsr_leftpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a182L
445:print_8ppsr_leftpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a263M
446:print_8ppsr_rightpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a273L
447:print_8ppsr_rightpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a354M
448:print_8ppsc_centerpageleftmarg[9]=<27>&a177L
449:print_8ppsc_centerpagerightmarg[9]=<27>&a179M
51:print_portrait_10_bottomline[9]=<27>&a62R
52:print_portrait_10_textlength[9]=<27>&l63F
53:print_portrait_10_font[9]=<27>(10U
54:print_portrait_10_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
55:print_portrait_10_normal[24]=<27>(s0p10h12v0s0b3T
56:print_portrait_10_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a80M
57:print_portrait_10_spacing[9]=<27>&l8C
58:print_portrait_10_topmarg[9]=<27>&l1E
251:print_landscape_10_bottomline[9]=<27>&a48R
252:print_landscape_10_textlength[9]=<27>&l49F
253:print_landscape_10_font[9]=<27>(10U
254:print_landscape_10_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
255:print_landscape_10_normal[24]=<27>(s0p10h12v0s0b3T
256:print_landscape_10_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a106M
257:print_landscape_10_spacing[9]=<27>&l8C
258:print_landscape_10_topmarg[9]=<27>&l1E
61:print_portrait_12_bottomline[9]=<27>&a82R
62:print_portrait_12_textlength[9]=<27>&l83F
63:print_portrait_12_font[9]=<27>(10U
64:print_portrait_12_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
65:print_portrait_12_normal[24]=<27>(s0p12h10v0s0b3T
66:print_portrait_12_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a97M
67:print_portrait_12_spacing[9]=<27>&l6C
68:print_portrait_12_topmarg[9]=<27>&l2E
261:print_landscape_12_bottomline[9]=<27>&a63R
262:print_landscape_12_textlength[9]=<27>&l64F
263:print_landscape_12_font[9]=<27>(10U
264:print_landscape_12_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
265:print_landscape_12_normal[24]=<27>(s0p12h10v0s0b3T
266:print_landscape_12_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a128M
267:print_landscape_12_spacing[9]=<27>&l6C
268:print_landscape_12_topmarg[9]=<27>&l2E
71:print_portrait_17_bottomline[9]=<27>&a97R
72:print_portrait_17_textlength[9]=<27>&l98F
73:print_portrait_17_font[9]=<27>(10U
74:print_portrait_17_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
75:print_portrait_17_normal[24]=<27>(s0p16.66h8.5v0s0b0T
76:print_portrait_17_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a135M
77:print_portrait_17_spacing[9]=<27>&l5.14C
78:print_portrait_17_topmarg[9]=<27>&l2E
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271:print_landscape_17_bottomline[9]=<27>&a74R
272:print_landscape_17_textlength[9]=<27>&l75F
273:print_landscape_17_font[9]=<27>(10U
274:print_landscape_17_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
275:print_landscape_17_normal[24]=<27>(s0p16.66h8.5v0s0b0T
276:print_landscape_17_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a177M
277:print_landscape_17_spacing[9]=<27>&l5.14C
278:print_landscape_17_topmarg[9]=<27>&l2E
81:print_portrait_23_bottomline[9]=<27>&a133R
82:print_portrait_23_textlength[9]=<27>&l134F
83:print_portrait_23_font[9]=<27>(10U
84:print_portrait_23_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
85:print_portrait_23_normal[24]=<27>(1X
86:print_portrait_23_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a185M
87:print_portrait_23_spacing[9]=<27>&l3.8C
88:print_portrait_23_topmarg[9]=<27>&l2E
281:print_landscape_23_bottomline[9]=<27>&a102R
282:print_landscape_23_textlength[9]=<27>&l103F
283:print_landscape_23_font[9]=<27>(10U
284:print_landscape_23_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
285:print_landscape_23_normal[24]=<27>(1X
286:print_landscape_23_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a245M
287:print_landscape_23_spacing[9]=<27>&l3.8C
288:print_landscape_23_topmarg[9]=<27>&l2E
91:print_portrait_32_bottomline[9]=<27>&a168R
92:print_portrait_32_textlength[9]=<27>&l169F
93:print_portrait_32_font[9]=<27>(10U
94:print_portrait_32_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
95:print_portrait_32_normal[24]=<27>(2X
96:print_portrait_32_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a265M
97:print_portrait_32_spacing[9]=<27>&l3C
98:print_portrait_32_topmarg[9]=<27>&l3E
291:print_landscape_32_bottomline[9]=<27>&a128R
292:print_landscape_32_textlength[9]=<27>&l129F
293:print_landscape_32_font[9]=<27>(10U
294:print_landscape_32_leftmarg[9]=<27>&a0L
295:print_landscape_32_normal[24]=<27>(2X
296:print_landscape_32_rightmarg[9]=<27>&a355M
297:print_landscape_32_spacing[9]=<27>&l3C
298:print_landscape_32_topmarg[9]=<27>&l3E
101:pass1portrait[399]= LOWER CASSETTE: (Rev 2nd=YES)
[██Print██] Printed side FACE DOWN, LAST PAGE ON TOP.
BACK
-or-
MULTI-PURPOSE TRAY: (Rev 2nd=NO)
<24><24><24><24><24>
[██Print██] Printed side FACE UP, FIRST PAGE ON TOP.
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102:pass1portrait_book[399]= LOWER CASSETTE: (Rev 2nd=YES)
[██Print██] Printed side FACE DOWN, LAST PAGE ON TOP.
FRONT
-or-
MULTI-PURPOSE TRAY: (Rev 2nd=NO)
[██Print██] Printed side FACE UP, FIRST PAGE ON TOP.
<25><25><25><25><25>
111:pass1landscape[399]= LOWER CASSETTE: (Rev 2nd=YES)
Printed side FACE DOWN, LAST PAGE ON TOP.
Book Style output: FRONT [██Print██] BACK
Flip Chart Style output: BACK [██Print██] FRONT
-or-
MULTI-PURPOSE TRAY: (Rev 2nd=NO)
Printed side FACE UP, FIRST PAGE ON TOP.
Book Style output: <27><27><27>[██Print██]
Flip Chart Style output: [██Print██]<26><26><26>
112:pass1landscape_book[399]= LOWER CASSETTE: (Rev 2nd=YES)
FRONT [██Print██] BACK Printed side FACE DOWN, LAST PAGE ON TOP.
-or-
MULTI-PURPOSE TRAY: (Rev 2nd=NO)
<27><27><27>[██Print██] Printed side FACE UP, FIRST PAGE ON TOP.
131:print_output_first_side[5]=TOP.
132:print_output_second_side[5]=TOP.
133:reverse_2nd_pass=Yes
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LASR-MAN PRINTER COMMAND CONFIGURATION FILE
NAME: _MLL-66.LMC
PRINTER: Any
STYLE: Limit Landscape pages to 66 lines
SOURCE: Micrometric, Sarasota, FL
DATE: 03-05-91
To change a value from its default, remove the leading "*", if present, and
change the parameter after the equal sign to the desired value. All parameters
starting with a "*" will use the value previously loaded.
FOR DEFAULT CONFIGURATION FILES, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ALL PARAMETERS BE SET!!
(They should all be present with no leading "*")
11:max_lines_landscape_2pps=66
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100
GLOSSARY
1 UP TYPE . Printing style using portrait orientation and printing on one side
of a sheet. Prints one page on a sheet.
2 UP TYPE . Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on one side
of a sheet. Prints two pages on a sheet.
4 UP TYPE . Printing style using portrait orientation and printing on one side
of a sheet. Prints four pages on a sheet.
8 UP TYPE . Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on one side
of a sheet. Prints eight pages on a sheet.
BOOK PAGE . A book page is one side of the portion of a sheet that contains no
fold for either BOOKLET or MANUAL type printing styles. It may contain
one, two or four pages of text.
BOOKLET TYPE Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on both
sides of a sheet. Prints four pages on a sheet with the first page on
the right side of the first sheet and the second page on the back of
the first. Each file is printed on a separate group of sheets. Booklet
type style prints each file on separate sheets while manual type style
uses the same sheets for all files.
CONFIG(URATION) FILE A file containing the printer control language (PCL) com-
mands for a specific size of paper. This file also contains the messag-
es displayed at the end of the first printing pass, when the sheets are
being printed on both sides.
CPI . . Characters per inch.
CPL . . Characters per line.
DOUBLE TYPE Printing style using portrait orientation and printing on both sides
of a sheet. Prints one page on a side and two pages on a sheet.
DOUBLE SIDED LANDSCAPE TYPE Printing style using landscape orientation and
printing on both sides of a sheet. Prints one page on a side two pages
on a sheet.
DOUBLE BOOKLET TYPE Printing style using portrait orientation and printing on
both sides of a sheet. Prints eight pages on a sheet. Each file is
printed on a separate group of sheets.
DOUBLE MANUAL TYPE Printing style using portrait orientation and printing on
both sides of a sheet. Prints eight pages on a sheet. Multiple files
are treated as chapters in the manual and the output is a single group
of sheets.
ELITE . Pitch of twelve characters per inch, printed at eight lines per inch.
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HEXADECIMAL TYPE Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on
both sides of a sheet. Prints eight pages on a side and sixteen pages
on a sheet.
LANDSCAPE . Orientation where the long side of the sheet is horizontal.
LANDSCAPE TYPE Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on one
side of a sheet. Prints one text page on a sheet.
LINE PRINTER Pitch of 16.67 characters per inch printed at 9.34 lines per
inch.
LPI . . Lines per inch.
LPP . . Lines per page.
MANUAL TYPE Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on both
sides of a sheet. Prints four pages on a sheet with the first page on
the right side of the first sheet and the second page on the back of
the first. Multiple files are treated as chapters in the manual and the
output is a single group of sheets.
MAXC/L Maximum characters per line.
MAXL/P Maximum lines per page.
OCTAL TYPE Printing style using portrait orientation and printing on both sides
of a sheet. Prints four pages per side and eight pages on a sheet.
OPTION FILE A file that contains a set of LASR-MAN options that may be loaded
either from the command line or by menu selection.
ORIENTATION The location of the printing on sheets, either portrait or land-
scape.
PAGE . A logical block of text data terminated by a form feed character or the
maximum number of lines per page.
PAGES/SIDE The number of text pages that are printed on one side of a sheet of
paper.
PAGES/BOOK PAGE . The number of text pages that will appear on the page of ei-
ther a booklet or a manual when the booklet/manual pages are
cut/folded.
PASSES Number of times that the output paper sheets must be printed.
PICA . Pitch of ten characters per inch printed at six lines per inch.
PITCH . Number of characters per inch.
PORTRAIT Orientation where the long side of the sheet is vertical.
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PORTRAIT TYPE Printing style using portrait orientation and printing on one
side of a sheet. Prints one text page on a sheet.
PPS . . Text pages per side.
QUAD BOOKLET TYPE Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on
both sides of a sheet. Prints sixteen pages on a sheet. Each file is
printed on a separate group of sheets.
QUAD MANUAL TYPE Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on
both sides of a sheet. Prints sixteen pages on a sheet. Multiple files
are treated as chapters in the manual and the output is a single group
of sheets.
QUAD TYPE . Printing style using landscape orientation and printing on both
sides of a sheet. Prints two pages on a side and four pages on a sheet.
SCANS . Number of times that the group of files to be printed must be read.
SHEET . A physical piece of paper that may have more than one logical page of
data printed on it. Sheets may be printed on one side or on both sides.
SIDE . One side of a physical piece of paper.
SMALL . Pitch of 23 characters per inch printed at 12.67 lines per inch.
STYLE . The orientation and method of printing (single-sided or double-sided)
sheets.
TINY . Pitch of 32 characters per inch printed at 16 lines per inch.
TYPE . Major style of output.
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104
INDEX
1-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
2-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
4-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
8-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Action steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Actions and messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Archive bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 23, 71, 73-75
Binding margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 42, 55, 68, 79, 85
Book page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 11-14, 34, 62, 86-88, 101, 102
Booklet type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10, 21, 30, 34, 61, 68, 101, 103
Brackets and parentheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56-58, 66, 74, 82, 84, 89-91
Cancel exiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Change menu colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 55, 57
Computer key conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Config file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 68
Cpi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 60, 63, 101
Cpl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 101
Custom title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65, 66
Cutting and folding sheets for booklets and manuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Data path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 42, 47, 48, 51, 53, 54, 71, 79
Directory function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 45, 47, 49, 50, 71, 93
Config file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 68
Data path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 42, 47, 48, 51, 53, 54, 71, 79
Restore conf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 47, 53, 54
Restore path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 47, 53, 54
Disk not ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Double booklet type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Double manual type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Double sided landscape type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 34, 101
Double type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Editing the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 50, 84, 93
Elite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 63, 101
Escape key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Exit function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 58, 89, 91
Cancel exiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Return to DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 90
Save options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 91
File mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 71, 74, 75
File page start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 42, 55, 68, 79
File select function
Archive bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 23, 71, 73-75
File mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 71, 74, 75
File selection/tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 71, 74-76
File selection/tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 71, 74-76
File view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 51, 58
File view key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5, 6, 15, 37, 42, 43, 55, 60, 65, 79
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5, 6, 15, 30, 37, 65, 68, 81
Help key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 38, 41
Hexadecimal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 102
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If questions arise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Information display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 38, 62
Landscape orientation . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5, 7, 34, 43, 60, 61, 85, 101-103
Landscape type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7, 34, 61, 101, 102
Line printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 102
Lpi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Lpp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 102
Main menu function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Major features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Manual format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Manual type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 9-11, 30, 34, 35, 61, 68, 101-103
Maxc/l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 76, 81, 102
Maxl/p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 76, 81, 102
Menu border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Menu type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 28, 55, 67, 89
Octal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 102
Operation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Option file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 38, 42, 55, 58, 59, 79, 91, 102
Option switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 30, 42, 43, 55, 68, 79
Binding margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 42, 55, 68, 79, 85
File page start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 42, 55, 68, 79
Page dividers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 31, 42, 55, 68, 69, 79
Print form feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 68
Switch titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 42, 55, 68, 79
Title headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 19, 32, 51, 63, 76, 94, 103
Options function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 55
Change menu colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 55, 57
Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 28, 55, 67, 89
Option file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 38, 42, 55, 58, 59, 79, 91, 102
Option switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 30, 42, 43, 55, 68, 79
Page title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 37, 55, 65
Reload the defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Spaces per tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Style of output . . . . . . . . . 21, 22, 34, 43, 55, 60-62, 75, 81, 82, 103
Page dividers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 31, 42, 55, 68, 69, 79
Page layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Page title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 37, 55, 65
Pages/book page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 87, 88, 102
Pages/side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13, 42, 55, 60, 62, 79, 86-88, 102
Pass 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82-84
Pass 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 83, 84, 94
Pica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 32, 63, 102
Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14, 32, 42, 55, 60-63, 79, 101-103
Elite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 63, 101
Line printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 102
Pica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 32, 63, 102
Small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 19, 32, 51, 63, 76, 94, 103
Tiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 19, 32, 51, 63, 76, 94, 103
Portrait orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 34, 61, 101-103
Portrait type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 61, 103
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Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 57, 77, 83
Print form feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 68
Print function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 79, 91
Print these selected files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 81
Reverse 2nd pass output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 79, 80, 89, 91
Print style overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 7, 60, 62
Print these selected files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 81
Printer not ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Printing complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Quad booklet type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 103
Quad manual type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 103
Quad type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 103
Reload the defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Restore conf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 47, 53, 54
Restore path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 47, 53, 54
Return to DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 90
Reverse 2nd pass output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 79, 80, 89, 91
Running lasr-man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 21
Save options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 91
Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 75, 79, 81
Shareware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 6, 15-18, 90
Shareware distributed documentation manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Sheet . . . . 1, 5-14, 24, 30-34, 39, 42, 50, 60, 61, 69, 75, 79-83, 86, 101-103
Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14, 34, 42, 43, 55, 60-62, 79, 101-103
Small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 19, 32, 51, 63, 76, 94, 103
Spaces per tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Style of output . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 22, 34, 43, 55, 60-62, 75, 81, 82, 103
1-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
2-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
4-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
8-up type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Booklet type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10, 21, 30, 34, 61, 68, 101, 103
Double booklet type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Double manual type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Double sided landscape type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 34, 101
Double type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 101
Hexadecimal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 102
Landscape type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7, 34, 61, 101, 102
Manual type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 9-11, 30, 34, 35, 61, 68, 101-103
Octal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 102
Pages/book page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 87, 88, 102
Pages/side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13, 42, 55, 60, 62, 79, 86-88, 102
Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14, 32, 42, 55, 60-63, 79, 101-103
Portrait type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 61, 103
Quad booklet type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 103
Quad manual type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 103
Quad type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 103
Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14, 34, 42, 43, 55, 60-62, 79, 101-103
Style type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 60-62
Style type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 60-62
Switch titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 42, 55, 68, 79
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Tiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 19, 32, 51, 63, 76, 94, 103
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