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- TSR Download is a soft font manager. This is release 2.9d of the share-
- ware version of the program. This version incorporates automatic soft
- font decompression for LaserJet fonts, allows use of TSR Download under
- Windows 3.1, offers a new user interface, and only requires 7K of RAM.
- Other new features include: improved list file management, full mouse
- support, automatic creation of landscape fonts when needed, support for
- scalable fonts, and MS-DOS 5/6 additions.
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- If you want to use the font compression option, make sure you have en-
- abled it when you configure the program with DLCFG. You must also use
- the stand alone soft font compression program CFT to first compress
- your soft fonts. If you want TSR Download to create landscape fonts
- you must enable this option with DLCFG and compress the fonts with CFT.
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- Please remember that this is a shareware product. You may evaluate it
- per the instructions in the manual, but you must register your copy if
- you continue to use the program past the 20 day evaluation period.
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- This version of TSR Download uses a memory swapping technique to con-
- serve memory. The program will occupy only 7K of RAM, but needs to
- place part of itself: on a hard disk, or on a RAM disk, or in EMS
- memory. The DLCFG program lets you choose where the rest of the pro-
- gram is stored. If you have both a hard disk and a RAM disk, you are
- much better off telling TSR Download to swap itself to the RAM disk.
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- Note that you must register this shareware if you continue to use it
- beyond the 20 day trial period.
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- NEW FEATURES!
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- 1) A few computer systems seem to lock up when TSR Download or the
- DLCFG program sound a beep. You can disable these sounds in TSR Download
- using the DLCFG program. Previously, though, the DLCFG program itself
- would beep which could lock up a mcahine. You can now start the DLCFG
- program with a "quite" option to eliminate this problem. If you machine
- locks up with the beep sound in DLCFG, just start the program as follows:
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- dlcfg -q
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- 2) TSR Download now runs as a DOS application under Windows 3.0. For
- complete information on using TSR Download under Windows see the sep-
- arate documentation disk file WINDOWS.DOC. DeskJet owners can finally
- send soft fonts to their printer from within a Windows application.
- A separate installation program WINDINST.EXE is supplied which will
- configure TSR Download to properly run under Windows.
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- 3) TSR Download can take quite a while to scan your soft font subdir-
- ectory the first time it is loaded and activated. IF you RARELY add
- new fonts to your system you can speed this scan up with a new feature.
- This feature lets you save a complete library of soft font information
- and then read this information (instead of scanning for fonts) when the
- program is first activated. Follow the steps below to use this feature.
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- First load TSR Download into memory, activate it, and let it scan your
- font subdirectories. When the window shows a complete font list hit
- the new "Z" option to save the font library. TSR Download will ask you
- for a library name. Answer with any valid 8 character DOS file name,
- with no file name extension or path. TSR Download will then save the
- complete list of soft fonts it has found in a library file under the
- file name you entered. Now all you have to do is tell TSR Download this
- file name when you first load the program into memory, as follows:
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- dl /library
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- For example, suppose you load TSR Download, activate it, and let it scan
- for soft fonts. Now hit "Z", and then enter "MASTER" when asked for a
- library name. You can use TSR Download for the rest of the day in the
- normal way. However, the next day when you go to load TSR Download into
- memory type:
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- dl /master
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- When you activate TSR Download with the hot key you will notice that the
- program no longer scans for fonts initially. Instead, it reads the lib-
- rary of font information you saved the previous day. Reading a library
- is MUCH faster than scanning for soft fonts. The DRAWBACK to this
- feature is that if you add extra fonts or remove some from you font sub-
- directories TSR Download won't know! (You can always let TSR Download
- scan for soft fonts again and save a new library of fonts.)
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- WARNING! if you save a library of your fonts NEVER try and use that same
- library if you change the colors of TSR Download with SETCOLOR. If you
- change colors for TSR Download please resave the master font library.
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- 4) A number of programs select soft fonts by their ID number. These
- programs include Windows and Ventura Publisher. While you can use TSR
- Download to assign an ID number and then send an individual soft font,
- this process is quite tedious for downloading more than a single font.
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- This version of TSR Download offers a new way of assigning soft font
- ID numbers. You can now send a list of fonts to your printer automati-
- cally assigning each soft font a specific ID number. To do this, you
- must first create a soft font list file. Just mark the fonts you want
- to download all at once and create a list file. Now leave TSR Download
- and using an ASCII text editor, edit the list file. (The list file is
- saved in the primary soft font subdirectory and ends with the file name
- extension ".LST".) Place a comma after each soft font file name and
- follow this with the ID number you want to assign to the font. A typical
- list file might look as follows:
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- hv100rpn.usp
- tr120bpn.usp
- uv180bpn.usp
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- If you want to assign ID number 21 to the Helv font, 34 to the Roman
- font, and 3 to the University font change the file as follows:
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- hv100rpn.usp,21
- tr120bpn.usp,34
- uv180bpn.usp,3
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- TSR Download will now assign the ID numbers you specified each time
- this list file is used to send font to the printer.
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- 5) TSR Download lets you send a file to the printer from the Printer
- Control menu. While creating a printer control file is easy, we have
- put together a set of common printer control functions you might like
- to use. To use a function, just go to the Printer Control menu <P>,
- move to the last entry <End>, and hit <enter>. Type the name of one of
- the files listed below:
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- SAMPLE - If you first download a soft font with ID 1, sending SAMPLE
- to your printer will print a sample sheet of the font auto-
- matically.
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- MEDIUM - Switch to a medium weight font now.
- BOLD - Switch to a bold font now.
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- ASCII - Select the US ASCII symbol set.
- PC8 - Select the PC-8 symbol set.
- ROMAN8 - Select the Roman-8 symbol set.
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- LEGAL - Switch to legal paper size.
- LETTER - Switch to letter paper size.
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- 2COPIES - 2 copies of everything will be printed from now on.
- 5COPIES - 5 copies of everything will be printed from now on.
- 10COPIES - 10 copies of everything will be printed from now on.
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- MANUAL - Switch to manual feed.
- TRAYFEED - Switch to tray feed.
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- 1MARGIN - Force 1 inch left and right margins.
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