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- A4UP - an Amiga DeskJet/LaserJet Utility
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- version 1.0 copyright G Chiu 22Feb92
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- This is the first release of A4UP, and represents an Intuitionised version
- version of ADJ4UP released to a couple of BBSs in 1990.
-
- It is intended for use with the HP LaserJet ( and clones ), and the DeskJet
- series. The latter needs added memory to accept the custom font. It prints
- to A4 paper. I don't have access to American letter paper but guess it that
- it should be OK, though the page length may need reducing, and it might not
- be centred on the page. The only other requirement is for good eyesight to
- read the printed output.
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- A4UP uses the Fox/Dawson req.library which is included and must be placed
- into your libs: directory.
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- A4UP prints a text file to A4 paper in portrait mode using two columns of
- either 80 or 85 columns wide and a maximum of 120 lines per physical page.
- This is 4 pages of text of 80 or 85 columns by 60 lines of logical page, and
- uses Hexagon Product's shareware and proprietary tiny font of point size 3.8
- and pitch of 21.4 allowing 171 characters per line on an 8½ inch page.
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- The Intuition version contains documentation called from the HELP gadget,
- and when run from the CLI will bring up the CLI help with the "-?" flag.
- Note that the default printer from the Intuition version is the LaserJet,
- and from the CLI is the DeskJet.
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- Some more explanation follows regarding CLI usage:
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- A4UP -oram:out myfile
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- prints 'myfile' to the file ram:out
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- A4UP -w myfile
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- prints 'myfile' to the default port par: using 85 columns
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- A4UP -w widefile -w thinfile
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- prints widefile to the default port par: using 85 columns and then prints
- thinfile to par: using 80 columns ( the second -w toggles the column width
- back to 80 )
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- NB: At each invocation the font is downloaded to the printer only with
- the first file being printed and any other files following in the command
- line being printed assume the font is present. So, don't print first
- to a file and then to the printer and expect it to work!
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- The Intuition version is slightly crippled in that it does a rather system
- unfriendly busy wait which ties up the CPU. This is fixed in the registered
- version ( see HELP gadget for details ) which may add extended file selection
- to allow a number of files to be printed at one hit. When used as a CLI
- utility this limitation is not present.
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- I don't have any working tools ( except those running under KS 1.1 ) which
- monitor memory allocation/deallocation, or check for low memory being trampled
- on etc., so please send bug reports to:
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- G Chiu, 5 Kate Way, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand
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- or G.CHIU2 on GEnie
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- Plans: Write File Comment will one day file comment the file being printed
- with the comment that it was printed on such and such a day.
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- Bugs: With v1.0, you betcha!
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- A4UP is not to be released onto any disk collection without the written
- permission of the author ( which will usually be granted ).
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- Updates:
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- v1.1
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- 23 February - forgot to call purgefiles on the filerequester
- - added an abort requester for CLI operation
- - added pause flag -h for CLI operation
- - released the requestor memory
- - added extended file selection ( for registered version )
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