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LABEL MAKER 7.05 1/17/92 FORT'S FACETING P. O. BOX 396 MANHATTAN, KANSAS 65502 (913) 537-2897 EXT 1001 Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Label Maker Features..............................................3 General Information...............................................4 Preparing a Diskette-Based System.................................5 Using a Diskette-Based System.....................................6 Preparing a Fixed Disk System.....................................7 Using a Fixed Disk System.........................................8 Running the Installation Program..................................9 Running the Program..............................................11 Laser Jet Use....................................................14 Notes............................................................14 Label Prices.....................................................15 Label Capacities.................................................15 Revisions........................................................16 Acknowledgements.................................................17 Page 3 LABEL MAKER 7.05 FEATURES THE LABEL MAKER has the following features: 1. Automatically reads and prints all file names. 2. Handles sub-directories. 3. Allows entry of a disk name. 4. Allows lines of comments to be entered for printing on the label. 5. Prints on 3 1/2" x 15/16" (Mailing Labels), 4" x 1 7/16", 5" x 1 7/16" labels, or 3 1/2" Disk Labels. 6. Prints 1 to 4 labels as necessary. 7. Print multiple labels with one input. 8. Permits you to print only the disk name, list of sub-directories, and comments. 9. Allows you to edit the title for a label. 10. Allows you to configure your program to match your system. 11. Permits you to default the disk title to the volume label. 12. Permits you to set the left margin and has a compiled print routine. 13. Supports the LaserJet and LQ type printers. 14. Lets the Title be printed in normal size text. 15. Has a true edit feature for the comments. 16. Permits the label to be saved to disk. 17. Permits you to enter permanent comments. THE LABEL MAKER works best on an IBM or Epson dot matrix printer or a Laser Printer but will work on any printer capable of enlarged and compressed print mode. The current Label Maker distribution diskette files are: NNNNN A file that contains the address of the distributor and the number of the diskette. LBL.BAT A batch file to run the program. LBLCONV.BAS Basic program to translate files saved under Version 6.3 to the proper format for Version 7.0. LBLCOUNT.DAT A counter for the program. LBLDLIB.EXE The LBL program that reads the file names from the target disk. LBLDSTAT.EXE The LBL program that reads the statistical data from the target disk. LBLFDSET.BAT A batch file to install the program on a fixed disk. LBLFONTS.JEP A file of the fonts for the LaserJet. (Only available for Fixed Disk operation) LBLINS70.EXE The LBL program for installing or configuring your program. LBLMKR70.DOC The LBL program that contains this documentation. Just type PRINT LBLMKR70.DOC for a hard copy of this documentation. LBLORDER.BAT Batch file to print an order form. Page 4 LBLORDER.FRM Order form for registering program. LBLRUN70.EXE The main program that reads the data files created by LBLDLIB and LBLDSTAT, sorts the files, inputs a disk name and comments, and prints the label. LBLSETUP.BAT A batch file for installing the program on a floppy diskette. README Instructions to get started. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS If you were running Label Maker, Version 6.3X and used the feature to save the labels to your hard disk, you must translate those files to be compatible with Label Maker, Version 7.0X. To do this, run the basic program LBLCONV.BAS included on the program disk. This program is not compiled and must be run from the basic interperter. Page 5 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING A DISKETTE-BASED SYSTEM THIS SECTION APPLIES TO DISKETTE-BASED SYSTEMS ONLY. IF YOU HAVE A FIXED DISK SYSTEM, REFER TO "FIXED DISK SYSTEM" LATER IN THIS DOCUMENT. Before using the LABEL MAKER, a back-up diskette must be created. This will become the working diskette. The master diskette contains initialized data files and is only used to create working copies. Any other use of the master diskette should be avoided. 1 Insert your DOS diskette in drive A and close the drive door. 2 Switch your computer on. If your computer is already on, press the Ctrl, Alt, and Del keys (System Reset). 3 Respond to the system prompts for the date and time. 4 At the DOS prompt, insert a new disk into Drive B. 5 Type: A>format b:/s and press Enter 6 Remove the DOS diskette from drive A and put it away in a safe place. 7 Place the write protected Label Maker distribution diskette into drive A. 8 With the prompt A:> (type) lblsetup d: and press Enter where d: is the drive where the formatted system disk is. For example using drive A: and Drive B: your command would be: A:>lblset B: 9 Remove the Label Maker master diskette and put it away in a safe place. 10 Place the disk you just created in drive A. 11 The disk just created is your working copy of Label Maker. Page 6 USING THE LABEL MAKER The working disk you have just created contains the LABEL MAKER programs and data files and runs in the default drive. As the diskettes are read, the data is written to the files on the program diskette in the default drive, therefore, the program diskette must not be write protected and should never be removed from the default drive while the program is running. Place the program disk you just created into the default drive and if the computer is turned off, turn it on. When the prompt comes up, type: A:>LBL [drive1:] where drive1: specifies the drive you want to label. If you do not specify a disk, the program will default to Drive B. After each label is written, the program will prompt you to insert the next disk into the working drive and press <ENTER> to restart the program. Page 7 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING A FIXED DISK SYSTEM THIS SECTION APPLIES TO FIXED DISK SYSTEMS ONLY. IF YOU HAVE A DISKETTE-BASED SYSTEM, REFER TO "DISKETTE-BASED SYSTEM" EARLIER IN THIS DOCUMENT. 1 Switch your computer on. If your computer is already on, press the Ctrl, Alt, and Del keys (System Reset). 2 Respond to the system prompts for the date and time. 3 At the DOS prompt, type C: (this assumes that drive C is your Hard Disk) Note: When using a fixed disk system, you can specify which drive Label Maker is on. If you have more than one fixed disk or your fixed disk is not Drive C substitute the letter for the drive you want to install the program on. and press Enter. 4 Place your Label Maker distribution diskette in a floppy drive. 5 Type: C:>drive1:lblfdset drive1: and press Enter where drive1: specifies the drive containing the Program disk. For example to install to drive C from Drive B type: C:>B:lblfdset B: 6 Remove the Label Maker master diskette and put it away in a safe place. 7 You can now run the Label Maker program from the hard disk and use either Drive A or Drive B for the floppy disk to be labeled. Page 8 USING THE LABEL MAKER The \lblmaker subdirectory you have just created contains the LABEL MAKER programs. As the diskettes are read, the data is written to the hard disk, therefore, you should have the \lblmaker subdirectory on your hard disk designated as your default drive while the program is running. The prompt for the hard disk should be: C:\lblmaker If this is not the situation, place yourself in this subdirectory of your fixed disk and place the disk to be labeled in one of the floppy drives. Then type: C:\lblmaker>LBL [drive1:] where drive1: specifies the drive containing the disk you want to make a label for. If you do not specify a disk, the program will default to Drive B. After each label is written, the program will prompt you to insert the next disk into the working drive and press <ENTER> to restart the program. Page 9 RUNNING THE INSTALLATION PROGRAM The Installation Program (LBLINS70.EXE) must be run for each disk to be labeled. A registered copy of the program only requires the Installation Program to be run once or when some of the parameters are to be changed. DEFINE COLORS 1> This option permits you to change the color for the main text. 2> This option permits you to set the color of the background. 3> Set a secondary color for the display. 4> Set the color of the border around the display. 5> Set the color of the warning messages. 6> Return to the Main Menu. PRINTER OPTIONS 1> Used for all 9-pin Epson and Epson compatible printers. 2> Used for all 24-pin Epson and Epson compatible printers. 3> Used for all LaserJet and compatible printers. (1) LaserJet or LaserJet Plus. (2) LaserJet II or LaserJet III. (3) LaserJet IIP or LaserJet IIIP. (4) LaserJet IIISi. (5) Other - Set the margin to any value. 4> through 9> Self explanatory. 0> Use this option if your printer does not fit any of the above types or none of these types will work correctly. MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS 1> Change the tone and duration of the beep for the prompts. 2> Pick any of 5 different label sizes. 3> Enter permanent comments. Setting the flag for this option permits you to enter permanent comments. These comments will be saved and will be entered on each label. If you use this option, you cannot change the label size except by rerunning the installation program. This option is very useful for software libraries and vendors to enter their name and address in the comments. 4> Setting the print mode for the title gives you the choice of printing the Title of the disk in enlarged print or in normal print. The normal print permits a longer title to be used. Page 10 5> Setting the left margin on labels will permit you to use 3 or 4 across labels in your printer. You can print the first column and then set the margin and print the second column, etc. 6> Setting this switch permits you to save the label data to a file on the system disk. If you are frequently having to label the same disk, you can run the program once and then save the data to disk for future labels. This switch is very useful for software vendors and libraries. SHOW OPTIONS This permits you to check the various options you have selected. It also displays the various colors that are available for the main text, background, border and warning colors. EXIT AND DISCARD CHANGES You can discard the changes you have made and stay with those currently installed. EXIT AND RETAIN CHANGES Leave the installation program and save the changes to the configuration file. Page 11 RUNNING THE PROGRAM After the installation program has been run, the main program will begin to execute. The first screen (see Figure 1) is a title page that gives the serial number of the program and the name of the party the program is registered to. This first screen also shows the drive that is being read, the number of files on the disk, the number of sub-directories on the disk, the size of label selected and ask if you want the file names to be printed on the label. This is very useful if you want to use Label Maker to label your backup disks. You can print only the title and comments on each disk and since the file names will change for each backup, this is very useful. Hitting the <ENTER> key will default to a YES and the file names will be printed on the label. ******************************************************************************* * ---------L A B E L M A K E R 7.05--------- * * USER SUPPORTED SOFTWARE * * * * Serial No. 010000-03/92 Registered to Fort's Faceting * * * * The disk in DRIVE B: contains the following: * * * * There are 12 files on the disk. * * * * There are 0 sub-directories on the disk. * * * * You have selected 5 x 1-7/16 size labels. * * * * Do you want to print the file names on the label <Y>/N? * ******************************************************************************* Figure 1 The next screen (Figure 2) prompts you for the name of the disk. You have several options at this point. If you hit <ENTER>, the name will default to the VOLUME LABEL of the disk. If you hit the <SPACEBAR>, the name will be left blank. You can type in the desired name and the blanks signify the length of the title allowed. ******************************************************************************* * LIST OF FILES ON DISK * * #_______ LBL .BAT LBLCOUNT.DAT LBLDLIB .EXE LBLDSTAT.EXE * * LBLFDSET.BAT LBLFONTS.JEP LBLINS70.EXE LBLMKR70.DOC LBLRUN70.EXE * * LBLSETUP.BAT README * * * * Hit <ENTER> to keep the same name * * * * Hit <spacebar> to leave the name blank * * * * LBLMKR 7.05 is the current name * * * * What is the name of the disk?_____________________ * ******************************************************************************* Figure 2 Page 12 The program then prompts you to enter the comments. It tells you the number of lines of comments that can be entered on the current label. Additional comments can be entered, but will require another label. As you are entering the comments, you have a couple of control keys that will assist you. If you have started entering the comments and decide to change them, you can hit <ESC> and all the comments will be erased and the cursor will move to the beginning of line 1. If you make a mistake on a single line and want to redo that line, you can hit <HOME> and the line will be erased and the cursor will move to the beginning of that line. When you have entered all of your comments, hitting <ENTER> for a blank line will terminate the comment entry and move you to the next screen. Note: Do not try to use quotation marks in the comments! The next screen (Figure 3) gives you several options. It will first ask you if you want to print the label on Video or the Printer. Printing the label on Video allows you to check the layout of the label prior to printing it on stock. If you press the <V>, the label as it will appear on the stock will be printed to the screen. If you press <P>, it will then ask you for several more options. To speed up the printing process, you can bypass all further options and print one copy of the label. This is accomplished by hitting <Y>. If you choose <N> or <ENTER> at the prompt you will be ask several more questions. The first will ask you for the number of copies of the label that you want to print. This can be from 0 to 9. Zero copies will cause the program to return you to the point of asking about printing on the Video or the Printer. ******************************************************************************* * ---------L A B E L M A K E R 7.05--------- * * USER SUPPORTED SOFTWARE * * * * Serial No. 010000-03/92 Registered to Fort's Faceting * * * * Do you want to print on (V)ideo or the (P)rinter? * * * *Do you want to bypass all the options and print one non-master label (Y/<N>)?* * * * How many 5 x 1-7/16 labels do you want to print (0-9) Default=1? * * * * If the label is lined up: * * Hit <C> to continue * * Hit <A> to abort * * Hit <E> to edit the title or comments. * * Hit <L> to change the size of labels. * * Enter your selection-- * ******************************************************************************* Figure 3 If you hit <C> to continue, the program will ask if you want one of the labels for a master disk. If you hit <Y> the first label you print will have an M added to the title to designate it as a master disk. The rest of the labels will not have this designation. If you hit <N> or <ENTER> none of the labels will have an M added to the title. If you hit <A> the program will ask if you want to <S>tart the print routine over or <T>erminate the program. A selection of <S> will take you back to the question of printing on Video or the Printer. Page 13 If you hit <E> the program will ask is you want to edit the title of the label or the comments. If you pick the title, you will have a chance to change the title. If you decide to edit the comments, a screen will appear that displays the comments you previously entered with the cursor sitting at the end of the last line. At the bottom right of the screen will appear two numbers. These numbers represent the line number and position in that line of the cursor. While in this edit mode, the following keys are active: The arrow keys move the cursor right, left, up, and down. CTRL left arrow moves to the next word to the left. CTRL right arrow moves to the next word to the right. CTRL PgUp moves the cursor to the beginning of the comments. CTRL PgDn moves the cursor to the end of the comment entry space. HOME moves the cursor to the beginning of the current line. END moves the cursor to the end of the current line. The INS, DEL, and BackSpace keys are active as normal. ESC terminates this edit routine and returns you to the program. If you hit <L> the program will bring up a screen that will give you the various label sizes available. You may pick any of these sizes that you desire. CAUTION: If you change the size of the labels, the comments that you entered will be lost. You will have to reenter them using the comment edit option. If you want to print a number of labels with a different size label, you should rerun the installation program and change the size of label at this time. Page 14 USING A LASER JET PRINTER NOTE: YOU CANNOT USE A LASER JET PRINTER ON A DISK BASED SYSTEM. If you have selected a LaserJet Printer as your printer, when you indicate you want to print the labels on the printer, you will be ask if you want to download the fonts and the overlay. A positive reply will cause these files to be written to the LaserJet Printer. The program is configured to print the labels on a sheet of label stock that measures 5 1/2" by 8" (1/2 of a regular sheet of label stock). You will be able to print 5 labels on each sheet for the 5" disks and 3 labels per sheet for 3 1/2" disks. The labels will not print until you print the fifth or third label for the sheet. If you wish to print the labels prior to filling the sheet, you will have to print it using the manual feed. When you answer the question about more labels with a NO, you will then be ask if you want to delete the fonts and the overlay. If you answer YES, these will be deleted from the LaserJet Printer and it will be reset to its original condition. It is very important to delete these when you finish printing your labels or all future sheets printed will contain the overlay. If you have more labels to print, be sure to leave the fonts and overlay installed for the next label. Only delete these when you are through with the current label session. ***** NOTES ***** If you have any problems with the program, reboot your machine from a DOS system disk and try to run it again. There appear to be some conflicts with DOS 5.00 loaded in the high memory and with many of the memory resident programs such as Norton Commander, PC Tools, PathMinder, Direct Access, etc. If you have not registered the program, it will be necessary for you to run the installation program each time you start the program to make a label. To order a copy of the program or register it, type LBLORDER.BAT at the prompt and an order/registration form will be printed out. Make sure your printer is on line. After the program has been registered, you can run the installation program one time and it will not be necessary to run this program again unless you want to change the parameters. Page 15 LABEL PRICES You can obtain a supply of labels at the following prices: 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" labels for $6.10/100 2 3/4" x 1 15/16" labels for $5.25/100 3 1/2" x 15/16" labels for $4.45/100 4" x 1 7/16" labels for $4.75/100 5" x 1 7/16" labels for $5.35/100 5 1/2" x 8" laser printer label stock for $7.50/20 sheets. These prices include the postage. If you have not registered your program and desire some help or have questions, please include a SASE with your query or you will get no response. CAPACITIES EPSON LQ TYPE PRINTER OTHER 3 1/2" Disk Label 1 label 1 label 1 label 60 files/label 45 files/label 27 files/label 4 x 1 7/16" Label 4 labels 4 labels 4 labels 65 files/label 50 files/label 30 files/label 5 x 1 7/16" Label 4 labels 4 labels 4 labels 78 files/label 60 files/label 36 files/label 3 1/2" x 15/16" Label 4 labels 4 labels Not Supported 24 files/label 20 files/label REVISIONS TO LABEL MAKER Version 1.0 - Printed on small labels (3 1/2" x 15/16") using an Epson or IBM graphics printer. (5/15/84) Version 2.0 - Printed on large labels (4" x 1 7/16") using an Epson or IBM graphics printer. (6/07/84) Version 3.0 - Same as Version 2.0 but also supports any printer with expanded and compressed mode capability. (6/24/84) Version 4.0 - Same as Version 3.0 but will permit you to use either small or large labels. (8/14/85) Version 4.1 - Permits printing another copy of label and changing Master disk or not. (10/29/85) Version 4.2 - Permits specifying number of labels to be printed. One of them can be a Master label. (1/09/86) Version 5.0 - A complete reworking and reorganizing to make program more efficient. (5/09/86) Page 16 Version 5.1 - Changed to support more printers, support MSDOS and allow the printing of only the disk name, sub-directories, and comments on a label. (6/11/86) Version 6.0 - Reworked to include an installation program that allows for one time installation of colors, sound, and printer type. Allows the disk title and comments to be edited. (8/10/86) Version 6.01- The size of the labels is included in the installation program. (9/05/86) Version 6.02- Contains a print file for the AT&T computer and corrects a minor bug in the print routine. (9/25/86) Version 6.03- Inserts name of registered owner. (11/06/86) Version 6.04- Corrects a minor bug that occurred if your disk contained 61-65 files. Tells you how many lines of comments you can place on the disk before asking for the comments. (2/12/87) Version 6.05- Permits the disk name to default to the Disk Volume Label and permits the colors to be changed using the Function keys.(4/27/87) Version 6.06- Changes the registration fee and corrects a couple of minor bugs. (06/30/87) Version 6.11- Changes the print routine to a compiled version and permits you to set the left margin. Adds the 5" x 1 7/16" size label and the 3 1/2" Disk Labels. Permits you to set the printer control codes for OTHER types of printers. Changes the batch file to permit you to label disks continuously. (10/21/87) Version 6.20- Includes a 2 3/4 x 1 15/16" label, lets the title be printed in standard text for more length, supports the LQ type printers, and includes a text editor for the comments. (7/01/88) Version 6.30- Improved error trapping routines. Permits you to save the label to disk, print on paper for label cut out, and enter permanent comments. (9/01/90) Version 6.31- Eliminated a problem with labels creeping when using 24 pin printers. (11/30/90) Version 6.32- Eliminated a problem with not being able to change the comments if you did not enter comments in the first place. Version 7.00- Program has been completely rewritten in structured basic for faster execution, contains an improved error trapping routine, supports the LaserJet Printers. Page 17 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank all of the users who have made meaningful suggestions to improve the program. These suggestions are always welcomed and those that appear to have merit are included in the next revisions if possible. One of the many suggestions that many people give is they want to be able to label the next disk without having to return to DOS and rerun the program. The way the program is written, this is necessary because there are two assembly language programs that are run for each disk. These read the file names and statistics off of the target disk. You can improve the performance of the program by using a spooler. Set up a spooler and while your label is being printed, you can exit to DOS and run the program again for the next disk. You will find that by the time you have finished printing the label, you can be ready to print another.