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╘═══════════════════════════════════════════╝
File Printing Plus Program
──────────────────────────
┌───────────────────────────────────────────╖
│ All rights reserved P r i n t P l u s ║
│ ║
│ Copyright 1990 - 1992 Lambert Klein ║
╘═══════════════════════════════════════════╝
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ C R E D I T & T H A N K S ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
To: All of the beta testers and others that supplied input,
comments, suggestions, et cetera.
Thanks to Bill Dickson for help with the
printed manual and much more!
To Loren Olsen for his continuous feedback and
reports, that otherwise may not come to my attention.
(Hope you get your BBS back up [Grin] )
Royce Williams for his help with many printer codes,
and bug reports!
Ray Novino for Runway BBS, Super!
To Roger Cross for helping resolve HyperKey conflicts
with PrintPlus.
And all the people on IBMPRO!
PrintPlus was written with Masm 5.1 in 100% Assembly language.
Tested on a 12mz 286, with hard card and two HD floppies, and a
ram drive.
Also on a 20mz 386SX with 85mb HD
With a Panasonic KX-P1091 9 pin and an Epson 24 pin 4000 AP
printers.
Kraft KC3 Trackball. µMouse. Cga & Vga monitors.
┌─────────┐
┌─────┴───┐ │ (R)
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│ ┌─────┴╨──┐ │ Association of
│ │ │─┘ Shareware
└───│ o │ Professionals
──────│ ║ │────────────────────
└────╨────┘ MEMBER
"This program is produced by a member of the Association of
Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that
the shareware principle 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 or send a Compuserve
message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536."
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
Program description ........... page 4
Default data file ............. page 5
Running PrintPlus ............. page 5
Menu Bar ...................... page 6
Status Line ................... page 6
Moving around the screen ...... page 7
View files .................... page 7
Preview # of pages to print ... page 8
Picking the files to print .... page 9
Marking files ................. page 9
AutoMark
Mark all
Printing Multiple copies
Today files ................... page 10
Page down ..................... page 10
Renaming files ................ page 10
and directories
Make Directory ( MD ) ......... page 10
Printing the files ............ page 11
Changing printing modes (Pmode) page 12
Printing specified pages ...... page 13
Line numbering ................ page 13
Redirecting output to file .... page 14
File Menu ..................... page 15
Tag & Copy, Move, Delete
Change drive .................. page 16
Changing directories .......... page 17
Choosing your printer (easy) .. page 18
Settings (parameters) ......... page 19
Changing default colors ....... page 20
Printer setup window .......... page 20
Margins ....................... page 22
Left/Right
Smart mode
Trim
Line feed strip
Page length/Line skip page 23
Reformatting tips ............. page 24
Deleting single files ......... page 25
and empty directories
Newcopy ....................... page 25
Help Menu ..................... page 25
Quitting PrintPlus ............ page 26
Trouble Shooting (Q/A) ........ page 27
Registration information ...... page 29
Ordering info ( in US ) ....... page 30
Ordering info ( in UK ) ....... page 31
Ordering info ( in Australia ). page 32
BBS Support for PrintPlus ..... page 33
On Line Registration .......... page 33
Places to find PrintPlus ...... page 34
Other programs ................ page 35
page 4
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ~ PROGRAM DESCRIPTION ~ ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
PrintPlus prints files with options to save paper by
skipping extra blank lines. File viewing, Tag and Copy, Move,
Delete. Redirection of output to an ASCII file. Also features
Pull-Down Menus and optional mouse support. Can print files
from specified page numbers, print line numbers, preview
number of pages to print, and replace IBM box characters with
User defined characters. Configurations are possible for
printer setup, screen colors mouse functions, text output,
e.t.c. Rename files or directories.
Can print filename, current date /time and File's date/time
at the top of the first page. Powerful yet easy to use.
With PrintPlus you can print or view files of any length!
PrintPlus has a function for choosing your printer from a
list. Just press a key and the codes for your printer are
set up. Many printers listed in menu.
NEW:
User adjustable Left and Right Margins, with word wrap.
Page length settings.
Smart mode, Hard CR/LF strip, Left space trim.
Multiple printed copies.
Option for continuous or single paper feed.
page 5
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ~ DEFAULT DATA FILE ~ ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
You can now set what directory your default settings ,
data file, resides in.
1. Load your autoexec.bat file into your file editor,WP, etc.
2. Enter the following, adding it to your Autoexec.bat file.
set PLUSDATA=C:\util
Where C: is the drive. Change this to the drive you want.
Where util would be the directory you want your default data
to occupy. Change 'util' to whatever path you want.
PLUSDATA=C:\path
must have no spaces.
3. Save AUTOEXEC.BAT back to your Root Directory.
4. Now your data file will load and be saved to your chosen
path after you reboot.
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ~ RUNNING THE PROGRAM: ~ ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
You should make a copy of your disk first.
If you place PrintPlus on a hard drive, make sure to have
it within your path for easy access.
Files I would recommend to place on disk are these.
P6.exe Main program "PrintPlus".
P6.doc Documentation for PrintPlus.
Plus6.mon Data file for monochrome monitors.
Check the file PACKING.LST for a complete list of files.
To get the program up and running simple type in the
name of the program at the Dos prompt.
P6
Then press [Enter]
At the top the path will be shown.
In the top box the file name will be displayed that's under
the cursor. The file size will be to the right.
If its a directory " DIRECTORY ║ " will be displayed
instead.
At the extreme right the amount of free bytes available will
be shown.
Using Alt-I you can toggle this on and off. This will speed
up the cursor on a slow floppy when this is toggled off.
page 6
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ~ MENU BAR ~ ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
╔ PRINTPLUS V6.0 ═══════PATH:C:\P6════╦══════════════
║ DIRECTORY ║ ║
╠══:Margins:═══╦═══════╦═══════╦══════╬═════════╦═══
║L: R: 80 ║ View ║ Print ║ File ║ X Drive ║ D
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Here the Menu Bar will be displayed. This will show your
options. Press the first letter of the menu desired to
pull down that menu. Example: Press 'V' for the View menu.
Once a menu is displayed you can use the Left/Right arrow
keys to move to the subsequent menus. The Up/Down arrows
will take you through the options of that specific menu.
[Enter] will either choose the option the cursor is on or
change the value.
You may also press the first letter of the desired option.
At the left your margin settings are shown. You may 'Click'
here to change margins or press ┌───╖
F2. │F2 ║ page 22
╘═══╝
MOUSE USERS:
Pointing to and clicking on the desired menu will pull
down that menu.
When inside a menu point to the option desired and click
on it to either choose that option or change it.
Point to the extreme Left/Right and clicking will move
you to the subsequent menus. Right button escapes.
Below the Menu Bar the files in the current directory are
displayed.
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ~ STATUS LINE ~ ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
At the extreme bottom the status line will show the following.
Pmode:II ║Header: ON ║TOGGLE ALL MARK║User Defined Box║
At the right symbols are shown ,highlighted when on.
These are Cursor Flash, Sound,Auto Mark, Line Numbering &
Filter.
MOUSE USERS:
You can point and click on all of these to toggle or change
them.
┌───╖
│F10║ For Mouse information.
╘═══╝
page 7
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ~ MOVING AROUND THE SCREEN ~ ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
Use the four cursor keys to move the cursor around the
screen to the files you want to print.
The [Home] key will bring you to the top left of the
screen. [End] key will take you to the bottom right.
MOUSE USERS:
Simply point to the desired directory or file and click on
it. Click again for Dir or View menu.
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ~ VIEW FILES ~ ├─┐
└─┬───────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
╔ PRINTPLUS V6.0 ══════ Pressing V
║ DIRECTORY ║ will bring down
╠═══════╦═══════╦══════╦ this View Menu
║ View ║ Print ║ File ║
║ ╚════════╗═════╩
║ ║