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COPYandTYPE donot permityouto executeother commandswhilethe
fileis printing.
Ifyouwant aparticularfontstyle,orpnntpitch,youcan makethesesettings
fromthe controlpanelbeforeyou startprinting.See Chapter2.
Ifyouprintfromthe DOScommandlevelveryoften,itwillbeadvantageous
tocreate aprintersetupfile.Theninsteadof settingfontstyleetc.manually
eachtime, youcan completethe setup withasingle commandfrom your
computer.Forexample,youcan createafilecontainingprintercommands
toselectnearletterquality,andselectelitepitch.Youcanfindthecommands
in Chapter4.We suggestthe following:
●Nearletter quality <ESC> “X” “l”
●Elitepitch 66199
<ESC> .<1>
<ESC>“!” cl> is apowerfidcommandthat,in additionto selecting elite
pitch,cancelsunwanted featuressuchas underliningwhich mightbe left
from previouscommands.The angle brackets around the cl> indicate
charactercode1, whichis acontrolcode,not theprintabledigit” l“.
Youmay want toplace additionalcommandsinthis file,such as left and
rightmargins,linespacingandbottommargincommands.Oryoumay want
tocreate avarietyof setupfiles withadifferentset of commandsin each.
To avoidexcessline feeds,youshouldplace thecommandson oneline in
thesetupfile.Youmay ormaynotbe abletogenerateasetupfilewithword-
processingsoftware;it dependson whether yoursoftware lets youenter
controlcodes.Ifyour systemincludesthefileEDLIN.COM,however,you
caneasily createasetupfile withthe DOSline editor.
Anappropriatenameforthis setupfilewouldbe NLQELITE.DAT.Touse
theDOSlineeditor,typethecommandEDLINNLQELITE.DAT,thentype
theunderlinedpartsof thefollowingdisplay.PressRETURNat theend of
eachline.Don’ttype thesymbol“A”.ThissymbolmeanstoholdtheCTRL
keydownwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,‘VmeanstotypeCTRL-
V.Ac mem5 t. typ CTRL.C, which indicatestheend ofthe inPut.
A>EDLIN NLQELITE .~
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