IyouprintfromtheDOScommandlevelveryoften,itwillbe advantageous
tocreate aprintersetupfde.Then insteadofsettingfont etc.manuallyeach
time, you can compIetethe setup with asingle command from your
computer.Forexample,youcan createafilecontainingprintercommands
to selectnear letterquality,and selectelite pitchwith theStandardmode.
Youcan findthe commandsin Chapter4.We suggestthe following:
~Nearletter quality <ESC> “l”
●Elitepitch <ESC> “!” <1>
<ESC>“!” <1>is apowerfulcommandthat, in additionto selectingelite
pitch,cancelsunwanted featuressuch asunderliningwhich mightbe left
from previouscommands. The angle bracketsaround the cl> indicate
charactercode1, whichis acontrolcode, notthe printabledigit“l”.
Youmay want to placeadditionalcommandsin this file,such as left and
rightmargins,linespacingandbottommargincommands.Oryoumay want
tocreate avarietyof setup fdeswith adifferentsetof commandsin each.
To avoidexcessline feeds,youshouIdpIace thecommandson onelinein
thesetupfile.Youmay ormaynotbe abletogenerateasetupfilewithword-
processingsoftware;it depends on whetheryour softwarelets you enter
controlcodes.If yoursystemincIudesthefile EDLIN.COM,however,you
caneasily createasetupfile withthe DOSline editor.
Anappropriatenamefor thissetupfile wouldbeNLQELITE.DAT.Touse
theDOSlineeditor,typethecommandEDLINNLQELITE.DAT,thentype
theunderlinedpactsofthe followingdisplay.PressRETURNat theend of
eachline.Don’ttype thesymbol“A”.Thissymbolmeanstoholdthe CTRL
keydownwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,‘Vmeanstotype CTRL-
V. whichindicatestheend of the input.
A)EDLIN NLQELITE .DAT
..._————.———....-..—..—.,-
New file
‘V indicatesthatthe
*.X1X1 “’v[:“VA
—......—..——_.—
*“C
—
followingcharacterisacontrol code.‘V[ entersthe
<ESC>code.<ESb has charactercode 27, and“[” is the 27th character
fromAinASCIIsequence.Similarly,‘VAentersthe controlcode<1>.See
yourDOS manualif youneed furtherinformationaboutEDLIN.
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