COPY and TYPE do not permit youto executeother commandswhilethe file is printing.
If youwanta particularfont,orprintpitch,youcanmakethesesettingsfrom the controlpanelbefore you start printing.See Chapter2.
IfyouprintfromtheDOScommandlevelveryoften,it willbeadvantageous to.createa printersetupfde. Theninsteadof settingfontetc.manuallyeach time, you can complete the setup with a single command from your computer.For example,you can createa file containingprintercommands to selectnear letter quality,and selectelitepitch with the Standardmode. You can find the commandsin Chapter4. We suggestthe following:
s Near letter quality | <ESC> “X” | “l” |
● Elite pitch | ilf?, | <1> |
<ESC> . |
cESC> “!” <1> is a powerfulcommandthat, in additionto selectingelite pitch, cancels unwantedfeatures such as underliningwhich might be left frompreviouscommands.The anglebracketsaroundthe<1>indicatechar- acter code 1, which is a controlcode,not the printabledigit “l”.
You may want to place additionalcommandsin this ffle, such as left and rightmargins,linespacingandbottommargincommands.Oryoumaywant to create a variety of setupfiles with a differentset of commandsin each.
To avoidexcessline feeds,you shouldplacethe commandson one line in the setupfile.Youmayor maynotbe ableto generatea setupfilewithword- processingsoftware;it dependson whether your softwarelets you enter controlcodes.If yoursystemincludesthe fileEDLIN.COM,however,you can easilycreate a setup file with the DOS line editor.
An appropriatenamefor this setupfile wouldbe NLQELITE.DAT.To use theDOSlineeditor,typethecommandEDLINNLQELITE.DAT,thentype the underlinedparts of the followingdisplay.Press RETURNat the end of eachline. Don’ttypethe symbol“A”.This symbolmeansto holdthe CTRL keydownwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,‘V meansto typeCTRL- V. ACmems to
A>EDLIN NLQELITE .DAT New fi1e
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