COPY andTYPEdo notpermit youtoexecuteother commandswhilethe
fileis printing.
Ifyouwant aparticularfont,orprintpitch,youcan makethesesettingsfrom
thecontrolpanel beforeyoustart printing.SeeChapter2.
Ifyouprintfromthe DOScommandlevelveryoften,itwillbe advantageous
to.createaprintersetupfde.Then insteadofsettingfontetc.manuallyeach
time, you can completethe setup with asingle command from your
computer.Forexample,youcan createafilecontainingprintercommands
to selectnear letterquality,andselect elitepitchwith theStandardmode.
Youcan find thecommandsin Chapter4. Wesuggestthe following:
sNearletter quality <ESC> “X” “l”
●Elitepitch ilf?,
<ESC> .<1>
cESC>“!” <1> isapowerful commandthat,inadditionto selectingelite
pitch,cancels unwantedfeaturessuchas underliningwhich mightbeleft
frompreviouscommands.Theanglebracketsaroundthe<1>indicatechar-
actercode 1,which isacontrolcode, nottheprintabledigit “l”.
Youmay want toplace additionalcommandsinthisffle, suchas left and
rightmargins,linespacingandbottommargincommands.Oryoumay want
to createavarietyof setup fileswithadifferent setofcommandsin each.
To avoidexcessline feeds,youshouldplacethe commandsononeline in
thesetupfile.Youmay ormaynotbeableto generateasetupfilewithword-
processingsoftware;it depends onwhether yoursoftwarelets you enter
controlcodes.Ifyour systemincludesthefileEDLIN.COM,however,you
caneasily createasetupfile withtheDOS lineeditor.
Anappropriatenameforthis setupfilewouldbe NLQELITE.DAT.Touse
theDOSlineeditor,typethecommandEDLINNLQELITE.DAT,thentype
theunderlinedpartsof thefollowingdisplay.PressRETURNat theendof
eachline.Don’ttype thesymbol“A”.Thissymbolmeansto holdtheCTRL
keydownwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,‘Vmeanstotype CTRL-
V.ACmems to typeC’IRL-C,whichindicatestheend ofthe input.
A>EDLIN NLQELITE .DAT
New fi1e
*1 1:*“V [Xl“V [!““VA