If youprintfromtheDOScommandlevelveryoften,itwillbe advantageous to cn?atea 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 selectelite pitch with the Standardmode. You can find the commandsin Chapter4. We suggestthe following:
ANear letter quality | <ESC> | “X” | “l” |
● Elite pitch | <ESC> | “!” | <1> |
<ESC>“!” <1> is a powerfulcommandthat, in additionto selectingelite pitch, cancelsunwantedfeatures such as underliningwhich might be left from previous commands.The angle brackets around the <1> indicate charactercode 1, whichis a ccmtmlcode,not the printabledigit“l”.
You may want to place additionalcommandsin this ffle, such as left and rightmargins,linespacingandbottommargincommands.Oryoumaywant to c~ate a variety of setupfdes with a differentset of commandsin each.
To avoidexcessline feeds,you shouldplacethe commandson one line in thesetupfile.Youmayor maynotbe ableto generatea setupfde withword- processingsoftware;it dependson whether your softwarelets you enter controlcodes.If yoursystemincludesthe file EDLIN.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. AC mem5 to type
A >~DLIN NLQELITE——.—_- DAT
New f i 1e
*2.
AVindicatesthat the followingcharacteris a controlcode. ‘V[ enters We <ESC>code. cESG has charactercode 27, and “[” is the 27th character fromA in ASCIIsequence.Similarly,‘VA entemthe controlcode<1>.See your DOS manualif you need furtherinformationaboutEDLIN.
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