If you print from the DOS command level very often, it will be advantageous to create a printer setup file. Then instead of setting font style etc. manually each time, you can complete the setup with a single command from your computer. For example, you can create a file containing printer commands to select Economy mode, and select elite pitch
with the Standard You can find the commands in Chapter 6. We suggest the following:
. | Economy mode | <ESC> | “O” |
. | Elite pitch | <ESC> | “!” <1> |
<ESC> “!” <1> is a powerful command that, in addition to selecting elite pitch, cancels unwanted features such as underlining which might be left from previous commands. The angle brackets around the <1> indicate character code 1, which is a control code, not the printable digit “l”.
You may want to piace additional commands in this file, such as left and right margins, line spacing and bottom margin commands. Or you may want to create a variety of setup files with a different set of commands in each.
To avoid excess line feeds, you should place the commands on one line in the setup file. You may or may not be able to generate a setup file with
An appropriate name for this setup file would be SJELITE.DAT. To use the DOS line editor, type the command EDLIN SJELITE.DAT, then type the underlined parts of the following display. Press RETURN at the end of each line. Do not type the symbol “A”.This symbol means to hold the CTRL key down while pressing the next key: for example, ‘V means to type
A>EDLIN SJELITE. 13AT
New file
AV indicates that the following character is a control code. *V[ enters the <ESC> code. <ESC> has character code 27, and “[” is the 27th character from A in the ASCII sequence. Similarly, ‘VA enters the control code <1>. See your DOS manual if you need further information about EDLIN.
You can now set up the printer by sending it the file SJELITE.DAT. To avoid unnecessary logging of commands, switch
A>COPY SJELITE . DAT PRN
A>PRINT README. DOC
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