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COPYandTYPEdonotpermityouto executeothercommandswhilethe
fileis printing.
Ifyouwantaparticularfontstyle,orpnnt pitch,youcanmakethesesettings
fromthecontrolpanelbeforeyoustartprinting.See Chapter2.
IfyouprintfromtheDOScommandlevelveryoften,itwillbeadvantageous
tocreateaprintersetupfile.Theninsteadof settingfontstyleetc.manually
each time,you can completethe setupwith a singlecommandfromyour
computer.Forexample,youcancreatea filecontainingprintercommands
toselectnearletterquality,andselectelitepitch.Youcanfindthecommands
in Chapter4. We suggestthe following:
● Nearletterquality
<ESC>
“X” “l”
● Elitepitch
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<ESC> . <1>
<ESC>“!” cl> is a powerfidcommandthat,in additionto selectingelite
pitch,cancelsunwantedfeaturessuch as underliningwhichmightbe left
from previouscommands.The angle brackets around the cl> indicate
charactercode 1,whichis a controlcode,nottheprintabledigit” l“.
Youmay wantto placeadditionalcommandsin this file, such as left and
rightmargins,linespacingandbottommargincommands.Oryoumaywant
to createavarietyof setupfileswith a differentsetof commandsin each.
To avoidexcesslinefeeds,youshouldplacethecommandson onelinein
thesetupfile.Youmayormaynotbeabletogenerateasetupfilewithword-
processingsoftware;it dependson whetheryour softwarelets you enter
controlcodes.If yoursystemincludesthefileEDLIN.COM,however,you
can easilycreatea setupfilewiththeDOSlineeditor.
An appropriatenameforthissetupfilewouldbe NLQELITE.DAT.To use
theDOSlineeditor,typethecommandEDLINNLQELITE.DAT,thentype
theunderlinedpartsofthefollowingdisplay.PressRETURNattheendof
eachline.Don’ttypethesymbol“A”.Thissymbolmeansto holdthe CTRL
keydownwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,‘V meanstotypeCTRL-
V.
Ac mem5 t. typ CTRL.C, whichindicatesthe end of the inPut.
A>EDLIN NLQELITE .~
New f i le
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‘VA
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