Re: Winprint
- From: "John Paines" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "vf200@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:23:40 +0000 (UTC)
I've set the top margin to 12mm, which gives a 1/2" top margin. For lines per
page I have 61 -- on my system, that's the value required to get xywrite's
page-breaks, soft or hard, to fall correctly. Those are the only margin
commands which required adjustment for my purposes.
Under Utility options, you enter the folder and file name to which you'll be
saving, via print to file. I left the timings and other defaults as is.
Under Format of Data, and "Code page" you'll probably want to select MS-Dos
Latin (CP 437), though it's possible other settings will also work and/or serve
your needs better. Everything else on that tab I left alone.
On the Misc tab, I selected the printer and left everything else alone.
As for the printing routine -- it's just a simple save/get which, when
executed, saves the current screen document (as text), then puts on the command
line a tyf command which will send the same screen document to the designated
directory as a file with the filename winprint is looking for (in my case, the
command reads "tyf , c:\vdos\fo.tmp,#", where '#' is the current page number.
The routine doesn't execute the command, because it may require entering a page
range.
From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Winprint
I have set up a dedicated folder -- Xydocs -- for this purpose, and will try to
use that location exclusively, sending / saving to there a copy of whatever I
wish to print with Xy. (This is currently being tried on a different computer,
at home. I'll have to check to see just what happened on the one I was
reporting about, the next time I am there.) In the Winprint config, I selected
Lucida Console 12. I'm unsure about other settings in the Winprint confg. How
have you set those -- for any that matter -- and can you tell me exactly how
you are going about printing from Xy inside of vDos ? What "routines" ?
Jordan
From: John Paines <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:41 AM
Subject: Re: Winprint
On second thought, winprint *will*, upon loading, print any file which
satisfies its type and location requirement. So if it's configured to print
*.txt files in directory vdosxy (assuming a wild card works with winprint; I
don't know), it might print all those files once it was loaded.
It might also delete them when it's finished. I use simple routines to print
to fo.tmp and the same output directory, no matter where the text file is
located. That way, there's no need to ever change the location which winprint
monitors for files to print and no chance of deleting an actual text file.
From: John Paines <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Winprint
Just to be clear, this is the download site for winprint:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winprint/
It shouldn't matter where you install it, and I can't account for the
behavior you describe. Assuming it's installed, double-click on winprint.exe,
which puts the winprint icon in the taskbar (though you may have to "show
hidden icons").
Assuming you've already configured winprint to your liking (right click on the
icon to bring up the dialogue boxes), use xywrite to print to file. If you've
set the winprint dialogue box to look for that generically named output file in
the indicated directory, it prints the document. That's it. Without a print to
file command, and winprint configured to look for that output file, nothing
should happen.
From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:32 PM
Subject: Winprint
I must be doing something wrong. I put this into the vDosXy directory, which I
thought was the instructed procedure, and then invoked it. (I did this from
Windows Explorer.) The program then decided to print -- in succession -- every
text file therein. Not what I had in mind. It would have been necessary to
disconnect the printer to make it stop, but it happened to run out of paper
before I could have done that.
So, what is the *correct* way to use this thing ?
Jordan
From: John Paines <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: new computer XY-DOS
I don't believe there's any documentation. However, loading the program puts
an icon in the taskbar, which is (for the most part) self-evidently
configurable. You get a choice of fonts, point size, margins, lines per page,
font translation (code 437), choice of installed printers, and provision for
supplying the file name and directory of the file which winprint will monitor
(you must print to file with this utility), and printer selection. Winprint is
the fastest option available I've found; a xywrite tyf command goes instantly
to the printer. By contrast, it's several seconds before vDos's dosprinter
utility kicks in with a dialogue box.
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