332 lines
12 KiB
Groff
332 lines
12 KiB
Groff
|
||
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
|
||
\/ \/
|
||
/ SIDEWAYS SOFT-DOX \
|
||
\ /
|
||
S BY S
|
||
I I
|
||
D THE PENGUIN D
|
||
E E
|
||
W & W
|
||
A A
|
||
Y JAY OF A.P.P.L.E. Y
|
||
S S
|
||
/ FOR \
|
||
\ /
|
||
/ THE SOUTH POLE.....[312] 677-7140 \
|
||
\ /
|
||
/\ /\
|
||
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
|
||
|
||
WHAT YOU NEED
|
||
-------------
|
||
TO RUN SIDEWAYS YOU WILL NEED AN APPLE ][+,e,c COMPUTER WITH AT LEAST
|
||
48K, AT LEAST ONE DISK DRIVE, A PRINTER INTERFACE CARD, AND A
|
||
DOT-MATRIX PRINTER WITH DOT-ADDRESSABLE GRAPHICS CAPABILITY. FOR A
|
||
LIST OF CURRENTLY SUPPORTED PRINTERS AND PRINTER INTERFACE CARDS, SEE
|
||
THE SECTION ENTITLED 'INSTALLATION GUIDE'.
|
||
|
||
WHAT'S ON YOUR DISK
|
||
-------------------
|
||
|
||
YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FILES:
|
||
|
||
SIDEWAYS.........THIS IS THE SIDEWAYS PROGRAM
|
||
|
||
INSTALL..........THIS PROGRAM ALLOWS YOU TO SET-UP SIDEWAYS FOR YOUR
|
||
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION (PRINTER MODEL,INTERFACE
|
||
CARD,SLOT NUMBER)
|
||
|
||
SAMPLE.PRF.......THIS IS A SAMPLE SPREADSHEET, WHICH CAN BE USED
|
||
IMMEDIATELY TO DEMO SIDEWAYS PRINTING.
|
||
|
||
|
||
INSTALLING THE PROGRAM
|
||
----------------------
|
||
|
||
BEFORE YOU CAN USE THE SIDEWAYS PROGRAM, YOU MUST TELL IT THE TYPE OF
|
||
PRINTER YOU HAVE, THE TYPE OF INTERFACE CARD YOU HAVE, IN WHICH SLOT
|
||
THE INTERFACE CARD IS LOCATED, AND THE NUMBER OF DATA BITS PER BYTE
|
||
THAT YOUR PRINTER WILL ACCEPT (NORMALLY 8).
|
||
|
||
|
||
1. PUT YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK IN DRIVE 1 AND TURN ON THE COMPUTER.
|
||
|
||
2. WHEN THE SCREEN TITLE APPEARS, TYPE THE CHARACTER "I" (FOR
|
||
INSTALL). BE SURE TO DO THIS BEFORE THE MAIN SIDEWAYS MENU APPEARS.
|
||
|
||
3. THE "INSTALL" PROGRAM WILL TELL YOU HOW SIDEWAYS IS CURRENTLY
|
||
INSTALLED, AND WILL PRESENT A MENU FOR CHANGING THE INSTALLATION.
|
||
SELECT WHICHEVER ITEMS NEED TO BE ALTERED; THE PROGRAM WILL LEAD YOU
|
||
THROUGH THE VARIOUS OPTIONS IN A SERIES OF MENUS.
|
||
|
||
4. WHEN YOU HAVE MADE ALL THE NECESSARY CHANGES, USE THE "TEST
|
||
INTERFACE" OPTION TO DO A PRELIMINARY CHECK OF THE SYSTEM. THIS WILL
|
||
SEND A LINE OF TEXT CONTINUOUSLY, INSURING THAT YOUR SELECTION OF
|
||
PRINTER INTERFACE CARD AND AND SLOT NUMBER WERE CORRECT.
|
||
|
||
5. NOW USE THE "EXIT" OPTION TO LEAVE THE INSTALL PROGRAM AND START
|
||
THE NEWLY INSTALLED SIDEWAYS PROGRAM.
|
||
|
||
6. CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM BY PRINTING THE SAMPLE SPREADSHEET THAT WE'VE
|
||
INCLUDED ON YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK WHEN THE SIDEWAYS SCREEN COMES UP, TYPE
|
||
IN "SAMPLE.PRF", FOLLOWED BY <RETURN>.
|
||
|
||
IF YOU BUY A NEW PRINTER, OR OTHERWISE CHANGE YOUR CONFIGURATION, MAKE
|
||
SURE YOU KEEP SIDEWAYS ABREAST OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS BY REPEATING THE
|
||
ABOVE PROCEDURE.
|
||
|
||
REFER TO THE SECTION ENTITLED "INSTALLATION GUIDE" FOR INFORMATION ON
|
||
PARTICULAR PRINTERS AND INTERFACE CARDS, AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE
|
||
INSTALLED.
|
||
|
||
|
||
STARTING UP THE PROGRAM
|
||
-----------------------
|
||
|
||
PUT YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK IN DRIVE 1 AND TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER FIRST, A
|
||
TITLE SCREEN WILL APPEAR, FOLLOWED, AFTER A FEW SECONDS, BY THE
|
||
SIDEWAYS MENU.
|
||
|
||
WHAT YOU SEE ARE ALL THE CURRENT SETTINGS OF THE FORMATTING AND
|
||
PRINTER OPTIONS. YOU MAY ALTER ANY OF THESE OPTIONS, SAVE THE NEW
|
||
SETTING TO DISK, SELECT A FILE FOR SIDEWAYS PRINTING, OR EXIT TO A
|
||
DIFFERENT PROGRAM.
|
||
|
||
THE CURSOR ALWAYS POINTS TO A HIGHLIGHTED FIELD; INITIALLY IT POINTS
|
||
TO THE PRINT FIELD. USE CTRL-E AND CTRL-X TO MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND
|
||
THE SCREEN TO DIFFERNT FIELDS (ON AN APPLE IIe USE UP-ARROW AND
|
||
DOWN-ARROW). IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ALTER THE VALUE OF A FIELD, SIMPLY
|
||
POSITION THE CURSOR TO THAT FIELD AND RE-ENTER IT.
|
||
|
||
FOR MOST OF THE FIELDS, YOU WOULD SIMPLY ENTER THE NEW VALUE AND
|
||
TERMINATE YOUR ENTRY WITH <RETURN>, OR CTRL-E OR CTRL-X. YOU CAN USE
|
||
LEFT-ARROW OR DELETE TO DELETE THE LAST CHARACTER YOU TYPED, OR <ESC>
|
||
TO DELETE YOUR ENTIRE ENTRY. IF YOUR ENTRY IS INVALID, YOU WILL GET
|
||
AN ERROR MESSAGE, AND THE FIELD YOU JUST ENTERED WILL REVERT ITSELF TO
|
||
ITS PREVIOUS VALUE.
|
||
|
||
THE REST OF THE FIELDS ARE "TOGGLE" FIELDS: YOU CAN CHANGE THEIR
|
||
CONTENTS SIMPLY BY STRIKING ANY ALPHANUMERIC KEY (SUCH AS THE SPACE
|
||
BAR). THESE FIELDS INCLUDE HORIZONTAL FORM SIZE, CHARACTER FONT, AND
|
||
DOUBLE STRIKE.
|
||
|
||
SELECTING A FILE TO PRINT
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
|
||
TO PRINT A FILE, POSITION THE CURSOR TO THE PRINT FILE FIELD AND TYPE
|
||
IN THE NAME OF THE FILE YOU WANT TO PRINT, TERMINATE BY HITTING
|
||
<RETURN>. ENTER THE FILE NAME IN NORMAL DOS FORMAT:
|
||
|
||
filename[,Sn][,Dn][,Vn]
|
||
|
||
|
||
(S,D, AND V ARE SLOT, DRIVE, AND VOLUME. AS INDICATED BY THE BRACKETS,
|
||
THE ARE OPTIONAL PARAMETERS,)
|
||
|
||
ONCE PRINTING HAS BEGUN, THE FOLLOWING IS DISPLAYED:
|
||
|
||
STRIKE "P" TO STOP PRINTING
|
||
|
||
|
||
IF YOU DO STRIKE "P", THE PRINTER WILL STOP PRINTING AT THE CURRENT
|
||
LINE AND DO A FORM FEED.
|
||
|
||
AFTER YOUR FILE HAS BEEN PRINTED, YOU MAY ONCE AGAIN ALTER THE OPTION
|
||
SETTINGS, ENTER A NEW FILE NAME FOR PRINTING OR EXIT TO ANOTHER
|
||
PROGRAM.
|
||
|
||
SLOT, DRIVE, VOLUME:
|
||
|
||
IF YOU DON'T SPECIFY A SLOT OR DRIVE NUMBER, SIDEWAYS WILL USE THE
|
||
DEFAUTL SLOT AND DRIVE. INITIALLY, THE DEFAULT IS THE SLOT AND DRIVE
|
||
FROM WHICH SIDEWAYS WAS BOOTED (NORMALLY SLOT 6, DRIVE 1). WHENEVER
|
||
YOU SPECIFY A SLOT OR DRIVE WITH A FILENAME, IT BECOMES THE NEW
|
||
DEAFULT.
|
||
|
||
IF YOU DON'T SPECIFY A FILENAME, BUT TYPE IN A SLOT AND/OR DRIVE
|
||
NUMBER, FOLLOWED BY <RETURN>, SIDEWAYS WILL CHANGE THE DEFAULT SLOT
|
||
AND DRIVE WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO PRINT ANYTHING. YOU MUST REMEMBER TO
|
||
PRECEDE THE DRIVE OR SLOT NUMBER WITH A COMMA. FOR EXAMPLE, TO CHANGE
|
||
THE DEFAULT DRIVE TO DRIVE 2, TYPE IN:
|
||
|
||
,D2 <RETURN>
|
||
|
||
|
||
IF YOU SPECIFY A VOLUME NUMBER, SIDEWAYS WILL MATCH THIS NUMBER TO THE
|
||
VOLUME NUMBER ON THE DISK, AND GIVE YOU AN ERROR ON A MISMATCH.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WILDCARDS:
|
||
|
||
IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE FILE YOU WANT TO PRINT, YOU CAN
|
||
EXAMINE THE FILENAMES ON YOUR DISK BY USING A "WILCARD" IN THE
|
||
FILENAME YOU ENTER. THE EQUAL (=) SIGN IS THE WILDCARD CHARACTER-IT
|
||
STANDS FOR ANY SEQUENCE OF CHARACTERS IN THE CORRESPONDING POSITION OF
|
||
THE FILENAME. FOR INSTANCE, P=W WOULD STAND FOR ANY FILENAME STARTING
|
||
WITH P AND ENDING WITH W. AFTER ENTERING THE FILENAME WITH THE
|
||
WILDCARD IN IT, DON'T TYPE <RETURN>, BUT USE RIGHT-ARROW TO DISPLAY,
|
||
ONE-BY-ONE, ALL TEXT FILES MATCHING YOUR ENTRY. WHEN THE FILE THAT YOU
|
||
WANT APPEARS, HIT <RETURN> TO PRINT IT.
|
||
|
||
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF WILDCARDS:
|
||
|
||
= ALL FILES ON DEFAULT DRIVE
|
||
=,D2 ALL FILES ON DRIVE 2
|
||
=ING ALL FILES ENDING IN ING
|
||
|
||
|
||
FILENAME RULES:
|
||
|
||
|
||
YOUR FILE MST BE ON A DOS 3.3 DISK. DOS ASSIGNS EVERY FILE ON YOUR
|
||
DISK A "FILE TYPE", WHICH GENERALLY DESCRIBES THE FORMAT OR PURPOSE OF
|
||
THE FILE. THE "TEXT" FILE TYPE INDICATES A FILE COMPOSED OF PRINTABLE
|
||
CHARACTERS-THIS IS THE TYPE OF FILE SIDEWAYS EXPECTS, AND IF YOU ENTER
|
||
A FILE OF A DIFFERENT TYPE, SIDEWAYS WILL NOT RECOGNIZE IT. TEXT FILES
|
||
ARE INDICATED BY THE "T" CODE NEXT TO THE FILE NAME WHEN YOU CATALOG
|
||
YOUR DISK.
|
||
|
||
YOU SHOULD NOT USE FILE NAMES WITH EMBEDDED CONTROL CHARACTERS, OR
|
||
WITH FLASHING OR INVERSE CHARACTERS.
|
||
|
||
WHILE SIDEWAYS WILL HANDLE LOWER-CASE CHARACTERS IN A FILENAME, IT IS
|
||
GOOD PRACTICE TO AVOID USING THEM. SIDEWAYS WILL DISREGARD CASE WHEN
|
||
YOU USE RIGHT-ARROW TO SEARCH FOR A FILE; HOWEVER, WHEN YOU TERMINATE
|
||
YOUR FILENAME ENTRY WITH <RETURN>, ALL THE CHARACTERS OF THE FILENAME
|
||
MUST BE IN THE CORRECT CASE FOR THE FILE TO BE FOUND.
|
||
|
||
WHEN YOU USE RIGHT-ARROW TO SEARCH FOR A MATCHING FILENAME, THE EQUAL
|
||
SIGN (=) IS A WILDCARD; BUT WHEN YOU TERMINATE YOUR FILENAME ENTRY
|
||
WITH <RETURN>, THE EQUAL SIGN IS TAKEN LITERALLY.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SIDEWAYS OPTIONS
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
SETTING PAPER DIMENSIONS:
|
||
|
||
HORIZONTAL FORM FEED REFERS TO YOUR PAPER WIDTH. IT WILL TOGGLE
|
||
BETWEEN 8 INCHES AND 13 INCHES. IF YOU HAVE A NARROW CARRIAGE PRINTER,
|
||
YOU SHOULD LEAVE IT SET TO 8 INCHES.
|
||
|
||
VERICAL FORM FEED IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN PERFORATIONS OF YOUR PRINTER
|
||
PAPER. WHENEVER SIDEWAYS IS DONE PRINTING A PAGE, IT FORM FEEDS TO THE
|
||
NEXT MULTIPLE OF VERTICAL FORM SIZE. IT IS NORMALLY SET TO 11 INCHES.
|
||
|
||
SETTING THE STYLE OF THE PRINTOUT:
|
||
|
||
DOUBLE STRIKE IS A TOGGLE FIELD WHICH MAY BE ON OR OFF. IF IT'S ON,
|
||
EACH LINE WILL BE PRINTED TWICE, FOR ADDED PRINT DENSITY.
|
||
|
||
CHARACTER FONT IS A TOGGLE FIELD WHICH GIVES YOU A CHOICE OF VARIOUS
|
||
TYPE SIZES, FROM TINY TO EXTRA LARGE. ON THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN, THE
|
||
DIMENSIONS OF THE "DOT-MATRIX" - THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL PRINT
|
||
DOTS THAT ARE USED TO MAKE UP EACH CHARACTER IN THE SELECTED FONT ARE
|
||
SHOWN.
|
||
|
||
CHARACTER SPACING IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE CHARACTER
|
||
COLUMNS, MEASURED IN TERMS OF THE VERTICAL DOT DENSITY OF THE PRINTER.
|
||
YOU CAN CROWD CHARACTERS TOGETHER, OR SPREAD THEM APART, BY MAKING
|
||
THIS NUMBER SMALLER OR LARGER-THE RESULTING NUMBER OF CHARACTERS PER
|
||
INCH IS DISPLAYED AT THE RIGHT.
|
||
|
||
LINE SPACING IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE PRINT LINES, KEASURED
|
||
IN TERMS OF HORIZONTAL DOT DENSITY OF THE PRINTER. YOU CAN CROWD LINES
|
||
TOGETHER OR SPREAD THEM APART BY MANIPULATING THIS VALUE-THE RESULTING
|
||
NUMBER OF LINES PER INCH IS DISPLAYED AT THE RIGHT.
|
||
|
||
YOU MAY SET A DIFFERENT CHARACTER AND LINE SPACING FOR EACH CHARACTER
|
||
FONT; WHEN YOU CHANGE FONTS, YOU AUTOMATICALLY REVERT TO THE CHARACTER
|
||
AND LINE SPACING ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW FONT.
|
||
|
||
SETTING THE FORMAT OF THE PAGE:
|
||
|
||
LEFT MARGIN CONTROLS THE AMOUNT OF WHITE SPACE BETWEEN TOP-OF-FORM AND
|
||
THE LEFTMOST SIDEWAYS PRINT COLUMN
|
||
|
||
TOP MARGIN CONTROLS THE AMOUNT OF WHITE SPACE BETWEEN THE RIGHT EDGE
|
||
OF THE PAPER AND THE 1ST SIDEWAYS PRINTED LINE.
|
||
|
||
BOTTOM MARGIN CONTROLS THE AMOUNT OF WHITE SPACE BETWEEN THE LAST
|
||
SIDEWAYS PRINTED LINE AND THE LEFT EDGE OF THE PAPER.
|
||
|
||
THE AMOUNT OF SPACE AVAILABLE FOR PRINTING IS DETERMINED BY
|
||
SUBTRACTING TOP MARGIN AND BOTTOM MARGIN FROM HORIZONTAL FORM SIZE.
|
||
THE PROGRAM AUTOMATICALLY COMPUTES THE NUMBER OF LINES THAT WILL FIT
|
||
ON EACH PAGE, AND DISPLAYS THIS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN.
|
||
|
||
OTHER OPTION:
|
||
|
||
STARTING PAGE ALLOWS YOU TO SKIP OVER THE INITIAL PAGES OF A PRINT
|
||
FILE; IT IS NORMALLY SET TO 1.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SAVING OPTION SETTINGS TO DISK
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
ONCE YOU HAVE SET UP THE SIDEWAYS OPTIONS AS YOU LIKE THEM, YOU CAN
|
||
SAVE THEM TO DISK BY TYPING CTRL-S, AND RELOAD THEM FROM DISK BY
|
||
TYPING CTRL-L.
|
||
|
||
THE OPTION SETTINGS ARE SAVED IN A FILE CALLED SWOPTIONS. WHEN YOU
|
||
TYPE CTRL-S, THE CURRENT OPTION SETTINGS ARE WRITTEN TO SWOPTIONS ON
|
||
THE DEFAULT SLOT AND DRIVE. WHEN YOU TYPE CTRL-L, THE OPTION SETTINGS
|
||
ARE LOADED FROM SWOPTIONS ON THE DEFAULT SLOT AND DRIVE. REMEMBER THAT
|
||
YOU CAN ALTER THE DEFAULT SLOT AND DRIVE BY ENTERING THEM IN THE PRINT
|
||
FILE FIELD WITH A BLANK FILENAME, FOLLOWED BY <RETURN>.
|
||
|
||
YOU CAN ALSO SAVE THE OPTION SETTINGS TO THE SIDEWAYS DISK ITSELF. IF
|
||
YOU HAVE DONE SO, THEY WILL BE RELOADED EVE RY TIME YOU BOOT SIDEWAYS,
|
||
AND YOU WILLNOT NEED TO USE CTRL-L.
|
||
|
||
IF YOU HAVE ONE STANDARD SET OF OPTION SETTINGS THAT YOU USE MOST OF
|
||
THE TIME, IT MAKES SENSE TO SAVE THEM TO THE SIDEWAYS DISK. IF YOU
|
||
HAVE DIFFERENT OPTIONS SETTINGS USED FOR DIFFERENT PRINT FILES, YOU
|
||
MIGHT WANT TO SAVE EACH OF THE VARIOUS SETTINGS TO A DIFFERENT DISK,
|
||
AND USE CTRL-L TO READ THEM IN.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|