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controloptions.For example,you can terminatea printingjob in progress
with the /I' option.(Theprintermay not stopprintingimmediatelyas there
may be considerabledatastoredaheadin its buffer.)For thefl option,type:
A>PRINT/T
See yourDOSmanualfor furtherinformationaboutthe PRINTcommand.
IfyoursystemdoesnotincludePRINT.COM, y oucanprintfilesbyusingthe
PRN devicenamein COPYor TYPE commandssuch as the following:
A>COPY README . DOC PRN
A>TYPE README . DOC >PRN
COPYandTYPEdonotpermityoutoexecuteothercommandswhilethefile
is printing.
If youwanta particularfont,or printpitch,youcanmakethesesettingsfmm
the controlpanelbeforeyou stat printing.See Chapter5.
If youprintfromtheDOScommandlevelveryoften,it willbeadvantageous
to createa printersetupfile.Then insteadof settingfontstyleetc.manually
each time, you can completethe setup with a singlecommandfrom your
computer.For example,youcan createa file containingprintercommands
to selectletterquality,andselectelitepitchwiththeStandardmode.Youcan
find the commandsin Chapter7. We suggestthe following:
Letterquality
<ESC>
"X"
"l"
Elite pitch
*SC>
"!"
<1>
<ESG "!" <1> is a powertil commandthat, in additionto selectingelite
pitch, cancelsunwantedfeaturessuch as underliningwhich might be left
from previous commands.The angle brackets around the <1> indicate
charactercode 1, whichis a controlcode,not the printabledigit"l".
Youmaywanttoplaceadditional c ommandsinthisfde,suchasleftandright
margins,line spacingand bottommargincommands.Or you may want to
create a varietyof setupfdes with a differentset of commandsin each.
To avoidexcesslinefeeds,youshouldplacethecommandsononelinein the
setup file. You may or may not be ableto generatea setup file with word-
pmcessing software;it dependson whetheryour softwarelets you enter
controlcodes.If yoursystemincludesthe fileEDLIN.COM,however,you
can easilycreate a setupfde with the DOSline editor.
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