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Anappropriate nameforthissetupfde wouldbeLQELITE.DAT. T ousethe
DOSlineeditor,type the commandEDLINLQELITE.DAT, t hen typethe
underlinedpartsof thefollowingdisplay.PressRETURNattheendof each
line.Donottypethe symbol"A". T his symbolmeansto holdthe CTRLkey
downwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,'V meansto typeCTRL-V.
N meansto type CTRL-C,whichindicatesthe end of the input.
A>EDLIN LQELITE. DAT
New f i 1e
I s *'V [x I 'V [ ! 'VA
2 : *'c
*E —
AVindicatesthat the followingcharacteris a controlcode. 'V[ enters the
<ESCScode. cESD has charactercode 27, and "[" is the 27th character
fromA in the ASCIIsequence.Similarly,'VA entersthecontrolcode<1>.
See your DOSmanualif you need furtherinformationaboutEDLIN.
You can now set up the printerby sendingit the file LQELITE.DAT.To
avoidunnecessaryloggingof commands,switchhard-copyoutputoff (by
pressingCTRL-PRTSC ifhardcopyis on).ToprintthefileREADME.DOC
in LQ elitetype,givethe followingtwo commands:
A>COPY LQELITE . DAT PRN
A>PRINT README . DOC
Forgreaterconvenience youcanmakea batchfilethatwillsetup theprinter
and print any specifiedfile with a singlecommand.To createsuch a batch
file with the nameLQPRINT.BAT, t ype in the first fourlines shownnext.
AZmew to
pIESS tieCTRL
and Z keyssimultaneously.
T O We thk file to
print README.DOC, t ypethe fifth line.
A>COPY CON LQPRINT . BAT
COPY LQELITE . DAT PRN
PRINT %1
'z
A>LQPRINT README . DOC
The first line aboveis a copy commandfrom the CONsolescreento a file
n~ed LQpRrNT.BAT. T henexttwo linesarethe contentsof thisfile.The
%1is a dummyparameter:whateverfilenameyoutypeafterLQPRINTwill
be substitutedfor %1 and printed.
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