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INSTRUCTIONS ON THE USE OF THE

BANNERIFIC PROGRAM
Version 2.0
(C) Alan C. Elliott 1984-89

WHAT BANNERIFIC DOES

BANNERIFIC is a program which lets you produce large banners
on your computer printer. All IBM PC keyboard characters may
be used. The size of the characters produced on the printer
is variable, and may be as large as the width of your
computer paper. Banners can be printed horizontally or
vertically.

HOW BANNERIFIC IS PROVIDED TO YOU

The BANNERIFIC program is brought to you as a shareware
program. You are free to make copies of this program, and
pass it on to a friend. If you like the program, you are
encouraged to become a registered user by sending in $15.
You will be notified of updates, and other user supported
programs. You will receive a disk with the latest update
of this program PLUS OTHER PROGRAMS.

This is a copyrighted program. Distribution must be made
only under the conditions mentioned here. You may not alter
the program or documentation, and documentation must be
provided with the program, on disk. Disks containing the
program may be sold by computer user's groups, and by those
distributing shareware programs. The program may be placed
on electronic bulletin boards for free distribution.

Thank you for helping provide software in this manner.

HOW TO RUN BANNERIFIC

The program BANNERIFIC is stored on disk as the file
BANNER.EXE. To begin the program, enter the command BANNER
from the DOS prompt, and press the Enter key. After the
initial messages are shown on the screen, you will be given
the opportunity to choose the size of your banner. Default
values for the size and placement of the letters may be
chosen by pressing ENTER at the prompts. Otherwise, enter an
appropriate number for the questions:

1. The height of the letters.

2. The width of the letters.

3. The left margin on the printer.

IMPORTANT: I would suggest that you first print an example
banner with the default values, and then experiment with

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what the height, width, and margin options do.

PRINTER OPTIONS

BANNERIFIC will operate on any printer. However, most
printers have the ability to change from one style of
printing to another. To let you to choose these printer
options BANNERIFIC allows you to send the printer control
commands based on ASCII codes. For example, the control
command to change an EPSON printer into compressed mode is
ASCII number 15 (decimal). By using such codes, you can find
a printing style that fits your needs. To send the computer
a command which is more than one number, simply place a plus
"+" sign between numbers. For example, the control codes to
place an EPSON printer into 7/72 inch line spacing is 27+49.
This action makes the printed lines closer together and
makes a nicer looking banner.




DECIPHERING ASCII CODES

Many printer manuals give control codes in terms other than
decimal ASCII numbers. For instance, ESC 1 (escape one) is
translated into decimal ASCII codes by looking at the ASCII
chart in the BASIC manual (appendix G). The ASCII code for
ESC is 27, and for 1 (one), it is 49. Thus ESC 1 is 27+49
for the purposes of the BANNERIFIC program.

SOME EPSON CODES (Also IBM dot matrix printer)

Function Decimal ASCII Codes
-------- -------------------
Wide Print 14
Compressed 15
1/8" line spacing 27+48
7/72" line spacing 27+49
Emphasized 27+69

To clear a printer of commands, turn it off, and turn it
back on.

During the printing of a banner, you may end printing by
pressing the ESC key.






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HAVE FUN WITH BANNERIFIC

I hope you get plenty of good use out of BANNERIFIC. If you
feel that this method of providing programs is worthwhile, I
would appreciate your support. Please write.

Alan C. Elliott
TexaSoft
PO BOX 1169
Cedar Hill, Texas 75104








































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